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Plainmoor78 wrote: ↑19 Jan 2018, 08:36 [highlight=yellow]I don't understand the obsession with the local board.[/highlight]
If there was one, it would be handpicked answerable to CO only. It would have no independence or power since none if its members would be shareholders.
It would simply be there to oversee the day to day operation of the club. It would not be there to oppose or obstruct CO. Which is what I think teigngull hopes it would do.

Teigngull wrote: ↑18 Jan 2018, 19:40 Email sent to Jim Parker today 18/01/18 @ 15:35.

Subject: Torquay United.

Dear Mr Parker.
I give you my sincere thanks for your reply to my email dated 17/01/18 .
What I fail to understand is why you didn't like the tone of my email ? All I want to know is why the difficult questions are not being fired at all concerned about the running of Torquay United.
I apologise if I came across in a disrespectful manner but after supporting TUFC for the past 40 years plus (and like yourselves through good times & bad) the current ownership has let a certain whiff of despondency hang over it.
The hard questions that need to be asked are :-
1, We were promised a local board. Where are they ?

2, Why have the current owners never put themselves in front of the fans to account for the mess we now find ourselves in ?

3, Why in all the sports clubs GI have taken over, New stadiums were promised, why has one NEVER been built ?

4, When Kevin Nicholson was dismissed we were 8 points from safety now we're 11 points adrift of safety, why did it take so long to replace Kevin & why are we worse off because of it ?

5, "It has been important for us to find the individuals who we think can adopt our plan for sustainable success and can bring the talent, experience and contacts that are key for a club wanting to climb and top the National league. These guys tick all the boxes for us"
This is a quote from Geoff Harrop on the appointment of Gary Owers & Martin Khul. So why are we so far adrift at the BOTTOM OF THE LEAGUE and what are they doing about it ?

6, What has happened to the 5 year plan so proudly announced when GI took over ?

Thank you.
G R******

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I await his reply with baited breath.

lucy6lucy wrote: ↑21 Jan 2018, 02:43Point 4. We where not 8 points adrift when Nicholson was sacked. He was sacked after 4 games.

Tired Old Gull wrote: ↑21 Jan 2018, 12:59 isn't Richard Hughes something to do with the Sports Dept .. wasn't he Head of Sports or something like that at one time? He seems to feature regularly in the 'Plodcasts' and if I remember rightly he used to work for TUFC way back .. surely he should be showing some initiative and investigating GI.

merse btpir wrote: ↑21 Jan 2018, 08:32 It was bottom of the fifth tier of national football, with just one point from four games, if you want to be accurate......one point from a possible twelve; newly signed players already swinging the lead of injury and with fitness of the squad at intolerably low levels!

It was a recipe for the sack ~ any manager has to accept that in this day and age.

MellowYellow wrote: ↑21 Jan 2018, 13:35 Owers record during his 4 months in charge going from 8 points adrift of safety to 11 points adrift and the worst defensive record in the league - is that not a recipe for the sack? Please spare us from blaming Nicholson for Ower's ineffectiveness, as you say he is history, so lets leave him in the past.

merse btpir wrote: ↑21 Jan 2018, 08:32 It was bottom of the fifth tier of national football, with just one point from four games, if you want to be accurate......one point from a possible twelve; newly signed players already swinging the lead of injury and with fitness of the squad at intolerably low levels!

It was a recipe for the sack ~ any manager has to accept that in this day and age.