It wasnt until 1887 they found a home in the Mount Gold area but that only lasted two years. I loved it personally, but it probably is well past its sell by date. I think each team only had maybe one shot each on target, in the bright sunshine. Everyone is missing football and desperate to get back playing but ultimately the most important thing is to save lives and stop this cruel virus., Football clubs' good deeds go a long way but shutdown exposes financial faultlines | Paul Wilson, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The away end was comfortable and spacious, with a good view of the whole game. Never an Arsenal fan but AFTV are heroes and inspirations of m. We travelled by car and set off at half 4 the morning of the game, due to bank holiday traffic the service stops it took us until 1pm to get there, that's 8 and a half hours, It was therefore a hellish journey. They are modern and look quite smart, all being of the same height and design. Summary of overall thoughts of the day out: Great day out, although I felt that Portsmouth didn't deserve to win really, but that is football. So a 2-2 drawand an entertaining game. 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After beginning to realise that this match was more than just down to cheers and tears, I began to feel more attached to the home fans as the pre-match music blared out of the understated PA system. In fact, for the first time for a while, I saw parallels between the fans of my home town team and Plymouth Argyle followers. Home fans seemed okay. The atmosphere was great and a lot of noise was generated. We used trusted satnav, but could have done without as the ground is clearly signposted. It was rebuilt after the war though and reopened just in time for the restart of football. I decided not to push my luck on that one, it was my 30 wedding anniversary after all! Me and brother took food with us, as food inside grounds is normally expensive. I wasn't overly confident that Argyle would win but I was still anticipating a good game. In the away stand there was a great atmosphere from the 87 who made the journey from Sussex. The club has a range of draught beer, cider and lager on sale such as Carling, Worthington, Thatchers, Guinness, Wolfrock, Carling Dark Fruits Cider and Offshore Pilsner. Your email address will not be published. The Pilgrims then relocated to a new home pitch on the edge of the city. I spoke to two old Argyle dears who had parked next to us for a little while. I liked Home Park. There is scope for Argyle to hand their entire stadium to the NHS, with the majority of the clubs 70 full-time staff working remotely while a skeleton team tend to the stadium. Beast from the East in pictures: Five years on from when Plymouth was hit by snow bomb. It is one of the first pubs your see as you come into Plymouth. Home Park is a decent ground at League One level. Would go back but might be a while before Saints play there again! Three sides are modern and even in height with the fourth side being quite an old looking stand. Otherwise, alcohol is available within the ground. Put simply, these works are an investment in the club's future. Despite the game we won 2-0 thanks to a Mcmanus header and a Franks volley in the 90th minute which sent the visiting fans very happy indeed. We beat them last season in League Two so I hoping for a repeat. This is a real throw back. The League Two club have handed over the use of their new grandstand with the boardroom temporarily moonlighting as a phlebotomy clinic. I woke up to a text from my good friend saying he was unwell and unable to take us to the game, so what to do? 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Manchester City, Watford and Forest Green are among a clutch of clubs to make a similar gesture, with the NHS set to use the Etihad Stadium to train doctors and nurses during the pandemic, while Swansea have offered use of the Liberty Stadium to the emergency services with football suspended until at least 30 April. With just over 900 season-tickets purchased in the upper tier of the Grandstand, and with a sizeable capacity at our disposal in the rest of the stadium, we feel it is best for the supporter experience to limit sales of individual match tickets in the upper tier of the Mayflower Grandstand at this stage, until such a time that remedial works are outlined and completed. There were a few scuffles, inside the home ends of the ground, either Plymouth fighting among themselves or Saints fans in home end (the away allocation was sold out). Home Park is quite impressive apart from the Main Stand which looks like it maybe getting a bit of a face lift. The Pilgrims have already started their internal fit-out ahead of next month's reopening, Get Chris Errington's exclusive behind-the-scenes take on life at Argyle in his weekly Inside Home Park newsletter. The team at Stadia by GL events installed a stunning two-tier, 5,400-seater stand, complete with a steel frame