Torquay United Fans Forum

Kit_robin wrote:Wouldn't mind Richards signing, but I would still hold out hope for a more experienced CB to play with the other three who are all quite young.

Indeed someone like a Guy Branston, oh how we could do with him now.

OllieGull wrote:I'll donate £5 on Friday, Plainmoor needs to become a fortress again!

Plainmoor has never been a fortress despite it's long distance from most other grounds. That's one of the problems with the club.

Completed. You should consider asking the TUST to include a link in their monthly newsletter, they'd probably be happy to do so and it'll bump up your Torquay submissions by quite a bit. Would be interested in reading the final version of the dissertation as well. I think the form could have done wi...

tickets were what, £35? so that's £28,000 in ticket sales. Squeeze and 10cc wouldn't have come cheap. No idea if local bands would have been paid, but most likely yes. Set up of stage and security probably not cheap either. Honestly, if they broke even on it, that would have been made it a huge suc...

Truro gave him the taste for a football club and he sees Torquay as the better long term prospect? Does seem a bit suspect though, given he saved Truro from oblivion and is local to the region. There's no obvious benefit to owning Torquay to him, unlike say a EPL owner using the club as a feeder clu...

Anyone got any idea of his net worth? Come across some articles on the net listing him as a 'nightclub owner', doesn't strike me as somehow who'd have the money to run the club in any way other than a Bateson way?

The Herald seems to be one step behind at the moment. No mention of the Board meeting today, It's not really surprising, ever since it was sold a few years back the paper has slowly been turning into a rag. They post cookie cutter articles, use national news on their website, have about 10 differen...