jerryatricjanner":jc2t2f9m said:
Norwich City deserve acknowledgement too for climbing to the Premiership whilst starting from a weak financial position, although not in Administration.
The club we should aim to emulate. Rural club like us but with 23,000? approx. season ticket holders even when down in League 1.[/quote]
I have been waiting since the mid 1970s for Argyle to be in that position, and saying for ages that we should be like that -as we all have! How many people in their mid-40s and over are saying and thinking the same thing as me?
PAFC's similarity with Norwich ends with its 'out on a limb location', and the fact they are both citys. And there's a bit of green in Norwich's kit.
Argyle will never ever get to where Norwich are. Not now! Not ever! It if was going to happen, it would have happened by now.
Argyle would never get 23000+ season ticket holders paying full price like Norwich did in League One! Don't be daft!
All Plymouthians want is to see Wayne Rooney at Home Park in the FA Cup. Then, everyone has been a fan all their life, as they clamour to get tickets!
If we had 16.500 averages in the Championship. Why have we lost over 10,000 of them now? Where are the 20,000 who packed in for the visits of Leeds, etc?
As they are nowhere to be seen now, how can you say we can be like Norwich City?
Where were all the big fish when Argyle were in peril a few months back? Did we get the Russian mega rich? No. We got peed around by people who couldn't come up with the bare minimum.
You need huge investment, and where is that going to come from? Why is the Russian oil baron choosing Bournemouth over Plymouth?
Forget the Brent deal, etc. He would have taken Bournemouth over Plymouth anyway, because it is nearer to London, and that club is seemed to have more potential than Plymouth Argyle. How sad is that? Plymouth hasn't even got an airport anymore!
In 1976, we had a chance to accumulate with Paul Mariner, and we sold him - we got relegated!
We had our chance a few years ago with Buszacky, E-Blake, Norris, etc - near the PL play-offs, and we blew it! We ended up getting relegated twice, and there will be a third, and hammer blow relegation to the BSP! (If we don't quickly do something about it!)
Plymouth like Norwich City...sorry, that is utter bollocks!
I am sorry if people don't like to see the negative on here, but it's reality!
As much as I would dearly love to see Argyle finally exploiting that potential, it is not going to happen. I hope I am proved wrong, and someone will highlight this post if it happens, and I will gladly look and feel a twxt.
But, I will always support Plymouth Argyle, in whatever league they play in! :scarf:
