Torquay United Fans Forum

I would love to see Northampton in the Blue Square, especially as I support Peterborough as well!

I did the BBC Predictor, and i have us 6th and Stevenage missing out. I'm still confident we'll do it!

Argeed,think a spell in the conference would do the mighty Northampton a world of good,look at the diference in attitude displayed by the Oxford fans on there return to the football league.

Far greater humble bunch of fans/club,compared to how they were before.

markygull wrote:While its on my mind - gotta wonder whats going through Elliot Benyon's mind at the mo -swindon getting relegated, swindon compared to torquay is a s***hole...imagine he's on a bit more money obviously though

Well he was delighted at the time to be going to a "bigger club" and 'forgot' to mention how much hard work our club had put in to his development as a footballer to give him the opportunity. What goes round comes round!

On a similar theme like others I would be delighted as well to see Northampton drop into the Conference. I've disliked their attitude since the chief constable of Northamptonshire Police contacted the chief constable of Devon & Cornwall about 11 years ago to put pressure on our club to allow more tickets for Northampton fans as a win would see them clinch promotion. Well a win for us would have secured a play off place so really just as important, although Northampton obviously could not see that as they are such a 'bigger' club. We had reduced capacity as it was as the Babbacombe end was closed for the construction of the away end stand, but we caved in to the pressure, gave Northampton a big part of the Popside and about half the grandstand, and despite Tony Bedeau giving us an early lead Northampton cheered on by a massive away support won 2-1 and went up. We of course missed out on the play-offs.

The Conference experience would do them good and they may even learn some humility. Be nice to see them struggling to get out of it next year, just ask Luton Town!

While its on my mind - gotta wonder whats going through Elliot Benyon's mind at the mo -swindon getting relegated, swindon compared to torquay is a s***hole...imagine he's on a bit more money obviously though

Saw a lot of the players at Newton Abbot races yesterday. Was a little start-struck being up close to them.

Not surprised to see Billy Kee stuffing his face with cheese and onion crisps and a can of coke though - Roberston and Ellis were on the ice lollies! Good to see Tomline, Stanley and Jake getting involved with the social stuff - hopefully they'll all want to stay down here and sign up permanently.

You could defo tell they were all footballers though, absolutely love themselves

Was at work all day so I was delighted when I was told Gills lost aswell as Vale. I'm still hoping that the -1 point won't come into play.

I think 2 wins from 3 will guarantee it, personally. Play like we did yesterday at Burton and we should win (aslong as we find our scoring boots). Hopefully their win at Aldershot will mean there is less onus on them desperately needing to win on Monday. Chesterfield will have hopefully sewn the league up by tthe time they come to town, and we can take the points in that game.

Really hope it's not down to the final day though, Rovrum will be a very tricky tie - they were probably the 2nd best side to come to Plainmoor, behind Bury.

gulltom wrote:I wonder what the ntfc idiot who was all over our board o the first game of the season thinks of his division winning side now? They look like there going down with todays results...

Double postage is for winners.

I will laugh my lungs out of my arse if this happens. I am absolutely praying for Barnet to better the Cobblers result on Monday, that will put them right in the shit. I hate NTFC more than any other team in L2 (this is quite a statement, given my well publicised, long held feelings of derision towards Accrington Shit ley), for no reason other than their fans are just arse holes beyond belief. Not a thread goes by on their board without an argument breaking out, and some threads only have one post!

Matt.

Super results today, what we need to do now is send a message to the rest of the league that, despite a couple of disappointing recent results (they aren't to know we did in fact beat Vale and we battered the shit out of Wycombe for scant reward) we are still a proper team. We do this by giving Burton a damn good thrashing. 5 or 6 nil would do, a result which shows clearly to the other teams around us that they are fighting among themselves for the places below us and they should have no aspirations of finishing above us.
"Let's get one thing straight, I'm not locked in here with you, you **** s are locked in here with me!"

Matt.

Stanley result was not a surprise for me, but I did not see Gillingham and Vale losing at the beginning of today.

It's still in our hands, a win at Burton will give us a great chance to get into the play-offs, especially as many of our play-off rivals are playing each other. As long as we have a gap of a couple of points from the team in 7th come Monday evening then I'll be happy.

About as good a set of results we could expect really.

Accy were always going to win today, Bradford are absolute litter and Accy are immense at home. However this now does leave Accy with 3 tough fixtures (away at shrewsbury, home vs a resurgent Barnet and away at Burton). They are nowhere near as formidible away as they are at home, and with Barnet in searing form there is a chance they may only pick up a maximum of 3 points between now and the end of the season.

Gillingham losing at home to Barnet is a big shock, but bodes well for us as Barnet have a couple of our rivals to play (see above). Gillingham are another strong home side, so for them to capitulate like that is a real turn up for the books, and great news for us. They have tough closing fixtures (Rotherham (A), Macc (H) and Chesterfield (A)), similar to us but they may only pick up 5 points from those 3, meaning we'd only need 4 points to pip them to the playoffs.

Its going to take quite an effort for Rotherham and Port Vale to gate-crash the party now, Rotherham perhaps have the best chance as they are playing sides in and around there but they're both going to need 5 points to even overhaul us, let alone anyone else. Its not impossible, but it is going to require very special performances from them to get into the playoffs.

Shrewsbury for me are big favourites for third place. I'd also say Wycombe have done enough for the playoffs, but they seem to be the team who are going to take poor form into the big games and I can see them slipping up. Its between Accrington, Gillingham, Stevenage and ourselves for the remaining 3 spots, and the toughness of fixtures is incredibly similar for all clubs so its too tight to call. How we could have done with that extra point now!

The weekends results just go to make the Burton game even more crucial. We have a chance to really steal a march on a lot of clubs around us, but Burtons tails will be up after their win today. I'll be there, and I'm sure it will be a tense experience!

Cheeky wins for Barnet and Stockport

Shame Bradford folded at Accy

I wonder what the ntfc idiot who was all over our board o the first game of the season thinks of his division winning side now? They look like there going down with todays results...

shrews 0-2 at hereford into last ten mins and back into auto spots again, thats another point further ahead of us

Northampton scored in 90 minute 2_2

rotherham two up, cant believe they are back in the hunt again, they dont seem to have won for weeks and weeks!! now right on the fringes of the playoffs again, northampton fans aint gonna be happy tonight!!