Torquay United Fans Forum

Expecting to see W Hancox start again today .. in fact it should be the same team as won in the last round!

Straight from the horses mouth I have it that W Hancox will start tonight!

MF68 wrote:The more I hear about this scheme, the more concerned I get.
As previously mentioned the site is a former landfill site and if I am not mistaken other local Clubs wanted to use it for sport. They were told it would not be ready for sport for at least 15 years.
Also any talk of 10k and 14k arenas is a complete an utter joke. Cinemas and restaurants were mentioned - Paignton has a Vue cinema that is empty 90% of the time and restaurants do not attract people to a Football Club.

What attracts people to football is a team doing well and providing entertainment.

Train stations, car parks and shuttle buses are great if we were attracting the Clubs that we were 7 or 8 years ago but in our current plight this is dillusional.

Also just read HE report from the Torquay United Indoor Bowling Club ...........how on earth have they not been contacted ? Disgrace

Concentrate on football and not pipe dreams of 80% empty stadiums and ageing rockers pulling in 1500 and eating Franky and Bennys after.

This all sounds so familiar to what Roberts had planned - conference centre, cinema, restaurants, hotel, retail outlets, underground stage which would 'appear' in the middle of the pitch (until the flooding issues were pointed out to him!), rail station with direct walkway to the ground .... and so it goes on.
All this, once again, at no cost to the club so they will only benefit from the move by paying just a peppercorn rent for the right to play!
He even thought that by attracting star names to perform at his new ground he could persuade the FA to change football fixture dates to fit in with his bookings!

Me skeptical?? You bet!!

brucie wrote:The only problem with this is that all the players signed are only on contract till the end of the season, so when we are relegated at the end of the season none of them will stay here.

There are plenty of part-time hopefuls in the South Devon League 'brucie' .. I am sure there will be lots of contacts made by the one who ticks all the right boxes!

Neal wrote:
BayGull - I agree most of the sentiment of your post but I have to make a comment about your comment "it seems no board member with an ounce of business knowledge either judging by the decisions they have made ". Well if they don't have an ounce of business knowledge how comes they run successful business. Now, if you have 2 ounces of business knowledge then you should be more successful than they are. So why havnt you approached them with the view of taking over the club?

So you are saying that because two of them run successful businesses and each have an ounce ( at least) of business knowledge .. 1 ounce + 1 ounce = 2 ounces?
In that case they should never have made the pig's ear of things like they have done should they!

In answer to your question - I don't profess to have even an ounce of business knowledge so would be even more useless than they are proving to be, as you say they both have at least an ounce each!

Let's face it - the current board have really just delayed the inevitable by a season!

The club have been on the edge of calamity a few times before, but there always seems to have been a white knight in one form or another who has managed to provide a lifeline so we live to fight another day.
After the Roberts fiasco there was a new consortium that was going to save us with the help of Richardson, then came a lottery millionaire (everyone's dream!), then came a consortium and another consortium made up of fans with just the club's well being at heart.
Finally this leaves us where we are today .. staring the relegation trap-door right in the face for sure, no money, no board member with an ounce of footballing knowledge, it seems no board member with an ounce of business knowledge either judging by the decisions they have made - and finally a manager who is so out of his depth now he will soon be sunk without trace in the lower league abyss!

It matters not how well the fans sing at each game now - the players in the squad do not have the grit, determination or will to survive anymore - that has been displayed by the 'rats leaving the sinking ship' over the past weeks.

We, as fans, have to decide whether we want to continue kidding ourselves that we are going to win every game until the end of the season! It's daft saying we only need to win x number of games to survive, that is dependent on what the other clubs above us do, are we relying on them to also lose x number of games to make us safe?
The board had the choice to appoint a skilled and qualified manager from the list of applicants Mr Breed said had applied - there had to be more than just Nicholson who ticked all the correct boxes and was cheap .. they all knew what funds were available when they applied for the job.

Next season will surely see many part-timers involved at the club, there will not be the funds to support a squad of full-time players.
And will the current board still be in place? They must be ruing the day they were cajoled (by D Edwards) to step in and take over a club that was already reeling on the ropes from the battering given to it by the past board!
All this seems so far away from the days when Roberts was out in the Gulf with his wife attending football conferences, living the high life on the club credit card and planning his super new stadium courtesy of Torquay Tics!!

Torquay United will survive by name - but those who keep saying we are a 'big' club and should easily be above the likes of Dover, Eastleigh and Boreham Wood etc, need to face reality. The club is a shambles and will need to have one hell of a shake-up both on and off the field before it regains anything like the respect it has enjoyed over the past years with proper business minded chairmen like Pope & Bateson at the helm, helped by managers like O'Farrell, Knowles, Warnock, McFarland, Rosenior and Atkins.

Maybe one day those days will return - but who will be alive to see them?

Orange Gull wrote: Commentators have just announced it as 1,721. Pretty good all things considered.

Official website also says 721!

Venue: Launa Windows Stadium
Attendance: 721
Referee: Chris Powell


http://www.torquayunited.com/fixtures-r ... ri=2525709

Scott Brehaut wrote: Would it not be 'twas, rather that t'was?

You mean like t'wat or '****?

Will Hancox may feature for Bideford at Dorchester Town this evening.

They will be wearing blades and skating up there on Tuesday!

http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/S ... story.html

They have done what needed to be done!

http://www.harriers.co.uk/news/article/ ... 87983.aspx

Maybe a HE reporter should sit behind the goal as a target for our players?
I am sure D Thomas or R Hughes would oblige!!

http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/B ... story.html

BBC details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35194340

Not much yet on STFC website: http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/news/art ... 74529.aspx

Disgraceful!
What is the world coming to.

http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/T ... story.html

OMG .. the 'Undertaker' is summarising today on BBC Radio Devon - we are all doomed!