Torquay United Fans Forum

I havnt read all the posts as I got bored. But I think what was meant was that if you go to matches and support the club, you are actually supporting CO and his objectives. I think that is a reasonable observation. He might have said it a bit harshly but come on guys don't be so blimmin sensitive. Ive had loads of flack on here, probably get more, but who cares, I don't!

I still believe I'm in a minority and will now and again come on here and air my views which are controversial but I believe the ONLY way forward!

frenchgull wrote: ↑27 Aug 2018, 12:41 For me it would be a total boycott of all games untill Owers leaves .Money people understand money and with lack of it through the gate it might make the point.I have posted on here a few years ago that National league south was the right full home for Torquay United,with the present set up I am now not so sure so I would back a new club (AFC Torbay ? ).We have a good couple of thousand supporters and enough people with knowledge to start again lower down.
I see no hope for Torquay United as we know it unless an Elton John type person comes along and that is just pie in the sky,the cancer is too far gone so let's start again,for me our club is dead,so that's sixty one years of support down the drain,,except for some wonderful memories.

Boycott all home ganes and turn put in force to away games

Boycott the next home again, EVERYONE! That might focus the minds of certain individuals!

On what I saw yesterday, RELEGATION

Why would Osbourne sack Owers?

There is no reason for him to do so, none at all!

MellowYellow wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 21:49 Osborne will never build new stadium, but I fear Plainmoor freehold may be still 'at risk'. Remember Osbornes maneuveres to get the club for nought, was not with the intention of spending 40 million on a 10,000 seated stadium so that 500 people could once a fortnight watch a football club stave off relegation after relegation. Particularly a club that will undoubtedly be part-time by then. The slim chance of survival - and it is slim - is if Osbornes plans are halted and Plainmoor is retained by the Council with a sensible rent for a non-league regional club.

Why did I go, what a complete waste of time and money.

H&R were poor, VERY poor!!

Ive watched a fair bit of conference south in the past as I live n Basingstoke. Remember this, this is a relegation team, everything about it, no tactics, no urgency, no fight, no idea, and to me they dont look fit, bar Keating.

But Osbourne doesnt care, so why change anything

I didnt post about this because its blatantly obvious and was from about day one. I have posted now because of the incredible situation that some of you still dont get it.

Osbourne has put no money into this club, it is all loans and just like any loan will be paid back by someone.

The tiresome thing is that it was predicted on here right at the beginning of this saga.

By supporting this regime you are only delaying the inevitable. The club goes bust, or it does move to a new stadium with rents that will cripple ANY chance of this club getting prommoted. If you think we have sunk as low as we can you got a big awakening coming your way.

The best option was to have boycotted at the start and try and force the club out of existence. Then a fans club like many others stsrt again a fresh with no debts. If that club rose a few divisions it would have been noticed and the fans could if they wish then sold it to a genuine football fan with ambitions for the team not the f ing land. But its too late now, because we owe hundreds of thousands of pounds.

If we do get prommoted, and it is possible but unlikely then the debt will be so bad do you really think this owner and management team would keep us there. Best of luck with that one.

And I will say it again, if we do move to a new stadium Osbourne will offer the club to the fans. And probably then write off the loans as a sweetner. Many of you on here will jump for joy no doubt. But the terms of the tennancy ooooh that will be interesting AND very very expensive, nothing like the terms,we have now with the council that is for sure.

Lets hope ALL these managers etc can work out a winning team in this league

For a club in Conference South we got allot of management

No one should abuse any player for any reason. Abuse should not be tolerated.

These players have been chosen to play by a manager, it is the manager where your frustration should go, BUT NOT ABUSIVE.

Chanting for a manager to resign is ok in my book, abusing a manager with foul language is not ok.

budegull1954 wrote: ↑17 Aug 2018, 11:39 I quite agree, and the other reality is that the decline of Torquay United Football Club mirrors the decline of Torquay itself. When my family moved down from Manchester to Torquay in 1972 the town was a thriving place with lots of good shops in the town centre, great pubs and excellent theatres & concert halls. Each time I go back to Torquay nowadays I get thoroughly depressed at the state of the town. After the East Thurrock game I went down to the harbour for a bite to eat at Prezzo, and the town just gets worse - the disgraceful state of lower Torwood Street, shops boarded up in Fleet Street, The Terrace and Union Street, the semi--derelict Pavilion Theatre, the down-at-heel atmosphere at Castle Circus and Abbey Road steps, homeless people in doorways ..I could go on. The saddest aspect for me though was the complete absence of holidaymakers around the harbour itself - it wasn't a 'beach day', so where was everyone? On a day like Saturday weather-wise in August 1973 for example the place would have been thronging with 'grockles', often disparaged by the locals but who actually brought great prosperity to the town. Where have they all gone? Perhaps to where I live in Bude which is heaving with people at the moment, and no boarded-up shops in sight! Is it any wonder that TUFC is in decline if the guardians of Torquay (the town) have done such a poor job themselves.

I agree, what has happened to the town, on the news today there were reports of record people going to the SW, in fact this week it was stated that there were too many tourists in the SW, they mentioned both Cornwall and Devon. Torquay could be so prosperous, I'm not even sure its down to the council only, when a place gets a reputation for decline its very hard to turn it around. The club has followed suit, the Grand group inc Burton-Race hotel is under administration, its ridiculous. I was told that Brixham is on the rise, houses selling and local businesses doing ok. Dartmouth has always been prosperous, but that has an underclass too actually which isn't obvious but is there. I don't know what the answer is, the bay is beautiful, the beaches are not great, perhaps that's part of it, parking isn't easy either. Perhaps moving the club away from Plainmoor is the answer, although I hate the idea.

royalgull wrote: ↑15 Aug 2018, 10:44 I don't get to many games at all these days (thankfully) but I was able to make the 20minute journey to a ground I used to play home fixtures on to watch the team I have supported since 1994 now play their recent league fixture on. .............................

That is about the best posting on here for years. spot on. AND why I just couldn't be arsed yesterday, I was in Reading so wasn't far for me, but I thought, its going to be a waste of time because failure, incompetence and apathy sums up TUFC entirely.

Thank God at the last minute I decided to go to the gym instead of that.

I got the feeling from previous posts that we are probably terrible and would soon find our position in this league. With Owers theres very little chance of promotion and I think that will be proved in the next few weeks.