I have to say the Waiters era and Rafferty/Mariner as an 18/19 year old. It was special for me, the 20,000 plus crowds for 3rd tier games as the season concluded, the peak being over 28,000 against Blackburn in midweek, knowing I was watching a future star in the making in Mariner, the best player I have seen in the green shirt, the "Oh Billy Billy" chants reverberating around Home Park and the best performance I have ever witnessed from an Argyle team, the 3 nil win at QPR in the League Cup on our way to the semi final after having already disposed of Torquay, Burnley and Pompey before beating Birmingham in the quarter final. Waiters really got the public behind him and I felt we were going somewhere but sadly it didn't work out.
The 3 seasons with Sturrock when we won such a high percentage of games and which resulted in two promotions was special too.
The anticipation going to Villa Park in the mid 80s with 30,000 Argyle fans knowing we were just one game from the FA Cup Final was almost surreal.
As a one off season the Shilton season when we should have gone up was possibly the most entertaining football I saw played at Home Park but there is no way that team would have lived with some of the Argyle teams that graced the second tier and at the end of the day they fell short of what Waiter's, Sturrock's and Dave Smith's teams achieved. Nicholls, Poole, Castle, Dalton and Marshall were all very exciting to watch but players like Naylor, Comyn and Hill would have struggled at that level.
Hopefully, this season can be added to my list and if it is it will be a tremendous achievement in view of the number of "bigger" clubs currently in the 3rd tier.