Reason's to be Cheerful - Not Today

I've just noticed the below on the BBC website HERE

Argyle make record financial loss

Plymouth Argyle made a record financial loss of £714,522 in the year to May 2007, almost double last year's losses.

Chairman Paul Stapleton says the high wages demanded by players in the Championship has increased expenditure.

"While turnover has increased by almost £1m there has been a significant increase in the wages paid for players," he said.

Falling gates have also contributed, with Argyle's average attendance 13,012, 3,500 less than four years ago.

The accounts show that Argyle made a loss of £311,720 for the year to May 2007, with transfer fees adding another £402,802 on top of that.

"It is essential that we do our best to encourage supporters to come to our games and also look to increase our non-match day revenue," Stapleton added.

But the club did purchase the freehold to Home Park during the accounting period and Stapleton is hopeful it will enable the club to increase future profits as the club are now in control of the stadium.

"This major transaction for the football club has now enabled us to push forward with our plans for the redevelopment of the South Stand," he said.

Come on people get down there and watch us head for the top!

Thank You Blackpool

We're up in 5th place at the end of the game today thanks to Blackpool who scored 5 past Charlton.

Plymouth Argyle 3, Burnley 1

The results for the day were:


Southampton managed to pull one back against Scunthorpe ending in a 1 all draw.
Stoke held Ipswich to a 1-0 win.
Coventry scored another in the second half, beating Leicester 2-0.


The top of the table as it stand at 5pm on 23/02/08

We're On Our Way

Well we're up against Burnley today and at one time we were 1-0 up which took us up to 5th place in the league.

Half time score is 2-1 to Plymouth Argyle.

Other half time scores include:

Scunthorpe 1 Southampton 0

Conventry 1 Leicester 0

Stoke 1 Ipswich 0

Table as it stands at half time:

Fingers crossed we'll still be in a play-off position at the end of the day.

On the up

Plymouth Argyle have had a good run over the last few games with amongst them a 1-0 win over Leicester and 2-0 over Southampton.

We are now 7th in the Championship with Burnley and Hull, who both have a game in hand, able to over take us before our next match and that will be only if they both win.

We have the 2nd best defence in the Championship, only letting in 32 goals this season and the best defended team has only one less than us.

We are only 10 points off top place and only 2 points off the play-offs.

COME ON THE GREENS

Soccer Saturday - Funny bits 2007

I love this program

End of a Year - Beginning of the Transfer Period

I'm always worried at this time of year with the transfer window opening soon. Plymouth Argyle are doing really well at the moment and I don't want any team who think they are bigger and can buy any player off smaller teams to come and rob us of our top players. There have been rumours that Holloway is after some of our players but he has denied this. Is this another one of his lies? Only time will tell, God knows he needs some help with the team he has now.

We had a good result against Stoke this week, coming back twice to come out of the game with a point and keeping us in 6th place on the table. Well done lads.

I'm sure this will be the headlines in the Hearld again at the end of the season!

Plymouth Argyle against Bristol City

My daughter came home from uni this weekend so we could go and see the Plymouth Argyle, Bristol City match. The kick off was at 12.30 and we set off from home at about 9.15 so we had plenty of time to park up and get to our seats.
On the way down the A38 there were a couple of police cars parked on slip roads leading on to the motor way which slowed up the traffic causing us to worry that we would miss the start of the match. As we past the second police car we spotted lots of coaches parked in a lay-by with lots of police bikes. The coaches were full of Bristol City supporters who were going to get an escort to the match. We wondered why the police were taking such precautions when we've never seen this before with any other match we've been to.
While looking on UTube tonight I came across the video below and now I know why there were worries about the City supports.
The match was a good one although a bit disappointing as, with Plymouth with a one nil lead we then gave them an own goal ending in a result of a one all draw
Was it worth sitting in the cold and wet for one point? It sure was!