Plymouth Argyle F.C. season 2006-07
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article documents a current sports-related event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. |
1886/87 - ... - 2001/02 - 2002/03 - 2003/04 - 2004/05 - 2005/06 - 2006/07
| League | Championship |
| through 3/23/07 win-loss-draw Goal for-against points (%) Position Top Scorer |
12-10-16 51-50 , 52 (46%) 11 Barry Hayles (11) |
| FA Cup | Quarter finals vs Watford 0-1 |
| League Cup | 1st Round vs. Walsall 0-1 |
| Manager | Ian Holloway |
Contents |
[edit] Summary of the 2006/07 season:
After only eight months as manager, during which he was credited with saving Argyle from relegation, Tony Pulis left the club on June 14, to return to Stoke. Two weeks later, formerQPR manager Ian Holloway, was appointed manager.
Holloway moved quickly to address the team's lack of strikers (only one senior striker, Nick Chadwick was present) by adding veteran Barry Hayles from Millwall and 20 year-old Sylvan Ebanks-Blake from Manchester United to Nick Chadwick. Young strikers Cherno Samba andReuben Reid got modest playing time in the first part of the season. In midfield, first-year Luke Summerfield impressed with the winning goal against Colchester and in other matches, but he still struggled to find a starting place amongst five more seasoned mid-fielders, Wotton, Nalis, Buzsáky, Norris and Hodges (who missed much of September and all of October to injury). The addition of Dutch defender Marcel Seip, who scored in his first full start against Norwich provided competition to Aljofree andDoumbe in central defense. In goal, Luke McCormick got first team action with Romain Larrieu out with an infection and a cancer scare (which was resolved in mid-September) and through good performances kept his place.
The first third of the season saw a fairly good start to the Championship with six wins, seven draws, and only two losses, and an early exit from the Carling Cup against division two Walsall. Holloway's signings, enthusiasm and more attacking style appeared to be lifting team performances from the previous season and the team was in 6th place after 15 games. A third away win at the end of September saw Argyle match its away wins for the entire 2005-6 season. The possibility of getting to the play-off for promotion to the premiership, something no one considered seriously for the current season, began to be talked about.
The lack of depth in the Argyle squad showed mid-season as accumulation of suspensions and injuries (including Paul Wotton out for the season with a knee injury) forced Holloway to draw ever deeper into reserves, and with a slide in results and position, although 13th was the lowest position for Argyle all season.
In January, Holloway moved aggressively during the January transfer window, bringing in five new players, striker Kevin Gallen from QPR, Hungarians Peter Halmosi (midfield) and Krisztián Timár (defense) (both with summer transfer options), 17-year old England U-18 forward Scott Sinclair from Chelsea F.C. and tall forward Rory Fallon in a record tieing £300,000 transfer from Swansea. Suddenly, Argyle had a 29-man squad including eight strikers competing for two slots. Performances improved but not sufficiently to boost Argyle up the table and by March the gap between Argyle and the teams competing for play off berths began to look unsurmountable.
However, Argyle had an excellent FA Cup run making it into the Quarter Finals before losing 0-1 against Watford, the farthest any non-premiership team made it.
[edit] Team
The current Plymouth Argyle first-team squad as of January 17, 2007.
|
|
12 Green Army is not a real player, but was registered by the club as a tribute to the supporters. The idea behind assigning the number 12 was that the great support from fans gives Argyle a similar advantage to having an extra (twelfth) player.
