Plans for a new stadium.

monti wrote:

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There's a major flaw with this design ~ it faces the pitch. What does Brent want to do, discourage even more people from visiting Gnome Park?

Far better to turn it round so that punters can gaze to their hearts content over the streams of people leaving early as the side has failed yet again to win at home.

merse wrote:

monti wrote:

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There's a major flaw with this design ~ it faces the pitch. What does Brent want to do, discourage even more people from visiting Gnome Park?

Far better to turn it round so that punters can gaze to their hearts content over the streams of people leaving early as the side has failed yet again to win at home.

Aw Merse, that would have been mildly funny a couple of weeks ago before Torquay got vertigo and realised their 2,000 fans probably couldn't afford League 1 ticket prices and bottled it. Still your fantastic stadium is fine for the couple of coachloads who turn up eh?

You're not far wrong Greenjock ~ but Plainmoor with the new stand in situ will have a capacity exactly big enough to quarantee Aaaaaarghnil a full house every week in The Conference and roughly equal to your current massive gates mate.

In another novel move, Torquay United have actually managed to pay for their ground development and won't have to worry about some bloke turning up with an articulated lorry and taking back the seats that haven't been paid for.

The plasterers, plumbers and sparks will all get their due money instead of .77p in the £ and the club can actually afford to employ a proper manager and not gift the job to some player on the injured list.

Even with us plummeting down the league to sixth place, Aaaarghnil are still some 28 (TWENTY EIGHT) points behind us with a tally only half of what we have despite our poor support, small ground, no history and generally piss poor standing as a small club on the outskirts of Ivybridge. We can't be a proper club as we don't even play in green for Crhissakes!

I agree with almost all of those sentiments Merse, but for you to be taking the piss out of our stadium is just laughable, and hopefully one day you will get a huge crowd of around 5,000 to watch you almost fulfill a lifelong ambition and reach League 1

merse wrote:

You're not far wrong Greenjock ~ but Plainmoor with the new stand in situ will have a capacity exactly big enough to quarantee Aaaaaarghnil a full house every week in The Conference and roughly equal to your current massive gates mate.

In another novel move, Torquay United have actually managed to pay for their ground development and won't have to worry about some bloke turning up with an articulated lorry and taking back the seats that haven't been paid for.

The plasterers, plumbers and sparks will all get their due money instead of .77p in the £ and the club can actually afford to employ a proper manager and not gift the job to some player on the injured list.

Even with us plummeting down the league to sixth place, Aaaarghnil are still some 28 (TWENTY EIGHT) points behind us with a tally only half of what we have despite our poor support, small ground, no history and generally piss poor standing as a small club on the outskirts of Ivybridge. We can't be a proper club as we don't even play in green for Crhissakes!

LMAO

Nothing like getting above your station. You do realise you're behind Exeter in the pecking order, right?

FWIIW, there is nothing more that I would wish the previous suits would be made accountable for repaying 100%. English Law sucks.

Coxside_Green wrote:

Nothing like getting above your station. You do realise you're behind Exeter in the pecking order, right?

Pecking orders are for pigeons, I'd rather be following a side that wins most of it's matches as against two that aren't; and subsequently suffering the stress of fighting relegation.

City too, got away with defaulting on 90% of their debts, but hey ~ it's only money and look how all the world governments carry on!

It's great fun being Devon's smallest club and outdoing the combined might of Big City and Aaaaaaaaarghnil....................we even get to wear bright and sunny yelow as opposed to green for envy or red for embarrassment.

Anyway, we'll most likely get beaten again (at Crawley) this week so you can get to within 25 points of us!

Anyone else find it quite endearing to have a Torquay fan genuinely attempting to take the piss?

isnt the only reason you're getting a new stand because some fan won the lottery? (correct me if im wrong)

Any Japanese involved or should that be any Japanese not involved? excuse the pun, but these rumours should be nipped in the bud

monti wrote:

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Big fan of this one, a previous design i believe.

