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SON OF SOBS: PLYMOUTH

Right. Let's get this over with…


There's a reason Plymouth are lower down the league than they are down the country. Even boring Burnley battered them midweek 5-0. Their star player didn't even turn up for that match. Apparently due to a medical at Boro - I'm assuming they were checking he could handle all the airborne contaminants.


We have so much talent in the middle of the park it's hard to drop anyone, but it was still strange to see RLB change things up. Mayenda has been our best attacker of late. At the same time things haven't exactly been gelling in the last month. Long passages of play on the ball haven't been our forte of late. Formations to accommodate the enormous midfield roster had been running through my head all week. From Christmas trees to W-M, to the inverted Boomerang. Ok, I made that one up.


Le Fee clearly wants to be in the middle of the park but Jobe and Captain Dan are just undroppable. I thought we might see us go 433 again. Play Le fee just behind the strikers and he can swap with Bellingham or Rigg when needed. RLB's team sheet must be like something out of A Beautiful Mind. Again though, a nice problem to have. I'll keep telling myself that...


After all my pointless speculation, we started 451 with Samed in place of Rigg. Did you feel that? That's what you call a sense of foreboding. As we kicked off it was clear to see Jobe was being utilised further up the pitch, something I'd asked for a couple of weeks ago. A bit of his patented power further up the pitch. Good.


We threaten via Le Fee in the opening ten. Samed looked a little standoffish and Plymouth found a few gaps open. More time on the ball and some composure was definitely needed.


Slightly better play from us but more of the same problems we've had in recent weeks peppered the first half. We'd battered their goal and Enzo had provided it on a plate on more than one occasion. We'd drawn fouls from the panicked pilgrims like nobody's business and looked the better side. But, like an impatient DPD driver, we'd failed to deliver the goods. We ended the first half with six shots and most of the ball but no goals. Deep breaths...


Second half and it was more of the same from Samed. He constantly seemed to be out of position and eventually a gaff of his left them with the ball headed goalwards. Our stationary centre backs let their number nine walk into our box and he managed to get it in the back of the net, with a bit of help from Patto's arse. Oh dear. I know we're becoming known for a comeback but I don't want to do it against sides like these.


You could see how much this really annoyed Jobe. He has a passion the whole team needed to embrace. We fought back. A brilliant ball in from Hume and Wilson penked it first time beyond their motionless keeper. That monkey on his back has gone to heaven...


RLB decided Samed had done enough damage and on came Mayenda. Vamos. The pesky Sorinola finally picked up a yellow. He should've got one for the 57 pointless protests he made leading up to it. Paddy had a go at a free kick and provided a clever cross through the box to Trai Hume, who fired it past the wall of green shirts and the static man between the sticks. HUUUUUMMMMEEEE!


Ballard and Rigg came on to do Ballard and Rigg things. A triple change came at the same time from The Greens - A crap nickname when you've got a pirate ship on your badge. They could clearly see that something was still to be had. Unfortunately they were right. Hjelde gave their right winger far too much time on the ball and he set out a cross that never should have happened. 2-2.


Cue more swear words than a profanisaurus.


Will we ever learn? We need to take opportunities to absolutely leather teams like this when we’re playing at home. Or as my brother put it “m*rder sh*te like that”. Afterwards Wilson told the press he was sorry and he wasn't arsed about his goal. He said he'd rather see us win and not score himself. At the moment I wouldn't question the attitude of any of our players. Their hearts all seem to be in the right place. Given where we were a handful of years ago, that's a wonderfully reassuring thing. They do all care. However, playing like demons against the top six and making teams at the other end look like teams from the top six. The naivety of youth? Give awa.


Still 4th. Still four points from the top. Still need a striker. Still a week to go in the transfer window.


Keep the faith,

GPD


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