Torquay United Fans Forum

The club's main income is gate receipts. We also get sponsorship deals, TV revenues and other sources of income (currently none from owners but in the past Thea put in a lot. From all this revenue we have to meet all our costs, of which the main expense is wages to the playing squad and rent to the...

But the rent is irrelevant, because it's one man paying himself. If I am a one-man-band and my business makes £50k/year, it doesn't matter whether I pay myself £10/year and keep £49990 in the business account or whether I pay myself £49000 and keep a grand for the business, I'm still only worth £50k...

So, this GI own the club and the ground. For some bizarre reason they charge the club £100,000/month in rent. When the club doesn't pay, the stadium owners (who, remember, are the same people as own the club and therefore owe the rent) sue the club owners for the outstanding. The Court finds in favo...

"A move to a new stadium is essential if the club is to survive well into the 21st century. With all the revenue streams this would provide, the club would be in a long-term sustainable situation and the new owners would turn a decent and well-deserved profit into the bargain." Do you REA...

Coventry don't do especially well out of playing at the Ricoh. Anyway, I am talking about the additional revenue streams that could be tapped if Torquay United OWNED the stadium themselves and the profits of holding conferences/events were ploughed back into the club (as is the way of Exeter Chiefs...

Is it too simple to suggest that a Conference club with no facilities at all costs £250,000. Add £5m for a stadium complex. Add £3m over 5 years to reach the upper edges of L1. Take away (figure out of arse) £4m over those 5 years as income from the complex and end at a figure of £4.25m. Sell the lo...

Anyway, back on topic... Ross Hannah turns down Chester in favour of furthering his career with... ... ... Barrow. You'd think 25 goals (or thereabouts) at Conference level would qualify him for a better move than that. I know it's relatively simple geographically, but come on. Do Barrow have cash?

It may be somewhat naive to assume that the property developers, Stadia UK/GI will be building a stadium that will create revenue streams for TUFC. Such a move would be good news, of course, as this additional income has benefitted Exeter Chiefs enormously. However, GI aren't in this for the benefi...

Lee Mansell and Danny Leadbitter play in L1. Luke Young and Durrell Berry play in the Conference. Football is lost to me now.

Or we've finally got a Board who have the balls to identify when we have an asset and make his contract work in our favour. A three year deal says he is to be given a good budget. A good budget will allow him to work well for us and attract attention for better clubs. Previously, when Bodger and Bad...

Annoyingly, we are therefore forced to assume that someone on that Godforsaken site can actually read. In a stroke doubling the average IQ in that place.

It's reported properly on the BBC, Twitter and the OS.

The reason you are being asked to prove evidence is because you're the one making accusations. You're saying that the new owners are in it for themselves, on the make, looking to shaft the club for their own gains. I'm suggesting this needn't necessarily be the case but you're still banging that dru...

I don't doubt that previous owners have made the sum total of a fag paper over the years. The question is not how much money owners will make, it is whether they will destroy the club to do that. The answer to that is as I have addressed above (decried by an angry little man as bollocks, with absolu...

I see why you'd think it was, but my last post wasn't aimed at you specifically, Neal. If it's bollocks, please explain why. Why "ain't they makin' money out of you"? What's your problem with a business offering goods or services in exchange for money? You do realise that every owner that ...

Well lets see if your saying this in 5 years time. And IF its not the case and they are not in it for the money, you can publicly remind me and say "I told you so" You may be right that a new stadium will bring in NEW revenue streams, do you really think this will end up in the pockets of...