Honestly guys the "I'm a better supporter than you" cr@p is embarrassing, watch what you want, wear what you want without the "Supporter Police" sticking their noses in.
People have reasons why they follow one, two or more teams, and it's their decision not anyone else's, what are you going to do burn them at the stake!!
If you'r a young kid at school and the other lads ask who you support, you'd be ridiculed if you said Argyle, and you'd be laughed at in a green shirt................It's called peer pressure and kids are surrounded with it.
If we were successful I'm sure they would be happy to wear green, but if your a young kid who's only history of Argyle is seeing them hang on to league football by their fingernails year after year, I'm pretty sure they will choose another team to follow.
This is also compounded by how poor Argyle are at winning the young fans loyalty, last week was a good example, where was the build up or advertising other than an advert in the Herald? As usual Argyle just took it for granted that the game would sell itself.
It's not just the kids, we probably don't have more than 3500 regular Plymouth based fans in total, instead we rely heavily on Cornwall and the rest of Devon to push us to towards 7000. So why don't these people follow Argyle, lack of success, too expensive, etc?
Personally I played football unbroken for 30 years Sat and Sun, Argyle received zero TV coverage during those years so my only outlet was MOTD and the BIG MATCH, as such I was able to follow my chosen side every week. Of course now we have League football televised but even then, 6 seconds of Accrington v Argyle can't compare with Man Utd v Chelsea in 3D live from a hundred angles!
I have been an unbroken Argyle season ticket holder for nearly 20 years and I love it warts and all, but I still avidly follow my other team with pride. The big difference is I financially support Argyle, I only contribute as a TV/Satellite subscriber to my second team (As do the rest of you).
Let the kids wear their shirts, adults too if they want to, they might have their head turned one day and like me decide to also follow the local side. But one things for certain, being judgemental and taking an "I'm better than you attitude" definitely won't bring them into the fold.