Carey in L2 for absolutely certain, particularly in 2016/17. Single-handedly carried us to promotion, how Bradley got POTY completely bemuses me. Take Carey away and we drop to midtable imo. Reid from August 2014 to October 2015 injury was also clearly a league below their level

Of the 17 players to debut in the 21st century and score 20 goals for Argyle, Tolaj required the fewest minutes to reach that number #pafc

Lorent Tolaj is the eleventh fastest player to reach 20 Argyle goals (32 games) in the club's history, third fastest post-WW2 (behind Carter and Binney), and fastest in the 21st century #pafc

What I *really* didn't like at all about Muslic was I thought he was a shit talker, and I'm going to say that I was spot on r.e. that. Said whatever he could to portray himself in the best light, regardless of any truth in it.

Besides, I never said Muslic was a bad coach. Far from it, I don't think you'll even be able to find a record of me calling for Muslic to be sacked. Simply, I had the opinion that it was not the right hire given the squad we had and that the football would probably be quite turgid (and it often was)

I'm not remotely surprised that Muslic is doing well with Schalke. Putting aside that they've got one of the biggest budgets in the league - always helps - Muslic's favoured, high-pressing style unsurprisingly will work well in a European league with far, far fewer three-match weeks

Absolutely nuts that, by 2030, #Italy will have won a single World Cup game in the 24 years since they lifted the trophy in 2006. Of course, that win was against England.

It then left us with a horribly unbalanced squad which imo impacted us in the first half of this season (among many other factors) and we were still relegated with two games to go. So I'm hardly going to recount my opinion on Muslic's football

R.e. Muslic, that football was dull, boring, even sometimes had fans booing, and cut adrift bottom of the table until the end of March when the tactics changed slightly, Mumba came back into LWB, more counter attacking and less hoofing, and even then we were lucky to get wins v Sheffield and Preston

You're making that decision with hindsight. You're telling me that on 5th Jan, bottom, managerless, aware that the club is set to lose more than we did in 2009, a year before going into admin, you'd take a gamble that either saves us or leaves us relegated and cutting budgets for the foreseeable?

Assuming the plan was takeover goes through and new owner funds it, we didn't even get the prospective buyers to commit an non-refundable deposit or an interest free loan to underwrite the spend

FA Cup run + Muslic compensation totaling c.£2.5m weren't known in Jan 2025. And £12m in loans being needed on top of a c.£7.5m transfer surplus over the past four windows. Being good at the financial side if not on the pitch was the thing we were meant to be good at

1) Gibson + Whittaker isn't £7.5m per reports. After Swansea sell on, it's £5-6m. 2) I wasn't including Gibson in that as that preceeded every other transfer iirc so could be factored in 3) how can you sign off on Baidoo while knowing that you're at risk of a £7m+ loss pre-relegation?

Global inequality, particularly in the western world, is growing so rapidly, million/billionaires numbers keeps rising, as does their share of global GDP. There's no reason to think that they're going to stop funding losses any time soon. It'll probably continue growing

I used to hold this take, but we've been saying this for over a decade, and the losses have just further increased. Cumulative Championship losses have trebled in the past decade. Are we likely to run out of bored, wealthy elites who want clubs for play things?

Even up to spending £3.5m on transfers in January when we were likely already down. Madness. Why did we spend so much in Jan 2025 when c.£10m of unplanned income (sales, Muslic, FA Cup) still didn't save us from a "perilous" financial position. How bad would things have been?

Likewise, I understand price rises needed to offset inflation, but we already have very high season ticket prices for League One. "Perilous" financial position or not, that came from Argyle's own failure to budget effectively and hiring Wayne Rooney for absolutely no reason at all

I agree that most moaning about this are irritated about the price rise and optics, rather than actually unable to pay, but don't lose sight that there will be people who were planning for this purchase in May/June and suddenly had to stump up months early with (initially) only one pay day to do so

For those that do only have £500 or so set aside, the question they'll be asking themselves is "shall I use my last cash reserves on Argyle". That also assumes they're only buying one ticket, not two.

I'm not saying that all those howling online fall into that bracket, but Plymouth has high levels of poverty, there will be those who were planning their savings to buy a ticket in May/June, not March, and are short of cash right here, right now

A) V12 is an independent finance company, no links to the club. They turn you down if they don't have confidence in your ability to pay (either because of your income or your existing levels of debt B) 20% of UK saves nothing each moth due to the cost of living crisis

Not especially surprising that there's been a backlash to price rises and the tickets being released far earlier than usual. I get it from a marketing perspective, but it doesn't scream community club, does it. Let's see what the renewal rates are. 98% in 2024, 95% in 2025. #pafc

Four straight home wins leaves Argyle with an impressive 65% win rate at home in League One since 2021/22, averagine 2.07 PPG. 7/15 losses in that time came in the first half of this season #pafc

I don't think Watts will be fit enough to start, nor Harding. Benarous is my guess who starts

Let's review that tomorrow...

I think it's more likely that Roberts starts from the bench tomorrow, but the ideal is that we see Jephcott 2.0. Returns from a short loan at Truro having performed very well and breaks into the first team #pafc

Believe it's Mitchell. Edwards must be top five too

Argyle's home form currently reads WWWLDWWDLW

Game plan all wrong so far imo. Stop trying to out-run/muscle them. Slow it down, in Kane we have a quality technical player, why don't we try and use that? No no, let's twat it long and run run run run run... nowhere or backwards

Argyle's away attendance at Reading (2.9k) is set to be the 12th highest since the 2009 visit to Arsenal, the eighth highest excluding cup games. Aside from winning the title at Vale in front of 3.9k fans, Argyle have lost the remaining six games by an average of 3.3 goals #pafc