roof in the club's emerald green colours, increasing the ground's overall capacity to 17,904. "We have a plan for sport that the city's clubs and organisations helped create and this proposal really fits the bill. If we can be successful without kicking a ball to help save peoples lives, that to me is a big yes, says Ryan Lowe, the Plymouth manager. Quite a few doormen but no issues. A nice stadium inside and out. I saw a great excuse to pay them another visit. Stunning architecture and design sit alongside cutting edge technology to deliver a venue that is befitting of an exclusive product launch, major conference or special event. With the upper tiers holding 5,300 spectators the entire stadium capacity will be raised to 18,200. Summary of overall thoughts of the day out. Brand New directly from the club or publishers. We thank supporters for their understanding. The Police had a heavy presence on the train until it had arrived in Exeter. I think some exterior repair work might be going on. We left about 09:25 up the A38 to M5; an easy journey, no hold-ups, 4 trivial roadworks, nice weather and finished the last stretch on the A38 to the ground. The League Two side have spent 6.5m knocking down the old wooden structure and replacing it with a modern new 5,403 seater stand complete with private boxes and conference facilities. Not sure if there was any free WiFi but a beer garden at back. Pasties were sold from a mobile pasty van (2.80) that was a must! A chippy having seats! I had no time before thegame so went straight into the away end at theground. These young divers seemed to have endless energy to crash into the water, bounce out of the plunge pool, and then head back to the diving board without a care in the world. "As we have often talked about, the redevelopment of the Grandstand has afforded us the opportunity to utilise our stadium throughout the week, for a whole range of purposes, and this is integral to our plan to become a fully sustainable club. They stood in front of us, and others on our rows and despite us politely asking them to move, they refused to do so, and then began shouting obscenities to the away fans on the other side of the netting. The ambitious redevelopment plans for the Mayflower Stand continue to progress, under the leadership of GL events UK, who serve as the principle contractor in charge of the stadium construction project. We are turning the club into a community careline.. The NHS began installing equipment at Plymouth on Thursday, while IT, telephone connections and signage have since been set up. It ended 1-0 to Argyle, with both sides creating some really good chances, and it was the best defeat I've seen for a long time. Meetings between these sides are called the Devon derby due to both sides being based in the county of Devon and, given there are limited teams in that area, the matches can bring a fair bit of spice to Plymouths ground. I would love to go back to Plymouth when they complete their Home Parkground. 7. easy! Ticket Office: 01752 907 700. How easy was your journey/finding the ground/car parking? There wasn't much traffic on the road and we arrived in Plymouth at 1pm. '.Please note this pub is not near the Plymouth ground or railway station. But it looks odd that three sides are all connected and are new looking but the one remaining stand is still the old stand with seating in the top tier and an empty terracing on the bottom tier. From what I could see, the home fans were extremely friendly and there was a good cross section of people who had turned up to cheer on their team. However, the stand does look somewhat unique and is certainly very different from the other sides of the stadium, giving Home Park some character. The game itself was predictable, with Blackpool having a great start to the season and Plymouth being very poor. Walking to the ground therewere someoutlets selling pasties, but due the heavy rain decided to have something in the ground. Very impressed, a very good ground for League 2. Alternatively, there is some street parking on roads off Segrave Road (opposite Home Park), or on side roads off the main Outland Road (A386), heading away from the city centre towards the A38. There is a steel structure to the outside of one stand which at first glance appears to be scaffolding but it may be modern architecture. Just keep walking straight along this road (A386) and you will eventually reach the ground on your right. Going via coach obviously the journey was extremely long (313.27 miles to be exact!!) In the second half Plymouth went ahead through Lameiras, left attack, no. The noise round the stadium was very loud. projecting to top that figure this season. However for those who like a bit of old schoolthen there is the Main Grandstand. boat seller and dental equipment maker are among firms going belly up, Plymouth's new Platinum Parkway explained and reviewed on its first day of opening. It's common knowledge that there will hopefully be a