This Time Next Year.

Will we be looking forward to starting the season in league one? Or will it be another season in league two? or will we be looking forward to playing Bristol Rovers and Torquay in the Conference after a points deduction when the Deck of cards collapses? A new wealthy owner is the only way this club will move forward, there must be a loaded football fanatic thats looking for a challenge out there somewhere surly! Ps. Previous Father Christmases need not apply.

I think we will come unstuck in the Play-Offs personally. A year from now the Grandstand will still be open and the HHP plans will thankfully be dead in the water with Brent gone, question is who will be replacing him?

Punchdrunk wrote:

I think we will come unstuck in the Play-Offs personally. A year from now the Grandstand will still be open and the HHP plans will thankfully be dead in the water with Brent gone, question is who will be replacing him?

HHP, if that hideous plan ever happened it would have condemmed the club to Third Fourth Non league football forever. But everyone now knows that Dogs Breakfast of a plan was never going to happen, neither will anything else while Brent owns the club! so on the positive side at least the dream of a decent Grandstand is still alive,along with it a return to the championship in the distant future.

We will have to be slapped with a serious points reduction to end up relegated next season.

We survived last time after playing the first 15-20 games of the season with 17 and 18 year olds.

much optimisum after losing on pens to burton in the play offs.
promotion next season or the next one   

I think both the club and the team could be described as average at best.

It's a sad state of affairs if at this stage in our recovery we can't improve on average.

I'm hopeful we can.

I'll be getting excited about seeing the team line-up   

Hardly a suprise aviva to the end !

Some brummie, fully kit out in his worn out track suit and half a set of teeth, at Brum away (naturally) last season came up to me while walking to the ground and told me that he liked Plymouth and wished us the best. He said I've always had a soft spot for Argyle since that advert for the Norwich lot with that Comedian on the beeb and hoped we'd play them more often. Geddon big dave!!

Norwich City's main sponsor Aviva, no doubt gave them first option on featuring in the piss taking commercials.

They declined. We revel in our parochiality.

Our attendance histories pre Norwich making the top flight were almost identical. Through their years at the top they now enjoy a solid 20k+ fanbase , even in the third tier because the city and region believes in them.

We could and should be the same but try telling that to the farm controllers. They still blame stay away, plastic, glory hunting janners for not turning up in great numbers to watch an average to struggling championship club, showing no ambition.

That's why they're happy with a boxed in ministand, fit only for lower league boasting rights. Right up their street.  

It will all change when we get our own TV chef on the directors board.

Tbf, both parties are at a stalemate. What potential owner would want to splurge cash on a fan base yet to truly emerge. I've no doubt they would, but I understand the reasoning behind that side of the argument. While the fan base to be waits for someone to deliver something worthy of their hard earned cash. Who goes first? Doesn't matter, it only takes one for the other to follow. But neither have made the first move, there's a lack of trust.

spowell92 wrote:

Tbf, both parties are at a stalemate. What potential owner would want to splurge cash on a fan base yet to truly emerge. I've no doubt they would, but I understand the reasoning behind that side of the argument. While the fan base to be waits for someone to deliver something worthy of their hard earned cash. Who goes first? Doesn't matter, it only takes one for the other to follow. But neither have made the first move, there's a lack of trust.

Plenty of clubs with historically equivalent or worse fanbases than Argyle have shown what can be achieved when the first move comes from within and genuine progress is made on and off the field rather than being substituted by half hearted and inadequate cop outs.

Greenskin wrote:

spowell92 wrote:

Tbf, both parties are at a stalemate. What potential owner would want to splurge cash on a fan base yet to truly emerge. I've no doubt they would, but I understand the reasoning behind that side of the argument. While the fan base to be waits for someone to deliver something worthy of their hard earned cash. Who goes first? Doesn't matter, it only takes one for the other to follow. But neither have made the first move, there's a lack of trust.

Plenty of clubs with historically equivalent or worse fanbases than Argyle have shown what can be achieved when the first move comes from within and genuine progress is made on and off the field rather than being substituted by half hearted and inadequate cop outs.

Don't worry, I happen to agree with you - as I state I've no doubt that the fan base would emerge, but I can understand owner reluctance. There is no guarantee that the green army would match the trend of other clubs who have done it in the past, although I see no reason why they wouldn't. In an ideal world we need an owner who's a fan and who's passion and ambition matches that of the fan base. I guess we are doing that to a degree, only we're lowering the ambition of the fan base to that of the owner's (how convenient)   and ramming it down people's throats as realistic and achievable. I prefer to refer to it as mundane and hollow.

spowell92 wrote:

Tbf, both parties are at a stalemate. What potential owner would want to splurge cash on a fan base yet to truly emerge. I've no doubt they would, but I understand the reasoning behind that side of the argument. While the fan base to be waits for someone to deliver something worthy of their hard earned cash. Who goes first? Doesn't matter, it only takes one for the other to follow. But neither have made the first move, there's a lack of trust.

Just how many people do you expect to pay £20+ for div 4 mediocrity every other week ffs !!!!

Elias wrote:

spowell92 wrote:

Tbf, both parties are at a stalemate. What potential owner would want to splurge cash on a fan base yet to truly emerge. I've no doubt they would, but I understand the reasoning behind that side of the argument. While the fan base to be waits for someone to deliver something worthy of their hard earned cash. Who goes first? Doesn't matter, it only takes one for the other to follow. But neither have made the first move, there's a lack of trust.

Just how many people do you expect to pay £20+ for div 4 mediocrity every other week ffs !!!!

I don't expect anyone to do anything.