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Saturday 19th October, ko 12:30pm
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Match Officials:
Referee: Andrew Kitchen
Assistant Referee: Matthew Jones
Assistant Referee: Shaun Hudson
Fourth Official: Scott Oldham
Unless things change in the few days we will still have Omer Riza in charge at the beginning of a week that sees games at home to Plymouth and Portsmouth before an away trip to WBA on Saturday week.
Wayne Rooney will be missing from the away dug out after being sent off during Plymouth's last game.
good, looking forward to this, Plymouth are great going forward and not great at the back.
I would go with the same team that started against Bristol with the exception of Daland in for Chambers and Willock for El Ghazi
Rarely confident before any match. My recollections of matches v the Argyle aren't happy ones.
Can see a draw, but not much more.
Colwill was apparently ill over the weekend and missed a friendly u21 match. Hopefully he will be fit. If he is, I don't expect any changes.
I'd also replace El Ghazi for Willock and Chambers for Daaland.
Definitely go with Daaland over ChambersQuote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
El Ghazi needs match time to get back to full match fitness, although we haven’t seen anything from him yet, I still have hope there’s a quality footballer there
They could have sold 4000 , easily
Tremendous support from them
It's probably one of the shorter away trips for themQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
The fact that they had huge interest and snapped up 3200 tickets shows what great away support they haveQuote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
I'd do anything to get away from Plymouth if I lived there as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
The fishing off mount batten breakwater and devil's point is goodQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
And some good kebab houses
What more do you want ?
When you've been in this division for nye on 20 years and have done some grounds 10 or 15 times the novelty wears off.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
That's true in our case and maybe other clubs too but plymouth have tremendous away support , they take big followings everywhereQuote:
Originally Posted by insider
It's a heck of a trek from down there and their Cornwall based fans are even further away
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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Considering where they are that's very impressiveQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
Very easy to travel away if you are a Midlands based club like Birmingham or Coventry ......even the big away trips are just a few hours away
Plymouth , Sunderland .....bloody miles from anywhere
To be fair. We’re bloody miles from anywhere too. I’m assuming we’d be the 5th furthest travelling team behind the 2 mentioned, Boro and Swansea.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I don’t think there’s more than 2 away games within a 100 mile drive of Cardiff.
With Sunderland, the 2 Sheffield teams and Leeds back in the league, Boro actually have 4 semi close away days this season. If they do have further to travel than us, I can’t imagine there’s much in it at all.
We must be one of their closer away games along with the Wurzels and Portsmouth although the route to Portsmouth may not be as straightforwardQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I’ve fallen asleep for about 4 hours on the coach going to Swansea away, woke up and still not there. I reckon Swansea is about 350 miles from Cardiff!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Canton Kev
We are their second closest game, just a bit closer than Portsmouth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Mort
About 3.5 hours to us and about 4 hours to Portsmouth.
Partly because the transport network on this country is so focused on London.
I dread to think what the Plymouth vs Sunderland games must be like for away fans - 9 hours each way?
Norwich , Portsmouth have a lot of long haulsQuote:
Originally Posted by Canton Kev
Sunderland to Birmingham .....4 hrs 30 mins on coachQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Plymouth to Birmingham ....4hrs 40 mins
Middlesborough to Birmingham....4hrs 10 mins
Cardiff to Birmingham ....2 hrs 30 mins
Birmingham , West Brom , Coventry , Derby , Stoke are a pretty good trip for us
Plymouth trips to Burnley, Preston etc are a long trek
Boro , Sunderland , Leeds , Hull .....huge trips
I think all loyal away fans are the salt of tge earth , it's fantastic dedication and essentially a young man's game
For years I've thought they should build a whopping great motorway diagonally across the country, between say Swindon and Norwich, would have helped in so many journeysQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I think we're generally 4th/5th in terms of longest distance most seasonsQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
You're right what you say about Brum etc, yeh great support but its simpler to travel when you're a Midlands club, same for a lot of the south Yorkshire teams too
Yes derby , Wednesday , United etc pretty centralQuote:
Originally Posted by City123
Brum Coventry etc taking 2500 to stoke , derby , Sheffield clubs is a walk in the park
Us , the unshaven , Plymouth together with Sunderland and boro and pompey all have a hike
It's real loyalty those that do it and those that have done it hats off to them
It's no surprise that most away fans tend to be young to middle age without a tribe of kids
Or a wife
quite the opposite in my case, I travelled away every fortnight into my late 30's/early 40's specifically to get away from my wife and kids after a stressful work week..Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
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