redevelopment of the latter but it seems some years away, which is a great pity. However, having opened just a number of weeks before the pandemic took hold, there has been limited opportunity for the club to hold test events in conjunction with the local Safety Advisory Group (SAG) under full capacity conditions. The normal allocation for visiting supporters in this area is 1,300 seats, although this can be increased to 2,022 if demand requires it. As long-standing supporters will be aware, Home Park has not necessarily received appropriate levels of care and maintenance over its relatively short life. With six grounds of the current 92 to complete, the draw for the second round of the F A Cup was very convenient as it gave me a chance to spend a weekend in the West Country. I don't live far from Plymouth and I wanted to see my team play away from home for the first time ever! The Marsh Mills stadium became Plymouths ground for the next decade. Home Park is the official football ground for Plymouth Argyle F.C. Although the journey was rather smooth, words cannot describe just how long the journey down to Devon is from East Anglia (I dread to think about other parts of the UK!) The severe weather event, one of the biggest ever to hit the county, brought severe disruption with high winds and heavy snow. Address: Plymouth, PL2 3DQ. If things go according to plan then the stand will be fully open for the League Two fixture against Swindon Town on January 1st, 2020. For details of disabled facilities and club contact at the ground please visit the relevant page on the We mixed well with the Plymouth fans who were in the pub all friendlyand every one had a sing song, much to the unamused management who was trying to tell us to quieten down. The programme (3) had a large number of interviews/features that I wasn't able to work through in half-time, which was good news. Tears would not be the start of my emotions. Only driving out of the Lakes to Carlisle comes anywhere close to this trip to a game. Despite the 120 miles separating both towns both sets of fans share a genuine dislike for each other; its not actually that clear why though! The supporters coach left Cambridge at 7:15am. I reckon Home Park will be quite impressive once the stand reconstruction is finished. Capacity: 16,388. The club bought land for a new training ground near Home Park in December. A great day out, a good result, nice weather and an easy drive back. Your email address will not be published. Plenty of horn blasting and 2 cars did manage to collide which added to the congestion but after 10 to 15 minutes we exited via traffic lights on to the main road and away for our long journey northwards. Another feature not seen before by me was small ice cream cartons with the Southend United logo. The first half for us was a disaster as we couldn't defend or close Plymouth down to save our lives. We hung around andsaw some of the playersand had a chat with Paul Cook. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 2023 Football Ground Guide. The Southend fans were confined to a section from the corner flag to the goal which was ample for the 200+ and you could sit in any seat. The atmosphere was very friendly with no idiots about, plenty of banter and both sets of fans intent of having a laugh without any hostilities. The view though is amazing. Posh host Plymouth Argyle at the Weston Homes Stadium in Sky Bet League One action on Saturday afternoon (3pm). The Lowdown: Spurs seal Formula 1 agreement. Most of the fan decamped from the train at Totnes and Newton Abbot and as I descended along the sea well through Dawlish, along probably the most picturesque stretch of railway line in the UK, I was left to think about a game that had been fun to watch but left me slightly uneasy in the sense that I had spent Saturday afternoon with a group of fans who were supporting a club on the brink. Match preview: Plymouth Argyle (A) 17 February 2023. Ticket Office Contact Information. I met the two old dears who agreed that 2-2 was a fair result but disapproved of the referee, just like us. Supporters were sitting at the top of the stand and at the bottom was a bit open terrace that was just being used for flags and some advertising goals. More information will be revealed in due course, but eagle-eyed supporters may already have noticed that the project has begun with the installation of new gate signage around the perimeter of the stadium. When Plymouth scored a few minutes later another was thrown onto the pitch and a third fell short and hit a fellow fan. Although away fan friendly, the pub doesnt tolerate away supporters singing their clubs songs and any who do are quickly ejected from the premises, so you have been warned. Each of these stands is all seated and although covered, there is a gap between the roof and the back of these stands, which is filled with a perspex strip to allow more light to get to the pitch. 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