[edit] Transfers
[edit] Out
| Date | Player | Transfer | To | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2006 | Chris Zebroski | Released | Free Agent | Released after being found guilty of gross misconduct |
[edit] In
| Date | Player | Transfer | From | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 July 2006 | Sylvan Ebanks-Blake | Buy | Manchester United | £200,000, + another £100,000 if plays enough matches |
| 19 July 2006 | Barry Hayles | Buy | Millwall | £100,000 |
| 4 August 2006 | Josh Clapham | Free | Trial | N/A |
| 30 August 2006 | Marcel Seip | Free | Heerenveen | N/A |
| 30 August 2006 | Cherno Samba | Free | Cádiz | N/A |
| 11 January 2007 | Kevin Gallen | Loan | QPR | N/A |
| 11 January 2007 | Peter Halmosi | Loan | Debreceni VSC | £400,000 transfer option in summer |
| 11 January 2007 | Krisztián Timár | Loan | Ferencvaros | £100,000 transfer option in summer |
| 17 January 2007 | Scott Sinclair | Loan | Chelsea F.C. | N/A |
| 19 January 2007 | Rory Fallon | Buy | Swansea City F.C. | £300,000 |
[edit] Results
All Championship League games, except for(1) = Carling Cup, and (2) = FA Cup
| Date | Opposition | Venue | Result | Scorers (for Plymouth Argyle in bold) | Attend. | Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Aug. | Wolves | Home | Draw (1-1) | Hayles 35, Doumbe 47 (og) | 15,964 | 9 |
| 8 Aug. | Colchester | Away | Win (1-0) | Summerfield 30 | 4,627 | 7 |
| 12 Aug. | Sunderland | Away | Win (2-3) | Murphy 1, Norris 8, Hayles 39, Elliott 67, Chadwick 82 | 24,377 | 2 |
| 19 Aug. | Sheff. Weds. | Home | Loss (1-2) | Wotton 43, McAllister 52, O'Brien 83 | 14,507 | 9 |
| 22 Aug. | Walsall (1) | Home | Loss (0-1) | Dann 85 | 6,407 | - |
| 26 Aug. | Stoke | Away | Draw (1-1) | Sidibe 39, Hayles 78 | 11,626 | 8 |
| 9 Sept. | QPR | Home | Draw (1-1) | Blackstock 17, Ebanks-Blake 31 | 12,138 | 9 |
| 12 Sep. | Cardiff | Home | Draw (3-3) | Thompson 8, Chopra 29, 49, McNaughton (og) 69,Hayles 74, Purse (og) 88 | 11,655 | 11 |
| 16 Sep. | Southampton | Away | Loss (0-1) | Rasiak 52 | 22,514 | 15 |
| 23 Sep. | Norwich | Home | Win (3-1) | Doherty 14 (og), Seip 47, Norris 74, Earnshaw 94 | 11,813 | 9 |
| 30 Sep. | Coventry | Away | Win (1-0) | Samba 82 | 19,545 | 8 |
| 14 Oct. | Derby | Home | Win (3-1) | Wotton 45 (pen), Lupoli 45+2, Wotton 63 (pen), Seip 79 | 13,622 | 5 |
| 17 Oct. | Barnsley | Away | Draw (2-2) | Kay 2, Ebanks-Blake 29, Hayles 34, Richards 50 | 9,479 | 6 |
| 21 Oct. | Burnley | Home | Draw (0-0) | - | 12,817 | 7 |
| 28 Oct. | Crystal Palace | Away | Win (1-0) | Chadwick 39 | 17,084 | 5 |
| 31 Oct. | Ipswich | Home | Draw (1-1) | Legwinski 1, Wotton 22 | 12,210 | 6 |
| 4 Nov. | Birmingham | Home | Loss (0-1) | Jaidi 75, | 17,008 | 7 |
| 11 Nov. | Leicester | Away | Draw (2-2) | Hume 29, Nalis 31, Porter 75, Hayles 90 | 21,703 | 7 |
| 18 Nov. | Southend | Away | Draw (1-1) | Djordjic 5, Gower 59, | 9,469 | 9 |
| 25 Nov. | Leeds | Home | Loss (1-2) | Blake 3, Djordjic 40, Lewis 61 | 17,088 | 12 |
| 28 Nov. | Luton | Home | Win (1-0) | Djordjic 61 | 9,965 | 9 |
| 2 Dec. | Birmingham | Away | Loss (0-3) | Bendtner 21, Upson 30, McSheffrey 41 | 22,592 | 11 |
| 9 Dec. | Hull | Home | Win (1-0) | Ebanks-Blake 71 | 12,101 | 10 |
| 16 Dec. | Preston | Away | Loss (0-3) | Pugh 12, Omerod 41, Alexander 56 | 13,171 | 12 |
| 23 Dec. | West Brom | Home | Draw (2-2) | Hayles 23, Nalis 40, Phillips 45+1, 45+3 | 15,172 | 12 |
