Torquay United Fans Forum

culmstockgull wrote: ↑29 Jun 2023, 13:56 As for an ovewhelming poll suggesting that we do not like the new strip , I seem to remember a similar poll last season indicating Johnson should go until it was re platformed and it came out evens, as for a global market, its torquay not some champions league winners , I do not believe the post office will have to take on extra staff to deal with foreign deleiveries of our new kit.

DB57 wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 22:13 No they’re not. I can agree to buy your house but until I sign the contract there’s no deal. Football is no different. Agreeing to sign is not the same as putting pen to paper.

rivieratouch wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 18:55 Agreed yes, signed no

rivieratouch wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 17:48 I can't find anything that states that Halstead has signed any deal with us, other than him being offered a new deal. Can anyone else confirm this Please.

brucie wrote: ↑17 May 2023, 09:49 Saying that Johnsons signings looked ok before they played is quite frankly ludicrous. Its one of the main reasons that we went down - half his signings last year wernt good enough.

We are not going to walk this league this time despite what everybody says. Ash did well to score 24 goals last year in a struggling team but he was a big fish in a little pond. There will be far more pressure on him this year because the demands on him will be alot higher.

Theres a difference between realism and negativity - Ash is at his level and as illustrated by the clip I put up the defending is a joke. I still worry about our team though, we've got a lumbering, injury prone midfield and nobody who can run with the ball to create chances for the strikers. Our centre halves are all iffy as are our full backs.

Our squad players Crowe, Hanson and Macgavin are probably not even up to this level. That said the majority of the teams are bloody awful so surely we should be in the lay offs at least.

happytorq wrote: ↑17 May 2023, 00:21 It's very easy to criticise signings after the fact. Any **** idiot can do that (and look - you have!). With the possible exception of Mensah, all of those names were reasonable. I could go through each one but it clearly wouldn't get through your preconceptions so obviously there's no point.

I asked you to suggest a player that we should be looking at. You're correct that it's not your job, of course, and youre perfectly within your rights to offer no meaningful contribution to any discussion ever aside from the constant negativity. Just seems exhausting, that's all.

happytorq wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 14:42 hey, brucie - would be interested to know who you think we should be signing. Names, please - bearing in mind the current division, where we are located within England, etc.

I can wait.

Nick Potkins wrote: ↑12 May 2023, 18:11 Do you not think that if Jarvis was staying we would have had it announced by now. Also not a comment from the player saying how he's looking forward to next season with us.

Sadly, it feels like he's off. Leaving us looking for three strikers.

happytorq wrote: ↑07 May 2023, 15:44 Yes, I love it when people claiming to be "ITK" make vague allusions to information they've got from various contacts but don't actually say anything of value

Cheddargull wrote: ↑04 May 2023, 20:04 Ridiculous statement. What you're saying is only the hard core who are prepared to put up with anything are entitled to support the club, our crowds would never get above 1200 if that was the case.

DB57 wrote: ↑03 May 2023, 22:04 I won’t, and if you bothered to read and understand what I said before, you’d realise it’s not about winning. I’m 72 years old now and first went to Plainmoor when I was about 8 years old. What I see now really hurts me. Don’t try to paint Osborne as some knight in shining armour. He isn’t. And when the loans that have been made to TUFC are called in the mucky stuff will really hit the fan.
If on the other hand he is the saviour you make him out to be he’s not doing a very good job in the implementation of the five year plan is he?

DB57 wrote: ↑03 May 2023, 09:00 It’s not about winning. You don’t support Torquay for the winning. Far from it.
It is though, about supporting a club that doesn’t treat its supporters with contempt and does at the very least try to act in a professional manner.
At the moment we have an owner who isn’t interested, a Chief Executive(?) who is arrogant at best, a part time manager who has achieved nothing in his time here and a so called Media Team who are more interested in promoting carvery’s than communicating properly with the fans.
We are now back to regional football and deservedly so and although I don’t like it I can accept that it’s a consequence of an abysmal season
We might walk the league, but I won’t be buying a season ticket until the values of the club take a significant turn for the better

DB57 wrote: ↑02 May 2023, 23:14 No chance! After 60+ years of supporting TUFC I will not commit any more to this rotten regime from ownership to piss poor management which has taken us back once again to regional football.
Better and more important things to do with my money than to throw it blindly into an organisation that supports abject failure.