Torquay United Fans Forum

Skillsy wrote: ↑17 Mar 2024, 01:07 Mellow......

I fully accept our football team aren't very good at football at the moment, but we all need to pull together. I don't understand why people would abandon ship in our desperate hour of need.

Given that we were nigh on favourites to win this league in August, the season has been a complete disaster. That is an indisputable fact.

I will be there against Hampton....please be there too

Skillsy

I am not deserting the club nonetheless a team playing in the Yellow shirt has to earn my personal support not just expect it. Defeats I can handle - god there has been enough of them over the years - but when respect and admiration has been replaced by irritation and dislike, something has to give. Watching yesterday's horror show was possibly the closest I’ve ever got to experiencing purgatory. You just know something is wildly wrong when you find yourself in the second half betting on which of the yellow balloons on the pitch would reach the half-way line first.

My devotion to the club developed from when I was in short trousers, it's part of the community and runs through my blood so I am unable to abandon them per se. However, I am also not prepared to waste hours of my life on complete dross. So the compromise is that I will be a ghost supporter, will buy a ticket for Hampton game, will be there in spirit just not in person, although the club can put a cardboard cut-out of me in the stand if they wish.

That's me done for the season - I can't take it anymore. Let's put this into perspective. Tonbridge have a nice little set up for a semi-professional club and sit mid-table for a reason. They were raw and pacy but tactically inept and yet they put 4 goals past us. Tomlinson will get a lot of flack but what chance did he have with a back three consisting of two narrow fullbacks who don't have pace - we were so open you could have driven a bus through the gaps.. Spending 70% of the match making pretty triangles in midfield does not win matches unless you have an end product. Their goalkeeper did not have to make one save (aside from the golden opportunity Jarvis missed) because we were just clueless in the final third. Even our goal was because their defender turned his ankle leaving Ash the opportunity to run through for the goal. I have witnessed two of the worst consecutive matches I care to remember. We are currently still a full-time professional set up and we are being well and truly hammered by semi-pro teams. Johnson has gone so Downes must now be the remaining weakest link. I will put my hand in my pocket to save the club but refuse to be subjected to anymore of the worst display's in Torquay's history, if only to reduce my personal stress levels. Not sure how the match will look on the highlights as we had a lot of possession with pretty midfield triangles but don't be deceived we were pathetic an absolute disgrace.

edit: to rub salt into the wounds Ryan Hanson was voted MotM.

Tonbridge 0 - 2 TUFC

Will admit my mindset after the Taunton game was 'I've had enough - my season is done'. Then the 10 point deduction and the mindset says the club needs your support more than anytime in its history. So this sucker will be at the Longmead Stadium come Sat with no expectations other than being served a good pint of beer.

Ever the optimist.

Modgull wrote: ↑12 Mar 2024, 23:15 No one - the first time I have ever said that!

You'd have more chance of taking photographs of invisible objects than picking a MotM.

Klaidi Lolos - remember him: the subbed sub. Good to see him score to put Crawley level in their 2-1 win over Notts County. A regular in the side and second top goalscorer it goes to show there is life after Torquay United.

Not sure what I just witnessed tonight. The scoreline is easy to read 'Professionals 0 - 3 Schoolboys'. Sat's win must have gone to our heads as for the first 30 minutes we play out the back thinking we are Man City - 2 goals later we are clueless. Second half we decide to drop the Man City tactics altogether - sound logic - and revert to Western League hoof-ball and throw caution to the wind. Outcome: Schoolboys are now 3-0 up. We are now even more clueless than when we were initially clueless. Given that Taunton were unable to meet its salary commitments due on the 5th March 2024 you have to give credit to the Taunton players for their stellar non-payment performance tonight. You're meant to tell the difference between professional football and schoolboy football so tonights performance tells you all you need to know about our players. Most of them would not make the U'13's squad - they were a disgrace - period.

TUFC 5. - 0 Taunton

Ever the optimist.

TUFC 3 -1 Dartford

Ever the optimist.

Weymouth 0 - 3 TUFC

Ever the optimist

MellowYellow wrote: ↑25 Feb 2024, 13:58 If the first statement is true (5 million loan write-off) then I can buy into the second statement as the club would be attractive as a going concern.

It's not beyond belief that Osbourne loan has been written off. The best option for him maybe is a 'charge-off' to remove the loan from their balance sheets and reduce his overall tax liability.

PLUS; you get his development plans thrown in - which in this case is a copy & paste picture of Grimsby's Stadium

EDIT: Giving this some more thought is the loan a 'Write off'' or. 'Write Down'.

When debts are written off, they are removed as assets from the balance sheet because the company does not expect to recover payment.

In contrast, when a bad debt is written down, some of the bad debt value remains as an asset on the balance sheet because the company expects to recover it (i.e through sale of the club). The portion that the company does not expect to collect is written off.

Dave wrote: ↑25 Feb 2024, 11:34
She told me all monies owed to CO had been written off, up to you if you want to believe that

On potential new buyers the response was; The club have had some positive feedback.

If the first statement is true (5 million loan write-off) then I can buy into the second statement as the club would be attractive as a going concern.

It's not beyond belief that Osbourne loan has been written off. The best option for him maybe is a 'charge-off' to remove the loan from their balance sheets and reduce his overall tax liability.

PLUS; you get his development plans thrown in - which in this case is a copy & paste picture of Grimsby's Stadium

What a difference a week make: now in a relegation battle with the likes of Truro and Taunton.

TUFC 5 - 2 Aveley

Crazy score for a crazy week.

Dav99 wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 04:13 How about The Fragrance Group ?
They have built / are building several new hotels in the bay .

The Fragrance Group? The group that purchased the Palace Hotel and land in Babbacombe Road back in 2017 which later changed its plans from creating a new luxury five-star Palace Hotel plus homes to instead building luxury three and four-bedroom homes collectively known as Palace Gardens. The council's most recent clarification is "The Fragrance Group are revising their plans because they have said that the original hotel proposal is “no longer economically viable” and as a consequence they are now developing an alternative proposal for a further 67 homes on the former hotel site".

Sounds like Osborne V2.

UnitedinDevon wrote: ↑22 Feb 2024, 13:51 My mind immediately went there, not sure the NL suspend those decisions until the following season

My understanding is that any club entering administration before the fourth Thursday in March would have an immediate points deduction.

Administration can be tough to endure and could well see our club being wound up (liquidated). We can only but hope that this may be the catalyst for turning the club around - again! - and go on to reach new heights. Everything now is in the lap of the Gods.

So the Final Whistle blows: What now? Administration: point deductions, cost-cutting, restructuring debts and selling assets (namely players) to raise funds. We are up a creek without a paddle.