Torquay United Fans Forum

Well if he left the ground after not being picked I would suggest that he wasnt showing the correct attitude. Surely you stay in the ground and support your team - not just bugger off home. Hardly likely to endear yourself to the management - wheres Dillon, oh hes taken his ball back and gone home. ...

You cannot compare Smurthwaite to Osbourne. So he banned the local paper so what? Whatever he might be he is nothing like Osbourne.

There are a few rumours doing the rounds. Peter Masters of course and predictably Norman Smurthwaite has been mentioned. Load of old tosh probably but he was quoted in 2015 as saying he was unable to get involved in a purchase of the club due to his Port Vale involvement. Gone quiet on the football ...

As is normal on a fans forum things soon descend into an argument.

As a fan from another club I dont think yeofan deserves the stick hes getting. He hasnt posted anything contentenious as far as I'm concerned. Time to move on really we've got bigger things to worry about.

You may well be correct with most of this but you are so wrong about Osbourne. You seriously think that was Osbournes money? Osbourne was never going to build houses if he got the ground. He was no doubt the front man for a property development company and 5 million would have been pin money once th...

Not going to happen as its their policy not to stream games on a saturday in NLS and NLN. In fact its clearly going the other way with hardly any matches bar ours and Yeovils being screened on a tuesday night now. No doubt the reason is that most people stream these games via firestick etc so revenu...

Think I would agree with Dave - we are not in adminstration yet. Wouldnt be too surprised to see the club change hands sooner rather than later. Maybe need to see what transpires.

The article on the site about him leaving is interesting - there is not much praise, its a terse "Johnson leaves by mutual consent".

Possibly the article could be interpreted as he has been told to go by somebody.

Saying he has done the honourable things is complete horseshit

There are all sorts of rumours flying about - one being that Johnson had no choice in the matter, and there is a potential new owner already.

God knows whether theres any truth in it.

Its a sad day and realistically I would say there is little chance of finding a new owner with the financial clout to finance the club. However lets not pretend that this has anything to do with a "hate war" against Osbourne - that is just utter nonsense. This day was always going to come ...

10 point deduction coming then - as is the southern league

If Johnson gets us promoted he stays because he has achieved his objective. However there is zero chance of us getting promoted so he has failed and has done so spectacularly - I dont doubt that Jarvis will end up at Yeovil and we will be stuck with Brad Ash leading the attack. Jesus what a depressi...

Its fairly obvious the budget was there - Dawson, Lapslie, Hall. Moxey. Stobbs, Collins. Ash and Jarvis would not have come cheap. Also we had several players on contracts from last season. Johnson intimated that he didnt expect them all to sign so its clear where the money went. As the poster says ...

He said the same thing after the St Albans game - in fact he says the same thing after every game.

All he has to do is resign - pure and simple. Then hes done us all a favour. To the person who said they dont want to hear him get more abuse - well I suggest you dont go to the next home game then - because its only going to get worse. This was the bloke who was saying after we got relegated that w...