ferrarilover wrote:So he tipped us to go down, that's it? He doesn't abuse kids or kick kittens into desk fans? Bloody hell, what is the world coming to?
Earth to morons, EVERYBODY tipped us to go down. Pundits, bookmakers, some of the posters on here for that matter, this is exactly what we want, everyone turning up at Plainmoor thinking it's a day at the seaside and a nice easy three points.
Yes, I am sure that Mr Salako did slack off and use the results of the past few seasons to predict who would struggle and who would go up, because to do anything else is completely pointless and totally unnecessary.
He could have spend weeks and thousands of pounds travelling the country, speaking to fans, watching pre season matches, scrutinising the transfer market and then researching thoroughly every single player in and out of every single club. He would then have made a bunch of predictions which were no more accurate than the ones he has made now.
Why not pick Bradford to go up? They are an ex premier league side with 11,000 home fans and a top drawer manager, they finished somewhere near the top of the league last season.
Why not pick TUFC to go down? We are a tiny club with 2500 home fans and a manager no one has ever heard of, we were lucky that Grimsby and Darlo were so bad, otherwise we may well have been relegated straight back to the conference.
He had to pick someone to go up and someone to go down, he took the easy (and entirely sensible) decision to have a quick look on google, then write his 300 word piece to camera. He probably then went to spend time with his wife and kids, or his mates down the pub. Is that really justification for shouting abuse at him for 90 minutes, or is it exactly what each and every one of us (myself most certainly included) would have done?
Next time, can we please spend 90 minutes singing Yellow Army and suchlike, rather than wasting swathes of energy and time directing anger at some geezer who happened to say something with which we (as Torquay fans) disagree!
Matt.
not having a go at you,nor do i want to be miss-understood,i really dont care that salako tipped us to go down or bradford to go up,and you are spot on when you say he did not deserve to be abused.
most bookies had us around mid table in there pre-season odds,and the racing post had us as best value bet to go up ,as outsiders.
i was focusing on lazy sports jurnolism(not sure on my spelling there
)i brought bradford into it,becuse i did not want people to think i was just on about his torquay prediction.
bradford in the last 3 seasons (league 2) finished 10th with 62 points,9th with 67pts,and last season no where near the top,they finished 14th 2 places above us,and with 62 points,just 5 points ahead.
they made 6 new signings,of which there flag ship signing jake spieght i believe ended up in prison,there manager peter taylors recent record,was sacked at stevenage ,sacked at wycombe for all but taking them straight back to league 2.
this would lead me to predict nothing better than mid table,and i did not need to trawl around the country or spend 100's of hours on the internet..came up with that info in less than 5 minutes,could have done the whole league in 1 hour.
anyway like you say hardly the end of the world,and when it comes to these moron fans,they really are nothing to worry about,some were down near the away end against yoevil in the psf,mouthing it off.
if 2 yoevil fans had jumped the wall and ran at them,they would have run away,because they are nothing,and only do what they do,when they are in a safe place.
