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tomogull wrote: Glad I added my disclaimer, Kevgull. My predicted 14 pts turned out to be 11 pts. I hadn't expected a defeat at next to bottom club, Alfreton, and I thought we would get at least a draw at home to Grimsby. But then again, I hadn't expected a win against top of the table Barnet. What a stoopid game football is !

Looking ahead to December and January, not such a difficult couple of months as the last two months - on paper at least. 11 matches - 5 home, 6 away - barring winter postponements. I am going to stick my neck out and predict 16 points from these 11 games, 4 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats. Braintree and Altrincham, both away, are tricky games to predict. Lowly clubs but both have pulled off a few surprise results. Dover's fortunes have changed for the better since we beat them at Plainmoor so tonight's match is another one that is hard to predict. I'm going for a draw .......

Good effort though Tomo!

Reasons to be cautiously optimistic. After tonight's match we shall be exactly half way through the season. Of the teams in the top half of the league, we have played Grimsby, Gateshead and Forest Green twice. We have played Barnet, Macclesfield and Kidderminster away. We have still to play Woking, Eastleigh and Wrexham away and Halifax and Bristol Rvrs home and away. I feel we have played most of the top contenders away apart from Bristol Rvrs and Woking. It's frustrating when we drop points of course but it's making for an interesting season as other top half clubs are also dropping points.

tomogull wrote: Welllllll Kev ........ it all depends on how many suspensions we get over the next couple of months. I've consulted my crystal balls and I confidently predict that we will have less than 50 pts by the end of November. Actually, I'll go for a total of 38 pts - i,e 14 pts during the two months - four wins, two draws, three defeats.
DISCLAIMER - Tomogull bears no responsibility whatsoever for any money lost to William Hill, BetFred or any other grasping bookmaker.

AlexGulls wrote:I'm full of cold but can someone tell me when we catch up the game in hand? I noticed Halifax (as an example) play Tuesday night when we don't and then we play them in December when some teams (for Example) Bristol Rovers don't play that Tuesday night. But for the life of me I cant see a time other than Tuesday we play when Halifax down and I've checked before I post this as of today we have played the same amount of games..I'm sure someone will point out something obvious I'm missing..

tomogull wrote: Welllllll Kev ........ it all depends on how many suspensions we get over the next couple of months. I've consulted my crystal balls and I confidently predict that we will have less than 50 pts by the end of November. Actually, I'll go for a total of 38 pts - i,e 14 pts during the two months - four wins, two draws, three defeats.
DISCLAIMER - Tomogull bears no responsibility whatsoever for any money lost to William Hill, BetFred or any other grasping bookmaker.

kevgull wrote: How many points we will have at the end of November Tomo? I will be off down the bookies when you reply.

tomogull wrote:Way back in August, after the Welling game, I forecast we would have at least 24 pts by the end of September. I wish I'd spoken to Brucie about what odds I could get for that cos we've ended up with exactly 24 pts. The two games after Welling were Southport and Dartford, games I thought we'd get at least 4 pts from, plus Bowman picked up his red card so it didn't look too promising. Then after reaching 24 pts from the Dover game, it was a disappointment that we didn't kick on by picking up at least another three from the last two games, but that's football as they say. Or to be more exact, that's Torquay Utd !!

I posted that the less demanding games at the beginning of the season would give our young players chance to get match experience, get that winning habit and move towards the top of the table which might tempt a few extra to come to Plainmoor. Well, even in Torbay where Apathy Reigns Okay? gates have risen (2300 at the Dover match). Now comes the point of this posting ..... I also posted that the downside was that we as fans would become over confident and expect too much from this young side which most of us recognise is work in progress. I have to admit that even I was getting carried away. The Telford and Forest Green games have brought us back down to earth. We have nine league matches scheduled during October and November and all of them, apart from Alfreton, are against sides in the top half of the league so we will have a truer picture of where we're at after the Eastleigh match on Nov 29th. However, as Rivieratony posted on this thread, we always seem to play better against the better teams and struggle against the poorer sides. I fully agree with that so I'm looking forward to an interesting couple of months, starting with Wrexham on Saturday.

Trojan 67 wrote:From the TUFC official website :

http://www.torquayunited.com/news/artic ... 73236.aspx

Best of luck with that then.

What most TUFC supporters will be looking forward to against none eaten is the potentially ravenous partnership up front of forwards Duane O' and Ryno headbutt. You see it, I see it, even lesbo dyke feminist fans of Gullstalker can see it. Will Hargreaves?


For doubters of Duane O' :

"He came to us shite, but now he's alright, walking in a Duane O' wonderland . . ."