Sponsor the youth team's Milk Cup trip

[PL2 3DQ]

Argyle fans have always helped the young players at the club regardless of the owner or what league we were in, it has a community feel to it.

Even when the money was rolling into the club during the first few years of the Championship era PASTDT and other groups were raising funds to help the youngsters.

 

[Stuart_C]

..or at least since '96 when a "northern oik" manager realised the value of youth set up being separately funded from a club being run as a subsidiary of a single owner's business portfolio.

With the new loaded compensation system from the Premier League and their harvesting of schoolboy talent there is little chance of selling youth products for a value to make running a youth system at this level self sustaining, making support from fan groups more important.

Paying back the PAST&DT losses is the one act I'll doff my cap to JB for.

 

[L G]

..or at least since '96 when a "northern oik" manager realised the value of youth set up being separately funded from a club being run as a subsidiary of a single owner's business portfolio.

With the new loaded compensation system from the Premier League and their harvesting of schoolboy talent there is little chance of selling youth products for a value to make running a youth system at this level self sustaining, making support from fan groups more important.

Paying back the PAST&DT losses is the one act I'll doff my cap to JB for.

Amen brother.

 

[IJN]

Paying back the PAST&DT losses is the one act I'll doff my cap to JB for.

So saving us from oblivion doesn't rank as important then Stuart?

:wtf:

 

[Stuart_C]

Paying back the PAST&DT losses is the one act I'll doff my cap to JB for.

So saving us from oblivion doesn't rank as important then Stuart?

:wtf:

Nice manipulation of PCC's £1.6M of funds and a decent credit rating for sure.

Unfortunately, without accounts to see what has gone out of PAFC Ltd we will have to wait to see how grateful we should be.

 

[IJN]

Oh my, put the axe away Stuart.

That grinding noise goes straight through me.

:sigh:

 

[Womble]

Disapointing to see we are still a charity case. T e question of why the club is neglecting to fund this trip should be raised by the trust. We are supposed to be a professional team with championship ambitions, but instead remain a sadly amatuer skinflint organisation.

The purpose of the Trust is solely to represent the supporters,not to bolster Brents coffers.

 

[IJN]

I think the above post is a bit like me complaining about Vidal Sassoon's latest hair products.

 

[Ho Ho Green Benny]

Out of interest how much does it cost to send the youth team to the milk cup? Apologies if I'm wrong but don't think it's been mentioned?

While the efforts of the aft and gt's to raise funds to send the youths there has to be applauded, while they are willing to do this the club are never going to finance the trip which unfortunately, in my opinion, shows a complete lack of interest in our youth set up, and that goes from owner, board and management.
Every fan I'm sure would want a team to contain some young local players and you would hope the club and management would to and do what they could to help this.

 

[pilgrimmike1]

Why is it so hard for some to accept that the club just cannot afford such things whilst they are trying and succeeding in getting back on an even financial keel.. It's all very well saying the club should do this and that but to do it means more loans which have to be paid back at some stage which in my view renders us in a false financial position, prudance is the only way without a sugar daddy i'm affraid. I certainly don't see it as the owner, board and management having no interest.

 

[IJN]

Just hit the profile button Mike, then hit 'search users posts' it becomes obvious why.

 

[Ho Ho Green Benny]

Just hit the profile button Mike, then hit 'search users posts' it becomes obvious why.

I thought this was an open site where users could choose to post whatever they like, within the rules. Not sure why historical posts should be taken into account....oh let me see its because I said something that u don't agree with.

 

[Ed_Blackburn]

Supporters donations are made in good faith. They should be made to augment not replace club funding. It's frankly an embarrassing travesty that the club is asking for supporters to pay to send the youth team to a prestigious tournament.

I would suggest anyone who sponsors sends the ball to Martyn Staines with a note telling him to stop taking the pee and support our youth setup. His form with the Yeovil youth set up says it all..

Personally I think Staines should ponie up or fudge off if he doesn't take youth development seriously. Hiding behind supporters organisations is pathetic. What a twit.

 

[Ho Ho Green Benny]

Why is it so hard for some to accept that the club just cannot afford such things whilst they are trying and succeeding in getting back on an even financial keel.. It's all very well saying the club should do this and that but to do it means more loans which have to be paid back at some stage which in my view renders us in a false financial position, prudance is the only way without a sugar daddy i'm affraid. I certainly don't see it as the owner, board and management having no interest.

But it is also hard for some that don't understand why the club after being out of admin for a number of years can't invest an amount of money into helping the youth team and are still happy for fan groups to fund things.

It's why I asked the simple question of how much it would cost to send them there....perhaps the aft can answer that one for me. Don't think it's that unreasonable a question to ask? No doubt someone will know trawl my historical posts as that seems the way when you have an opinion different to some people!

 

[pilgrimmike1]

Why is it so hard for some to accept that the club just cannot afford such things whilst they are trying and succeeding in getting back on an even financial keel.. It's all very well saying the club should do this and that but to do it means more loans which have to be paid back at some stage which in my view renders us in a false financial position, prudance is the only way without a sugar daddy i'm affraid. I certainly don't see it as the owner, board and management having no interest.

But it is also hard for some that don't understand why the club after being out of admin for a number of years can't invest an amount of money into helping the youth team and are still happy for fan groups to fund things.

It's why I asked the simple question of how much it would cost to send them there....perhaps the aft can answer that one for me. Don't think it's that unreasonable a question to ask? No doubt someone will know trawl my historical posts as that seems the way when you have an opinion different to some people!

Football clubs up and down the country have asked for sponsership for a variety of reasons and I fail to see why Argyle should be criticised for doing pretty much the same thing when it's well publised we just don't have money to invest yet. Just where abouts in my post does it say that it's unreasonable for you to ask how much it would cost? Give your own opinion by all means, you're entitled to that but please don't make things up that I have not said.