by ferrarilover » 16 Mar 2013, 00:40
Jesus, 2000 people at £20 a pop, that's £40,000 a week short on tickets alone. Add in assorted matchday revenue and you're up to £60,000. Over, say, 20 games where they've been below 8000, that's £1,200,000 in matchday revenue they are behind what they need. Ok, they make back some of that with the odd bumper crowd, but overall, they've got to be looking at a deficit of £1,000,000. For a club without a pot to piss in, that's a shed load of cash. What were they paying that bloody donkey Purse, three grand a week? No wonder they shipped him out. Without knowing the facts, I'd hate to make too bold a statement here, but Plymouth really do seem to need to get their house in order and sharpish. The Conference is more likely than not for them next year and they need to come to the realisation that they haven't the squad or the finances to make a realistic challenge in that division. We were lucky, we had just enough money, just enough luck and just enough talent to see us through in an era when the Conference was relatively strong, but absolutely nothing like the nightmare scenario it is today. If no one at Argyle is planning for being mid-table in the Conference this time next year and playing in front of 3500 people and cutting their cloth accordingly, then it could spell the end of Argyle as we know them.
In short, Mr Messi, if you're reading this (and I am absolutely confident that you are), it's us you want. If you get to a very pretty bridge which seems to lead to a foreign land of strange accents and afternoon tea, you've gone about 40 miles too far down the A30.
Matt.
Jesus, 2000 people at £20 a pop, that's £40,000 a week short on tickets alone. Add in assorted matchday revenue and you're up to £60,000. Over, say, 20 games where they've been below 8000, that's £1,200,000 in matchday revenue they are behind what they need. Ok, they make back some of that with the odd bumper crowd, but overall, they've got to be looking at a deficit of £1,000,000. For a club without a pot to piss in, that's a shed load of cash. What were they paying that bloody donkey Purse, three grand a week? No wonder they shipped him out. Without knowing the facts, I'd hate to make too bold a statement here, but Plymouth really do seem to need to get their house in order and sharpish. The Conference is more likely than not for them next year and they need to come to the realisation that they haven't the squad or the finances to make a realistic challenge in that division. We were lucky, we had just enough money, just enough luck and just enough talent to see us through in an era when the Conference was relatively strong, but absolutely nothing like the nightmare scenario it is today. If no one at Argyle is planning for being mid-table in the Conference this time next year and playing in front of 3500 people and cutting their cloth accordingly, then it could spell the end of Argyle as we know them.
In short, Mr Messi, if you're reading this (and I am absolutely confident that you are), it's us you want. If you get to a very pretty bridge which seems to lead to a foreign land of strange accents and afternoon tea, you've gone about 40 miles too far down the A30.
Matt.
