Torquay United Fans Forum

It’s not disrespectful to expect a full time team, to be able to at least compete with a part time team. In fact, it’s embarrassing we don’t. We get more time for training, more time to amend tactics and more time to right wrongs. It doesn’t happen.

But at least we will get a reaction at our next game, right?

I don’t know why people are surprised. People guessing we would win..... yet know we can’t score a goal for toffee. This isn’t a world beating team we are playing.... it’s afc Flyde.

We had a French trialist who scored twice in a friendly, and still lost the game. He will probably see this result and think “why would I move to another country to play for that”.

Everyone at the club should be ashamed of where we are now. We are a shambles, but I feel we are about to sink a whole lot lower in the coming weeks.

I think it’s encouraging to see we are trying to get new attacking options in. But not only do we not know the league this potential striker is currently playing in, but we also do not know the amount offered. It could be a derisory offer.

The French trialist is intriguing. Was this a hedges finding? He has a good scoring record, and also played in the Europa league this year. Which would make me think he would be a level above us. It is a little disheartening he has gone back to France, how confident are we that he will return?

Surely Herrera must be embarrassed by this?

Threw his hat in the ring, and after 6 games still yet to win a game. Don't worry though, I am sure he will have another crack at it on Saturday.

Interesting there is no Davis too(?)

I wonder if we will use this as a scouting exercise to see if any of Bristol City's youngsters could do a job here on loan....

Bondz N'Gala anyone?

When the Radio Devon link was not working earlier, I was listening to the commentary for Barrow. Apparently, Torquay are in the bottom 4 for the playing budget this season? If this is true and remembering there are part time teams in this league and also the attendances we have in comparison to others, a number of questions need asking. I know for sure there are not 20 teams in this league being bank rolled by millionaires.

People may point to the reduced price of season tickets, but this is nonsense, because we sold more than double what we had last season, so we actually raised more money up front than previously - and added to this the more people there are in the stadium the more chance they will spend their money there. So the question is, where is all the income actually going?....

With regards to the result, we just need to dust ourselves down and go to Sutton and win on Tuesday.

I agree we need more investment in the club. But look what happened when we did have that investment from Thea, just because we would have more money, it doesn't mean problem solved...the investment needs to be used wisely to get us out of this mess.

Also, I understand the players fund is for players (obviously), but why wasn't this partly used to pay Paul Cox? Or a new Gk coach? And the players it has been used on, have they really made a difference in the last couple of games? (which leads on from my previous point about using the investment wisely).

Confirmed on guiseley website.....