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Time to get behind the club

by Forest gull » 26 Dec 2015, 12:36

Listening to Jurgen klopp, he said at Dortmund the fans rallied to lift the team and create somewhere that made the players want to play. He said it's not up to the players to lift the crowd first, but the crowd have to lift the players. Interesting.

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by cockneycockers » 25 Dec 2015, 19:02

I know what you mean with the share thing, but it's probably not cost effective to set it up and time and funds need to be spent elsewhere super quick. I really think the players fund is the only way to inject 100% cash in where it's needed. I live away and very rarely see any other than south east matches, so I chip in £20 a month. Surely there must be 100's others who could if they REALLY wanted to do the same, maybe just in the short term.
The fund has apparently raised 12 grand since July which is a bit hopeless imo. Am I just a fantasist thinking that there could be up to a 1000 fans out ther that would rather see our club survive the year by foregoing a curry once a month and chipping over the cash to the players fund? That's £20,000 a month. Job done! Better players, better results, higher gates etc
I don't feel the need for a share, just the club to be around next year.
Easy this football lark

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by chunkygull » 24 Dec 2015, 11:39

bornagull wrote:Time to get behind the club
Dead right, I know it's been dire both on and off the pitch but I for one don't want to spend my Saturday's going shopping with the wife. I like many others go for the banter etc, so come on let's see if we , has true fans of TUFC can't come up with some idea's to raise a little cash.
Could we not have a throw your ideas in the pot and see if any are worth spending a little time on.
Stupid it maybe but what about
Show your support day . Everyone buy a TUFC SCARF making a little profit for the club and helping the atmosphere in the ground.
COME ON ITS OUR CLUB
For Christs sake I tried to get that going a few times already but as usual apathy and a muted response. Many chuck all sorts of random thoughts, observations and ideas around or think they have solutions for anything on virtually every thread but when a thread is actually started where we can throw all ideas into the pot and see what happens or gather opinions in an easily digestible way, SILENCE!

Check this out, you'll see what I mean, there are a few good ideas on there, a couple in particular.

http://www.torquayfans.com/forum/viewto ... +help+tufc

Or this thread, the main idea which I personally feel is a winner, and if they are serious about engaging with the fanbase and taking the first tentative steps toward community/fan ownership this would be a soty of place to start.

http://www.torquayfans.com/forum/viewto ... hare+issue

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by torq2u » 24 Dec 2015, 10:54

Southampton Gull wrote:As it stands the club makes no money from that merchandising, it's franchised out.
A sherbet in the Gulls' Nest would help the cause, tho.

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by JamieE » 24 Dec 2015, 10:12

DevonYellow wrote:
You've only seen us play once this season? You don't know how lucky you are mate!
Oh I do!

It's up to the club to give people a reason to turn up to games and spend their money on watching football. They can't rely on some sort of cult following that turn up regardless of their actions and the football on display. NIcho has said the exact same words himself. Hopefully we will see these words come to fruition in the next few weeks, because they are just words right now and any optimism will be short lived if things don't change very, very soon.

But that's what being a football fan is - when the club have given you a reason to be optimistic, back them and support them because we can make a difference.

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by Southampton Gull » 24 Dec 2015, 10:11

As it stands the club makes no money from that merchandising, it's franchised out.

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by bornagull » 24 Dec 2015, 10:01

Time to get behind the club
Dead right, I know it's been dire both on and off the pitch but I for one don't want to spend my Saturday's going shopping with the wife. I like many others go for the banter etc, so come on let's see if we , has true fans of TUFC can't come up with some idea's to raise a little cash.
Could we not have a throw your ideas in the pot and see if any are worth spending a little time on.
Stupid it maybe but what about
Show your support day . Everyone buy a TUFC SCARF making a little profit for the club and helping the atmosphere in the ground.
COME ON ITS OUR CLUB

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by torq2u » 24 Dec 2015, 09:10

Southampton Gull wrote:Come back to me once the transfer merry-go-round is over and you'll be able to answer your own question. It helps to realise the reasons behind recent signings which are emergency cover while we're restricted by the transfer window being closed and not a sign that we're deliberately trying to get relegated.

Ajala is almost a done deal, Kadell Daniel is another we're interested in, I'd have more faith in players like that than some of the recent departures
So Shepherd will be the next one to leave?

Hope Ajala has learnt to cross the ball and Waide will be there to bang it in!

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by Gullscorer » 24 Dec 2015, 07:36

I agree with both of you.. :)

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by Southampton Gull » 24 Dec 2015, 02:41

Andy, I'm not going to get drawn into an argument, mentioning those two names on here will have no impact on the outcome, you'll just have to trust me on that.

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by Glostergull » 24 Dec 2015, 02:08

Dave, its not the fact that they are on the free agents list. its the fact they we are after them that can make it go tits up. clubs can be looking to sign a player and there could be other clubs also looking to sign that player. but if they don't know each other is after the player they can be a little more circumspect about things. e.g.. lets say I'm manager of bristol Rovers. Just for arguments sake. and I'm after Ajala. (yeah i know he aint gonna go there , or is he?) i can take me time to negotiate. then torquay is interested but I don't know. they do know. who is going to move faster in negotiating. then Portsmouth suddenly take and interest and know we are both going after him, they will find out what he's been offered and up it just above and get him right from under my nose. that's why i like to keep it under wraps until he is signed. and some of these keyboard warriors would do well to remember that too.
remember some of the players in the past who were on the verge of signing for us. then at the last minute another club realised we were close to a deal with that player and they signed them right from under our noses. it's galling but it has happened.


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by tufchodgy » 24 Dec 2015, 00:21

Pretty generic argument I know, but unfortunately I live so far away now and get so unconnected from most things it makes it hard for me to really talk about the majority of things with any conviction or knowledge for the most part.

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by Admiral » 24 Dec 2015, 00:20

tufchodgy wrote:I dont manage to get to as many games as I used to but ever since I have been a TUFC fan Ive felt that there is such a lack of basic football knowledge coming from many of the fans which then permeates into the players and club officials.

If people bother to get behind and try and understand what the club are doing at a base level, rather than just whinge moan and complain and that if the board can be a little more transparent then things at the club would probably start to pick up.

I am however seeing things from a huge distance but that's my thoughts on it.
:goodpost:

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by Southampton Gull » 24 Dec 2015, 00:17

Hodgy, you're not wrong ;-)

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