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Reading the Herald Express website today it shows that Chairwomen Thea Bristow and other directors of Torquay United are backing CH to bring us straight back up next year and will support him to the hilt in his quest to make sure this happens.

We cant thank Thea enough for her support and money to ensure we still have a football club to support at Torquay.

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CHAIRWOMAN Thea Bristow insists she is ready to back manager Chris Hargreaves and lead relegated Torquay United in a determined bid to win promotion back to the Football League at the first attempt next season.

Mrs Bristow – she and her late husband Paul helped to buy the club after the Gulls went down to the Conference last time in 2007 – said: “The Conference is where I came in, if you like, so it’s reasonably familiar territory.

“We know what it takes to get out of it, and I am confident that we are going to be great in it, as we were last time.

“We are going to support Chris as much as we possibly can, to have a new start and build something new.

“We are all a lot more upbeat than you would expect, and we want to look forward to the challenge and tackle it.

“I do have this sort of guilt gene inside me, that says I have presided over one of the worst seasons in Torquay’s history.

“People tell me I shouldn’t feel like that, and I do believe that I should try and push it aside and get on with the job in hand. That’s the most important thing.”

Despite beating Mansfield Town 3-1 at Field Mill on Saturday, their eighth away win of the season, United were relegated by Northampton Town’s 3-0 victory at Dagenham & Redbridge.

Mrs Bristow, United’s major shareholder and backer, was talking after gathering her three joint vice-chairmen – former chairmen Alex Rowe and Simon Baker and ex-managing director Bill Phillips – for a post-relegation planning meeting at Plainmoor.

She followed that with a call to manager Hargreaves, who is starting the build-up to United’s final game of the season, at home to one-from-bottom Wycombe Wanderers this Saturday.

Victory for the Gulls will take the Chairboys down with them.

Mrs Bristow stressed: “It’s all still very raw and l know how everyone is hurting, but let’s have a great party at Plainmoor on Saturday – it’s all we can do for now.

“Our fans have been magnificent at Plainmoor all season, but I want to say a special thanks to the wonderful support we had at Mansfield. I was so proud of our supporters there, they were wonderful.

“I was proud of the way the team played, and I was so pleased that the players threw their shirts to our fans at the end of the game.

“Everyone connected with Mansfield – their fans, staff and directors – were terrific to us on what was a very difficult day.”

One of the worst games for team selection has to be Aldershot away under Taylor when we lost 1-0 . Taylor brings on morris for stevens and we go 1-0 down and for the rest of the game leaves Benyon on the bench. even Simon Baker commented that he could not beleive why Benyon didnt come on when we were chasing the game for a draw.
For an assistant manager it shows how totally clueless he was.

Im Sure Alan Knill would of requested brass as his assistant at the time of his appointment or he has been told that he has to take taylor who I thought would be gone by now at the same time as Lingy!

Still no offical news that Knill has been appointed as the new Torquay manager !!

Shaun Taylor will be the next to go.

Time for Shaun Taylor to go as well, need a complete management over haul.

Yes signed on the 28th May.

see comments below from the official site

RYAN Jarvis has agreed a one-year deal at Plainmoor for next season.

The talented striker joined on loan from Walsall in March and played an important role in a gripping end to the campaign for the Gulls.

Manager Martin Ling was quick to offer Jarvis a contract after his release from Walsall and the forward has readily signed on the dotted line.

I'm not sure the boys could have done much more tonight they really gave it their best but in the end it wasn't good enough.We have had our chances and if you look at the last six games ( no wins ) you cant help think that we threw it away.
OK we may have overachieved this season but when you are sitting second in the league 8 weeks ago and had a chance for automatic promotion and the loan window was still open I cant understand why we did not bring in a couple of players as it has come back to bite us in end.
I still think we have the nucleus of a good team and need a few more positional players so I hope Lingy brings in some decent players over the off season.
Yes it has been a great season but it could of been so much better.

We have to start with 4-4-2 and Id play Jarvis and Mcphee up front ,I know this will upset a few of you but you have to give him a chance as we are running out of options,Atieno looked lazy last Sunday and did not do much when he came on , so I would leave him on the bench.
While most of you are watching the game at 7.45pm Thursday night ,I will be getting out of bed at 4.30am Friday Morning Melbourne time.but I will be cheering the boys on and hope they can turn this 2 goal deficit around.

Cant see Torquay coming back from two down ,Oastler had a shocker , Saah MOM for Torquay . not a win in 6 now , Lingy has certainly got problems with a few players heads down as if to say the season is over.still we need to come out firing next Thursday night ( UK time ) Id even thrown on Mcphee as I think we have seen the last of Howe this season.and Please start with 4-4--2 as 4-5 -1 hasn't worked in the last 3 games.

So its the playoffs again 2 years in a row and hopefully the boys can go one step further this year. Luckily for me living in OZ, Sky Sports ( Foxtel over here ) is showing this game live down under start time 9.00pm Melbourne time so better stock up with cold beer and get decked out in my gulls gear and put up the do not disturb sign.

You have to go back a month or so when Torquay were sitting second in the league 4 points in front of Crawley admittedly Crawley they had two games in hand but we had a chance to strengthen the squad by the loan market but lingy believed the current squad can do the job and the only player he would bring back was Bodin and we all know where he ended up.This may well come back to bite us in the end as our small squad may burn out in the next few weeks and I'm not sure i can take the heartache of losing in the play offs two years in a row.
As pointed out by previous post here if you think Torquay can go one better next year ( if they fail again in the playoffs this year ) you better think again as their are bigger clubs that us in this league with open pockets and they will not want to be in this league next season Rotherham, Gillingham for example.

Blood Disgrace . Lost all their bottle. thank you and good night.

We will have to win the 3 games I reckon as I believe Shrewsbury will be promoted owing to the 4 point buffer its going to be tight between us and Crawley .
I know we are only a small club and the monies tight but we should of brought a couple of loan players in as I'm not sure the current team can manage another 3 games in the playoffs if we miss out on automatic promotion. I hope I'm wrong.