Re: 6 Year Plan comes to Fruition....Now What?
Posted: Sat May 06, 2023 9:23 pm
Do you know the woman next door, that's what she said to me.spen666 wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 9:46 amPKM wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 9:42 am Plymouth have a ground with 17,900 capacity and have averaged over 15,500 this season.
Here, in the following BBC article they talk about the problems Plymouth will face in the Championship.
For the O’s to be a Championship side, other than say a brief season or two stay, there would have to be massive changes. We would need a new ground, which looks next to impossible in the Leyton area, even if we could afford it, and we would need new investors with deep pockets. Without these changes then the best we can aspire to is be a decent League One club, and that in itself is no bad thing.From where we were 6 years ago it’s absolutely brilliant. We’ve got a great structure at the club, directors who care, a superb manager and a decent set of players. Brisbane Road is a great place to come to. Let’s enjoy League One.
BBC article:
How can a club like Plymouth Argyle - who had a wage bill of about £6m last season - hope to compete in the Championship when the average wage bill is £32m and clubs relegated from the Premier League can spend multiples of that?
"There's no reason why clubs who have come up from League One can't compete," Kieran Maguire, a football finance expert from the University of Liverpool, tells BBC Radio Devon.
"We've seen the likes of Luton, Coventry, Millwall, all of whom are clubs that I would say have a broadly similar fanbase, if not slightly smaller in some circumstances, to that of Plymouth, and those clubs have been competing for play-off places this season.
Luton with a ground capacity of 10,000 ie only 1000 more than Orient seem to manage to have survived in the Championship and are in Promotion play offs
Bournemouth are doing ok in Premiership with a ground that holds only 11,000
Conversely, Cardiff with 3rd biggest ground in Championship have only just avoided relegation to League 1.
Size is not everything - its how you use what you have got