OK, I'm aware this may come over as heartless, what I'm aiming for is a qualified low level of sympathy.
Not for the situation you understand, malevolent owners are a universal enemy.
No, it was the earlier comment about yesterday's protest amounting to 'a dozen teenagers and a sheet with a message on it'. WTF?
If Gulls fans as a whole are largely apathetic to the situation and aren't protesting in numbers, aren't seemingly getting vexed about someone ****ing up their club... why should anyone else?... why try and garner 'flying pickets' from other clubs when those most directly affected are largely muttering a collective "meh"?
Yes Albion stood by us and God bless every one of 'em... but we were already flippin' livid and completely mobilised for the fight ourselves. There is a huge difference.
We were approaching/in administration without a pot to p155 in... resource wise Torquay are a big fish in a small pond, they have the second highest gates. Their ON FIELD 'woes' are not for the want of relative resources. They've come down as a full time squad with a superior attitude over their part time newly aquired peers... who have been running rings round them.
Its harsh, the ownership situation is just plain wrong. But they are architects of their own problems on the pitch and just like charity... protest begins at home.
Come back and ask again for my assistance when you've done some hard yards yourselves. You've not raised so much as a single pitchfork yet... let alone an angry mob.
Appreciate your point, but i'd counter argue that our situation is not the same as yours was.
Osborne is a very smooth and slippery operator, he follows a Modus Operandi time and again. This method includes many forms of distraction, smoke and mirrors, greasing palms of local press and councillors for easy whitewashing interviews etc.
He ensures to bring early success on the pitch alongside empty promises of new stadia all the while systematically creeping very slowly towards his true goal.
All this makes it very difficult to get to the crux of the matter and causes a lot of division and discussion in the fanbase and on the terraces. This is how he gets away with it.
Your situation was in your face apparent that if something wasn't done immediately, the club was going to fold. Our situation is different in that, we can carry on slowly crumbling, but the club isn't about to fold tomorrow, and so therefore it is harder to galvanise the same sense of urgency across the fanbase.
In asking for assistance from Argyle supporters, the intention is to show those apathetic (Torquay fans) ones who still can't see what's going on, the seriousness of the situation and to raise the stakes considerably.
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