Torquay United Fans Forum

It's a home tie....Gary Johnson has that Paul Buckle-esque quality …..winnable games in the FA Cup at home.
Don't think Woking will relish coming back to Plainmoor so quickly.

Could the answer to TUFC's recent poor performances be easily solved with a little behind the scenes tweaking and re-deployment?
There has been much speculation recently that Gary Owers has lost the dressing room. If, indeed, Mr Owers cannot locate the team's pre match base, this may go some way to explaining the disjointed performances on the pitch. We haven't heard that Gary has 'lost the training ground', so must assume that all is well during the week. Come Saturday though he must have so much on his mind, that on arrival at Plainmoor the poor man is disorientated and the whereabouts of the dressing room slips his mind. Meanwhile the players are all in the appointed place awaiting the manager's words of wisdom. Some may have taken the view that if 'he can't even bother to be here, why should I try on the pitch'....which could explain the apparent lack of effort by one or two of them.
Perhaps the solution lies with the admin staff. Put up some clear signs saying 'This Way To The Dressing Room'. Delegate someone to meet Mr Owers on a Saturday and make sure he gets there...perhaps a job for 'Gilbert'.
I'll be on the Pop Side as usual hoping that we see a win....hoping Gary has made it to work on time.

Be fantastic to go back to the ' Pre Madonna' era. Thinking prior to 1984 hits Holiday and Like A Virgin.

Saturday night football in Division 4. What we wouldn't give for that now. As soon as Miss Ciccone came on the scene it's been downhill for TUFC.....bottom of the Football League, brief resurgence under Cyril and John Impey. Down, down....brief Golden Years of Leroy, down, down, trapdoor down. Bucked up under Buckle. Levelled under Ling and then knackered with Knill, Harrumphed under Hargreaves. no joy with Nicho and 'orribly 'orrible with Owers and Osborne.

Do past players go to Plainmoor and think 'This Used To Be My Playground'? Will the club sink 'Deeper and Deeper'?.
All we need is a 'Ray of Light' and someone to tell Osborne, Owers and Harrop 'The Power of Goodbye'.

Hope I Live To Tell of a time when the Gulls fly high again but for now I'll Remember the good days and Cherish the memory of the time Mrs Hockeygull went over the Borderline (ok byline) at Southend.

Very, very poor today. Only bright moments came from Keating in the second half. One or two observations.....If Brett Williams is captaincy material there is a chance that I will be the next heavyweight champion. Captains lead by example, they inspire, they cajole, they fight their team's corner. Not our Brett. He spent most of today looking as though someone had just confiscated his toys. Apart from when he ducked under the corner at the near post to concede the first goal. Then he just looked an inept scaredy-cat.
What is the point of Jason Banton?.....Followed the captain's example today, contributed four fifths of sod all. Ben Wynter...the latest right back who is not going to last the season. Too much lead in his boots when passing the ball. Link up play not his strong point.
And to think are chaps our full time professionals. Who train together, communicate together, devise set pieces together all week....and then forget everything at 3pm on Saturday. Of course they may just meet up and f*** about all week. On today's evidence I favour the latter.
There was a little lad near us on the Popside, he can only have been about 7. Had quite a powerful voice for a nipper, extolling the virtue of 'keeping it simple, it's an easy game....the clues in the name. It's called football'. I hope his words carried across to our bench.

Very tenuously......Miranda Hart was born in Torquay. Brazilian player Miranda may or may not have taken his playing name as a tribute to her and her Torquay heritage..... we just don't know!

Jamie Vardy scored his first goal for Leicester at Plainmoor in a League Cup match.

Back in the 1980's......the Wembley Cup Final every time!! I never expected to see TUFC a Wembley.
Fantastic day out, train from Torquay...full of optimism on the way up...though a bit flat on the way back.
The noise when Dean Edwards scored....and the fastest he ever ran in his life to get to the Torquay bench.
The disappointment when the referee waved play on when the ball ran to Daryl Pugh.....advantage would have been a Mark Loram free kick.
Happier times with a proper team.

23rd and final opportunity to walk away from Plainmoor disappointed this season....12 defeats already and some of the most abject performances I have ever seen. At the end of today the loan players pack up and go back home. The likes of Healy and Lemonhaigh Evans have a bright future in better teams. Hoping to hear that there will be no future at this club for some of the others. We have no room for a contracted centre forward with his own seat in the grandstand, or a centre half who has a season ticket for the sick bay.
Call me a heretic but I would rather have McGinty than Gowling....always preferred to play alongside someone with a bit of fire in their belly than a 'can't be arsed today' merchant.
Ebbsfleet to win.....though hopefully Healy will score at least one to top the scoring chart.

Funny how the mind plays tricks, could have sworn we won that one!
You're right Mr Arcadia, I should have stuck to hockey. I retired from playing after 36 years service at the end of last season so I haven't missed a home game at Plainmoor since.....enough to send anyone doolally.

Grand National day 2007. Torquay win 1-0 with a goal from Reuben Reid. Go to pub, watch recording of the race, switch to Grandstand to see all other results have gone against TUFC and we are out of the League for the first time.
Fast forward to today and we could be dropping out of the National League this afternoon. I'm going for the Yellows to have their last hurrah, if only because Halifax had to play on Thursday night.
On the equine coincidence front, Now McGinty runs in the 1.45 at Aintree. Or as is more likely to be heard on the Popside, Too Late McGinty.

Looking for any positives from last night. Brett Williams takes a good penalty. Clark, Gowling and McGinty are fantastic at the game 'Musical Statues'. The way they all stopped as one for Fylde's 3rd goal had to be seen to be believed.

A valid point about the budget Mr Teigngull. The on pitch playing problems started 12 months ago when the hirers and firers at the Club first allowed Kevin Nicholson to remain in situ, only to sack him four games into the season....and then add to the problem by not appointing a permanent manager for many weeks. Some of the summer signings were obviously unfit at the time, and are still that way now.
I think it was in Gary Nelson's tome about his time as TUFC coach that a basic part of signing a player was to check their seasonal appearance record in the annual Rothmans publication. If they are not playing 35 plus games a season at lower league level, alarm bells ought to ring....injury prone or banned regularly.

The four club's immediately above us to go into administration.... today.
Failing that, a Royal Decree that all clubs with Torquay in their name cannot be relegated this year.

Enough chances to win handsomely.....Enough scares to have thrown it away.
We can't turn back the clock.......but Jamie Reid managed to nudge it on 20 minutes soon after coming on. Another job for the ground staff!

The machines will need to be up to scratch as the rain has returned. Shame they weren't in place last Saturday. Hopefully they have been paired up front with a couple of pitch covers.
Hoping to see a win by any method should the game be on.