Torquay United Fans Forum

It's not a joke; it's a revenue stream...

No-one's asking you to call it anything; it's what the club accrue from it that is important.

Spot on there on all counts MellowYellow... Even when I was at the Club back in the mid-seventies and early eighties, the brief was to make the business sustainable to take it away from benevolence. With the very limited facilities (far less than what is there now) a thriving lottery, car boot sale...

That would still be a capital venture though wouldn't it... Venture capital funds are invested in early-stage companies in exchange for equity, this is exactly what Osborne did when he acquired the Club. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the...

brooker wrote: ↑29 Oct 2018, 22:25There doesn't seem to be a travel guide about, does anyone know the score with Parking / Away fans in the clubhouse etc?

http://thelondonlabia.proboards.com/thr ... ay-october

When CO took control of TUFC, he openly admitted that he knew nothing about football and so we all knew his motive for buying the club was not football related. Yes he acquired Torquay United; no he did not and didn't have to buy it! He didn't have to; it was surrendered to him because those who ha...

I think truth be told; his role had evolved to not only exclude anything to do with the playing side of the game but also to take on the extra admin made necessary through the departure of the Club secretary and he has procured something else in that field that he wishes to work in.

I agree with the sentiment that the need to leave Plainmoor isn't massive at the moment. That being said, I do also think it is wrong to instantly shoot down any stadium plan - I think it has been well documented within the Torquay fanbase of CO's inability to deliver on promises before and is some...

oldcommsboy is right; Osborne needs to make the club viable as he can then offload it as a capital venture attractive enough for anyone willing to take it off his hands if he does not realise the development project he envisages.

I'm not questioning anybody elses opinion here, merely stating that the Geoff I knew was a lovely, sensitive and hard working guy who was extremely well regarded in youth football at his previous clubs (Yeovil and Peterborough), and who did several young TUFC players justice by finding them moves t...

What they're saying about us... http://www.wealdstonefc.co.uk/forum/index.php?sid=cab5cf5b3b7db743ac1f1b8bee6048a7 "we never looked like hurting Torquay who, to my mind, are the best-ever NLS side we've seen at the Vale: Big, strong, well organised and ruthless. They also had three, even four ...

It's ten months since the passing of a United legend what have the Club done about it? The news today of the naming of the new grandstand at Exeter City after Adam Stansfield prompts me to ask ~ 'what's happening to the general desire to name a Plainmoor stand after Ian Twitchin? Don't fob him off ...

Meh!!!!

Gordon's no idiot; he's a nice little guy who had a struggle through life due to his hormone growth deficiency and (as he says) owed a great debt to Great Ormond Street Hospital and had a chance to repay that debt as he saw it. I'd heard it all got too much for him and had been told he had gone out ...

re: Ms Chamberlain's post. What does 'meh' mean? (I am 76). I'm 66 and I used to hear that sound emananating from Newton Abbot livestock market when I was a kid... Just a fading C list celeb click baiting; ommitting to admit that she got her stardom from being a female, flashing her arse and posing...

I would like to see Nicholson have another chance in some aspect of football purely because he is such a nice bloke That's not a reason to put him in charge of something he he is patently not qualified to do competently ~ has he got another job? No! ~ and if you did then you are as daft as the last...