demportdave":2qxawj56 said:Read the full post Justin.Justin":2qxawj56 said:demportdave":2qxawj56 said:Do you mean the "talent" that gutlessly surrendered our hard-fought for status as a League 1 club over the last 3 months of the season.macleanie":2qxawj56 said:Very worrying. Soon this squad could be severely lacking in talent.
I would suggest that all of the players who have departed in the last couple of weeks had already made the decision to move on well before the end of the season. That is the only logical explanation for our dramatic capitulation and relegation.
When it really mattered, they didn't care and it culminated in the shameful performance at Accrington. In fairness, the only ones I would exclude from criticism are probably Songo'o and Carey.
Freddie was on the bench against Accrington. We were 3-0 down when came on.
I said that the players lacked fight and commitment for 3 months, Accrington was the cumulation of it. In far too many games leading up to that woeful performance, the players almost seemed to accept defeat and showed very little respect for the many fans who followed them up and down the country on a regular basis; hardly the stuff of ālegendsā I would suggest.
The wheels had come off well before that day in Accrington, but when myself and a few others posted our concerns we were derided by the likes of you because of a few wins in January. Early into the New Year I posted āwe are sleep-walking to relegationā and got slaughtered by green tints telling me we are in mid-table and will finish in the top half.
When you have seen Argyle relegated as often as some of us, you recognise certain ominous signs and they were all in evidence for much of last season. Key among them was a lack of heart from too many of the players and the feeling that they could and should be doing much better.
Spot on again. The team hoisted the white flag with few exceptions. How they bottled it towards the end of the season was unforgivable.