riviera wrote:welcome back paul
my brother inlaw was at the plimuff game, he said it was crap, bit like manure plimuff are, they get as much injury time as they like, 6th minute wasnt it when the winner went in? bloody cornish!!
Thanks guys!
Who was your brother in law supporting Riviera?! Not Plymouth I guess!
Anyway, here's how my weekend went.
Friday morning I was up at 5am...went and picked my dad up and drove to Ipswich. Parked up, and caught the 7:15am coach to London Victoria. Then caught the 11am coach to Plymouth...arriving in Plymouth at 4:30pm.
Checked in at the hotel....and find in the main foyer: the Port Vale squad.
I soon showed them my fleece and the ITFC badge!
Don't think they were impressed, lol.
Had fish and chips down on the Barbican on Friday evening, before heading to bed. Saturday morning had a gorgeous fry up at the hotel...along with some of the Port Vale players! They're not on any strict diet it seems!
Anyway, Saturday afternoon made our way up to Home Park, had a look around the (small!) club shop and also at the future plans for the stadium. Three sides have been built up, with the main stand expected to go up in 2005.
Went inside the ground at around 2:45 and was met by a wall of noise. The Argyle fans were already singing their songs
DURING THE TEAMS WARM-UP.
The game was a good game, and only spoilt by Port Vale's timewasting tactics which they started in the first 15 minutes!!! Half time was 0-0 with plymouth having dominated, but they needed to step it up a gear I felt to get a goal.
The second half saw Port Vale take the lead against the run of play with their first and only shot on goal! This stunned the Argyle fans, but did it shut them up? No it didn't. They got behind the team and spurred them on (Ipswich fans take note). Plymouth eventually found the equaliser on 80 minutes with a cracking shot that hit the underside of the bar and bounced down over the line and out...the linesman correctly giving the goal. Plymouth continued to surge forward, but as the fourth official held up the board to indicate 5 minutes of added time, it looked like the game was petering out to a draw as Port Vale had the ball in the corner in the Plymouth half. Suddenly Plymouth broke away and surged forward, and with 40 seconds of stoppage time remaining they got their well deserved winner. Home Park went mad...and the noise was brilliant!
A thoroughly enjoyable game with some good football at times, and definitely no worse than what I have seen at Ipswich this season. Plymouth definitely deserved the win, and I was very disappointed by Port Vale's negative tactics which spoilt the game to some degree.
Thanks to Armageddon and Dazza for texting me updates about Ipswich! Appreciated it, although good news would have been preferred!
Thanks guys!
Had a meal out on Saturday night, then Sunday morning round the shops before the long journey home.
A great weekend, and I look forward to our Weekender TITS trip to Plymouth next year!