Impressive hotel, now tell me, where are the bell boys quarters

monti wrote:

isnt the only reason you're getting a new stand because some fan won the lottery? (correct me if im wrong)

I'll correct you because you ARE wrong:

It's not the only reason, no...............the old one was well past it's sell by date as was obvious and "living" on borrowed time. This was a situation inherited by the club's board and hence owners who to a person are (ALL 11 of them) supporters of the club. Most of the cost is underwritten by the grants available from the football and education undertakings for such purpose (it is a combined project with the neighbouring school) and Thea Bristow as the widow of her late husband sits on the board as is right and proper given the family investment in Torquay United.

So what is wrong with a £15 million lottery win being dissipated amongst local community projects? The Bristows are really good and genuine people who have also contributed to local scouting and environmental projects, paid for local youth to go to America on holidays that they would otherwise never have experienced; and you will note that the financial input of THE ENTIRE the board is not being pissed away on rubbish players on silly money ~ the current squad didn't cost a penny in transfer fees ~ but on rebuilding the infrastructure of the club so badly denuded under the Bateson regime.

Absolutely nothing to be "above our station" about and a long awaited time in history to remind a few arrogant neighbours that the merits of being "bigger" don't really equate to being better.

Merse,

I think you've stunned them into silence with that one!!

Merv Plummer

pafcineurope wrote:

Merse,

I think you've stunned them into silence with that one!!

Merv Plummer

I'm certainly liking the cut of this Merse lad's jib.

Geddon buay, you stick it to us, I've always thought it was wrong for us reds to only laugh at the Torquay and your quaint little ways.

merse wrote:

monti wrote:

isnt the only reason you're getting a new stand because some fan won the lottery? (correct me if im wrong)

I'll correct you because you ARE wrong:

It's not the only reason, no...............the old one was well past it's sell by date as was obvious and "living" on borrowed time. This was a situation inherited by the club's board and hence owners who to a person are (ALL 11 of them) supporters of the club. Most of the cost is underwritten by the grants available from the football and education undertakings for such purpose (it is a combined project with the neighbouring school) and Thea Bristow as the widow of her late husband sits on the board as is right and proper given the family investment in Torquay United.

So what is wrong with a £15 million lottery win being dissipated amongst local community projects? The Bristows are really good and genuine people who have also contributed to local scouting and environmental projects, paid for local youth to go to America on holidays that they would otherwise never have experienced; and you will note that the financial input of THE ENTIRE the board is not being pissed away on rubbish players on silly money ~ the current squad didn't cost a penny in transfer fees ~ but on rebuilding the infrastructure of the club so badly denuded under the Bateson regime.

Absolutely nothing to be "above our station" about and a long awaited time in history to remind a few arrogant neighbours that the merits of being "bigger" don't really equate to being better.

took long enough about it though, how many years...113..

Can we put Merse up for the GAS Board?

Barring egomaniacs in our respective Boardrooms, butchering the accounts with the long-term aims of feathering their own nests, bigger has historically virtually always equated to better. League positioning over decades have proved this. Argyle will always be Devons biggest club, sadly, followed by Exeter.

Occasionally there are localised upsets in league positioning everywhere. A prime example of this is Doncaster being in a league above their local Sheffield rivals - totally unthinkable a few years ago.

Like I said, without the butchering of the finances, we wouldn't be here, and yes, as with Exeter this season, there's a very real chance that also for the first time in their entire history, Torquay could be in a league (or even two) above Argyle.

I myself, along with loads of Argyle fans who have a fondness for our little neighbours, will be wanting them to go up. Then they can renew their rivalry with a team that is far more on a level par with them.

Czarcasm wrote:

Barring egomaniacs in our respective Boardrooms, butchering the accounts with the long-term aims of feathering their own nests, bigger has historically virtually always equated to better. League positioning over decades have proved this. Argyle will always be Devons biggest club, sadly, followed by Exeter.

It's simplistic fools like you who allow a club such as yours to sink so low matey.

