Results will begin to flow soon, says striker Feeney
STRIKER Warren Feeney is not worried by Argyle's slow start to their League Two campaign.
The Pilgrims have picked up only one point from their first three games, which is identical to their record at the same stage last season.
They did not get their first league win in 2011/12 until the 10th attempt, when they beat Macclesfield Town 2-0 at Home Park, six days after Peter Reid was replaced as manager by Carl Fletcher.
Feeney played regularly for Argyle during that period, with the club still in administration after their disastrous financial collapse.
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He has no concerns about the ability of the current squad and believes once they get their first win more will soon follow.
The 31-year-old took encouragement from the Pilgrims' second half performance in their 2-1 defeat at Oxford United last Saturday.
Feeney told Herald Sport: "It's nowhere near what it was like last season. There is a different buzz about the place.
"Last Saturday we were playing the team top of the league and, with a little bit more luck, we probably could have come away with something.
"It is really early days and once we get that first win I have no doubts whatsoever we can go on a run and do something."
Feeney has made one start and two substitute appearances for the Pilgrims out of five fixtures this season.
Manager Carl Fletcher has been chopping and changing his side, and especially those in attack, trying to find a winning formula.
Nick Chadwick, Paris Cowan-Hall, Matt Lecointe and Jared Sims have all had run-outs as well.
Feeney thought squad rotation was part and parcel of modern football and has experienced it in the past.
He said: "What the manager thinks will work for the game on a Saturday, he will go with.
"When I was at Swansea with Roberto Martinez (now the Wigan Athletic boss) I remember playing in a game on a Saturday and I scored, and I was left out the following Tuesday, so I'm well used to it.
"At the end of the day, it's a team game and it's about getting the results. What the gaffer thinks is strong, he will stick by."
Feeney was an unused substitute in Argyle's Capital One Cup second round tie at Burnley on Tuesday night.
The Pilgrims drew 1-1 after extra-time against their Championship hosts before losing 3-2 in a penalty shoot-out.
Feeney said: "We were disappointed in the result, but not performance-wise. It was a great game for some of the wee boys like Simsy, and I thought Paris was different class.
"To go there and perform against a Championship club the way we did made it a bit easier for us coming back.
"We didn't get home until all hours of the morning, but that's what we are paid to do – play football."
The Argyle team coach made a long, overnight return trip from Burnley to Plymouth, not arriving at Home Park until 6.30am on Wednesday.
Feeney said: "The funny thing was there was four of us listening to music because we just couldn't sleep. We were hyper."
The experienced striker does not believe Argyle's late-night trek from Lancashire will have much – if any – impact on the players when they take on Northampton Town at Home Park tomorrow.
Feeney said: "You just relax as much as you can and, come tomorrow, you have got your match legs anyway."
Comments
by Codebreaker
Friday, August 31 2012, 6:50PM
“@alabar1. Nice to see you've made it for yet another season. Well done.”
by alabar1
Friday, August 31 2012, 4:44PM
“@Codebreaker,getting a bit muddled (must be an age thing) must have been dreaming that the guys name was Rooney,close ,eh NO.
We move on !!”
by josdave
Friday, August 31 2012, 3:09PM
“It seems to be a regular occurrence these days one of the team being put forward to make an optimistic claim. This is no more credible than the rest. I have supported the greens for 60 years now and will continue to support them but it is a fact that since Holloway left in November 2007 we have been on the slide and only avoided going out of the league altogether by luck alone. Something drastic needs to be done and CF is clearly not up to it.”
by Codebreaker
Friday, August 31 2012, 2:59PM
“@alabar1. Who's Wayne?”
by geoffdouch
Friday, August 31 2012, 1:43PM
“Fletcher, wrong man for the job....simple as.”
by alabar1
Friday, August 31 2012, 9:42AM
“I agree with bobbybiscuits post last week,and ask is there any need for the Herald to publish this sort of article before a home game.
Once the game has been played,players can comment on the result and teams performance,but this is just adding ammunition to the boo boys,who hang on to every word.
DO YOUR TALKING ON THE PITCH WAYNE,DONT GIVE CHRIS ERINGTON EASY CHEAP COPY TO PUBLISH.
Onwards and upwards,keep the faith.”
by arthur_p
Friday, August 31 2012, 9:30AM
“I'm not that worried being honest with you.If you've been watching football for long enough you'll appreciate that form, just like successful clubs, come and go.
I've seen one or two idiots already claiming that this is the worst Argyle team ever - after two weeks of the season for goodness sake.Panic at Easter, not now.”
by geoffdouch
Friday, August 31 2012, 7:30AM
“Yeh........ok”
by TheMercenary
Friday, August 31 2012, 7:15AM
“It would appear to me that the only people worrying and showing any concern for Argyle are the fans. The manager's not worried and the players aren't worried. Great. I played non-league football and it worried me and my mates to death if we had back to back defeats. How times, standards and attitudes have changed.”