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  • Sam Barker wrote a new blog post: Plymouth Argyle – A season in review – We Survived!   1 week, 4 days ago · View

    ThumbnailA neutral football fan will look at the final standings of the 2011/12 Npower League Two table and see that Plymouth Argyle finished in 21 st place with 46 points. This, to a neutral, will probably seem like an underachievement for the club as they only escaped relegation by two points. But to The Pilgrims and their [...]

     
  • Sam Barker wrote a new blog post: MacLean returns to spoil Argyle’s end of season party   2 weeks, 6 days ago · View

    ThumbnailAnd so the curtain has come down on a season to remember for Argyle fans. With battles won on and off the field this season, it was almost inevitable that an ex-player that encapsulated everything bad about the past three years came back to remind us just how far we have come. Steve MacLean was one [...]

     
  • ThumbnailAfter months… no, years worth of pain, financial turmoil, relegation’s and general depression surrounding Home Park the rot has finally, amazingly, perfectly and blissfully been stopped. After back to back relegation’s amid a lengthy administration, Plymouth Argyle found themselves starting this season in League Two and before ten games had even been played, we had been [...]

     
  • Sam Barker wrote a new blog post: Argyle can keep their heads held high despite defeat   1 month, 1 week ago · View

    ThumbnailIt shows just how far our team has come in such a short space of time when we come away from The County Ground, home of League 2 champions-elect Swindon Town, disappointed to not have something to show for our efforts. And whilst before the game few members of the 1238 travelling Greens expected something from the game, [...]

     
  • Sam Barker wrote a new blog post: One more win and Plymouth will be staying up!   1 month, 2 weeks ago · View

    ThumbnailIt goes without saying; Argyle fans are extremely happy Easter bunnies right now. Four points from two games over the Easter weekend, combined with our relegation rivals’ continuing inability to get results means that Plymouth Argyle are all but safe going into the last four fixtures of the season. Over a thousand of us travelled to [...]

     
  • Sam Barker wrote a new blog post: Precious win leaves Plymouth dreaming of survival   1 month, 3 weeks ago · View

    ThumbnailFor the first time this season, Plymouth Argyle now have clear daylight between themselves and the relegation zone. Dropping out of the football league is still a very real possibility for the Pilgrims, but the win yesterday could prove priceless come the end of the season. Bradford have the worst away record of any team in [...]

     
  • Sam Barker wrote a new blog post: Plymouth gain crucial point in relegation battle   2 months ago · View

    ThumbnailI felt that this game had wrongly been billed as a ‘relegation six pointer’ before the match. Yes, both teams are struggling at the wrong end of the table but Northampton had won five in six to practically eliminate any fears of relegation whilst Argyle were continuing to keep themselves outside the relegation zone as we [...]

     
  • Sam Barker wrote a new blog post: Crucial win revives Plymouth’s hopes of survival   2 months, 1 week ago · View

    ThumbnailI am not alone in saying that I had not expected this result. After a dismal performance at Rotherham a week ago the last thing that Argyle fans wanted was a home game against one of the form teams in League Two. However supporters do not choose the fixture list and promotion contenders Shrewsbury Town made [...]

     
  • Sam Barker wrote a new blog post: Plymouth fall back into drop-zone after defeat   2 months, 3 weeks ago · View

    ThumbnailMy overall summary of Argyle at the moment? Simply not good enough with the ball in the final third, and Saturday’s defeat at home to Gillingham showed that loud and clear. A week after the Pilgrims had squandered enough chances to hit Dagenham for six, and just four days after their inability to convert cost them [...]

     
  • Sam Barker wrote a new blog post: Plymouth’s goalless draw maintains unbeaten run   3 months ago · View

    ThumbnailWith Argyle winning by four and Dagenham losing by five last week, perhaps it should have been obvious that this game would end goalless. In a clash that neither side could afford to lose, played in front of nearly 8000 people, Argyle would have left the pitch at full time wondering how on earth they had [...]

     
  • Sam Barker wrote a new blog post: Plymouth settle for a point to move out of drop zone   3 months, 1 week ago · View

    ThumbnailA draw that took us out of the relegation zone, the first clean sheet of the year, keeping the top goal scorer in the league quiet for the entire game and a point taken against one the in-form teams in League Two. Yet despite all these positives, most of the Home Park contingent left the ground [...]

     
  • Sam Barker wrote a new blog post: Why team spirit could save the Pilgrims   3 months, 2 weeks ago · View

    ThumbnailLast Saturday I watched in disbelief as Argyle scored twice in the last five minutes to gain a dramatic point against promotion chasing Southend United. The Green’s had trudged off at half time looking disheartened and even the most optimistic of Argyle fans would have struggled to predict that they would snatch a point from the [...]

     
  • Sam Barker wrote a new blog post: If Plymouth can stay up we will be the happiest fans in the land   3 months, 3 weeks ago · View

    ThumbnailIn the last four seasons I have watched literally everything about my club, Plymouth Argyle, drastically change. Attendances for matches have dropped from around the 13,000 mark to just over 6000 for most home games, our players have been sold for a fraction of what they are really worth to make quick money and now play [...]