| The media are very strange - Plymouth 10:27 - May 1 with 12071 views | smithy69 |
The media are a really strange bunch aren’t they. Plymouth, who let’s be honest have been excellent all season, barely are getting a mention anywhere
I am over the moon with what’s happening with us and the media positivity can only resonate through the club - but if I was Plymouth I would be using this to motivate there players big time
We just got a great mention on Talk sport alongside the Stevenage manager for getting promoted this weekend / but Plymouth didn’t get a mention ? Really strange
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:11 - May 1 with 2189 views | MaySixth |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:02 - May 1 by Argyle_Fan |
Because last season's squad was kept entirely intact bar the sale of Camara. It's entirely relevant because with the same group of players, we got 80 points, and potentially this season 101. I think it's a bit farfetched to suggest that two seasons running on an average of 90 points, we have relied on loans, ignoring the fact that the very large majority of the squad are contracted to the club.
Why should you have never been down here? You'd have to be at least 70 years old to think of and have witnessed Ipswich as a Premiership winning club. Any young Ipswich fan of today only knows Ipswich as a Championship/L1 club. Sorry to burst your bubble. That's literally what you are. |
Thank you for your continued obsession with Ipswich Town Football Club. |  |
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:25 - May 1 with 2158 views | N2_Blue |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:02 - May 1 by Argyle_Fan |
Because last season's squad was kept entirely intact bar the sale of Camara. It's entirely relevant because with the same group of players, we got 80 points, and potentially this season 101. I think it's a bit farfetched to suggest that two seasons running on an average of 90 points, we have relied on loans, ignoring the fact that the very large majority of the squad are contracted to the club.
Why should you have never been down here? You'd have to be at least 70 years old to think of and have witnessed Ipswich as a Premiership winning club. Any young Ipswich fan of today only knows Ipswich as a Championship/L1 club. Sorry to burst your bubble. That's literally what you are. |
Probably best you feck off to PASOTI now because you talk utter tripe. You’re coming across an utter twig considering most replies are sticking up for your club and you’re just talking crap and going on about things that aren’t even true.
Enjoy your promotion, it’s deserved, but stop trying to wind up Town fans with the BS you are spouting. And seriously who gives a feck about what the media thinks. It makes no difference to what you actually achieve. Sounds like it’s Plymouth fans with a chip on their shoulder about it. We’ve not exactly been blessed with national media coverage recently and I couldn’t give a sh*t.
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:31 - May 1 with 2142 views | wkj |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:02 - May 1 by Argyle_Fan |
Because last season's squad was kept entirely intact bar the sale of Camara. It's entirely relevant because with the same group of players, we got 80 points, and potentially this season 101. I think it's a bit farfetched to suggest that two seasons running on an average of 90 points, we have relied on loans, ignoring the fact that the very large majority of the squad are contracted to the club.
Why should you have never been down here? You'd have to be at least 70 years old to think of and have witnessed Ipswich as a Premiership winning club. Any young Ipswich fan of today only knows Ipswich as a Championship/L1 club. Sorry to burst your bubble. That's literally what you are. |
We once had a bunch on Lincoln fans come on this forum and were pretty decent on the build up to the game. They heard many of us talk about not being confident and admitting we didn't see the game as a walkover despite being a couple of divisions above them.
When they drew and won the subsequent replay, a bunch of those decent fans turned into gobby little sh*tes and lost any good will we gave them. The problem I am seeing, is you are now doing the same thing.
`Why should you have never been down here? You'd have to be at least 70 years old to think of and have witnessed Ipswich as a Premiership winning club. Any young Ipswich fan of today only knows Ipswich as a Championship/L1 club. Sorry to burst your bubble. That's literally what you are.`
My sensible head wants to reply with "You have no right to tell us how we should or should not keep our heritage alive". My pissed off head says "You should be ashamed of yourself for acting like a knob and are an embarrassment to your support base."
