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I remember seeing Waddle play in a TU shirt away at Hartlepool... too many years ago!

Bloggy wrote:I remember seeing Waddle play in a TU shirt away at Hartlepool... too many years ago!

Gosh - is that Chris Waddle ?? He looks even less fit than the few times he turned out for us. I wouldn't go as far as saying 'played' for us

I remain convinced that we should have called our new building "The Chris Waddle Stand" because that's all I ever saw him do in a Torquay shirt

happytorq wrote:I remain convinced that we should have called our new building "The Chris Waddle Stand" because that's all I ever saw him do in a Torquay shirt

I always thought "Waddle" was a nickname....

Yesterday I was reading John Lydon's life story ( that's Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols ). It's called "Anger is an Energy". He is a life long Arsenal fan and in the book there is a chapter called "The Beautiful Shame", which ends with the words....
"But £75 a ticket, these days, to go to Arsenal? For that money, you should get to have sex with all the footballers' wives! I'd rather go to a smaller place like Torquay United."
I love him even more for that....
Other great quotes are....
Football's the kind of game where, if your team is doing really badly, it gets you into the mode of having a laugh at losing. You can actually look forward to the next tragic defeat. And there's nothing else that gives me that ability. It serves an absolutely brilliant, beautiful purpose. It's the theatre of emotions, not dreams.
The biggest joy of being a football fan is that there is ultimately no joy in it at all. It can always get worse.....That's the joy of football - it's total fuc...g pain, and when you do actually win anything, it doesn't last long enough. The pubs close too early, and it's all over. Everybody goes home, and you're left standing there - whaaaauuurgh!

blimey goodluckgull another punk who's a Torquay fan ! good on you

His best quote of course was hi "un-aired" interview when he talked about his concerns about Jimmy Savile's antics.....you can easily find that on you tube !

He is of course right, but then, for a punk band the Pistols were very commercial.....but that was partly the fun about them...

Yeah. It was fun and some trouble.... I mean terwubble !

happytorq wrote:I remain convinced that we should have called our new building "The Chris Waddle Stand" because that's all I ever saw him do in a Torquay shirt

Hahahahahahaha - BRILLIANT Happpytorq Best posting on here for ages - thanks for lifting the gloom !

goodluckgull wrote:Yesterday I was reading John Lydon's life story ( that's Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols ). It's called "Anger is an Energy". He is a life long Arsenal fan and in the book there is a chapter called "The Beautiful Shame", which ends with the words....
"But £75 a ticket, these days, to go to Arsenal? For that money, you should get to have sex with all the footballers' wives! I'd rather go to a smaller place like Torquay United."
I love him even more for that....
Other great quotes are....
Football's the kind of game where, if your team is doing really badly, it gets you into the mode of having a laugh at losing. You can actually look forward to the next tragic defeat. And there's nothing else that gives me that ability. It serves an absolutely brilliant, beautiful purpose. It's the theatre of emotions, not dreams.
The biggest joy of being a football fan is that there is ultimately no joy in it at all. It can always get worse.....That's the joy of football - it's total fuc...g pain, and when you do actually win anything, it doesn't last long enough. The pubs close too early, and it's all over. Everybody goes home, and you're left standing there - whaaaauuurgh!

Brilliant, made I larf

goodluckgull wrote:Yesterday I was reading John Lydon's life story ( that's Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols ). It's called "Anger is an Energy". He is a life long Arsenal fan and in the book there is a chapter called "The Beautiful Shame", which ends with the words....
"But £75 a ticket, these days, to go to Arsenal? For that money, you should get to have sex with all the footballers' wives! I'd rather go to a smaller place like Torquay United."
I love him even more for that....
Other great quotes are....
Football's the kind of game where, if your team is doing really badly, it gets you into the mode of having a laugh at losing. You can actually look forward to the next tragic defeat. And there's nothing else that gives me that ability. It serves an absolutely brilliant, beautiful purpose. It's the theatre of emotions, not dreams.
The biggest joy of being a football fan is that there is ultimately no joy in it at all. It can always get worse.....That's the joy of football - it's total fuc...g pain, and when you do actually win anything, it doesn't last long enough. The pubs close too early, and it's all over. Everybody goes home, and you're left standing there - whaaaauuurgh!

Good old John-he would always be welcome to come down to Plainmoor if he fancied coming down for a HOLIDAY IN THE SUN!

An MP who cares!!!

Thanks Kevin...

Just because the newly elected MP holds a piece of paper outside Plainmoor doesn't mean he cares. He needs to create a reputation to ensure he's re-elected in 2020. Yes, I'm being very pessimistic, even though it's very nice to see.

dannyrvtufc4life wrote:Just because the newly elected MP holds a piece of paper outside Plainmoor doesn't mean he cares. He needs to create a reputation to ensure he's re-elected in 2020. Yes, I'm being very pessimistic, even though it's very nice to see.

As I recall the previous MP was a Torquay fan, too. Seem to remember him talking about it at length.

Well dannyrvtufc4life, he was prepared to advertise the TUST meeting at the Museum in his weekly Community E-mail (around 3,000 subscribers) before he was elected and has already asked a question in Parliament specifically mentioning the plight of clubs such as TUFC concerning the non-funding by the FA of non league clubs Academy programmes. So, I would suggest, a very positive start!

It certainly does not hurt to have your local MP pictured with a TUST sign and on the side of our Club!!