With year-end targets at work biting, it’s an express preview this week based predominantly on recent first-hand impressions rather than diligent research. Indeed, along with the other original unfortunate (not to mention a further couple) I made the trip to the Kassam on Tuesday to see a youthful Plymouth side soundly beaten by their hosts. It was a depressing event; besides being a pain to get to, many will appreciate that the stadium is about as spiritless as they come and, perched a distance away from home supporters at the far side of the North Stand, I did start to…
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EPPP exposes Football League impotence
Anyone who takes even a passing interest in the Football League, let alone obsessives like us, will be aware of Thursday’s vote to approve the Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP). For those of you who remain unaware aware of its details, the EPPP can be summarized either, by its cheerleaders, as a blueprint for the improvement of the England national XI or, by its detractors, as an attempt by the Premier League to rig the market for youth players in its favour. While this blogger was otherwise engaged, esteemed commentators elsewhere have explored the pros and cons of the plan…
The Thursday Preview: Crewe Vs Southend
He’s at it again, that Paul Sturrock. Having struggled for success since his days at Swindon, Luggy’s Southend lead the League 2 table and the only surprise is that so many people seem to have failed to see it coming. Coming up to 18 months in charge of Blues, Sturrock has gone about his work in a canny fashion. Building up a squad from the bottom-up after the club had endured a relegation year of winding-up orders and transfer embargoes, the Shrimpers now sit atop a competitive division and the outlook is good; with a menacing set of strikers to…
Conversations with Danny Brothers (Northampton Town)
Our latest conversation is with Danny Brothers, author of a number of posts for us including a look back at Northampton Town’s 1996-7 play-off winning side. Danny runs his own blog and this has the obligatory moniker, A Load of Cobblers, although he spreads his net beyond the watershed of the River Nene to League 2 as a whole, joining forces with our last interviewee Ben Mayhew and Maxi Hobbs for an enjoyable previewof the season back in August. Here, Danny gives us his views on Gary Johnson, Adebayo Akinfenwa, the challenge of the oval ball game and the club’s current…
The Thursday Preview: Plymouth V Macclesfield (Fans Reunited 1)
TTU regulars will know that Plymouth Argyle receive more than their fair share of coverage on these pages; although we try to split our attention 72 ways it can be difficult to abstain from repeat postings when there’s so much to be said. The goalposts in this long-running saga have moved daily, so we’ve largely played the admiring onlooker of late as others, such as twohundredpercent, have, to paraphrase Rio, taken up the mantelpiece. Just last week, though, we jumped back on the bandwagon, a Red Stripe-fuelled mini-post nodding with hope to a new dawn at Home Park. Of course,…
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Lloyd: An enjoyable, snappy piece of writing Will.
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Frank Heaven: LR - yes, that's right, with Albion and Wolves being in Staffordshire....
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Eoghan Darbyshire: Quality player, could see he was head and shoulders above the rest of...