Whatever happens on Saturday, I hope you and your folk manage to reunite and celebrate together (best not take tips from Norwich fans on how to celebrate at a reunion) instead of acting like a tumultuous wang on your competitor's forum - a forum that offered you nothing but good will since you joined. |  |
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:36 - May 1 with 2122 views | Guthrum |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 19:23 - May 1 by Argyle_Fan |
Our away form was top 4/5 all season, which doesn't really constitute dodgy away form, despite our imperious home form or having played 2 league games where we got mullered (Peterborough & Barnsley). If being top 4/5 away all season long constitutes 'dodgy away form', then we'll have to agree to disagree as to the definition of 'dodgy'. Dodgy away form to me suggests a side in the lower half of the table, not the 4th or 5th best in the league.
The difference between Ipswich 'dropping points at Bolton, Derby, Peterborough, Barnsley etc' is because on paper that's a run of fixtures against some of the top sides in the league. What Argyle had all season long, week in week out, was everyone saying 'they will slip', 'they won't keep it up'. 'loan fc', 'if their loan players get recalled in Jan they'll be in trouble' etc etc |
Compared with your home form, away has been downright iffy! 
Being serious, you did only win two against top half teams on the road, losing five, so that was the closest Plymouth had to a weakness. Not surprising your rivals would home in on that. About the only hope we had of catching up. |  |
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:45 - May 1 with 2101 views | ArnieM |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:31 - May 1 by wkj |
We once had a bunch on Lincoln fans come on this forum and were pretty decent on the build up to the game. They heard many of us talk about not being confident and admitting we didn't see the game as a walkover despite being a couple of divisions above them.
When they drew and won the subsequent replay, a bunch of those decent fans turned into gobby little sh*tes and lost any good will we gave them. The problem I am seeing, is you are now doing the same thing.
`Why should you have never been down here? You'd have to be at least 70 years old to think of and have witnessed Ipswich as a Premiership winning club. Any young Ipswich fan of today only knows Ipswich as a Championship/L1 club. Sorry to burst your bubble. That's literally what you are.`
My sensible head wants to reply with "You have no right to tell us how we should or should not keep our heritage alive". My pissed off head says "You should be ashamed of yourself for acting like a knob and are an embarrassment to your support base."
Whatever happens on Saturday, I hope you and your folk manage to reunite and celebrate together (best not take tips from Norwich fans on how to celebrate at a reunion) instead of acting like a tumultuous wang on your competitor's forum - a forum that offered you nothing but good will since you joined. |
Good post . I’m sick and tired of Plymouth fans giving it large. You rightly suggest they appear to have a massive chip on their shoulder. WHY? Congratulations to them on their promotion they just need to go away and enjoy it and to stay on their own bloody forum? This type of Plymouth fan is exactly why I lost all respect for them this season. Utter to ssas some of them appear to be. [Post edited 1 May 2023 21:50]
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:47 - May 1 with 2104 views | Vegtablue |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:02 - May 1 by Argyle_Fan |
Because last season's squad was kept entirely intact bar the sale of Camara. It's entirely relevant because with the same group of players, we got 80 points, and potentially this season 101. I think it's a bit farfetched to suggest that two seasons running on an average of 90 points, we have relied on loans, ignoring the fact that the very large majority of the squad are contracted to the club.
Why should you have never been down here? You'd have to be at least 70 years old to think of and have witnessed Ipswich as a Premiership winning club. Any young Ipswich fan of today only knows Ipswich as a Championship/L1 club. Sorry to burst your bubble. That's literally what you are. |
You didn't have to include the L1 bit! 😂 Very much hope our first stretch in this division since the 50s will be followed by an even longer gap in time, as much as I've enjoyed the season | | | |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 22:19 - May 1 with 2062 views | WestStanderLaLaLa |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:02 - May 1 by Argyle_Fan |
Because last season's squad was kept entirely intact bar the sale of Camara. It's entirely relevant because with the same group of players, we got 80 points, and potentially this season 101. I think it's a bit farfetched to suggest that two seasons running on an average of 90 points, we have relied on loans, ignoring the fact that the very large majority of the squad are contracted to the club.
