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with the current team being broken up how does everybody think we will do next season, if we do not buy the right players and they do not gel quickly i can see us struggling. what are our expectations as to where we finish ?

I see a season to be proud of. A new stand, a Manager showing how the job should be done and us striving to be the top club in Devon.

No need to be negative just because we're losing three players that were lynchpins, they were always going to move on at some point, that's how it is for a club like ours.

In Ling we trust!

We're bound to hit a spell of poor form sometime during the season. It happened last year, eight games without a win. Happens to most teams every year to some degree or other. But, given what happened last year and the minor miracle Martin Ling achieved in the season, if that was a season of consolidation I'd be more than happy with the same again. No reason to feel anything other than optimistic. I'd even be happy with a nice little cup run and a mid-table finish combined with more profitable business in the transfer market in preparation for a serious promotion challenge the following season. That will give my eyes time to recover from the dazzling effect of the new grandstand..

We have been a victim of our own success last season, it was always going to happen. When you have quality players all regularly getting in the team of the week etc other clubs will always come knocking. I think it is a buyers market out there at the minute as there are so many players available on a free transfer. It's just down to Martin bringing in the right players. As said above with the new stand opening and a new training ground and a few quid in the bank things are not really that bad.

My prediction?...............Pain.

I dont know if we'll trouble the auto's, or even the play offs, but we certainly wont struggle at the wrong end of the table.

royalgull wrote:My prediction?...............Pain.

Methinks you have crossed to the dark side, and you used to be such a good boy...

Too early to tell - so far only Bobby has left. If more do then we will need to see who they are replaced with first before even thinking about predictions for next season. We have a good manager who has earnt our trust so I am not currently worried.

Predictions, for me a tad to early, as it stands the club have only lost 1 player, apart from those released, and us fans must not forget that, whether Eunan and mark go aswell still remains to be seen.

the club have a new stand as we know, and have challenged for promotion in the last 2 seasons, hopefully this will inspire more local stay away fans come back and give the club the backing they deserve, and hopefully like Shrewsbury who narrowly missed out a couple of times, our club can kick on and gain promotion this time out.

If the club does lose Mark and Eunan I have no doubt the board will give Lingy every assistance to bring in the right players, so all in all I think we have nothing to be negative about, and should wait and see how our squad shapes up for next season, I for one am looking forwards not backwards.

forevertufc wrote: Methinks you have crossed to the dark side, and you used to be such a good boy...

Never seen Rocky III?

Yep got it, twas having a joke with you my good man...

I agree with forevertufc it is too early to predict and there is no need to be all negative and think that the season ahead is going to be all doom and gloom. With Bobby gone (and most probably Ellis and O'Kane going to) we should all have the faith in Ling to replace these players and add if possible. As I said in another thread, last year Ling came to Torquay with no money to spend and created a team who finished in the play off's and fought for automatic promotion for most of the 2nd half of the season. Now if you think Ling will not bring in the right players, while experiencing last season, I think you're being too much of a sceptic. Ling will bring in the right players with good ability to do the business in league 2, keep the faith and remember.....LING IS KING

we're all doomed i tell you dooooooooooommmmeedddddd. It wont matter anyways the world ends in Dec 2012 have you lot not seen the film and read the press.

If the world does end, lets hope it after 5pm 22nd Dec, by then we would have just beat the scum and already have beaten Plymouth.

My prediction on the 2012 thing is this:

The Mayan calendar is lacking a large part of our Gregorian one, these things called Leap Years. After over 2000 years since the Mayans existed, that equates to around 500 days extra we have had compared to them. Meaning, if the World was going to end in December 2012, it will have actually happened in around September last year.

As for Torquay, I believe Martin Ling will bring in replacements more than capable of covering the gaps left by Bobby, Eunan and Mark. Not that they are bad players but I believe all are replaceable to a League 2 standard, allowing top quality players to be brought in wherever Ling feels he can. Next season I think will be another play-off chase. I don't think we'll be relegation battling and we definitely won't be mid table, because we never are.