Torquay United Fans Forum

Orange Gull wrote: ↑18 Nov 2017, 15:36 1-0 down. You can see why we can't score, players seem hesitant to get into the box when an opportunity arises and our first touch often lets us down. It's clear why we're after more striking options. Myrie-Williams is certainly not the answer to our problems.

TUST_Member_Rob wrote: ↑11 Nov 2017, 02:06 Not too much of an issue as i imagine Jazzi Barnum Bobb will come in

lucy6lucy wrote: ↑10 Nov 2017, 20:56 Higgins unavailable tomorrow due to family issue in Liverpool? What is that about. Bereavement is accepted, but "issue" when his professional club needs him is quite odd, borderline disappointing

merse btpir wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 11:20 Football is not alone in time management in order to retain the ascendency; cricket captains using fast bowlers to keep the over rate down, tennis players taking longer to get their serves in and thus take the momentum out of the game they are ahead in are just two examples and there are many more.

Competitors in a cycle race or in longer distance athletic events hitting the front and slowing the pace; jockeys doing it in a horse race etc, etc.......it's part of the mechanics of game management and the secret is to get ahead and not behind and thus have the controlling factor within your grasp.

Torquay United have just slowed the 'over rate' down by not attempting to fill a blank Saturday by bringing a midweek game forward to allow the manager more time to recruit and programme his players to doing thing his way and not in the manner of the old manager; I've not seen anyone complaining about that on here.

Arrywithnobrain wrote: ↑30 Oct 2017, 17:18 arrywithanh: watch, or better still play a game of hockey, at international level - you will find that the umpires do not control the time. If you do not know what you are talking about: shut up or are you acknowledging that it is you that has no brain? You will find in hockey that the nature of the game is different from football - did you realise that they use sticks rather than feet to hit the ball - and being a faster game with rolling substitutions and passes to oneself instead of throw-ins when the ball goes out of play there is intrinsically less opportunity or need for time-wasting. Unfortunately you obviously did not understand the point that I was making, even though I thought that it was written in simple enough English even for you: with an off the field official maintaining the clock, the referee is relieved of that responsibility and there becomes no need for arbitrary assessments of the length of time that it takes to make a substitution or treat in injured player etc. The lawmakers would decide what was considered to be active play and what required the clock to stop: if they considered retrieving a ball to be an active part of the game there could be no complaint about the time wasted doing it.

merse: you pontificate about football to the extent that I wonder why you are not a senior figure at the F.A., or perhaps you are - you are certainly full of enough hot air to be one. There is a lot wrong with football and its administrators as you well know, not least its unwillingness to learn from examples in other sports. You may not enjoy Rugby or American Football, possibly because you do not understand their technicalities but that is no reason to dismiss innovations that could be introduced from such sports, merely because they do not conform to your long established pre-conceived ideas. I thought that the dinosaurs became extinct a long time ago but obviously some are still alive and well in football administration: from your comment you appear to one.

Southampton Gull wrote: ↑25 Oct 2017, 10:55 Nope it isn't. No budget, no backup blah blah, the reasons are still obvious. Obviously being their own man they've backed Gary Owers and now that we're runaway leaders it's all so patently clear!!

tufc si wrote: ↑21 Oct 2017, 16:36 He'll get a second now and bag us the points, watch....

TUST_Member_Rob wrote: ↑21 Oct 2017, 16:35 The contracted man! 1-1 Reid!

Nick Potkins wrote: ↑21 Oct 2017, 16:33 Need to sign a striker, hold on we did this week in Reid. . .

brucie wrote: ↑21 Oct 2017, 16:27 You can't actually make this up.