Real fans

[davie nine]

Simonh,

I have just put this on another thread about potential traffic problems tomorrow night following what seems to be regular criticism, from several posters, of PAFC's communications department.

Maybe, with the increased interest in the club, both locally and nationally, in the last couple of years, the communications department is under-resourced.
They seem to get a lot of criticism but perhaps it is time to give them some credit instead of sarcastic comments without any knowledge of the workload involved.
There does seem to be a general lack of respect for our communications department and perhaps it is time for the Board to give them some support and a vote of confidence.

I do think that, if the Board think that praise is merited, it would be good to see a formal vote of confidence from them.

 

[CarolinaGreen]

Although I'm overseas now and don't attend, it was initially the big games that got me interested in Argyle, and eventually showing up to watch when I was in my teens. The FA Cup is one of the club's big opportunities to cast a wider net, and the 'glory fan' of today coming to watch Liverpool can quite easily become an Argyle for Life fan, unless of course they show up to abuse there or here. When I showed up to watch a real game live for the first time it was magical (Crystal Palace, and we lost 3-1 I think) and I never turned back, so don't ruin it for the newbies.

 

[Bermudian Green]

Real fans. Hmmm. My wife's an Atletico fan, her brother is Barca, her sister-in-law Liverpool (crush on Michael Owen), mum Atletico, dad couldn't give a toss.

Santander for me all the way.

 

[Darren Stoneman]

What has amazed me is that the club do not learn from their mistakes, I empathise with the box office staff, but let's not forget that Mr Brent has a professional box office set up in the Pavilions that could have been used, from memory they sold or managed 35,000 tickets for MTV (I may be wrong)
The club should prepare for every game to be popular, how many times do people have to queue to get in due to a lack of planning.

Someone mentioned either on this thread or another about people planning to come and finding reasons not too, this is a prime example why the club should make it as easy as possible to come to a game, football attendance is a luxury and as such people sometimes make choices about what they spend their income on. If constant obstacles are put in the way then the floating supporter will not come.
A root and branch review is needed and some difficult questions need answering, sometimes the best efforts of the staff or IJNs amazing volunteering only paper over the cracks.

 

[jerryatricjanner]

Very well put Darren. Let's enjoy the occasion tonight but hopefully the club will afterwards address many of these issues.

 

[Stiffler]

Over the last 15 or so years the communication at the club has been poor at best, is it still the same person in charge .or have the club made efforts to change what is wrong..?

 

[HC Green]

What has amazed me is that the club do not learn from their mistakes, I empathise with the box office staff, but let's not forget that Mr Brent has a professional box office set up in the Pavilions that could have been used, from memory they sold or managed 35,000 tickets for MTV (I may be wrong)
The club should prepare for every game to be popular, how many times do people have to queue to get in due to a lack of planning.

Someone mentioned either on this thread or another about people planning to come and finding reasons not too, this is a prime example why the club should make it as easy as possible to come to a game, football attendance is a luxury and as such people sometimes make choices about what they spend their income on. If constant obstacles are put in the way then the floating supporter will not come.
A root and branch review is needed and some difficult questions need answering, sometimes the best efforts of the staff or IJNs amazing volunteering only paper over the cracks.

Surely the fundamental point is that the club's current infrastructure is geared up to selling 5-6000 tickets every fortnight not 15,000 tickets in 10 days with a league game and an all ticket away game being sold as well.

 

[dunlop]

Simon you would have been proud of the team tonight with a little bit of luck it could have been a different result the players gave there all.A full 4 sided HP looked fantastic it looked and felt like a proper football club again the sooner you get the Mayflower side of the ground finished the better.

We the fans hope you give the manager some of the proceeds of this cup run to the manager to help get promotion.

 

[Andy S]

Real fans. Hmmm. My wife's an Atletico fan, her brother is Barca, her sister-in-law Liverpool (crush on Michael Owen), mum Atletico, dad couldn't give a toss.

Santander for me all the way.

Malaga for me Jerry!

:nworthy:

 

[Andy S]

Hi Simon

Pity about the result but a great game of football and a good advert for the club, having a full house.

I have a question about Ticketek or Ticketmaster or whatever they are called in the UK.

What is the "tie" with Argyle and these rip off merchants? And they are just that!

Is this yet another Football League "initiative" that has been foisted upon the clubs, like Argyle World was?

Or is it a standalone set up just with Argyle?

Please tell me it's not the latter.

 

[Stiffler]

There must have been 60 people sat on the steps in the grandstand who had duplicate tickets and no seat.
Could you explain why this happened and why they were allowed to stay there?

Edited to add, that was just the isle next to me so could have been many more.

 

[Balham Green]

There must have been 60 people sat on the steps in the grandstand who had duplicate tickets and no seat.
Could you explain why this happened and why they were allowed to stay there?

Edited to add, that was just the isle next to me so could have been many more.

What were you doing on an isle?

 

[Pogleswoody]

There must have been 60 people sat on the steps in the grandstand who had duplicate tickets and no seat.
Could you explain why this happened and why they were allowed to stay there?

Edited to add, that was just the isle next to me so could have been many more.

What were you doing on an isle?

Is it true that the Stewards searched your bag and found 8 cds, the Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare? :think:

 

[Trev501]

There must have been 60 people sat on the steps in the grandstand who had duplicate tickets and no seat.
Could you explain why this happened and why they were allowed to stay there?

Edited to add, that was just the isle next to me so could have been many more.

I don't know about those but there were several lads trying to find seats in the Grandstand after the match had started when their tickets were for the Mayflower seats.

 

[argobenz]

Mentioning we need 10% of the locals to support us is way off the mark as that would be 25k local fans. I know we have a far more diverse crowd than those who live in Plymouth.

Our 8k average is probably

5k Local
4k Devon and Cornwall and others.

If you want to grow your crowd give them success, then the likes of those fringe fans who watch other teams will be tempted.

It is lucky we are so far away from any Premier teams as the draw of that would certainly draw on the fringe support. However if we were to get back to the Championship or the heights of the Premier League the tide would be towards us.

Just think, dad says to son "Which do you want to see?" Argyle v Man Utd

or

Torquay v North Ferriby Utd
Exeter v Wycombe

It would be very rare for the kid who will have seen the Premier League on TV not to want to see it first hand and when we thrash the buggers he's a fan for life.