landons forehead":2517a714 said:
There's a chronic absence of signage around the city. Albion manage to get signs up advertising their next game, there's one on the A388 out near Hatt I believe. And Argyle can't?
Argyle have been in the city since 1886, if they don't know about Argyle already it's because they're not interested.
And with virtually universal access to the internet now, if there was any interest in going then fixtures are not difficult to find.
Much like the 'real world' logical economic case for not slashing prices, spend thousands on billboards or radio/TV advertisements and you won't get thousands in to recoup the cost.
Those who want to go and can go, go already. Those who don't won't, or at least not in sufficient numbers to make it a worthwhile venture. I am afraid we are stuck with the status quo in Plymouth, the only way to get extra bums on seats is to virtually guarantee a win and an attractive win to boot.
To do that we're going to need someone to heavily bankroll the squad here. Bradford have a football literate region to draw from and pricing can tap into that innate culture and get it through it's gates, we can't. Plymouth, the wider Plymouth, not us, needs the cart put before the horse before it will be motivated. Argyle need to make them feel like they're missing out on something special if they don't go. We know it's special but they don't see they're missing out on anything.The potential is most definitely there, just look how they crawled out of the woodwork for the Liverpool game, Home Park was suddenly the place to be.
A gazillionaire ain't out there though and certainly at the moment the football isn't going to entice anyone to break their mindset over attending football matches in Plymouth, it's attritional.
The current pricing policy, plus the attempts to bring in additional revenue through the redevelopment is, sadly, the best they can make of things given the general apathy that exists. Cut prices or spend big on advertising and you'll lose money, lose money and the team gets worse, and a cycle of decline creeps back in.
Many don't like to hear it but that is the sober truth of it. We would need a sugar daddy if we are ever going to make it big in the football world. Until then forget it, we are what we are and we are WHERE we are.