Torquay United Fans Forum

I have tried to take a rational and dispassionate view of the circumstances and please be aware I am not an advocate for Osborne or his track record. Osborne was "gifted" the club by the financial ineptitude of the previous directors who failed/did not have the requisite skills to keep th...

This also results in the Club being placed under a Player Embargo. What a nasty final act from CO https://www.devonlive.com/sport/sport-opinion/torquay-united-pay-price-owner-9160211 So you want him out, but you want him to keep putting more of his money in that he will lose while he tries to find ...

I'd like to know why the owner put us in this position? Did he not understand the rules? Surely this makes the club less attractive to new owners? Why did he not try to sell the club first before having this intention to appoint administartors??? Torquay United have been deducted ten points from th...

From Pasoti. "All I am saying is that the accounting convention stated in successive yearly accounts do not appear to have been applied. There may be a reason for it but it all seems as you say 'fishy'. Argyle's plant and machinery value in their 2023 accounts, by comparison, was shown as £221...

All money owed to Osbourne has been repaid, doesn't mean all money owed has been. If it's loans taken out on TUFC's behalf by him are not in his name, then the 5 million is still owed. The club owes around £5million to Osborne in unsecured loans - according to the post from Dave, Osborne has agreed...

SuperNickyWroe wrote: ↑29 Jan 2024, 14:27 If he did that, he wouldn't get anywhere near his money back....
And he won't want to lose any money at all.

At some point he’ll stop throwing good money after bad. I’d be curious as to the attendances needed to break even if the club was run on a part-time basis.

Kevin Foster, the local MP, says he talked to the council leadership. All the council did was give the club a polite hearing and reiterated that Plainmoor is NOT for sale, they also queried how the club intended to finance any development. In other words nothing is going to happen so stop worrying....

I'm a gambling man and my personal bet is that this ends in tears, with CO etc exiting with boosted bank accounts. Only time will tell and hopefully I'm wrong but sadly we are now in the hands of a property developer and Torbay Council. I doubt it to be honest - I think there is a good chance Osbor...

About sums it up.

There must surely be a large enough pool of talent whithin a couple of hours of Torbay to create a team capable of winning this league. I really, really doubt that. I think you vastly overestimate the number of players who would have the quality to go full-time but stay part-time because they have ...

I can't berate Clark Osborn for not being willing to plough a fortune in to the club as I don't see anyone else prepared to do it either. He is reportedly investing sufficient money to keep the team professional, and IF he is doing that without saddling the club with debt, then he has my gratitude....

There is huge potential at TUFC, however we'd be lucky to find someone willing to part with significant amounts of money on potential alone. Is there huge potential in TUFC? Historically its been a difficult place to attract players to and the area is struggling economically. I don't see much prosp...

I didn't read it that way. He was free to sign a pre-contract agreement from November, meaning that upon the expiry of his Torquay contract, he'd go straight there, for no fee. If we've agreed to let him go early, for me there's an implication that one of the reasons for that is that we'll receive ...

Firstly, no idea why Livingston are so keen on Donnellan. Personally didn't think he was good enough this year in the NLS, let alone last year at National League level. No brainer to release him asap in my opinion. Secondly, I wonder whether we have let him go now rather than at the end of the seas...

I see that we have finally announced on the official club web site something we have suspected for weeks and confirmed by livingstone that he will be off 1st January on a 2 and half year contract, however reading the statements on livingstone's site indicate that we have let him go early so more th...