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arcadia wrote: ↑02 Dec 2017, 11:31 I am sure your wrong the away side can claim all their expenses out of the gate receipts as the referee,stewards etc. The away side usually put in the maximum they can claim, I know from experience as any loss is shared.

merse btpir wrote: ↑02 Dec 2017, 11:37 Of course he's wrong; he's more concerned with throwing abuse than being objective...just ignore him

arcadia wrote: ↑02 Dec 2017, 12:09 There are a few people on the forum who have no respect for the F.A.Trophy competition well that's the same attitude that loses all games and it starts at the top.(You have to accept you are where you are)
This is how the F.A. Cup is treated by our foreign Premier League and the teams that disrespect it get shocks. Ah yes they will come out with excuses that we want to try out the youngsters when they lose.

Arrywithnobrain wrote: ↑02 Dec 2017, 12:19 Any Cup competition should be worth winning from a fan's point of view because it is an achievement by the club. However, with so much emphasis on finances from the Premier League down it is understandable why club managements are so jealous of protecting their existing League status.[highlight=yellow] I personally don't really care which division of which league Torquay are in if I enjoy the football that they are playing[/highlight] although there is added excitement from crucial promotion/relegation games but others will have different viewpoints which are equally valid.

merse btpir wrote: ↑02 Dec 2017, 13:20 At the end of the day this is a football club and as such a football club is in existence to brig pleasure to it's supporters through playing football matches and attempting to win as big a percentage of them as possible ~ including progressing as far as possible in any national cup competition it enters.

I shall be at a football match very soon ~ Haringey Borough v Hertford Town ~ Haringey are at home to Leyton Orient in a couple of weeks time and I know there will be no-one in the Orient camp using accountancy as an excuse for getting beaten and embarrassed if they lose.

Likewise Haringey are resisting the temptation (with Orient's agreement) to raise prices for this all ticket game above their normal £7 and £3 concession ~ U16s free; in the greater interest of making new supporters rather than just one for a day as they are sure to see an increase in their average 157 turn up for what should be a great day.

Finally; in this increasingly tiresome argument with a baboon who's primary aim in posting seems to be to irritate and annoy; neither the former manager ~ who's quotes I have put there for all to see ~ nor anyone at the Torquay United club either foresaw nor happily accepted getting beaten at Bognor that day; of foregoing the £8,000 prize money which was a lot more than the differential between using cars and a mini bus over a coach, and the opportunity to progress further.

If you ask me; I suspect that Torquay United bogged up in that they failed to realise that they could claim for both coach and hotel. Now let's stop pretending that they were 'concentrating on the league' that afternoon and have some humility and accept that they were beaten by a better side on the day.

SuperNickyWroe wrote: ↑02 Dec 2017, 12:39 I'm glad that's your personal opinion.
....as I'm sure like myself, 99.9% of the supporters don't want us in the National League South.

Neal wrote: ↑02 Dec 2017, 15:22 Love these little disagreements and hopefully minor fall outs. Ive been in a few, and rarely agree with some on here, too pompous for me. But oddly I agree with some of Merses post.

This I agree with

"At the end of the day this is a football club and as such a football club is in existence to bring pleasure to it's supporters through playing football matches and attempting to win as big a percentage of them as possible ~ including progressing as far as possible in any national cup competition it enters."

Funny thing, I don't think anyone gives much of a f*ck anyway lol