Enjoyed the result today in a perverse sort of way.
After years and years of being a tinpot joke of side (let's be honest now...), to lose so badly at home and just be plain old pissed off like fans of any other team rather than looking over your shoulder at some boiling pit of doom like we did for so many years is kind of a luxury.
Anyway, my prediction: we won't play anywhere near as bad on Tuesday and you can all tweak your moves in the perpetual game of I Told You So then, without having to worry about the long-term future of the club any more. Which is nice.
Tschüß!
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- 17 Nov 2012, 23:23
- Forum: Matchday Topics
- Topic: Torquay United v Southend United - 17/11/12
- Replies: 209
- Views: 13193
- 03 Nov 2012, 20:58
- Forum: Matchday Topics
- Topic: Torquay United v Harrogate Town - FA Cup Rnd 1 - 3/11/12
- Replies: 280
- Views: 19314
Re: Torquay United v Harrogate Town - FA Cup Rnd 1 - 3/11/12
Change the funkin record! No matter what the year and no matter what the football position of the team or standing of the club, you persist with alarming regualarity with this catatonic 'we're all dooooomed' internet whine, as always accompanied by your tally of the years you've turned up at Plainmoor and a pop at anyone younger than you.wivelgull wrote:Next April I will celebrate 50 years of attending matches at Plainmoor. Over the years I have seen some poor performances, some bad performances, and some absolutely awful performances. Today's 'effort' may be placed in the latter category. It is in the Top 20 of awful matches seem at Plainmoor.
Seen ion the long term - and it is difficult to spot trends as they are beginning - I feel that today's game marks the beginning of a down period in United's fortunes. Out of every cup and with many (no, not all) league games offering only tedium and ennui to the attendee.
So why do we come? Today's attendance gives a clue: less and less of us are.
Another point perhaps worth making is that the FA Cup has been devalued since the inception of the Premiership. It is in the Premiership's interests to do so, that particular organization wishing to be the only game in town. But before the early 1990s the FA Cup WAS the biggest game in town, with attendances to prove that theory. Now, and I seem little hope of change until the Premiership implodes as it eventually will, FA Cup games are treated as irrelevancies. Just look at today! The team uninterested; the management (by the look of its body language) uninterested, and the public uninterested. Not even the chance of gaining thousands of thousands of pounds as a bonus for winning could inspire the club today.
As I was leaving the Pop. side a plaintive voice (one of the SpottyMob) could be heard squeaking 'You should be encouraging the lads, not booing them'. Faith meets reality.
Incidentally, I noticed Gilbert for a few seconds shivering on the touchline before the match.
What can be done? We need a clearout. Players who served the club in the Conference have long reached the end of their sell-by date. Money MUST be spent on a creative midfielder and a decent forward TO PLAY TWO UP FRONT with Howe. God save us all.
Here's the news: archetypal fourth division club loses in the FA Cup to a non-league side. And not for the first time. Otherwise, club is in the healthiest position it's been in years.
Tschüß!
- 13 Oct 2012, 09:05
- Forum: Matchday Topics
- Topic: Torquay United v Accrington Stanley - 13/10/12
- Replies: 174
- Views: 11468
Re: Torquay United v Accrington Stanley - 13/10/12
Absolutely.ferrarilover wrote:Do unto others...
'Everyone else rips us off so let's do the same' is a pretty weak defence. I think it's very 'unTorquay', if there is such a principle - very much against our traditional ethos.
- 08 Sep 2012, 06:18
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: I love watching Torquay United because........
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1580
Re: I love watching Torquay United because........
Thanks. Is there a cash prize?ferrarilover wrote:One post, one f**k ing post, and he's going to win MOTM.
Well said Farmer, absolutely correct in all respects.
Matt.
To be fair, I've posted on this forum in its various incarnations many times over the years, but it seems to have forgotten. Which is probably a good thing...
- 07 Sep 2012, 10:10
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: I love watching Torquay United because........
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1580
Re: I love watching Torquay United because........
Increasingly as I get older and the world around me continues to change at a rapid pace, often for the worse, I find that supporting United is a reassuring bit of continuity in my life and a comforting link to my Paignton upbringing (although that sounds a bit melodramatic, as I now only live 25 miles up the road!).
It's never really bothered me too much that Torquay are likely to always be a small club, but when I was younger I harboured dreams that somehow we'd win the FA Cup or go on some mad run through to the top flight like Orient or Carlisle. The Evil Alliance of Murdoch and the Premiership have put paid to that flight of fancy, but having seen how the grotesque commercialisation of football has corrupted the sport and so many teams, they're welcome to it. I'm genuinely glad that we're never likely to be troubled by fly-by-night mercenary players or flooded with obedient football consumers from hundreds of miles away, happy to be treated as cash cows by wealthy people with little interest in football. At Plainmoor, it's still pretty much the football I grew up with - and better in a lot of respects.
It's never really bothered me too much that Torquay are likely to always be a small club, but when I was younger I harboured dreams that somehow we'd win the FA Cup or go on some mad run through to the top flight like Orient or Carlisle. The Evil Alliance of Murdoch and the Premiership have put paid to that flight of fancy, but having seen how the grotesque commercialisation of football has corrupted the sport and so many teams, they're welcome to it. I'm genuinely glad that we're never likely to be troubled by fly-by-night mercenary players or flooded with obedient football consumers from hundreds of miles away, happy to be treated as cash cows by wealthy people with little interest in football. At Plainmoor, it's still pretty much the football I grew up with - and better in a lot of respects.
