PMPilgrim":1htscxbs said:
I guess I struggle to see many positives when we are 10th in division 4 having just been hammered by our local rivals.
4-0 did not flatter them. Do you disagree?
A club like Argyle should not have fans saying "we won the last 2 home games against poor teams so you can't be critical"
We are almost in the bottom half of division 4. We are closer to Macclesfied, who have no fans and no money, than Exeter.
I'm sorry that I am not in the happy clappy club but I don't see much to be happy about.
If Lowe had said, "This club gets to the Championship on the back of our youth policy and there are going to be some tough days" then I'd accept that. But we aren't. He has signed what looks like a bunch of players not too much better than what left.
And as for Lowe saying Mayor was better than Carey and Lameiras.......I felt that was disrespectful to two of the best Argyle players of the past 10 years. He also said this week something like "The Exeter manager is doing a good job but they aren't Argyle are they".
Of the team today, the vast majority were signed by Lowe and knows how he wants them to play as they played for him last year.
Give me something to be positive about and I will.
What manager said we’ll get to the championship on the backs of youth development?
Exeter City’s youth have served them well to a point. Little money for Watkins when he went to Brentford who now seem to want to keep him and even less for Ampadu from Chelsea. The likes of Grimes and Sercombe aimed high and failed and didn’t drag in any extra money. They have to sell their youth every year to break even and i’m not sure who they need to sell this year as no-one seems to have broken through as before.
As for where we are, can we change that seeing as DA took us right back to where he found us and yet you expect more in 3-4 months from RL than you did in 3 years from DA.
As for Carey and Lameiras, so what? He was bigging up a player that was going to play for us rather than two who weren’t and by my reckoning, neither player did anything in the last couple of seasons until December/January so Mayor has time on his side there. In particular Lameiras, each of the last two seasons DA was loathe to play him and was looking to farm him out when he came good, and tha5 from the manager that bought him. Pound for pound I bet we have a better player in Mayor.
When we were poo under DA, it was blamed on an injury crisis, so why can’t the same be said of this team, we haven’t seen the best of this team with Telford and to a lesser extent Aimson in the side for any length of time.
You can’t have it both ways and celebrate DA’s half season wonders and not have time for RL’s. So what we lost to Exeter, it’s whether RL learns from it that is important. If it happens that this team never wins another game then that will sort itself out but it’s one game ffs.