Plymouth Argyle Weekly News #1

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Championship fixtures release day: 9am Thursday 22 June.
Championship season start: 4 to 6 August.

All 82 league goals part 1 Twitter video.
Part 2 ... Twitter video
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Saturday 13 May

An evening with Paul Merson ... Home Park stadium.

Friday 12 May

Steven Schumacher will be a studio pundit for the play-off semi-final between Peterborough United and Sheffield Wednesday live on Sky Sports tonight.

Thank you for the memories ... club Twitter video.

Birmingham City Head Coach John Eustace says he will take a look at striker Sam Cosgrove during pre-season ... Birmingham Live.

The Argyle podcast episode 95 - Director of Football Neil Dewsnip gave a review of the season ... club website.

Thursday 11 May

Bali Mumba spoke about his time at Argyle and his future at Norwich City ... The Pink Un.

Michael Cooper spoke about winning Player of the Season ... club website.



Wednesday 10 May

The 3,926 Argyle fans at Port Vale on Sunday was the third highest away attendance across the three leagues of the EFL over that weekend.

Key dates for the new season ... club website.

Retained List | Plymouth Argyle - PAFC

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Danny Mayor, Conor Grant, James Bolton, Adam Parkes and Luke Jephcott to leave.

New contracts offered to Dan Scarr, Niall Ennis, Ryan Hardie, James Wilson and Jordan Houghton.
Brendan Galloway made enough appearances to trigger a one year extension.

End of season awards evening photo gallery ... club website.

Port Vale Matchday Moments ... club You Tube.

Home Park had the sixth highest attendances in League One during season 2022/2023 at an average of 15,579. The top five were Derby County 27,259, Ipswich Town 26,184, Sheffield Wednesday 25,378, Bolton 18,814 and Portsmouth 18,064.

The Greens had the fourth highest away support in League One at an average of 1,635 members of the Green Army, beaten only by Sheffield Wednesday (2,443), Derby County (2,379) and Ipswich Town (2,209).
Accrington Stanley had the lowest number of travelling fans at an average of 165.

For away fans visiting home stadiums Home Park had the second lowest in League One at an average of 594 fans per game while Fleetwood had the lowest average at 573 and MK Dons stadium had the highest amount of visiting fans at an average of 1,872 followed by Derby County who saw at average of 1,788 travelling fans in the stadium per game.

Tuesday 9 May



Promotion parade photo gallery ... club website.

Plymouth City Council have granted planning permission for an external fan zone behind the Mayflower grandstand to include a stage, a screen, toilets, picnic benches and food and drink kiosks.

Monday 8 May

Champions merchandise in the ... club superstore.

A Plymothian has scored in each of the last three games in which Argyle have sealed a league title - Mickey Evans against Darlington and QPR and Adam Randell against Port Vale.

The city parade today ... club Twitter video.

Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna congratulates the Champions ... East Anglian Daily Times.
"Congratulations to Plymouth - that's an incredible achievement.
"Full credit to them. They've broken the 100 point barrier. Massive credit to Steven, his staff, players and the football club."

Norwich City manager David Wagner confirms Bali Mumba will be back at Carrow Road next season ... The Pink Un.

Total of minutes played for players aged 23 and under in L1 this season ..

 

[Jon with no H]

The Pink Un article mentions Argyle having 103 points. They must have enjoyed the Bali Mumba goal at Portman Road so much they're counting it twice!

 

[Penlee]

Mumba is amazing but not a full back

 

[mervyn]

Hope his career doesn’t stall by making him solely a full back.

 

[Larry David]

Interesting from Wagner stating he wants Mumba to play solely as a full back which begs the question has he actually seen him play? As an attacking force at wing back he’s been brilliant. Defensively? Not so much. If he’s adamant he won’t play with wing backs I’m not sure Bali will be a good fit for their system. Time will tell.

 

[Tom Cobbley]

Play carp in pre-season and get put on the transfer list, who would want a player like that?

 

[CarolinaGreen]

Ok so that answer the Mumba question. We can move on from that.

 

[(I'm)Stranded]

Can we put in a clause that he can't play against us?

 

[Mark Pedlar]

Can we put in a clause that he can't play against us?

If they're going to play him at full back he can play every game against us.

 

[IJN]

Pink Un is now quoting us quoting them. 🤪

 

[Sparkypete]

That’s the first time Argyle have won when Randell has scored. He has yet to score at home though … although I stand to be corrected.

 

[green pants]

Mumba is amazing but not a full back

Your correct... He is a wingback, will be very successful in that role imo.

 

[Lesley Somerville]

Interesting from Wagner stating he wants Mumba to play solely as a full back which begs the question has he actually seen him play? As an attacking force at wing back he’s been brilliant. Defensively? Not so much. If he’s adamant he won’t play with wing backs I’m not sure Bali will be a good fit for their system. Time will tell.

Agree. Does Bali want to be 'educated' into the Norwich way? Let's see

 

[Andy S]

Can we put in a clause that he can't play against us?

Having Agent Mumba play against us?

Of course! Especially if his manager insists on playing him "out of position"

 

[JannerinCardiff]

Mumba is amazing but not a full back

Yeah I think it won’t take Wagner long to realise that Bali isn’t a full back.

I would not be surprised at all if Bali is offered for transfer at some point by Wagner given his stock is at its highest right now.

Either that or Bali finds he’ll be on the bench a lot and only used when Norwich are losing and need a goal - with Bali coming on as an impact player when the risk that his lack of defensive skills and letting in a goal is less great when already losing.

But I can imagine that Bali will find that frustrating.