Numpty's Dusty Ruts.
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Great post. A few years ago my lad went to Home Park for a Tuesday night midweek league 1 game. We lost 3-0, he got home about 5.00 am, cold, wet, miserable and skint! Except for a select few, any of us can end up quite a bit lower than we expect to be.Argyle fan here. Thanks for allowing me to register.
I will agree that there are some over-confident messages from our fans in that selection. But I wouldn't take it as disrespect or any deluded sense that we're a better team or expect to win.
As some of you have pointed out on this thread, you've had such a dreadful season that clubs as far down the league as we are think we've got a shot at getting a result. That doesn't mean we expect to win, we could easily be 5-0 down at halftime. It just gives us a bit of confidence that we could somehow nick it if we play out of our skins.
We went to Anfield four years ago when we were in League Two and got a 0-0 draw, only losing the replay 1-0. So we've got fairly recent experience of going to a Premier League club and getting something.
As for what you can expect from us, we like to play football. We tend to play out from the back (which annoys some of our fans big time who think lower league teams should hoof it forward), and will look to work the ball into your box like a poor man's Man City. There won't be many aerial balls into your box so you won't have to worry about us scoring that way.
We're also a young side. Our keeper is 21 and two of our three CBs are 22 and 21. Our main man up front is 21 and his strike partner is 23. If you play senior pros then we'll probably get bullied out of the game. Playing youngsters like Huddersfield did in the last round will probably play into our hands.
You will almost certainly win the game with your superior quality. Our away record is pretty shocking and defensively we concede some laughable goals (you do too, but we don't have Harry Kane up front).
Good luck for the game and in your efforts to stay up - however bleak it's looking right now. We're a very modest-sized club but it's a perpetual sense of annoyance for us that we're the biggest city in Europe to never have had a top-division team. We'd bite your arm off to swap places with you for just one season even if it meant losing every game.
Don't have any problems with Argyle- my neighbour is a very exiled (about 50 years!) fan but he still follows Argyle.
Good luck for the game. We're pretty shit this season but we may still do you. Brizzle Rovers fancied their chances but didn't quite crack it, but you never know in the cup! Just sad games like these can't be played with fans!!