PREMIER LEAGUE ASPIRATIONS

SIMON HALLETT: “I’M HAVING TOO GOOD A TIME TO STOP NOW.”

- CHRIS ERRINGTON

PLYMOUTH Argyle have set the target to become a top-six Championship club with Premier League aspirations after launching a new five-year plan.

Argyle owner and chairman Simon Hallett has also stated he will seek to broaden and strengthen the club's shareholder base to increase financial investment.

However, Hallett was emphatic that he would continue as a major shareholder and as chairman. "I'm having too good a time to stop now," he declared.

After Argyle achieved Hallett's initial aim of becoming a Championship club, key figures at the club have worked on and devised the new five-year plan.

It was outlined to all club staff at Home Park on Thursday by Hallett, chief executive officer Andrew Parkinson, head of finance David Ray and Neil Dewsnip, the Pilgrims' director of football.

Hallett said: "Having achieved our previous strategy ahead of schedule, the board and directors felt it was time to deliver a new plan that our staff, on and off the pitch, can live by every day and the Green Army can look at with great optimism.

"After being successful, it is important not to look for drastic changes when you have found a blueprint that works. This new strategy evolves