| 26 Dec. | Cardiff | Away | Draw(2-2) | Norris 34, Thompson 47, 52, Norris 59 | 17,289 | 13 |
| 30 Dec. | Derby | Away | Loss (0-1) | Bisgaard 81 | 25,775 | 13 |
| 1 Jan. | Southampton | Home | Draw (1-1) | Rasiak 5, Hayles 66 | 15,377 | 13 |
| 6 Jan. | Peterborough (2) | Away | Draw (1-1) | Aljofree 74, Mclean 78 | 6,255 | - |
| 13 Jan. | Norwich | Away | Win (3-1) | Safri 45+1, Hayles 59, Buzsaky 63, 57 | 23,523 | 12 |
| 16 Jan. | Peterborough (2) | Home | Win (2-1) | Mclean 13, Hayles 18, Norris 27 | 9,973 | - |
| 22 Jan. | Coventry | Home | Win (3-2) | Gallen 18, Birchall 22, Buzsaky 32, Hayles 48, Mifsud 70 | 9,841 | 11 |
| 27 Jan. | Barnet (2) | Away | Win (2-0) | Aljofree 67 (pen), Sinclair 83 | 5,204 | - |
| 30 Jan. | West Brom | Away | Loss (1-2) | Kamara 41(pen), 50, Fallon 70 | 19,894 | 11 |
| 3 Feb. | Wolves | Away | Draw (2-2) | Sinclair 27, Ward 33, Timar 36, Olofinjana 69 | 19,082 | 11 |
| 10 Feb | Sunderland | Home | Loss (0-2) | Stokes 69, Connolly 71 | 15,247 | 11 |
| 17 Feb. | Derby (2) | Home | Win (2-0) | Gallen 14 (pen), Sinclair 83 | 18,026 | - |
| 20 Feb. | Colchester | Home | Win (3-0) | Norris 12, Ebanks-Blake 59 (pen), Gosling 67 | 12,895 | 11 |
| 24 Feb. | QPR | Away | Draw (1-1) | Nalis 32, Cook 59, | 13,757 | 12 |
| 3 Mar. | Stoke | Home | Draw (1-1) | Ebanks-Blake 40 (pen), Russell 55 | 12,539 | 12 |
| 5 Mar. | Sheff. Wed. | Away | Draw (1-0) | MacClean 21, Gosling, 56 | 19,449 | 12 |
| 11 Mar. | Watford (2) | Home | Loss (0-1) | Bouazza 21 | 20,652 | - |
| 14 Mar. | Barnsley | Home | Loss (2-4) | Nalis 15, Nyatanga 20, Devaney 31, Ebanks-Blake, Devaney 61, Ferenczi 93 | 10,265 | 12 |
| 17 Mar. | Crystal Palace | Home | Win (1-0) | Sinclair 48 | 11,239 | 13 |
| 31 Mar. | Ipswich | Away | - | - | - | - |
| 3 Apr. | Burnley | Away | - | - | - | - |
| 7 April | Leeds | Away | - | - | - | - |
| 9 April | Leicester | Home | - | - | - | - |
| 14 April | Luton | Away | - | - | - | - |
| 21 April | Southend | Home | - | - | - | - |
| 28 April | Preston | Home | - | - | - | - |
| 6 May | Hull | Away | - | - | - | - |
[edit] Results Summary
| Month | Wins | Losses | Draws | Points/Possible | Percentage |
| August | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8/15 | 53% |
| September | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8/15 | 53% |
| October | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9/15 | 60% |
| November | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5/15 | 33% |
| December | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5/18 | 28% |
| January | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7/12 | 58% |
| February | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5/12 | 42% |
| March | % | ||||
| April | % | ||||
| 2006/7 Season-to-Date | 11 | 9 | 14 | 47/102 | 46% |
| 2005/6 Season | |||||
| Sheffield United | #2 | promoted | - | 90/138 | 65% |
| Crystal Palace | #6 | play-offs | - | 75/138 | 54% |
| Crewe Alexadra | #21 | relegated | - | 42/138 | 30% |
[edit] Pre Season Results
The pre-season saw wins over Tiverton (4-0), Grays Athletic (3-0), FC Gratkorn (5-1), and Yeovil (2-0) and losses to Real Madrid (0-1) and Bristol Rovers (0-1). A pre-season altercation between first-year Chris Zebroski and team captain, mid-fielder Paul Wotton in a Austrian bar resulted in 100 stitches to Wotton's head and the sacking of Zebroski. Wotton recovered for the first game of the season.
