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They are 5th from bottom but could go top if they won all their games in hand.

I don't know the story really - I seem to recall registering what seemed like unusual spending for their level some years back but I haven't kept an eye on them.

I'm surprised they weren't able to share at Torquay, seems like a nearer place that could use a few quid over the bar.

It's supposedly all due to waterlogged pitches and they were supposed to share at Taunton but they had their own pitch issues.

No idea what's gone particularly wrong this year though, I didn't think it had been all that much wetter than other years.

Reading between some lines, they've been groundsharing with Plymouth Parkway who have also a lot of games to play and told them that they're second choice for pitch time.

Gloucester is a 4g pitch so doesn't have weather issues. It's a dump of a stadium made from shipping containers though.

Truro's problems all seem to go back to previous owners throwing in with Stadium For Cornwall and seeming to think they'll be the home side there, but as that drifts further and further on they have £2M in escrow for a stadium they now can't get their hands on.

That’s rough.

They're owned by the same guy who owns Cornish Pirates and apparently he's given up on the stadium deal but it's not clear whether the council have spent all the money anyway.

I can't imagine he'll stick with Truro for much longer as they are bringing less than 100 to their home matches.

Parkway still have 11 to play and have had their home matches at Yate Town for the past few weeks. (Which isn't all-weather but is a nice little ground.)

battle for 15th place hotting up. bring it

in a way, a proxy for the real tussle between torquay/truro/taunton and welling united

sorry, welling united AND dartford even

It’s a sold-out blockbuster at St James Park! God knows why. Im quite looking forward to it.

morning work has curtailed any plans to attend this year but will be WATCHING ATTENTIVELY on the computer. who will evil alfie may get sent off this time? himself perhaps! we can dream

Alfie May karma I guess. Nobody happy though

Torquay go into administration

2 minutes from almost certain relegation to back in the survival game again courtesy of Healey nodding in a goalkeeper deflected winning goal 4 minutes into injury time. Fuck yes, moments like that is why I still bother with football.

That relegation spot would look a whole lot better with an Argyle in it.

they are only above the trapdoor because they played Rovrum on friday, they've got QPR and Leicester next so it could happen. It's unfortunate when we played the millers, and they were shit and there for the taking, that Sorbz got str8 red for a stupid moment that ended up costing us 2 priceless points.

Can mathematically still hit the playoffs but it's over. Good to still be in it with only a couple to play but I'm really not sure how I feel about this batch of players. Only three actually signed on for next season at this stage and maybe only one or two I'd say are must to be retained.

Hats off to this shithousery though

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/dQ7F3aTFgpj6wAtr/

That relegation spot would look a whole lot better with an Argyle in it.

― Tim, Monday, 8 April 2024 12:19 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have a feeling we're both going to be more invested in Millwall-Plymouth than either Exeter-Charlton game this season

With any luck results between now and then will mean that Huddersfield and Birmingham can see out an unholy recreation of West Germany vs Austria in Gijon, sending them both down (TBF I wouldn't mind Millwall staying up but another nice local game next year would be cool).

really nice fixture, really good chummy atmosphere

Oh, away at the New Den is fun times IME.

why connor wickham will never not be a wasteman

― halber mensch halber keks (imago), Monday, 31 March 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

rong

Somehow the playoff dream is not over. 99.9 recurring % it is, and can be if/when Boston beat Banbury midweek, but nonetheless.

So Boston beat Banbury but - and this is the jock who watched however many 70s and 80s World Cups so understands mathematical possibilities - if both South Shields and Spenny lose (not out of the question, neither are playing sides that are pushovers but have nothing to play for), and we beat Boston by ELEVEN (11) goals then we beat them to the final place.

I wouldn't put any money on it.

I haven't even got the slimmest hope of Town staying up even though we are on the same points as we were game 43 last season. We are aren't going to win the last 3 games this time, would be surprised if we even got a win at all. probably 50 needed to stay up this time, nay chance.

Just want somebody to climb above Birmingham tbh

Coventry let us all down, they should be fined for not turning up against the bluenose bastards

This will cheer you up Calz - from the 2 minute mark, the very picture of a man racked with anger. Only five years to go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nemC6ZOwLiM

beautiful! "the simple basics" is a classic Mooreism. I can find his pressers amusing now there is some distance from having experienced his dreadful football for far too long!

I actually thought you'd lost that game and was thinking maybe there is hope for Darren yet. need to start getting into the habit of following the L1 action a bit more closely.

With that in mind, I do give Darren Moore a little bit of slack. But in all my time he's the most uninspiring manager I think we've ever had and we've had some shockers. I can't even bring myself to watch his interviews so God knows what the so called football players think.

His game plan and tactics are nonsense, subs are strange, line ups often strange, game management is non existent. I have no real faith he's the man we need to make a serious go of it next year and to be honest after around 20 years of a ST I'm not that interested in purchasing one next year to see how he gets on.

had a look at the Vale forum, consensus on the 5 yr plan seems to be they have an awful squad, but also Moore is awful!

re:coventry
apologies calzino, we've been turning up only against big teams in recent weeks frustratingly
play off hopes all but over now, hoping for a performance Sunday at least

Simms definitely turned at our place!

*turned up*

Highgate United won 12-0 at Bewdley tonight to take the final play-off place in their league on goals scored. Miracles obviously in the air.

Brought up twenty draws in a season today. What legends

Cambridge lost today, but still could easily be safe on Tuesday, which is a relief. Looking grim for Huddersfield, losing four nil at home to a team who should be checked out as their season is over already.

they were down last week, the penalty 11 minutes into 5 mins of e/t finished them off. Turton, who was unlucky to concede the pen was crying and bawling/having a nervous breakdown in the post-match dressing room. This was his first contribution to the team after a 14 month injury nightmare and it broke him!

Insane og for Blackburn to put Sheff Wed 3-1 up, weird bobble off a backpass and the keeper just slices it backwards into his own net

Clinging to the hope that Argyle go down; seems unlikely with the matches remaining but there’s still a chance of the dream coming true.

Clinging to the hope that Argyle go down; seems unlikely with the matches remaining but there’s still a chance of the dream coming true.

probably more likely that we will drag Brum down with us, that's about the best I can hope for as a positive end to this cursed season.

neither of us will win our last game so it's shit or bust for them on saturday

Gateshead have been kicked out of the conference playoffs because the council won't give them a long enough lease on the ground.

Yes, but when was the last time you were at a football match where a former Deputy Chief Medical Officer turned up dressed as a nun?

And yes, it WAS Jonathan Van Tam dressed as a nun.... https://t.co/8ebASLxcyE pic.twitter.com/oK2NxHYOAp

— Oliver Atkin (@oaphotography1) April 20, 2024

Haha wtf?

Legend Variant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUhnIY3oRM

will be happy to get gubbed by Ipswich last game of the season if it is necessary, but I think they've sufficiently fucked auto now!