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A new set of pictures from inside the Grandstand

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by Ottawa Green
» 15:01 08 Dec 2019
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WOW

https://www.pafc.co.uk/news/2019/decemb ... v-watford/

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by David_Fisher
» 18:10 08 Dec 2019


I assume this is the reason for the ban on GOS pictures etc?

Some nice photos of tables & chairs but I would have expected a bit more!!

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by memory man
» 09:02 10 Dec 2019


David_Fisher wrote: I assume this is the reason for the ban on GOS pictures etc?

Some nice photos of tables & chairs but I would have expected a bit more!!
I suppose it is all down to interpretation. What I saw was a glimpse into the future; photographs of a facility on a par with many bigger clubs. If managed and used properly it will be a key area as we try and move on. When the highly respected Alan Judge left Home Park for the last time he warned that "until the club gets more professional off the field it will never progress". Well, this I would suggest is a lot of steps forward at once.

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by Quintrell_Green
» 09:22 10 Dec 2019


memory man wrote:
David_Fisher wrote: I assume this is the reason for the ban on GOS pictures etc?

Some nice photos of tables & chairs but I would have expected a bit more!!
I suppose it is all down to interpretation. What I saw was a glimpse into the future; photographs of a facility on a par with many bigger clubs. If managed and used properly it will be a key area as we try and move on. When the highly respected Alan Judge left Home Park for the last time he warned that "until the club gets more professional off the field it will never progress". Well, this I would suggest is a lot of steps forward at once.


It was very easy for Alan Judge to make those remarks. He came from Blackburn Rovers whose lofty Premiership status had been solely achieved / bought off the magnificent largesse of the late Jack Walker and his steel manufacturing business. Had he been playing for Blackburn 20 years earlier, he may well have been a bit more modest in his judgement of Argyle. I think all of us are conditioned by our experiences, but you need to recognise your starting point, whether personally or in business terms.

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by memory man
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Quintrell_Green wrote:
memory man wrote:
David_Fisher wrote: I assume this is the reason for the ban on GOS pictures etc?

Some nice photos of tables & chairs but I would have expected a bit more!!
I suppose it is all down to interpretation. What I saw was a glimpse into the future; photographs of a facility on a par with many bigger clubs. If managed and used properly it will be a key area as we try and move on. When the highly respected Alan Judge left Home Park for the last time he warned that "until the club gets more professional off the field it will never progress". Well, this I would suggest is a lot of steps forward at once.


It was very easy for Alan Judge to make those remarks. He came from Blackburn Rovers whose lofty Premiership status had been solely achieved / bought off the magnificent largesse of the late Jack Walker and his steel manufacturing business. Had he been playing for Blackburn 20 years earlier, he may well have been a bit more modest in his judgement of Argyle. I think all of us are conditioned by our experiences, but you need to recognise your starting point, whether personally or in business terms.
His remarks have stuck in my mind because, in my view, when he made them I knew exactly what he meant. I cannot remember the specifics now. However, I remember in 2008 when Paul Wotton had to make his own way to London to get his injured knee seen to. His father went with him. Whether or not Argyle paid the player's fare/petrol, it wasn't the right way for a Championship club to behave.. 45 years previously, in January 1963, Alex Jackson injured his leg in an FA Cup tie. His neighbour, a Mr Bolt, was concerned an hour after the match that Alex had not emerged from the player's entrance. He went into the dressing room and found Alex partly dressed and unable to put weight on his leg. He helped him out his car and took him straight to Freedom Fields. The player had broken his leg. It was Mrs Jackson who informed the club that their star centre forward was in plaster, after Mr Bolt had rung her from the hospital. Although it was an FA Cup tie, at that time Argyle were third in the old Second Division, following a season where they had finished 5th. These are just two isolated stories covering 45 years but they are no means the only examples.

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by Biggs
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I think it was the on loan Cardiff player Darcy Blake (?) who was pretty scathing too.

He couldn’t believe players had to wash their own kit, or something. Imagine coming to the club (probably hundreds of miles from home) and spending your time in 50 year old, crack den dressing rooms and then being told you‘ve got a secondary job as a kitman.

Word spreads in football too, players will have known how bad it was. Now hopefully word will spread how good it is. That’s a massive difference in perception.
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