Andy_S
Member of the Barry Corr Fan Club
Ian Holloway, you legend. :cool:
He says what fans feel and I for one would like Tilly to drop the nicey nicey attitude when it needs to be dropped.
ARGYLE manager Ian Holloway was unequivocal in the wake of the Pilgrims' 4-0 defeat at Burnley.
The home side had not won any of their previous 19 games but brushed aside Argyle's challenge to inflict the heaviest defeat of the season on Holloway's out of sorts side.
For Ollie, though, it was even more terrible than that.
"That was the worst performance of my football career, I have to say," he said.
"I saw a team in claret and blue want it more, chase, harry, tackle, outfight, outwill, outplay, outwit every one of my team - no matter who I put on, no matter what - every single one of them.
"We have got to get right back to square one. It's like they are on holiday already. It was an absolute disgrace.
"Everybody's saying nice things about Plymouth, our cup run, how we didn't deserve to lose to Watford. Well, I'm sorry, but it's been absolute rubbish ever since.
"That was embarrassing. The goalkeeper shanked the ball out of the ground, we missed a penalty - that wasn't a penalty, to be honest - and we got outfought, outmuscled, outbattled in every single area of the pitch. That's really unusual."
Ollie even raised the possibility that the Pilgrims, who have 52 points, may get sucked into the Championship's relegation fight, and insisted his players should not feel safe.
"Have we got enough points to be safe?" he asked. "Because if that's our form at the moment, it's definite relegation fodder.
"There's nowhere to hide. If a few of mine had a shovel or a spade, they would have dug a hole and tried to hide in it tonight. They can't.
"I don't feel safe in my job, why should they feel safe in theirs?
"They have got to do a lot of reflecting, haven't they? It could have been 5-0, it could have been 6-0, it could have been seven, it could have been eight.
"From how we've been all season, I'm embarrassed. That isn't an Ian Holloway side.
"If they think that's good enough, they can get out. That's the way it is. That is unacceptable, although, in fairness, they have hardly let me down all season.
"There's no point in ranting - they know how I feel. I felt it yesterday and the day before - there's an apathy about the place which I can't stand.
"The transfer-window is shut so I can't do anything about it. All I can do is chop some of this down for next year."
Ollie seems set to recall David Norris for Saturday's visit to Leeds after the midfielder's two-game suspension.
"Is David Norris a talisman for Plymouth Argyle? Is one player that important?" he said, before answering his own question. "He sets the tone for our closing, our pressing, our attacking."
He also sympathised with the small band of Argyle supporters who had made the 600-mile round-trip to Lancashire.
"I apologise wholeheartedly to all those people," he said. "Our players should pay their tickets and their travel. They owe them for bothering to come all the way up here and watch that crock of rubbish.
"We have a duty of care to that badge, to play with pride for it, no matter what. Who the hell do we think we are? Correction - who the hell do they think they are?"
He says what fans feel and I for one would like Tilly to drop the nicey nicey attitude when it needs to be dropped.
ARGYLE manager Ian Holloway was unequivocal in the wake of the Pilgrims' 4-0 defeat at Burnley.
The home side had not won any of their previous 19 games but brushed aside Argyle's challenge to inflict the heaviest defeat of the season on Holloway's out of sorts side.
For Ollie, though, it was even more terrible than that.
"That was the worst performance of my football career, I have to say," he said.
"I saw a team in claret and blue want it more, chase, harry, tackle, outfight, outwill, outplay, outwit every one of my team - no matter who I put on, no matter what - every single one of them.
"We have got to get right back to square one. It's like they are on holiday already. It was an absolute disgrace.
"Everybody's saying nice things about Plymouth, our cup run, how we didn't deserve to lose to Watford. Well, I'm sorry, but it's been absolute rubbish ever since.
"That was embarrassing. The goalkeeper shanked the ball out of the ground, we missed a penalty - that wasn't a penalty, to be honest - and we got outfought, outmuscled, outbattled in every single area of the pitch. That's really unusual."
Ollie even raised the possibility that the Pilgrims, who have 52 points, may get sucked into the Championship's relegation fight, and insisted his players should not feel safe.
"Have we got enough points to be safe?" he asked. "Because if that's our form at the moment, it's definite relegation fodder.
"There's nowhere to hide. If a few of mine had a shovel or a spade, they would have dug a hole and tried to hide in it tonight. They can't.
"I don't feel safe in my job, why should they feel safe in theirs?
"They have got to do a lot of reflecting, haven't they? It could have been 5-0, it could have been 6-0, it could have been seven, it could have been eight.
"From how we've been all season, I'm embarrassed. That isn't an Ian Holloway side.
"If they think that's good enough, they can get out. That's the way it is. That is unacceptable, although, in fairness, they have hardly let me down all season.
"There's no point in ranting - they know how I feel. I felt it yesterday and the day before - there's an apathy about the place which I can't stand.
"The transfer-window is shut so I can't do anything about it. All I can do is chop some of this down for next year."
Ollie seems set to recall David Norris for Saturday's visit to Leeds after the midfielder's two-game suspension.
"Is David Norris a talisman for Plymouth Argyle? Is one player that important?" he said, before answering his own question. "He sets the tone for our closing, our pressing, our attacking."
He also sympathised with the small band of Argyle supporters who had made the 600-mile round-trip to Lancashire.
"I apologise wholeheartedly to all those people," he said. "Our players should pay their tickets and their travel. They owe them for bothering to come all the way up here and watch that crock of rubbish.
"We have a duty of care to that badge, to play with pride for it, no matter what. Who the hell do we think we are? Correction - who the hell do they think they are?"