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I was going to say, surely parking is fine at Plainmoor. You can park for free, a few minutes walk from the ground. Much better than paying £5 per match to be stuck in a traffic jam for 30 minutes after the match.

I went to East Fife vs Ayr last week, a crowd of about 500 and it took an age to get out of the car park. Street parking would have been ten times better.

I'm really shit at parallel parking. I need a parking space the size of a football pitch to park properly.

I run the risk of coming across a little pedantic here, but for god sake some of you & all at the tv,radio, & written media really get my goat when our illustrious chairman is said to have ' bought the club ' .
He didn't buy it per se , he acquired it by default, due to the last board panicking & jumping into bed with GI after quite categorically stating to the clubs followers GI wouldn't be involved in any rescue plan.
So stop saying he bought the feckin club please, cos it's not correct.

True statement above
Don't worry the" sugar daddies will be queuing up soon "
More like the honey monster from sugar puffs

Gulliball wrote: 21 Apr 2018, 14:32 I was going to say, surely parking is fine at Plainmoor. You can park for free, a few minutes walk from the ground. Much better than paying £5 per match to be stuck in a traffic jam for 30 minutes after the match.

I went to East Fife vs Ayr last week, a crowd of about 500 and it took an age to get out of the car park. Street parking would have been ten times better.

Parking is not a problem, and it certainly won't be next season. I arrive at my usual parking location between 10 and 15 minutes before kick off. I never have a problem finding a space. I have timed it - it takes me, an old git, about 7 minutes to walk to the ground. I'm not saying where it is of course because you'd all bliddy well go there ! However, my mates park near Cary Park and they seem to manage okay. So when Osborne says there is 'zero parking', it simply proves how little he knows the area. This isn't surprising because he never visits ......

There is an argument that a multi-sports stadium would benefit Torbay and I agree with that, but what rental would the club be charged, remembering the Bristol Rovers/Eastville scenario?

tomogull wrote: 22 Apr 2018, 14:53 Parking is not a problem, and it certainly won't be next season. I arrive at my usual parking location between 10 and 15 minutes before kick off. I never have a problem finding a space. I have timed it - it takes me, an old git, about 7 minutes to walk to the ground. I'm not saying where it is of course because you'd all bliddy well go there ! However, my mates park near Cary Park and they seem to manage okay. So when Osborne says there is 'zero parking', it simply proves how little he knows the area. This isn't surprising because he never visits ......

There is an argument that a multi-sports stadium would benefit Torbay and I agree with that, but what rental would the club be charged, remembering the Bristol Rovers/Eastville scenario?

I got no problem with TUFC moving into a multi use ,all purpose stadium & giving up the lease on plainmoor if...
We actually own the bloody thing & if it's built to a certain standard akin to plainmoor itself.
The problem as we all know is, he won't even deliver it, for he never does.

Teigngull wrote: 21 Apr 2018, 15:36 I run the risk of coming across a little pedantic here, but for god sake some of you & all at the tv,radio, & written media really get my goat when our illustrious chairman is said to have ' bought the club ' .
He didn't buy it per se , he acquired it by default, due to the last board panicking & jumping into bed with GI after quite categorically stating to the clubs followers GI wouldn't be involved in any rescue plan.
So stop saying he bought the feckin club please, cos it's not correct.

No pedantic at all Teigngull, its good to revisit why we have come to be where we find ourselves. However it ought to be recognised that not all are or were aware of the severity of the situation and in truth why should we have been, we are football supporters not balance sheet enthusiasts.

You are quite right in that the ownership of the club was aquired by default of loan, it was not brought. Philips and Co failed to raise sufficient funds having lived under the ideology that the club was 'self sustantining' when the truth was the opposite and the 'begging bowl' came out. This even after Phillips and Co were really given a gift: the shares were handed on a plate; external debts removed and a loan made namely by Thea to ease the transition.

This is were Clarke Osborne is quite right (choking on the thought) when he says that the club will be: "totally reliant upon what has happened in the past, which is a series of people who come in, believe they can do something, but fail because it's not sustainable."