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    Sheffield Wednesday 4 – 0 Plymouth Argyle: Wayne Rooney picked up his Championship managerial career where he left off, with his side were deservedly thrashed by Danny Rohl’s impressive Owls!


    Sheffield Wednesday 4 – 0 Plymouth Argyle: Wayne Rooney picked up his Championship managerial career where he left off, with his side were deservedly thrashed by Danny Rohl’s impressive Owls!

    by Zach-dalt

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    1. ninjapenguin12 on

      1st well done for Plymouth bringing 1300 fans here on a Sunday to watch Rooneyball.

      Now not to overreact but we are winning the league and breaking Reading’s pt record.

    5. Maiqthelayer on

      Hard to tell exactly how good of a performance it was, as Plymouth were really really crap, but our passing and moving and high press today were so pleasing to see, what a difference a year makes.
      Just hope we can really do something with Danny Rohl at the helm before he moves on to bigger and better things, this guy is going to the top

      Plymouth looking exactly like we did under Xisco at the start of last season, no ability to retain possession and not particularly committing players forward yet still so many gaps in defence, good luck, hope you find your own Danny Rohl after Rooney goes

    6. Kinda_OP on

      Feel for Plymouth fans, however this was a great Wayne Rooney hate watch, especially after his digs at us in the media. 10/10

    7. Goose_x91 on

      Top of the league đŸ”„

      (We dont get to say this often so please allow it this one time…)

    8. -W-A-W-A-W- on

      Unironically, the score flattered Plymouth.

      I’ve never seen a side so poor on the opening day of the season, I can’t even tell if we’re decent or not from that performance.

      They need shut of Rooney ASAP or they’re fucked – hopefully they’ll find a Rohl of their own after their Xisco (Rooney).

    10. Gibbo777 on

      Well we lost 4-0 and it still should’ve been a lot worse. I wasn’t particularly looking forward to the season starting again and this hasn’t helped.

    11. Greeninexile on

      Listened to that on the radio driving back from Cornwall. It sounded like we couldn’t string two passes together.

      Was it just us being awful or were Wednesday excellent? Hopefully the latter.

    12. OvarianCoincidence on

      Somehow, a Wayne Rooney-led Plymouth were even worse than everyone on this sub had predicted a Wayne Rooney-led Plymouth would be.

      Cannot be too harsh on the club’s owners, though. Absolutely no way whatsoever to judge just how good Rooney was at this management lark.

    13. Excellent-Blueberry1 on

      Not sure how to feel about this…competence?

      My sympathies to Plymouths keeper, for both the 90 mins of ‘defending’ in front of him and his last act being saving the ball by getting a ball kicked into his nads which was then scored anyway. Tough day buddy

    14. Dean_Craig_Pelton on

      Wednesday’s movement was beautiful and reminiscent of Ipswich last season. Plymouth were so tight and congested it was incredibly unclear what the actual plan of attack was. Early days but very interested to see how high Rohl can take Wednesday.

    15. EquatorialPolarBears on

      The quest for top 6 is going to be stacked this season. Great performance, Owls.

    16. SundayLeagueHooligan on

      Ahahahahahah fucking kill me, this is going to be a fucking horrendous season, at least Derby actually scored twice!!!!

    17. BuenasVibras on

      I feel for Plymouth but Wayne Rooneys Plymouth Argyle are by far the poorest Plymouth we’ve played in these past few years.

    18. securinight on

      I only watched the last 25 minutes but that was enough to convince me that Wayne Rooney’s Plymouth Argyle should start planning for league 1.

    20. 100th_meridian on

      We’ve already recorded the same amount of points as we did after **11 games** last season.

      Fuck me the turnaround here has been polemic.

    21. OnePieceAce on

      Guinenely one of the worst opening day performances I’ve ever seen. Plymouth are in big trouble

    24. cunninglinguist316 on

      We’ve seen what a decent manager can get out of this team. We just need to find one, ideally before october.

    25. WildLemire on

      Who tf takes a punt on Rooney after this? Surely he’s going to be a full time pundit by Christmas.

    27. WageSlav3 on

      Owls new signings looked to blend in seamlessly. Valery both Lowes and Ingersson looked great.

      Plymouth looked woeful.

    29. cockaskedforamartini on

      Don’t wanna pile on with Röhl love/Rooney hate, but the difference was so clearly in the coaching. The technique when reclaiming the ball, the comfort when passing in small spaces, defensive awareness, execution of pressing – it was night and day.

    30. MarkT19871 on

      Is it me, or has Wayno already got his next excuse lined up. He can’t blame not having a pre-season or bringing in his own players anymore, so it will be “I didn’t get the financial backing”, the impending excuse is obvious.

    31. greenndgold12 on

      I was wondering why so many people were picking Plymouth for relegation this season, they were solid in the first half of last season and then lost their coach and some key loan players, and struggled in the second half. I get the Rooney thing, but I figured with an offseason to get things right, and maybe keeping Whittaker, they’d be fine. I don’t think that anymore. That was brutal.

    32. SuperBiggles on

      I was so, so hoping that Rooney would do well as Plymouth manager

      I was quietly thinking that the man was getting unduly shat on before he had a chance to start due to a massively bad time at Birmingham, a job he shouldn’t have got, but hey
 everyone can make a mistake, right?

      I just so want him to do well for some reason
 maybe cos he was such a fantastic and electric player to watch? Maybe because as a player he showed the nous and ability to change role to adapt to age, showing a bit of a footballing brain? I just loved him as a player


      But bugger me. That was awful. So one sided. Dismal.

      Oh, Rooney boy


    33. JJSymons on

      Gonna be an illuminating last few weeks of the transfer window now!

      I can easily see the better Argyle players desperately trying to jump ship before the deadline.

      And with soo little time to replace them it could be very long and painful season.

    35. CardiffMarble1212 on

      Its okay, Plymouth fans, no one here will mock you, you have all our deepest sympathies for this season

    36. DrZomboo on

      Obviously the caveat is it was against Wayne Rooney’s Plymouth Argyle FC, but still Wednesday looking like they may be one of the teams to beat this season

    37. cunninglinguist316 on

      And he’s already throwing the players under the bus. Has anyone lost the dressing room after one game before.

    39. CaptainSmeg on

      Ingelsson and Valery with the best debuts i’ve ever seen for us.

      Thought we were outstanding, didn’t let Plymouth have a minute, more quality in the final third that would’ve been over by half time.

      Plymouth reminded me of us under Xisco, so poor. Hopefully Rooney leaves before Plymouth end up in a position like us before Rohl came.

    40. txngodelta on

      Hard to tell how good we were because Plymouth were really bad. Truly awful. And I quite like Plymouth as a club so don’t really take any pleasure from writing that. The next two games against Sunderland and Leeds will give a better indication of what we’re like.

      But as bad as Plymouth were, I’ve never seen us dominate a team like that at this level since our relegation from the Premier League in 2000. We’ve played well against some bad teams, but nothing like that.

      I had a quick check of the XG stats after the game – 4.85 vs 0.3, which is absolutely insane. We’ve won 4-0 and underperformed in front of goal.

    41. 404merrinessnotfound on

      The rooney era begins

      Happy for rohl and for valery though, two ex-saints who have done well today

    43. Accomplished-Pea-729 on

      Well done Wednesday, a very good performance and it should have been a lot more.

      But feck me Argyle that was horrific. It’s going to be a very long and painful season.

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