Why should you have never been down here? You'd have to be at least 70 years old to think of and have witnessed Ipswich as a Premiership winning club. Any young Ipswich fan of today only knows Ipswich as a Championship/L1 club. Sorry to burst your bubble. That's literally what you are. |
Weird behaviour. You can’t do better than being top and yet that doesn’t seem to be enough for you. Projecting some insecurities I guess. |  |
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 22:32 - May 1 with 2033 views | Millsey |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:02 - May 1 by Argyle_Fan |
Because last season's squad was kept entirely intact bar the sale of Camara. It's entirely relevant because with the same group of players, we got 80 points, and potentially this season 101. I think it's a bit farfetched to suggest that two seasons running on an average of 90 points, we have relied on loans, ignoring the fact that the very large majority of the squad are contracted to the club.
Why should you have never been down here? You'd have to be at least 70 years old to think of and have witnessed Ipswich as a Premiership winning club. Any young Ipswich fan of today only knows Ipswich as a Championship/L1 club. Sorry to burst your bubble. That's literally what you are. |
Yep, but still going and enjoyed travelling Europe watching Ipswich, something you’re lot have never done 😉COYB’s 💙💙💙 |  | | |
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 22:38 - May 1 with 2013 views | pointofblue |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:45 - May 1 by ArnieM |
Good post . I’m sick and tired of Plymouth fans giving it large. You rightly suggest they appear to have a massive chip on their shoulder. WHY? Congratulations to them on their promotion they just need to go away and enjoy it and to stay on their own bloody forum? This type of Plymouth fan is exactly why I lost all respect for them this season. Utter to ssas some of them appear to be. [Post edited 1 May 2023 21:50]
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The big issue seems to be money and the relative discrepancy between the club. I think Plymouth fans see their achievement as being undermined as there are claims they spent millions to go up, just in a different ways to ourselves. And this has since been fuelled to maybe some resentment on social media (not seen by myself) that there seems to be greater acknowledgement of our promotion to theirs, despite managing the feat on the same day, and Plymouth leading us by a point. If roles were reversed, would there be an element of resentment from us? I think so. Would we go on the opposition forum to argue our case? I think some would. | |
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 22:39 - May 1 with 2010 views | Ely_Blue |
What about using it to motivate THEIR players? |  |
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 00:02 - May 2 with 1918 views | BigCommon |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 22:38 - May 1 by pointofblue |
The big issue seems to be money and the relative discrepancy between the club. I think Plymouth fans see their achievement as being undermined as there are claims they spent millions to go up, just in a different ways to ourselves. And this has since been fuelled to maybe some resentment on social media (not seen by myself) that there seems to be greater acknowledgement of our promotion to theirs, despite managing the feat on the same day, and Plymouth leading us by a point. If roles were reversed, would there be an element of resentment from us? I think so. Would we go on the opposition forum to argue our case? I think some would. |
Imo, it's no coincidence that we are getting a fare amount of media coverage. The club have been very clever and efficient in strengthening every department. That would, I assume, also include, our marketing department.
There's a certain amount of "playing the game", when it comes to growing the profile of a huge investment.
Our boys and girls behind the scenes are ,no doubt, working very hard to maximise this opportunity, and get "The brand" out there, as much as possible...
If I felt my club was not getting enough exposure. I'm probably going to wonder what my club should be doing about that.. Doubt I'd be moaning about it on another club's forum. |  | | |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 03:05 - May 2 with 1846 views | Kropotkin123 |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 20:05 - May 1 by Vegtablue |
Oh dear fat thumb sorry - thought you could cancel out a downvote by upvoting but appears not 😔 |
Don't worry, I'll just act like a Plymouth fan and still be crying about it a year later! |  |
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 03:10 - May 2 with 1845 views | Coastalblue |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 21:02 - May 1 by Argyle_Fan |
Because last season's squad was kept entirely intact bar the sale of Camara. It's entirely relevant because with the same group of players, we got 80 points, and potentially this season 101. I think it's a bit farfetched to suggest that two seasons running on an average of 90 points, we have relied on loans, ignoring the fact that the very large majority of the squad are contracted to the club.
