For postey and IJN who've both questioned my view/opinion that the entertainment on offer is not that great. Ok, I'll own up to not having been to too many games of late but I have to say that I honestly can't remember the last time I watched Argyle and saw anything other than a load of journeyman footballers more or less, Argyle teams thst could hardly string two passes together etc. Sorry, but it's rubbish. Postey tries to paper over this by saying that 'the first half against Cheltenham saw the best football played by Argyle for several years'. Great - so we played some good football for one half of our last game, and what does that say about the 'several years' in between.
As for the disposable income argument and the choices people make, I suggest you wake up and smell the coffee IJN. We all know how successful your life has been - well whoopdy-bleddy-doo, I'm sure you've worked very hard for it, fair play to you and all that - but, like a lot of successful people you fall into the trap of failing to understand why everyone can't be like it (there are many, but that's not the issue here) and then feel you have the right to tell them how to spend their money. Yes, if Argyle were on the promotion trail seriously, or drew a big club in the cup they'd find a way, but it's ALWAYS been like that - not just in Plymouth but at every lower division club. It's simple supply and demand innit, asva successful man like you ought to realise. You say yourself that you see blokes 'attempting to play half decent football' at Argyle, so by your own admission the football is 'half decent' at best, and that's assuming that their 'attempts' are successful.
Sorry, but it's all very well getting all high and mighty with your 'I was there when we were ***t' badges and the like - I've got one by the way, although I must admit the definition of ***t has had to be re-evaluated, i never thought things would get as bad as they would - and playing the old, smug, superfan card. I've said it before, and I mean it still, if I lived down there I would still be a season ticket holder, but I don't so I'm not, and as time has moved on I've felt less inclination to spend hours of my valuable time and (usually) seventy or eighty quid minimum to traipse around the country just to end up sitting with, mainly, a bunch of numpties watching crap football. Now, I've been a fan for years, do if I feel like that, how do you think the average, uncommitted punter feels.
Once again, don't judge everyone by your own standards (no matter how high they think they are). You've got Argyle in your heart and soul. I used to think I did, but I'm not so sure anymore - it still means a lot, there's no other club or team I care about (apart from in a negative way like Man Utd and England), and yes I'm still an 'armchair' fan inasmuch as I'm still 'tuned in' every Saturday or Tuesday - but I just don't get the same buzz out of it anymore. I always thought of myself as 'loyal' until fairly recently, but sensed that the club was no longer being particularly loyal or fair with the support, and I became fairly rapidly disenchanted. Because of this, I now feel able to understand why people can pick snd choose their matches, or are more likely to wait until the team is doing well, and I will, if and when I start attending games again, be quite happy to be called a part-timer or glory hunter by some self righteous mofo who has nothing else to do with their spare time. I believe I paid my dues years ago and, as it happens, I DO have to weigh up the financial costs these days and at the moment going to Argyle would feel like an extravagance.
So, yes I think Argyle should make the cost of attending games more attractive as I'm sure it would sway enough people to make it worthwhile.
