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Goals, goals, goals,

Torquay 4 H & W 2

coyy.

Nervous, unsure, many permutations but I think ultimately both sides will not want to lose and a draw may result

Taunton 1 Torquay 1

The snakes and ladders league takes us to Bath, last time around we lost when we were good so I do not see us getting anything from this game. Bath need the points to stay in the play offs and with most of the fixtures of interest being top teams v bottom teams they will need to win.
Even if we only play eligible players, I see Bath 3 Torquay 1.

AJB
Archer
Ash
Moxey
McGavin

As stated in my prediction I went to this game with no confidence that we would get a result and asked for a few players to stand up and perform, well I certainly got the reaction I had hoped for.
All over the team the players got stuck in, perhaps Duane O-A a bit too much, an ankle injury or not it was a good move to take him off after his second foul, Truro were clearly working on getting him sent off and he did look off the pace.
Arkell J-B looked again a class above this league and he will be loaned to a division 2 side next season. Ash put himself about, McGavin played some good balls around in the first half, Archer showed up there is a potential really good player if he could finish but above all, they all battled.
Two excellent goals were the prime difference, although we may have been tested by a better team than Truro, we did enough in a poor game.
Gloucester hosted the game well, even if the announcer did not recognise the players, however why call it as segregated then not bother.
Finally what an odd programme with 8 team line ups, print 1 programme for 7 games being crowded in to two weeks!

I shall be attending but not with a great deal of confidence, probably much the same as the players.
I keep thinking that I will wake up and the players will start performing to their potential, some have in previous seasons and next season at another club will prove what a shambles this season has been.
Perhaps one or two will standup and put in a heroic game, driving the rest to give us a memorable end to the season……. I can dream positively.

Head says another defeat 3-1 fading in the last 20 minutes, however I will be doing my bit to cheer us on. coyy

Agree what a farce, move location, move day then last minute make it all ticket.

You suspect that the plan is for nobody to attend, and beat Taunton v Maidstone.

My second “home” game of the season on a Conference North pitch, I am trying to remember what the lowest attendance League match, we have had, I have seen.

Not sure I can see us getting anything from this game, heart says a draw head says a loss.
Welling 3 Torquay 1

Oh yes that game, the madness of youth, woke up late, had to run for the bus. No breakfast, not enough clothes, bloody cold, the only time I have had assistance from St John’s Ambulance missed winning goal, no frost bite thank goodness.
Those were the days, kick offs at crazy times, mid morning on Boxing Day.
All I remember is revenge for the previous Boxing Day at Home Park

Home win 2-1 to United.

I regard this as a free hit, however will some old “old boys” be able to play 2 games over Easter, a few injured/rested for Monday.
Again I can not see us getting anything from this, they will be up for it, an early goal against and look out our goal difference which counts as an extra point at the moment.
I see us losing this 4-1

Full Time, Part Time, at this stage what ever allows us to survive.

However before a decision is made, hopefully somebody within the club or investors will investigate where some clubs adopted hybrid Part Time.
I might be incorrect but did not Woking operate 48 weeks full time then 4 weeks nothing, this at the time was called part time. They also had some players who were genuine part time, but what really defines part
We have seen genuine Part Time teams do not succeed in the National conference, but let’s worry about that later as we do need to get back to that level first.

I do not see us winning this one, i do see a scraped draw, just.
2 - 2

I am trying a different tact this week.

Tonbridge 3 Torquay 1

Come on you yellows prove me wrong again……

Interesting that the club website has an article on some of the volunteers helping on match days given some of the comments made in earlier posts.

I am sure that those at the club will look at the ideas suggested. Hopefully when the way forward with a new owner has happened they will do so with an open mind.

We want to be a traditional professionally run club, one of the 92, however we need to be agile responding to our current predicament, learning from perhaps some of the other clubs in all three of the conferences divisions.