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merse btpir wrote: 23 Mar 2017, 20:42 OK Neal; out some meat on this phoenix bone of yours ~ GI fold the club...........let's assume that is in the close season and so where would your phoenix club play their football next season?

I can tell you; nowhere because no league will accept them that late into the summer.

........and on which ground would they play? Don't think for one moment you would get Plainmoor; and exactly at what level of football in your vision would you attempt to get your phoenix club starting the 2018-19 season then?

I'm not knocking your genuine enthusiasm mate; just playing Devil's Advocate as someone needs to do with all brilliant conceptions.
Does anyone know if there is a team playing at Coach Road in Newton Abbot currently? Tidy ground, would be a perfect place to base a phoenix club until it becomes established.
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A Family Stand protest would be caught by the camera on top of the pop stand.

Google search "plastic pigs protest". Does anyone know where we could get hold of 1400 plastic gulls?

It's time for action.
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anger if directed at the directors box should not be aimed at Thea - if she is in attendance - if anyone knows her tell her to avoid the next home game!
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SteveDeckchair wrote: 23 Mar 2017, 22:46 Does anyone know if there is a team playing at Coach Road in Newton Abbot currently? Tidy ground, would be a perfect place to base a phoenix club until it becomes established.
If the Council are sympathetic couldn't a Phoenix club play at Plainmoor?
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TUST_Member_Rob wrote: 23 Mar 2017, 22:50 anger if directed at the directors box should not be aimed at Thea - if she is in attendance - if anyone knows her tell her to avoid the next home game!
She could always use the intelligence to sit elsewhere; you'll soon be turning this round to 'don't blame these useless players for bottling just about every home game' and giving them a standing ovation for getting one point at home out of the last twelve!
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Pikey_Gull wrote: 23 Mar 2017, 18:50 I suggest we fill up that family stand. They get an easy ride as they sit away from the most vocal fans bar the 6 or so who sit in front of the director's box. We could certainly make our feeling known. And nothing better than doing right in their faces, not from afar on the Popside.
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Great Idea! Let's get in the **** faces and if one of the bastards smiles, launch into them and send them to A&E.
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SteveDeckchair wrote: 23 Mar 2017, 22:46 Does anyone know if there is a team playing at Coach Road in Newton Abbot currently? Tidy ground, would be a perfect place to base a phoenix club until it becomes established.
Plymouth Argyle play their SW Peninsula League games at Coach Road
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It won't do any good but a demonstration by filling the family stand does seem a good idea to me. It will achieve nothing but at least it might give us the satisfaction of getting the message to these shysters so they know exactly what we think of them.
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If you don’t want to pay to get into the family stand why don’t we protest at the beginning of the second half? As many as possible can get into the bar where we can get together and then rather than go back to the popular side we can go to the front of the director’s box. Any that can’t get into the bar can just move down to that end of the popular side?
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merse btpir wrote: 23 Mar 2017, 23:07 Plymouth Argyle play their SW Peninsula League games at Coach Road
Do Plymouth Argyle own Coach Road or just lease it?
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I don't know what the capacity of the family stand is, but you would certainly need a few hundred extras in there, and properly organised, and it would need to be sustained for the whole pre, during and post match to not just be a bit cringe.

You would need to get all of the central section of the pop, and quite a lot of older heads, in there for it to be effective.

If this is somehow organised correctly, for a specific match, I would probably make the effort to come down and join in.

But it will take a proper organised effort to work, not just a few people from the forum changing stands for one game
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Plainmoor78 wrote: 24 Mar 2017, 11:23 Do Plymouth Argyle own Coach Road or just lease it?
They are tenants of the leaseholders; Devon County FA...it is also rented by the South Devon League for specific matches
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Kernowgull wrote: 24 Mar 2017, 12:03 I don't know what the capacity of the family stand is, but you would certainly need a few hundred extras in there, and properly organised, and it would need to be sustained for the whole pre, during and post match to not just be a bit cringe.

You would need to get all of the central section of the pop, and quite a lot of older heads, in there for it to be effective.

If this is somehow organised correctly, for a specific match, I would probably make the effort to come down and join in.

But it will take a proper organised effort to work, not just a few people from the forum changing stands for one game
You are bang on it needs proper organising...the sort of thing a Supporters Trust might do? But we haven't heard much from them in 2017.

Seriously re-considering my monthly donation.
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The trust's silence at this time is both disturbing and indeed disappointing and will cost them much support
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gullpower wrote: 23 Mar 2017, 22:51 If the Council are sympathetic couldn't a Phoenix club play at Plainmoor?
Torquay United still have 69 years left on their lease at Plainmoor, but will there still be a Torquay United ? Will the Council support a Phoenix club or side with GI developers in to turning Plainmoor in a housing development as a means of going some way to meeting their 10,000 house build target over the next 10 years. it is clear that GI want the freehold of Plainmoor and not the lease renewal on the premise that it would be key to securing future investment in the club (yeh right!) . The most scary part of the story is that under the Council’s constitution the decision to sell is solely the Mayor’s, provided the market value for Plainmoor is offered approx. £1,000,000. So decision on the future of Torquay United is not down to GI or Torquay Supporters but all down to one man and his dog!
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