Plymouth Argyle - Back The Bid!

Club Background

Founded in 1886, Plymouth Argyle are a professional English club currently playing in the Coca-Cola Championship. The club play their home games at Home Park and posses average training facilities and an average youth setup. The club is affectionately known as The Pilgrims and retains a fierce rivalry with Exeter City.

As a club which is currently enjoying its best ever spell of success – their last competition win coming as recently as 2004 – The Pilgrims are a club with a growing history. Plymouth won the English 3rd tier in 1959 and 2004 and finished runners-up on two occasions, won the English 4th tier for the only time in 2002, won the English 7th tier on five occasions, and won the Western Premier in 1905, 1928 and 1932 and finished runners-up once.

Club Information

Nation: England

Year Founded: 1886

Status: Professional

Reputation: National

Chairmen Status: Loves the club

Legends: None

Icons: Paul Wotton, Graham Coughlan, Dario Friio, Micky Evans, Romain Larrieu, Kevin Hodges, Tommy Tynan, Paul Sturrock, Paul Mariner, David Norris

Favoured Personnel: None

Fierce Rivals: Exeter

Other Rivals: Bristol City, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Bristol Rovers

Finances: Okay

Average Ticket Price: £23.00

Average Season Ticket Price: £357

Season Ticket Holders: 6000

Estimated Value: £8.5M

Continental Competition: None

Media Prediction: 21st

Squad Personality: Determined

Captain: Carl Fletcher

Vice-Captain: Carl Duguid

Kits

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[A]

The Squad

Romain Larrieu [GK]

Kyle Letheren [GK]

Lloyd Saxton [GK]

Darcy Blake [D R, M C]

Chris Barker [D L]

Gary Sawyer [D LC]

Jim Paterson [D L, M LC]

Reda Johnson [D C]

Marcel Seip [D C]

Krisztian Timar [D C]

David McNamee [D/WB R]

Karl Duguid [D/WB R, M RC]

Carl Fletcher [DM, M C]

Yoann Folly [DM, M C]

Kari Arnason [M RC]

Chris Clark [M RLC]

Alan Judge [M RC]

Luke Summerfield [M C]

Bradley Wright-Phillips [AM RL, FC]

Craig Noone [AM L]

Alan Gow [AM L, ST]

Jamie Mackie [AM L, ST]

Steve MacLean [AM/F C]

Ashley Barnes [sT]

Rory Fallon [sT]

Cillian Sheridan [sT]

Finances

Transfer Budget: £600,000

% of transfer revenue made available: 90%

Sponsors: 2 year additional kit sponsorship deal at £250K per season, ends 2011. 2 year main kit sponsorship deal at £325K per season. Ends 2011.

Club Balance: £3,370,715

Stadium & Facilities

Name: Home Park

Location: Plymouth

Capacity: 19430 all-seater

Year Built: 1903

Owned By: Plymouth

Stadium Condition: Good

Under Soil Heating: No

Roof: No

Surface: Grass

Pitch Dimensions: Length: 100m, Width: 71m

Maximum Pitch Dimensions: Length: 104, Width: 71m

Pitch Condition: Very Good

Corporate Facilities: Adequate corporate facilities

Training Facilities: Average training facilities

Youth Facilities: Average youth facilities

Staff

Chairman: Roy Gardner

Man Dir: Keith Todd

Director: George Synan

Director: Yasuaki Kagai

Director: Paul Stapleton

Director: Tony Wrathall

Director: Robert Dennerley

Manager: You

Asst Mgr: Paul Mariner

Coach: John Blackley

Gk Coach: Geoff Crudgington

Fitness Coach: Scott Russell

Youth Coach: Mike Pejic

Youth Coach: Gordon Bennett

Youth Coach: John James

Youth Coach: Allan Evans

Youth Coach: Peter Distin

Physio: Paul Maxwell

Physio: Claire Turner

Scout: Andy King

Scout: Patrick Quirke

Scout: Tony Book

Conclusion

Whilst Argyle probably isn’t a popular choice for FM managers, they are one of my favourite clubs to manage. Also, I’m off to the University of Plymouth next year and plan on getting a season ticket down there so playing as them on FM will give me a chance to learn a little bit about the club and the players. I don’t have much advice or additional information to offer you at the moment, I’m hoping other people will contribute.

I have only started my FM season with Argyle 4 days ago now, so am just experimenting. I’ll be looking to update the post below with tactics and any other information which I find useful.

Thanks for reading & good luck with your Argyle season!

Reserved for future updates.

Mate yours is better imo but theres already one http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=168087&highlight=plymouth+2010

Ah my bad didn’t see that thread!

And yeah Tony it looks my type of place to go to University. Thanks for the luck!

Dano I have merged your OP into the current open (accredited you for your work also) Plymouth thread. Please use that one from now on; link

Thanks.