no there not they are the same at every other club up and down the country.up_the_line":2ep4lyd8 said:Worst, most fickle, big game once a season support in the country
up_the_line":2wn2ztcj said:Worst, most fickle, big game once a season support in the country
Mr Gillingham":1papored said:And your point is?
derbygreen":2cfzslvp said:To be honest you'll struggle to find to back to back home games of such poor quality. On reflection I don't blame anyone of them due to the poor performance on the pitch on Saturday.
X Isle":3sredyki said:Mr Gillingham":3sredyki said:And your point is?
...typical bleddy Argo :roll:
No Katkin, 7,000 x even a modest £20 a head is actually £140,000.
Now, that £140,000 extra over the other 22 home games would give Argyle well over £3,000,000... even more if you include the extra catering/programme and 50/50 monies etc..
I bear the missing 7,000+ no personal ill, I actually kinda 'get' the reasons why it happens. It's just a HUGELY frustrating catch 22 situation...
WITH that massive injection of gate revenue, the team would be much much better and you couldn't beat the 7,000+ off with a stick, they'd WANT to come back = a virtuous circle.
WITHOUT that massive injection of gate revenue the team is less good, so when they roll up it invariably falls flat on it's face and they walk away saying 'typical bleddy Argyle' = a self fulfilling brown tinted prophecy.
The fact they turn up and then go away again just gives a glimpse of what the club could be if they stayed. It's like a huge 'flashmob tease'. They show the club they're there and then b*gger off again.
Frustrating, that's the only word for it. All the understanding and all the historical precidence for it happening doesn't stop it being frustrating.
Johndelve":h7guujdh said:derbygreen":h7guujdh said:To be honest you'll struggle to find to back to back home games of such poor quality. On reflection I don't blame anyone of them due to the poor performance on the pitch on Saturday.
Saturdays performance would only have counted for a few hundred not returning tonight.
X Isle":31vbqzmg said:Agreed Greenskin, but the scale of the figures can't be disputed. With them we'd be a very rich club, without them we're not. With them we'd be guarenteed a successful side, without them we're not.
The most frustating example was several years back (Martin Barlow era if memory serves) it went down to the last day, a game at home to Gillingham where if results went against us or we didn't win we'd go down. Now that WASN'T a local derby.
I made the point then that if those self same missing X thousands had been there all season then the extra £X M's would've produced a side that would never have been troubling the bottom of the league in the first place. It was like a load of mourners turning up to watch a funeral for someone they could all have saved from dying.