Torquay United Fans Forum

HRG wrote:1 game in hand but as many as 3 on Gillingham, Shrewsbury and Rotherham.
Play-offs are not impossible if we don't have too many slip-ups along the way, though I will be happy to hover where we are now, it's just nice not to worry.

ferrarilover wrote:Hmmm, PB has been linked with plenty of jobs in the past, but this one feels different. There is no way that a slashing of the odds of such magnitude as we have seen over the last couple of days (as long as 28/1 with some bookies barely 48 hours ago, popularly quoted at 1/4 now) is in response to market forces (volume and value of bets laid by bookies on this outcome) alone. They must know something, bookmakers always know something. The only crumb of comfort I can take from this is knowing that bookies will often err on the side of caution, especially in a market as unpopular as this, if they get even the slightest inclination that one man is prized above all others. It could be something as daft as VCs having a man outside the Brizzle Rovers ground who saw PB heading into the offices one afternoon. Maybe he was signing a pre-contract deal, maybe he was having a casual chat, hell perhaps he was using the men s room, who knows?

For my money, he's going, but there is no way he will go before the Oxford game (not much of a prediction given the hour), he has too much respect for the club and the board to do that. Tuesday/Wednesday lunchtime at the VERY latest, if he is to leave before the FA Cup match.

On a related and equally precarious subject, if he does go, who, if anyone, do you think he will take with him. It's not the players so much, we all know the two or three that have the ability to step up, but who do you think he would actually take, for real?

Matt.

robc wrote:Obviously financially I'd love one of the big boys, specifically Man Utd, as my Dad grew up on the Stretford End so it'd be pretty special for him... But if not then I'd absolutely love Plymouth away. Not only would the atmosphere be incredible, we'd also surely have a decent chance of beating them too!