Why should you have never been down here? You'd have to be at least 70 years old to think of and have witnessed Ipswich as a Premiership winning club. Any young Ipswich fan of today only knows Ipswich as a Championship/L1 club. Sorry to burst your bubble. That's literally what you are. |
Terrible timing but I'm travelling in Asia atm, as luck would have it there are two couples from Plymouth in the party I've spent the last week with. As you can imagine there has been a lot of football talk.
Two things I note. Neither of the guys come across the way you do in this thread. I'd prefer to think of them as normal Argyle fans.
The other thing perfectly illustrates the difference in stature between the two clubs, both of them are Argyle regulars, both of them also support a Premier league club, one Liverpool and one Man United. Both are over 40 I can't imagine that of a Town fan. |  |
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 15:40 - May 2 with 1704 views | Pinewoodblue |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 12:07 - May 1 by Argyle_Fan |
Bizarre chip? All season long on TWTD (or owlstalk for that matter) there is a thread about us. Every week of the season it was 'Plymouth will slip'. Recently it's the 'Plymouth have been so f** lucky'. Your manager then had a pop about that. Before that on here it was 'Plymouth's dodgy away form' (3rd best in the league). We've had plenty of 'Loan FC' comments. When Whittaker was recalled, there was about 15 threads on here.
So, forgive Schuey, the manager who has had to take all the brunt and pressure, for being a bit frustrated and letting off a bit of steam! Forgive Schuey for being a bit fedop of Argyle being underestimated, week in, week out. Deary me.
The irony, is that on PASOTI there's barely ever anything on Ipswich or Sheffield Wednesday.
Seems that the big clubs just can't deal with little Plymouth upsetting the applecart. |
Promotion gives you a chance to upset the applecart next season. I suspect our chances of doing so are significantly greater than yours.
Argyle fans, the only fans I can recall chanting "Dirty northern barrstards" when playing Ipswich. |  |
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 15:52 - May 2 with 1688 views | itfcjoe |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 12:35 - May 1 by LankHenners |
Yes, bizarre chip, you can barely look at a comment or tweet etc. from someone with a decent social media following saying something about Ipswich (for e.g.) without a sea of needy Plymouth fans underneath complaining they're not the centre of attention.
Every club forum has threads about their situation which includes commenting on those around them - it happens on your forum as well when enough of you are actually on there rather than mouthing off on other team's boards.
McKenna never had a pop about you at any point - whatever comments made were taken way out of context and your 'Schuey' (ffs come on you can't be giving a manager a footballer's nickname) even went out of his way to praise McKenna and say that they're good friends the other day. I literally said I can understand Schumacher giving it the 'us against the world' narrative so why you're carrying on like that I have no idea.
The other thing is this and Owlstalk are bigger, more active forums so something happens and about half a dozen people all start a thread on it, then later on in the day another half a dozen people who haven't bothered to read start threads on the same subject.
People have been saying you're a great team all season, but naturally bigger clubs with bigger backing and spending power will get fancied more often than one that is punching a bit. Happens in every league all over the place. If you want to live in an insular world where everything is Plymouth, Plymouth, Plymouth then go ahead but it's one detached from reality. |
I had a look on the PASOTI thread about 'media bias', and they pick out the Chaplin interview with TS and then waht the presenters said afterwards.
The presenters couldn't have been more gushing in their praise for Plymouth but out of 4-5 minutes of discussion the poster picked out one half line about how they were surprised how 'Schuey' was mentioning the press and saying he must have to search hard to find this perceived criticism of them.
They've had loads of coverage, loads of respect given to them, loads of credit but it is just looking for any perceived slight against them and crying about it - very weird.
Where is our Athletic article about our promotion?!?!?! What is the wordcount? Why did NTT20 spend an extra 1 minute talking about Leyton orient than us???? Why are we so hated by the bloody MSM?!?! |  |
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 16:02 - May 2 with 1649 views | Reus30 |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 12:07 - May 1 by Argyle_Fan |
Bizarre chip? All season long on TWTD (or owlstalk for that matter) there is a thread about us. Every week of the season it was 'Plymouth will slip'. Recently it's the 'Plymouth have been so f** lucky'. Your manager then had a pop about that. Before that on here it was 'Plymouth's dodgy away form' (3rd best in the league). We've had plenty of 'Loan FC' comments. When Whittaker was recalled, there was about 15 threads on here.
