Torquay United Fans Forum

ferrarilover wrote:No, sorry, that's naive. We can't just turn up and play and take the attitude that 'we should try to win every game'. There are teams in this division that have the quality to tear us apart if we do that.

Phil opens up with a comment about Tictacs. Sometimes, the tactics have to be to be tight, concede as little as possible and come away with a creditable draw. Lose the battle to win the war. Occasionally, you hand to play the odds. For me, Scunny away is probably one such match. We've seen teams do it to us in the past. Sides coming to Plainmoor (during the Conference years particularly), sticking 11 men behind the ball and hope not to get beaten. Had these sides come to us and tried to play football, we'd have taken them to bits and dealt them a dangerous blow in terms of goal difference, morale and confidence.
A hard grafted point against Scunny will do us good in all these areas. A 4-0 spanking for the sake of 'trying to win the game' will set us back and undo everything we gained on Tuesday.

Matt.

PhilGull wrote:As far as I am concerned you go in to every game with the team, tactics, system, plans to win.
If the performance is there, if the manager is doing his best to win games, if the players are doing their best to win games then the results will come. If after all of that the results don't come then something needs to change.
I really dislike all this negative crap of saying we can't beat this team, we need to look for a draw here. If we aren't trying to win every game then we should pack up and go home now.

AustrianAndyGull wrote:How's things mate. Not seen you for a whole year.

Southampton Gull wrote:Behave yourself old man.

Trojan 67 wrote:Rabid critics of Alan Knill (supporters of the "Iron" and the Gulls) will say the c**t is definitely back in Sc**thorpe on Saturday.