Extra Time: Bums on Seats

Extra Time: Bums on Seats

“What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the...
Extra Time: Bums on Seats

Extra Time: Some Financial Home Park Truths

Yes folks, it’s transfer window time! The ‘most wonderful time of the year’ (or something like that) when supporters fantasise about season-changing big-name signings. And never more so than when your team is in the drop-zone. Sound familiar? With Argyle heading, on...
Extra Time: Bums on Seats

Extra Time: “Why d’you do it, man?”

“When I go home people ask me, ‘Hey Hoot, why d’you do it man? Why? You some kinda war junkie?’ I won’t say a goddamn word. Why? They won’t understand. They won’t understand why we do it.”                                                                       ...
Extra Time: Putting a price on relegation

Extra Time: Putting a price on relegation

‘This club can’t afford to go down!’ A statement often heard in football but rarely backed up with hard evidence because of the difficulty of quantifying the financial hit delivered by relegation. But nonetheless, I’m going to take a stab at it for two reasons. First,...
Extra Time: Livin’ On A Prayer?

Extra Time: Livin’ On A Prayer?

So are we officially in a crisis yet? It’s becoming increasingly tough to sustain the argument that there’s a long way to go, plenty of time to turn things around, our luck must change soon etc. Plymouth Argyle are five points from safety at the bottom of League One...