Torquay United Fans Forum

It’s nice to see genuine character coming through, as a lot of the interviews we see these days are pretty monotone and managed or just all saying the same old thing… welcome Ali you have already got your own fan club without even kicking a ball at plainmoor!

So what about Maynard and why wasn’t Conor playing???

So Nicky Maynard was or wasn’t the other trialists?

Matt Jay (not as good) but scored 18 league goals last season also born in Torbay… Tbf we have a hot bed for talent down here but we never see a player as an asset and we always loose players to free transfers. I have said that if I won the lottery and purchased Torquay then I would want to run a model where every player would be seen as an asset and we would command fees and not rollover like we always seem to do, for that to happen we would need to be fan run or atleest have an owner who is here for the longevity of a project.

Does the NL have a salary cap?

This league is turning into the championship of non league

Hero to villain in a month lol

The NL is a tough tough league, statistically the hardest to get out of! I am pretty optimistic with our business plus the fact we can still turn to our loan business which proved very fruitful last season. This league is turning is getting tougher and tougher every year and it is not the place for shrinking violets… unfortunately we had a couple of them last season and you could be forgiven in saying that was nemane and Whitfield actually that badly injured? I even remember Devon live doing an article on ‘quick healer’ Ben Whitfield…..

I’m annoyed that players such as Whitfield and Nemane spent much of the season last season ‘injured’ especially when we gave them a platform to express themselves in the first place and at the first opportunity look to leave! Having said that we have the best players from last season tied up in Wright, Conor and Hall and Wints, we have a very good spine and have signed some exciting quality so I think we will at the very least be in and around the playoffs….

Forest gull wrote: ↑20 Jul 2021, 19:24 Nemane signed for Notts

Good riddance

A very exciting young team … especially with O’Connell and klaidi

Already signed for notts

It’s possible that the first will be announced at 11.40

Although i do find the time taken strange I am not personally worried, this year like the last has been unprecedented so I think that the thinking of the recruitment may be a little different to what we are use to. I imagine Gary is only targeting players that can improve us which I’m afraid takes time, we have history of signing some very good players last minute or even mid season the two that come to mind most recently have been joe Lewis and Ben Whitfield. I’m sure it would be very easy to go out and sign another Jared Lewington or a Matt Buse and I’m glad that we are setting our bar higher than that even if it means unveiling players last minute. We have already seen clubs resign players that they only released a couple of months ago and I think there will be a lot of players out there that will be hanging on to hope waiting on particular clubs as money this season will be more tighter than ever across the football pyramid so you can’t blame players for holding out waiting for the best offer. If we turned up to the game at Poole with 10 players contracted and the rest trialists atleest I know that the trialists will be of a good standard, not the standard Kevin Nicholson was relying on with local SDL players.

As always, in Gary we trust

MellowYellow wrote: ↑13 Jul 2021, 20:45 Well that puts an end to that rumour mongering - next!

Here's one for fun - Aramide Jay Oteh - place your bets.

Sounds like a football manager signing….

Maybe Johnson has COVID?