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HC Green":3p01pxlf said:The facts don't support your statement.
In the first 4 years in the Championship the team progressed each year from 17th to 14th to 11th to 10th so we were competitive on the field and getting better. Perversely in those 4 years the average attendance went down each year from 16,419 in year 1 to 13,000 in year 4 when we finished 10th.
It is hard to constantly improve and reinvest in better players if your income is on a downward spiral.
The drop of approximately 3,500, per game would mean Argyle's income from gate receipt would be about £1m less in the 4th year compared to year 1. Assuming average £15 admission.
Not arguing with the statistics-they are correct in as far as they go. The fact is though that, until Pulis arrived and carried out his rather grim survival job, Argyle were fighting relegation battles and the momentum had already been lost-casual fans who had previously displayed only a passing interest in Argyle were never going to be attracted on a longer term basis by that and equally would not have been drawn back by finishes of 10th and 11th which, although respectable by Argyle's recent standards, were not really setting the league alight. Exactly the same occurred with attendances at clubs like Burnley and Cardiff at the time but I don't recall them having mid term fire sales, especially in the season that the chairman professed that the club would "go for it".