Ben Waine (Port Vale | England)

YoungHeartHM

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Fans saying he's injured, but no one is saying what sort of injury

Was an ankle injury not too long ago. Part of the reason he missed the cup final v Bolton.

Recurrence or flare up of the same injury perhaps?

Plymouth have also had some players return from injury, and Waine may just have been squeezed out.

Pilgrims host lowly Cambridge (21st) this weekend, so maybe a game they bring Waine onto the bench to manage a heavy schedule - if Waine is fit. 4 games left to finish the regular season. 3 of them at home, 3 of them against teams around the mid table who may not have much to play for. Cambridge desperate to avoid relegation could even be Plymouth's toughest match in the run in.

https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2023/04/22/england/league-one/plymouth-argyle-fc/cambridge-united-fc/3810157/

Plymouth (1st) host Cambridge United (21st)

https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2023/04/22/england/league-one/plymouth-argyle-fc/cambridge-united-fc/3810157/

Oh and in the Plymouth women's team is a player called Train. They should 100% get married and have hypenated babies!

90' GOAL!!!!!!!! Train thumps in the equaliser!!!!

1-1#pafc | In partnership with Chamber_Devon pic.twitter.com/oN6JQL2CBX

— Plymouth Argyle Women FC (@ArgyleWFC) April 21, 2023

No Waine.

Plymouth (1st) win 3-1. 

Still tight in the promotion race, with Pilgrims now having 2 home games against Burton Albion & Bristol Rovers who both have nothing to play for but pride. So Plymouth in a good spot

Plymouth (1st) host Bristol Rovers (15th). Rovers with nothing to play for.

https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2023/04/25/england/league-one/plymouth-argyle-fc/bristol-rovers-fc/3810097/

0-0 at HT. No Waine

2-0 win Plymouth. Rovers down to 10 men from 25 mins.

Pilgrims win against Burton Albion at home this weekend and it’s a promotion party. BA with nothing to play for

Is Waine good enough for The Championship though? Hopefully he gets a chance next season to show he can be

Plymouth (1st) host Burton Albion (16th)

https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2023/04/29/england/league-one/plymouth-argyle-fc/burton-albion-fc/3810171/

Victory (1-0)and guaranteed promotion back to The Championship. Will take the title next week if they do better than Ipswich who also are guaranteed to go up.

coochiee

Plymouth (1st) host Burton Albion (16th)

https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2023/04/29/england/league-one/plymouth-argyle-fc/burton-albion-fc/3810171/

Cue promotion party. No Waine in the squad for that 1-0 win

coochiee

Cue promotion party. No Waine in the squad for that 1-0 win

 Promotion might not be the best thing for Waine. He's already battling just to make matchday squads; he's played 239 out of 1800 league minutes since he signed. I'd assume Plymouth will look to strengthen their squad having gone up a tier, so he could be bumped further down the pecking order. 

We don't have do to 'better than Ipswich' if we win the game at Port Vale, we are the Champions.

Ben's loved down these parts and will get more game time when his ankle problem is sorted.

As for the promotion party, Ben's right in the middle of it.

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Plymouth (1st - lead by a point from Ipswich) travel to Port Vale (18th - nothing to play for). Pilgrims win and L1 title is theirs. Lose/draw and it will depend on result of Ipswich at Fleetwood Town.

https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2023/05/07/england/league-one/port-vale-fc/plymouth-argyle-fc/3810183/

No Waine. Note comments above about an ankle injury. 
Hopefully he's okay to replace Wood in the AWs squad for Sweden in June.

Edit - Plymouth trail 1-0 after only 3 mins.

Edit 2 - Plymouth come back to win 3-1, and therefore are League One champions!

Hopefully we put some clauses in the transfer regarding them getting promoted! 

who is to say wood can't be in the June squad? Forest said he was out for the season but the season ends 3 weeks before the Sweden game

coochiee

No Waine. Note comments above about an ankle injury. 
Hopefully he's okay to replace Wood in the AWs squad for Sweden in June.

Edit - Plymouth trail 1-0 after only 3 mins.

Edit 2 - Plymouth come back to win 3-1, and therefore are League One champions!

imanixsupporter

who is to say wood can't be in the June squad? Forest said he was out for the season but the season ends 3 weeks before the Sweden game

coochiee

No Waine. Note comments above about an ankle injury. 
Hopefully he's okay to replace Wood in the AWs squad for Sweden in June.

