Torquay United Fans Forum

What's crazy is losing custom and doing nothing to get it back. As for what WILL bring them back other than successful football is open to debate but in the absence of that, at the very least make an attempt.

What is mumsnet? :Oops:

hector wrote:Even in the Conference, teams are already recruiting for next season. Kidderminster have just signed Reid, who was playing League 1 football last season. It always feels like Torquay wait until the last minute, whoever is manager - apart from when Buckle was here. He always seemed to recruit quite early.
one of whom has already signed for a wealthy park team.

And what can Hargreaves do? His scrawny budget is already taken up with 8 players he doesn't want. The only interest from other clubs, in any of our players, appears to be for players we want to keep (Pearce/Cameron), so we could be lumbered with a squad of Alan Knill's deadwood next season. So it is going to take some time for Hargreaves to actually build his team when he is hamstrung in this way and another reason why ticket-season sales are likely to remain slow.

I cannot say the prospect of watching Benyon fall over every week, and get a shot on target once a month, is going to make me rush out and buy a season-ticket. I am one of the waverers. I hated every minute of last season. I have only seen us win twice in more than a year and while I like Hargreaves and hope he can do it, I just do not think I can bring myself to spend £300 to commit myself to watching the likes of Hawley, Benyon, Tonge & Harding.

The only way we can get rid of them is to pay them off and that isn't going to leave very much money behind.

And this is my biggest annoyance other than ticket prices and Billy Bodin. On the face of it, that sentence says it all about the lack of direction and determination coming from within IMO. We're now in non league, watching minnows like Eastleigh overtake us and stick two fingers up on the way past, seeing players who we don't want and can't shift look like they could be here for next season, seeing other clubs get the ball rolling in terms of squad additions and seeing CH hamstrung by a lack of funds and a lack of action.

There's nothing we can really do about any of the above, I accept that but we then should be focussing on what we CAN do which is get something positive going around the club in the face of all this 'adversity'. Getting the fans to buy into next season and buy into the siege mentality. Yes, lots of it will be meaningless PR crap which I hate but it's a start. TUFC should be in everyones faces plugging the deal and getting us all to rally round together. All we have is silence and a 1940's alternative band playing at Boots. We still have the tin pot , loser mentality and until that changes from within as a culture then the club will continue to stagnate and fail.

So what's new I hear you say? Torquay have been like this for the last 100 years I hear you say. Well fine. It doesn't have to be that way though.

We have had Alex Rowe confirming quite smugly that Torquay fans are great and they will help plug the deficit but what we haven't had is anything that resembles an apology, a forward plan of action and some real togetherness and momentum now to get everyone pulling together. That is the big problem. The fans forum next month is a great idea if cutting questions are met with realistic and honest answers. I doubt that very much however.

The club has had nearly all of May now to try and get everyone on side in a desperate attempt to win back s/t holders, persuade waverers and to maybe appeal to the odd new one and wasted every single day of it thus far.

I don't know how it can be achieved but we really need a club spokesman / representative who is like a ferret. All over the place drumming up fervour, support, ideas, positivity, camaraderie and an in your face consistent presence for all things TUFC. As it is we have closed doors.

frenchgull wrote:For all those that can not attend can we pose a question on here and someoneto ask at the meeting?.

Good idea.

I've got one.

Can you (the person being asked the question) or anyone in a position to answer, confirm that you know what day of the week it is?

(Cue silence all round due to all club representatives being absent due to showing up the day before instead. =D )

Louis wrote:/\ And while Andy has made the point. I am not ignoring people. I have had lots of emails and can't reply to everyone anymore. Good news is it seems to let you in eventually I have experienced the issue myself. Please wait it out or create a temporary account like Andy. I am working on a permanent fix.

Thanks for that Louis. Appreciate it. I still can't log in as AAG though so I might have to become DG permanently. :S

lucy6lucy wrote: Welcome Derbyshire gull. Why have you joined?

I'm austrianandy luce, just can't log on with my normal username as there is a problem with it so I've registered as an alter ego.

In fact I quite like Derbyshiregull. It has a ring to it I reckon. =D

I'd rather sign SUPER Nicky Wroe!!

ferrarilover wrote:I might chuck 50p on Bury to win the league and another on Lowe for golden boot. A quid each way on both looks like a license to print... About 25p, I should imagine.

Matt.

plus your stake back Matt of course.............. =D

Dog behaviour is an absolute minefield and in nearly all of cases the dog will have given a person umpteen warning signals to let them know it wasn't happy before attacking. Lots of people just don't know what they should be looking for that's all. If a dog lays down in front of you and rolls over then automatically you would see that as an invite to tickle it. In fact this is a common behaviour amongst 'confused' dogs and you really shouldn't be launching in there with full body rub unless you can see the rest of it's body language being displayed. Whites of the eyes, licking excessively, avoidance behaviours being unnoticed and the dog pushed and pushed inadvertently the list is endless. They are the most obvious I guess.

I'm actually surprised that there aren't more dog attacks given how bloody stupid a lot of their owners are. Many have been getting away with a bomb going off for a long time and it's just sad that if it does blow then the only way of diffusing it is to euthanase an animal that had been trying desperately hard for so long to NOT go into full attack mode. Unchecked stress, abuse, poor handling and training is the fault of one species and one species only and it ain't canine.

I'm austrianandygull by the way. For some reason I have been unable to log in under my username so I create another one. NO!! NOT ANOTHER ME!!!! =D

If you are going to buy a car then you learn how to drive it

If you are going to buy a dog then learn how to train it.

Dogs are fine. People are **** stupid. 8-]