retired_smitkat

B]Welcome to the Plymouth Argyle thread for FM 2008.[/B]

Plymouth Argyle Football Club, also known as the Pilgrims, the Greens, the Green Army or Argyle are an English football team currently plying their trade in the second tier of English football: The Coca Cola Championship. Plymouth Argyle was founded in 1886 and became professional in 1903. They are only one of two teams in the football league to play in a primarily green home strip. The other is Yeovil Town. Plymouth Argyle is also the most southerly and westerly league club making the team unique in many ways. The Argyle fans, refered often as the green army have a long travel for their nearest away game (116 miles to Bristol) but this does not stop the fans showing up in numbers.

Peter Shilton, the former England and Leicester City goalkeeper, was Argyle's manager from 1992 until 1995, but despite forming a squad with obvious talent, playing attractive football, he was unsuccessful in trying to arrest a decline which saw the Pilgrims slide from the second to the fourth tier of the league in the space of three years. A number of managers came and went - with the club winning the Third Division Play-off's in 1996 under Neil Warnock before Paul Sturrock arrived in November, 2000. Under a new board and manager it signaled a revival, with the club winning the Division Three title in 2002 and the Division Two title in 2004, before re-establishing themselves in what is now known as the Championship, formerly the First Division. The club have started the 2007/08 season in promising form, but boardroom worries about dwindling attendances are casting shadows over what could be a momentous season.

Club Info
Name: Plymouth Argyle Football Club
Stadium: Home Park
Capacity: 19,800 All-seater
Chairman: Paul Stapleton
Rivals: Exeter, Torquay, Portsmouth, Bristol Rovers, Bristol City
Last Season's League Position: 11th
Transfer Budget: Rises to as high as £2,000,000 after budget adjustment

The First Team Squad

GK: Roman Larrieu, Luke McCormick
CB: Matias Doumbe, Krisztian Timar, Larrys Mabiala (loan), Gary Sawyer, Marcel Seip
LB: None
RB: Paul Connolly,
CM: Nadjim Abdou, Lilian Nalis, Akos Buzsaky, Dan Gosling, Paul Wotton, David Norris
LM: Peter Halmosi,
RM: None
ST: Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Barry Hayles, Rory Fallon

Team Help
Argyle have a good team to start with which should be capble of gaining promotion from the division with a few good signings. The most important are to improve on is your strikers, you may feel differently, but i have no confidence in that trio in this game. I advise you offload for cheaper and better options. Other areas you need to improve are in goal, at left back and on the right wing. Finally you have a lot of quality central midfielders to start with at Plymouth so it would be wise to earn some cash from offloading some of them.

Players to look into signing
Lee Martin - AML - Manchester United - Loan
Seth Johnson - MC - Free Transfer
Scott Golbourne - LB - Reading - Loan
Dong Fangzhou - ST - Manchester United - Loan
Rene Mihelic - AMC - Maribor - Around £100,000
Kieran Lee - LB - Manchester United - Loan
Daniel Sturridge - ST - Manchester City - Loan
Mika Aaritalo - ST - Turon Palloseura - Around £50,000
Zdravko Zdravkov - GK - Free Transfer
Jose Francisco Molina - GK - Free Transfer
Gabriel Torje - AMR - Poli 1921 - Around £200,000
Gyorgy Korsos - DR/DM - Free Transfer

Hope you enjoy a great career as the west countryers. Always ask for help and post your updates.

COME ON ARGYLE!!!

retired_hummerkid

Up the green army

retired_smitkat

This is the table halfway through the season. Really tight at the top at the moment.

The stars of my season so far are:
Halmosi - My star assister with 10 overall.
Keene and Fangzhou - The pair have scored 27 goals between them in the abscence of my star striker aaritalo.
Kieran Lee - The loanee from Man Utd is always solid at the back.

About to play spurs in fa cup third round, should be good.

retired_TheMommieof 3

finally a argyle i was going to make 1 but cudnt be bothered lol.

retired_jaclynnew1212

Must say i've thought about it too but couldn't be bothered.
Managed to get us promoted 1st season with only 1 buy and 1 freebie, was a crazy season tho.
After 14 games we were 3 points top having scored 42 goals, we then went on a massive run or arse form not winning in something like 8 games and dropping to 11th. Picked up Pablo Piatti in Jan and with his help managed to just scrape into the playoffs which thanks to a last gasp injury-time-in-extra-time winner in the final from Piatti we went up!
I'm just starting my 1st Premiership season now, think i'm gonna switch to a more conservative formation as opposed to the 2-at-the-back gung-ho score-one-more-than-them that we used last season.
I'll post a proper update when the team is together for the new season!

retired_Ann1964

I might have another go with Argyle, started two games so far and gave up with both after getting a severe pasting in the prem both times after early promotions.

My first season signings:

Eric Carriere - free - short term signing but excellent playmaker, got 10 goals and 10 assists in his first season and can play anywhere across the midfield.

Onandi Lowe - free - another oldee but makes a good target man, contract runs out in Jan 08.

Get a parent club straight away, I had offers from Man Utd, Arsenal and Man City.

retired_smitkat

Must say i've thought about it too but couldn't be bothered.
Managed to get us promoted 1st season with only 1 buy and 1 freebie, was a crazy season tho.
After 14 games we were 3 points top having scored 42 goals, we then went on a massive run or arse form not winning in something like 8 games and dropping to 11th. Picked up Pablo Piatti in Jan and with his help managed to just scrape into the playoffs which thanks to a last gasp injury-time-in-extra-time winner in the final from Piatti we went up!
I'm just starting my 1st Premiership season now, think i'm gonna switch to a more conservative formation as opposed to the 2-at-the-back gung-ho score-one-more-than-them that we used last season.
I'll post a proper update when the team is together for the new season! </BLOCKQUOTE>

It my big promotion push at the moment, second with 5 to go and on a run of 6 wins.

retired_smitkat

also meant to stay nice to see you gettin into some argyle games, in FM08 it is the most rewarding save ive had so far.

retired_smitkat

Well i did it, i just got into the premiership. Bit of a dissapointing start. Played 7, won 1 drawn 2 lost 3. However i have only deserved to lose 1 game so far. But i am extremely happy with my transfer window:


My team looks very good and i am confident we can get into europe:


My best achievement however has to be this:
The biggest coup ive achieved, my favourite youngster in fm and will be world class when he arrives.

This is my best team
Gk: Hart
Lb: Williams
Cb: Alex Silva
Cb: Cuthbert
Rb: Musacchio
Lm: Halmosi
Cm: Gosling
Cm: Abdou
Rm: Hamalainen
St: Aaritalo
St: Bojinov

Quite good. Yes.