Edit - Plymouth trail 1-0 after only 3 mins.

Edit 2 - Plymouth come back to win 3-1, and therefore are League One champions!

Read the Wood thread. Forest manager said he won't be back training until July. Thigh was operated on. 

NZF/AWs will need to be a very careful, now how they manage relationship with Wood's club. If he aggravated the initial thigh injury he had in the UK, whilst in NZ training with the AWs in March - Forest will not be happy at the moment as they battle to avoid the drop. Admittedly is not clear to us where Wood sustained the thigh injury (other thigh?) that actually saw him operated on.

All seems a bit moot, as he's unlikely to be fit by June, let alone for a meaningless friendly against Sweden (3 years before a World Cup) - as his club will see it. Chance for Mata/Waine/Greive to step up. 

Oops - don't know how I missed that it had been said he would be out until July. Fingers crossed for a big shift up front from waineo then 

Removed - Wrong forum. 

Ben Waine with a start. 1st pre season game for Plymouth
https://twitter.com/Argyle/status/1677000854421766171

Ranix

Ben Waine with a start. 1st pre season game for Plymouth
https://twitter.com/Argyle/status/1677000854421766171

Missed two chances with headers against Hearts

Thankfully for Ben, he didn't have Cam Devlin yapping in his ear.

nice left foot shot! called for it too!

Plymouth host Huddersfield Town in The Championship.

https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2023/08/05/england/championship/plymouth-argyle-fc/huddersfield-town-fc/4087790/

Waine on the bench.

89th minute substitute on. Won 3-1 .

League Cup time. Chance for Waine to get a start. Plymouth host League One's Leyton Orient.

https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2023/08/08/england/league-cup/plymouth-argyle-fc/leyton-orient-fc/4091767/

From Flying Kiwis.

Love to see it. Ben Waine got on for the last five minutes of Plymouth Argyle’s return to the Championship. He’d served a lot of unused sub duty last season (injuries didn’t help) so there was no guarantee he’d be straight into the matchday squad let alone being one of the substitutes used but he did both and thus becomes the first NZer to feature in this division since Stefan Marinovic’s one-and-done appearance for Bristol City in March 2019. It’s been a long time since Tommy Smith and Chris Wood were ripping this thing up on the weekly.

To be fair, it does help Waineo’s case that they only really have two strikers in the first team at the moment. Ryan Hardie and himself. The manager is on record saying he’d like to sign another centre forward before the window closes. There’s always gonna be competition... but they’re also big fans of Waine at the Pilgrims, their initial scouting excitement having been raised by how he’s settled in.

Plymouth Argyle began their EFL Championship campaign with a lovely 3-1 win over Huddersfield. It was 1-1 with twenty to go and potentially on track for Waine to make it a hat-trick of super sub Flying Kiwis this week... but that wasn’t necessary because Bali Mumba scored a belter on 74’ and then Ryan Hardie added to that two minutes later. Extended highlights over here. Great to get early points on the board as a club that’s expected to have one of the lowest budgets in the division.

Two goals in first 38 mins vs. Leyton Orient, he's fudgein FIRING

38'Goal! Plymouth Argyle 2, Leyton Orient 0. Ben Waine (Plymouth Argyle) with an attempt from very close range to the bottom left corner.

25'Goal! Plymouth Argyle 1, Leyton Orient 0. Ben Waine (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal.

Well if that's not a way to push for future selection in the championship starting line up, I don't know what is. 

Good on our boy!

First goal.
https://twitter.com/elliot_massey/status/1688930789357166592
Well taken. good movement to Bend his run to stay on side.

Edit. Not this mornings goal. This is a goal he scored against Huddersfield previously. my bad there

Ranix

First goal.
https://twitter.com/elliot_massey/status/1688930789357166592
Well taken. good movement to Bend his run to stay on side.

 that's the first goal against Huddersfield haha. from the sounds, Waine's first against Orient was him pouncing on a bad backpass and rounding the keeper

mrsmiis

Ranix

First goal.
https://twitter.com/elliot_massey/status/1688930789357166592
Well taken. good movement to Bend his run to stay on side.

 that's the first goal against Huddersfield haha. from the sounds, Waine's first against Orient was him pouncing on a bad backpass and rounding the keeper

Was beginning to doubt if I knew my rights and lefts…

Will be interesting to see how he cuts it in the Championship... certainly looks like he would do well at League 1, but this is a bit of an unknown.

I wonder how much his game has grown already by being there (despite the injuries)