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From editorials to detailed tactical analysis, this is the the home of the best long-form articles about Plymouth Argyle Football Club anywhere online.
Simon Hallett’s Targets
Maintaining the steady financial and footballing progression that was achieved will not be easy. Yet there are also places he can make major improvements.
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Turning the ship around – Part 7: The creative void
Unsurprisingly, Carey and Lameiras were the most prolific chance creators last season, ranking first and second for the season as a whole.
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Brent’s Financial Turnaround
James Brent took over following chronic financial mismanagement. Argyle had broken their transfer record twice and made Mpenza the highest paid player ever.
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James Brent: A Legacy
What cannot be denied is that James Brent has left the club truly in a better position than he found it. For that he has earned our thanks.
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Turning the ship around – Part 6: Taylor or Ladapo?
Ultimately, yes, Ladapo does offer a greater individual goalscoring threat than Taylor, but he reduces the team’s cohesion.
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Turning the ship around – Part 5: Defensive disaster II
Errors very much defined Argyle’s start to the season. Throughout August, Argyle averaged an error every 28.7 minutes, a damning statistic.
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Player of the Month: September
Each player receives a match rating from 1-10 and one player from each match receives a man of the match bonus. The scores are aggregated and weighted against the number of appearances, before the man of the match bonus is added.
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Turning the ship around – Part 4: Defensive disaster?
So far, this series has focused on why the manager and midfield have contributed to Argyle’s shocking defensive start. However, the defence itself must take its portion of the blame, and lessons need to be learned to turn the situation around.
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Turning the ship around – Part 3: The Sarcevic factor
It was this kind of tactical genius that helped to elevate a series of relatively average individuals – each with their own flaws – into one of the best midfields in the division. Adams put together a unit that accentuated each other’s strengths and minimized their weaknesses.
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Turning the ship around – Part 2: The real problem area – midfield
When Songo’o plays, not only does he make fewer successful passes than Fox, with a lower accuracy, but the entire midfield makes fewer successful passes with a lower accuracy and the whole team makes fewer passes with a lower accuracy.
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Turning the ship around – Part 1: The manager and the mentality
Last season, I privately suggested that Adams had mistakenly stumbled onto a near flawless formation … with each passing game this season, I begin to suspect more and more that it could be the case.
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Player of the Month: August
Player of the month archive August POTM September POTM How we calculate the score Each player receives a match rating from 1-10 and one player from each match receives a man of the match bonus. The players are scored by a variety of of individuals who have witnessed...
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