Torquay United Fans Forum

Is John-Paul Pittman fit yet? If so I'd like to see him get a shot in a side that might actually now give him some service. He got a bit of stick earlier in the season, particularly in the Solihull game, but I'd have backed him to put one away from all of the chances we created in the Hartlepool game.

Highlights http://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/mat ... /1-2849607

Are there any highlights up yet? I can't seem to find any!

Haven't attended the last two home games, not due to any boycotting, but after a decade of hardly missing a game, the entertainment value had completely disappeared for me, and so I needed a break.

Will be back on the Popside though for Saturday, the new management duo deserve a welcome, and provide a glimmer of hope which has been missing for a little while now. Would be nice to see some of the other stay-aways step back inside Plainmoor too and create a bit of an atmosphere again, and give Owers and Kuhly some backing.

PhilGull wrote: ↑21 Sep 2017, 14:47 To be fair I don't ever recall seeing such a comprehensive run-down of the injury situation under any previous regime.

To be fair I don't remember seeing such a comprehensive injury situation under any previous regime!

I can't understand how people are still being negative. I get that it took far too long, and there was plenty of occasions over the last few weeks where I thought that this might be the moment that GI and Harrop make the move that dooms the club, by appointing Robbie or anyone else costing truck all, showing that relegation is not something that bothers them.

They haven't done this. Owers may seem a little underwhelming at first, but is qualified to the teeth at this level, in a way that neither Nicho or Herrera were. To add to this, we've signed Kuhl as number 2, who has even better coaching qualifications, and a huge web of contacts at Category 1 academy level and below. This is ideal in our position, and fits the talk of our building the club by developing the young players who are released from the higher level academies, to make the club sustainable. I also don't really have a problem with Harrop being part of this comittee. He may get a lot of stick but he knows more than most about the workings of a football club, especially at a youth/academy level, and during his career has probably built up a significant list of contacts himself. He's certainly not signed two yes men underneath him, and for the first time in a long time we now have a core of people in the club who actually know what they're talking about.

I'm suspicious as hell of GI, as they have money at heart, not Torquay. Having said that they've spent a hell of a lot of money that they didn't have to, from re-laying the pitch which won our Groundsman the 2016-17 National League Groundsman of the Year Award, to refreshing the clubs branding, and now sacking a failing but cheap management team, and replacing them with a hopefully fit for purpose but expensive duo, paying off Nicho and Bath City in the process. Maybe we missed out on a preferred candidate, maybe Harrop cocked up leading to delays, it doesn't matter. Keep half an eye on Osborne and GI, but get behind the team again, the new guys deserve it, and they've already made moves for 1 or 2 new players.

They've bought in a new winger, on the face of it a pretty decent one too.

I'm not too sure actually! Lovely chap, does Newton Abbot business rounds, sponsors JP, and said he had a 'First Class' sauce.

My postman's convinced that Graham Westley will be appointed today.

nickbrod wrote: ↑31 Aug 2017, 15:20 All the info from Harrop, waiting to be signed off,is in Clarke Osborne's in-tray and he's out of office until next week.

Is this sarcastic or actually true!?

This is getting worrying now, it's all well and good that we want to make the right choice, but if I was one of the 4 (or 5, or 6) of the experienced managers on the seemingly ever growing shortlist, and I was being kept on the hook whilst they had a look around for other candidates, I'd soon be telling little old Torquay to truck off!

LOOOUUUDD NOISES!

Herald now saying that it may be next week before the new man comes in. Have you just heard rumours Merse or anything solid?

Training starting later than usual today...

Ronnie Moore was watching from Bristows today and taking plenty of notes.