Look at the FACTS:
You are near the bottom of League 2
You are staring The Conference in the face
Going by recent history you will not escape that level in an upwardly direction for a few years at least
You are "owned" by a person who has no knowledge nor interest in the sport of football
Your gates are hovering around the 6k mark...........does having six thousand regular supporters make you big?

What is "big" worth in the context of all that?
I suggest Plymouth Argyle are only "big" in Plymouth pal.

There is nothing about Plymouth Argyle that suggests they are in any way better than either Exeter City or Torquay United. There is plenty to suggest they are inferior, less well placed and less well run than their Devon rivals. Bigger most certainly does NOT equate to better

Division Two survival is the only thing we should be working on at the moment......no other distractions needed until that is accomplished.....isn't that what caused us to get into the mire to start with......only football problems at the moment....nothing else please.

The record books show that PAFC have historically pulled in at least double the attendance figures of Exeter and treble that of Torquay.

The fact that neither of the eternal Devon minnows, have ever even reached the second tier says it all.

Enjoy this blip while it lasts.

Tring - could be like a great Dylan song?? "The times they are a'changin' ". Hope not for too long.

Merv Plummer

Tringreen wrote:

Enjoy this blip while it lasts.

Oh we are, we are.................mind you two succesive relegations and a more than possible third would be more of a "splosh" than a blip!

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Tringreen wrote:

The record books show that PAFC have historically pulled in at least double the attendance figures of Exeter and treble that of Torquay.

So did public executions!

merse wrote:

Czarcasm wrote:

Barring egomaniacs in our respective Boardrooms, butchering the accounts with the long-term aims of feathering their own nests, bigger has historically virtually always equated to better. League positioning over decades have proved this. Argyle will always be Devons biggest club, sadly, followed by Exeter.

There is nothing about Plymouth Argyle that suggests they are in any way better than either Exeter City or Torquay United.

League positions, year after year, after year, after year would suggest otherwise.

You're obviously wallowing in the glory of being 6th in division 4. Fantastic. Enjoy it. But you do realise you're on the wrong site if you want to try and manufacture some sort of rivalry...

Czar, there's nowhere else for him to go.

Exeweb has all but closed it's doors to anyone not towing the party line, and banter from other fans is simply frowned upon. And the alternative........shudder!

Carry on Merse, nobody's biting, but if it makes you feel better.............................

merse wrote:

monti wrote:

isnt the only reason you're getting a new stand because some fan won the lottery? (correct me if im wrong)

I'll correct you because you ARE wrong:

It's not the only reason, no...............the old one was well past it's sell by date as was obvious and "living" on borrowed time. This was a situation inherited by the club's board and hence owners who to a person are (ALL 11 of them) supporters of the club. Most of the cost is underwritten by the grants available from the football and education undertakings for such purpose (it is a combined project with the neighbouring school) and Thea Bristow as the widow of her late husband sits on the board as is right and proper given the family investment in Torquay United.

So what is wrong with a £15 million lottery win being dissipated amongst local community projects? The Bristows are really good and genuine people who have also contributed to local scouting and environmental projects, paid for local youth to go to America on holidays that they would otherwise never have experienced; and you will note that the financial input of THE ENTIRE the board is not being pissed away on rubbish players on silly money ~ the current squad didn't cost a penny in transfer fees ~ but on rebuilding the infrastructure of the club so badly denuded under the Bateson regime.

Absolutely nothing to be "above our station" about and a long awaited time in history to remind a few arrogant neighbours that the merits of being "bigger" don't really equate to being better.

I am feeling very very sweary right now, as Argyle has managed to drop 2 points in the 35th minute of injury time. But, I will say to you, well said. I respect all you have said. I like the sound of how you are doing things at Torquay (if it's based on what you've posted). So what if it is a lottery win, and you can gain from it? Good for TUFC! Argyle fans shouldn't sneer at it. You are right, bigger doesn't necessarily mean better. I am sick to death of Argyle's consistent failings over almost 40 years of supporting them, and now thanks to two dropped points tonight, we could have the largest ground the BSP has ever seen. Good luck Torquay. You cut your cloth accordingly. As for Argyle, it's the same old shit really.