Torquay United Fans Forum

Regarding Knill is a difficult one. He took over us with the worst team in years at Gigg with conference football looking dead on. He then spurred us on to a top half finish, with i think at the tome the best form in the league. Second season got us to 4th missed out by one goal scored!! Then disappointment last year and a good season now. We also play good football like yourselves, with a young squad! On a tighter budget than I would say yourselves as we don't buy players and cut the budget this year by 400k.

He has done fantastic for us and splits the fans. He is very straight with what he says and he defends his team sometimes too much. He wasn't happy when we booed when we lost our first game in 11. Rightly so but we have some muppet fans on there. And funnily enough they did not rate him! As some didn't rate him he tried to jump ship and now has gone. He's left is with a team good enough for automatic. Will we get there is hard to say? Seems to have brought everyone together!

He's not at scunny, however it's rumoured he has plenty of money to spend!! Some suggest £1 million! So for him i see why he left but the timing has made him not so popular!!

So regarding Zebroski, he may not cost as much as we thought but maybe isn't up to the level we thought either! How are you financially these days?

Did'nt you buy him for quite a substantial amount? Must admit at our place, his work rate was extremley good, and seemed to have a fair bit of pace about him, and obviously good at heading (unfortaunly for us). Not think he would make the grade at league one?

I was thinking 175k wouldnt be enough for him!!

Bury Fan in peace here, however I have heard a rumour if we go up we are in the market for Chris Zebroski - using the money that we got for Knill.

Which I can imagine would be 175k.

I'm not saying he's going to be ours , and that he would even want to join etc, just would like to ask would 175k be enough for him? Always rated him very highly to be honest, can imagine you wanting more. Just how good is he?

View from a bury fan

First half, we turned up, passed the ball well and to be honest we missed a few chances, Lowe having chances that he would normally put away, but your keeper made 2 good saves! then another one Lowe looked like he rounded the keeper and then fell over . Your defence looked resilient but we seemed to be able to cut through it nice and easy. We had a large part of the possession in the first half and we pressed you very well for 45 minutes!

Second half, WOW what happened? We stopped pressing the ball, and we must have made 10 successful passes in the second half, our goalkeeper looked shaky, we seemed to play an awful defensive line about 30 yards further than usual. However I am not saying second half we lost as we were down to us playing bad, yes we didn't play well, but the football played by Torquay tore us apart. Yes at Gigg Lane we are quite used to out passing teams for 90 minutes, but 2nd half was pay back, your the only team that I've seen this season that play football like us, and second half better than us! I don't feel you have one stand out player, as all worked very hard and all were top end league two players to be honest.

We dropped a massive chance to go 8 points clear of 4th , but we have to put it down to a poor first half. Time will tell on Saturday when we play against Cheltenham.

A team that passes deserves to go up! and I seriously hope you make the playoffs, however I dont if were infact in the playoffs with you! Would love us to get auto's and you to go up through the playoffs. Also at least it would show League two teams can pass the ball!

Sodje is just his usual self, anything in the air he has a very very high chance of winning the header and sending it a good 40 yards. Were hoping to bring in 2 new players today, but we have no idea/rumours of who these players are. At least your a team that seems to pass the ball well, im sick of watching teams come to Gigg lane, put 11 behind the ball and are happy to kick it into the corners and chase after it. With you seemingly need the win just as much as we do should be a good spectacle. Many on our message board are building it up to be our biggest match of the season. If we win we go 7 points clear of 4th with 10 left! Any positive result will do good for me!

Been saying it for past few weeks that I fancy you making a late charge up to the playoffs. I think you will get there.

Just thought would look on your message board, and thought would sign up.

Sodje and Picken are defiantly banned, after picking up 10 yellow cards in the Rotherham game. Also Ajose is just back for the game and has not had any reserve team football so will be on the bench I would expect!

Just a quick question though, Ive had a quick look through your team that played against Shrewsbury. How many loan players do you have in the squad at once? Is the rule in fact 4 or 5?

Will be a major trek all the way up to here on a tuesday night!, and anyone who makes the trip should hopefully watch a great game of football!!