Expectations

[Taelee73]

A lot us will remember Plainmoor in the 80s/90s, we seemed to be forever stuck in Division 4 (Oh to be stuck in League 2 now!) No fees paid out for players, our best one sold every season it seemed.
It felt we had no ambition, but in reality it was spending within our means. I didn't see that as a 20 something!

Expectations. The season after such a near miss can go a few ways. The players could still be shattered mentally and physically, and fall away the falling season. Two things stop that with us, Gary Johnson is one. He just won't tolerate it. The other is losing a few of those players, so bringing in new ones who haven't had to deal with that and reenergising a squad.

Or we use that experience and push on. With other clubs spending, maybe some unknown Dark Horses emerging, Play offs would be a good target.

Expectations are also that we need to be a league club sooner rather than later, what happens at the end of our 5 year plan if we're not.

Hopefully today will see a continuation of our high energy pressing game. Maybe with more pass and move rather than pacy tricky players. Please not hit and hope if it doesn't work straight away.

Lastly, Asa Hall? Our club is famously quiet on the player news front, but has there been anything?

[Modgull]

Today was a bit of a wake up call. Big improvements needed throughout.

[budegull1954]

Didn't know which thread to put this in, but a great article by Paul Breen about the future of small clubs like Torquay:

https://www.castrust.org/2022/09/footba ... all-clubs/

[Nick Potkins]

Didn't know which thread to put this in, but a great article by Paul Breen about the future of small clubs like Torquay:

https://www.castrust.org/2022/09/footba ... all-clubs/

Thank you for posting, an interesting read. As I've said before we as a club need to 'think outside the box'; attracting additional monies, creating a bigger profile, while securing the best players we can. Leadership from the very top is needed with a vision to drive change.

[WellingtonGull]

I don’t think there’s no reason we can’t hit a top ten comfy position this year

[grockle]

Thank you for posting, an interesting read. As I've said before we as a club need to 'think outside the box'; attracting additional monies, creating a bigger profile, while securing the best players we can. Leadership from the very top is needed with a vision to drive change.

Attracting additional monies. Surely, the easiest way to do this is to change to an artificial pitch, which can be used more than once a fortnight. When, or more likely if, we ever return to the dizzy heights of the FL, we can always return to grass.