by hector » 19 Feb 2014, 09:26
PlainmoorRoar wrote:As good as Sills was and will always be remembered for his goal at Wembley! He unfortunately couldn't recreate his conference abilities in the league
Also there is a thread on another area of ex-gulls for your info
Tim Sills is up with the TUFC legends for me. I thought he was great. One could argue that the step up to League 2 was too big, and perhaps it was but even at League 2 level he was more effective than anything we have now. He scored only 4 goals in 24 appearances after promotion back to the league yet Benyon, this season has only 2 in 27. In fact Benyon has more yellow cards than he has goals, so it comes to something when your supposedly most prolific forward is more likely to get booked than score.
The two years in the Conference were amongst my favourite seasons as a TUFC fan. But that was because everything was new, fresh and exciting. Setanta TV seemed to consider us amongst the glamour teams so we were on TV almost every other week, we were winning games, of course and there were lots of new teams to play against. I suppose we were considered to be among the 'big-boys'. It would be different if we went down again.
We would be like Hereford, Lincoln with bigger clubs like Grimsby and Wrexham still smarting from years in non-league. I think the Conference - without the TV exposure of last time, without a sponsor etc, with little chance if promotion - would be about the most miserable place to be.
It mustn't happen.
[quote="PlainmoorRoar"]As good as Sills was and will always be remembered for his goal at Wembley! He unfortunately couldn't recreate his conference abilities in the league
Also there is a thread on another area of ex-gulls for your info[/quote]
Tim Sills is up with the TUFC legends for me. I thought he was great. One could argue that the step up to League 2 was too big, and perhaps it was but even at League 2 level he was more effective than anything we have now. He scored only 4 goals in 24 appearances after promotion back to the league yet Benyon, this season has only 2 in 27. In fact Benyon has more yellow cards than he has goals, so it comes to something when your supposedly most prolific forward is more likely to get booked than score.
The two years in the Conference were amongst my favourite seasons as a TUFC fan. But that was because everything was new, fresh and exciting. Setanta TV seemed to consider us amongst the glamour teams so we were on TV almost every other week, we were winning games, of course and there were lots of new teams to play against. I suppose we were considered to be among the 'big-boys'. It would be different if we went down again.
We would be like Hereford, Lincoln with bigger clubs like Grimsby and Wrexham still smarting from years in non-league. I think the Conference - without the TV exposure of last time, without a sponsor etc, with little chance if promotion - would be about the most miserable place to be.
It mustn't happen.