So, forgive Schuey, the manager who has had to take all the brunt and pressure, for being a bit frustrated and letting off a bit of steam! Forgive Schuey for being a bit fedop of Argyle being underestimated, week in, week out. Deary me.
The irony, is that on PASOTI there's barely ever anything on Ipswich or Sheffield Wednesday.
Seems that the big clubs just can't deal with little Plymouth upsetting the applecart. |
Can't even enjoy promotion for one day without chirping.
Enjoy your title, you'll be back in 2024/2025 trying to get it again whilst we are enjoying the Prem.
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 16:14 - May 2 with 1587 views | Reus30 |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 16:02 - May 2 by Reus30 |
Can't even enjoy promotion for one day without chirping.
Enjoy your title, you'll be back in 2024/2025 trying to get it again whilst we are enjoying the Prem.
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Also, I made a thread about this last week and got downvoted into a oblivion.
More than happy with a sensible debate with decent fans of other clubs. Apart from 1 or 2, they don't get much traction because of chumps like this pasty-eating fool. | | | |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 17:16 - May 2 with 1513 views | TheBoyBlue |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 12:07 - May 1 by Argyle_Fan |
Bizarre chip? All season long on TWTD (or owlstalk for that matter) there is a thread about us. Every week of the season it was 'Plymouth will slip'. Recently it's the 'Plymouth have been so f** lucky'. Your manager then had a pop about that. Before that on here it was 'Plymouth's dodgy away form' (3rd best in the league). We've had plenty of 'Loan FC' comments. When Whittaker was recalled, there was about 15 threads on here.
So, forgive Schuey, the manager who has had to take all the brunt and pressure, for being a bit frustrated and letting off a bit of steam! Forgive Schuey for being a bit fedop of Argyle being underestimated, week in, week out. Deary me.
The irony, is that on PASOTI there's barely ever anything on Ipswich or Sheffield Wednesday.
Seems that the big clubs just can't deal with little Plymouth upsetting the applecart. |
My perception is that there has been a lot of mutual respect between the fans of the two clubs, largely due to the Paul Mariner connection and many - myself included - who have said that if we went up they hoped Plymouth would join us. And you deserve to, regardless of whatever resources you have or haven't got its been a phenomenal pace set by us two and Sheffield Wednesday. Now we've achieved promotion and we both ought to be rightly delighted, it's a pity that there is still some of this narkiness. Enjoy your promotion, enjoy the Championship as we intend to and if you like, enjoy watching the teams we have been competing with sweat things out in the play-offs. | |
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| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 17:48 - May 2 with 1465 views | SamWhiteUK |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 12:07 - May 1 by Argyle_Fan |
We've won 10 of the last 12. You've won 11 of the last 12.
Our recent form has been pretty exceptional also although yes your scorelines have been ridiculous. [Post edited 1 May 2023 12:20]
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Your form has been good but we're unbeaten in 18 whereas you've lost four in that time. In our last 15 games we've picked up 7 more points than you and you've lost 3 times. It was our early season form that has seen us (currently) 2nd and had we had the January signings at the start of the season I believe we would have absolutely walked this league. |  | | |
| The media are very strange - Plymouth on 18:43 - May 2 with 1395 views | J2BLUE |
With much of modern media free with adverts they target what will get the most clicks.
Plymouth are in the unfortunate position of not getting the credit they deserve because the rest of the top 6 are big clubs.
If you're a news site and you want to make money from ads then you need to drive traffic. Over the last few seasons the vast majority of stories about that that have mentioned other teams have also included Sunderland, Derby, Wednesday, Bolton, Barnsley or Portsmouth and not Accrrington/Lincoln*. There's no doubt Plymouth deserve a lot more respect and recognition.
*I am not comparing Plymouth to those two clubs, just making a point. |  |
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