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In last night's FA Trophy Semi-Final 1st Leg between Havant & Waterlooville and Gosport Borough Scott Bevan in goal for Havant with Tim Sills up front for Gosport.
Sills beat Scotty with a one on one firing across him into the far corner early in the second half. Match finished 1-1.
What would we give for a Tim Sills now?

Many, if not most, members of our current squad, if they work hard in their vocation, may also one day be fortunate enough to possess the skills to play in an FA Trophy semi-final..

As good as Sills was and will always be remembered for his goal at Wembley! He unfortunately couldn't recreate his conference abilities in the league

Also there is a thread on another area of ex-gulls for your info

PlainmoorRoar wrote:As good as Sills was and will always be remembered for his goal at Wembley! He unfortunately couldn't recreate his conference abilities in the league

Also there is a thread on another area of ex-gulls for your info

Tim Sills is up with the TUFC legends for me. I thought he was great. One could argue that the step up to League 2 was too big, and perhaps it was but even at League 2 level he was more effective than anything we have now. He scored only 4 goals in 24 appearances after promotion back to the league yet Benyon, this season has only 2 in 27. In fact Benyon has more yellow cards than he has goals, so it comes to something when your supposedly most prolific forward is more likely to get booked than score.

The two years in the Conference were amongst my favourite seasons as a TUFC fan. But that was because everything was new, fresh and exciting. Setanta TV seemed to consider us amongst the glamour teams so we were on TV almost every other week, we were winning games, of course and there were lots of new teams to play against. I suppose we were considered to be among the 'big-boys'. It would be different if we went down again.

We would be like Hereford, Lincoln with bigger clubs like Grimsby and Wrexham still smarting from years in non-league. I think the Conference - without the TV exposure of last time, without a sponsor etc, with little chance if promotion - would be about the most miserable place to be.

It mustn't happen.

I'm afraid it will happen.

Tim Sills scored both goals yesterday in the FA Trophy Semi-Final 2nd Leg to take Gosport Borough to Wembley to face Cambridge United.

As mentioned some 24 hours ago in the Ex-Gull Watch thread...

Matt.

I wonder "if" we went down whether the club would look to bring Sills back to TQ1. I wouldn't mind it.

Gosport fans must be hoping history repeats itself. Tim Sills was part of our victory at Wembley to beat Cambridge to return to the Football League.

nickbrod wrote:Gosport fans must be hoping history repeats itself. Tim Sills was part of our victory at Wembley to beat Cambridge to return to the Football League.

Was he? I genuinely didn't know that. What position did he play?

Matt.

ferrarilover wrote: Was he? I genuinely didn't know that. What position did he play?

Matt.

I heard rumours he scored a goal or something like that.

tktufc91 wrote:I wonder "if" we went down whether the club would look to bring Sills back to TQ1. I wouldn't mind it.

Of course we would, it would be another piece of the old boys brigade puzzle coming together......... :}

Sills played at centre-forward for Torquay at Wembley and scored the second goal (we beat Cambridge United 2-0).

Why were Torquay at Wembley?

Matt.

ferrarilover wrote:Why were Torquay at Wembley?

Matt.

Something about Chris McPhee?