Torquay United Fans Forum

Well it looks clear now it is 4 out of the bottom 6 as Halifax and Maidstone should be safe.
Unless we take 6 points out of 6 from the next 2 tough away games, highly unlikely, we are going down for sure.
The table does not lie we are awful and I am trying not to think about football. Difficult.

Slight glimmer of hope as both Chester and Hartlepool both lose tonight.

Solihull v Bromley is 'off' becasue Bromley are engaged in the FA Trophy at Spennymoor

Yep, we've got defeats already on the board ;-)

Guiseley v Barrow tonight is off - again. Also Solihull v Bromley off tonight. After the recent pile up of snow, these clubs are facing a fixture pile up too.

Unsurprisingly tonight's Guiseley v Barrow match is off; might do us a favour as they now have to find another date as the season comes towards its conclusion.

Spare a thought for Damon Lathrope tonight - he suffered a horrendous broken leg during Woking's game with Boreham Wood today. Seems that Torquay's bad luck follows its ex-players too. Wishing you a speedy recovery Damon.

Only if all 3 go into liquidation - very very unlikely but not absolutely impossible I suppose.

Chester, Hartlepool and Maidstone????
Wishful thinking I guess.
We will soon know.

It's pretty certain tonight that Guiseley are going, going gone but who will be the other three?

It's the hope that kills you 😉

Keep thinking it's all over but then think well just maybe

Very favourable results today with teams around us losing 4 games and only Halifax picking up 1 point.

Guiseley,Chester, Hartlepool and Maidstone all lost.

Like United Barrow and Solihull did not play.

Our 6 games in March 4 of which are away will almost certainly decide if we go into April with any chance of survival.My only hope is that the teams around us ,except for Solihull are on a terrible run and if we could somehow string 3 consecutive wins together we could still escape.

I am not quite so sure we are not over simplifying . Where have Fylde and Fleetwood come from if that is the case ? The Northern National League looks stronger than the Southern League. Personally I suspect football is centring more and more on the major cities and a c thirty mile radius around them. Because football money is not spread evenly you need someone to underwrite lower league clubs when expectations are high and it's increasingly becoming the role of those wealthy people wanting to gain notoriety in their areas.

[quote=MellowYellow post_id=221092 time=1518741553 user_id=22826] [i][b] Regional economic decline has sapped northern clubs’ revenues.

There is a trickle down effect of all or some of the above in non-league football which results in the likes of some small southern clubs like Boreham Wood, Bromley, Dover, Ebbsfleet and Eastleigh being rather successful whereas their northern/midland counterparts like Barrow, Guiseley, Solihull, Chester, Halifax and Hartlepool struggle.[/b][/i][/quote]

I agree with all of that; this is the price of progress for some and the reward for others. Just like society where the National Health, Social Housing and Education are relegated to also rans by the ruling elite; football is southern biased and rapidly moving away from egalitarianism.

Whilst I or anyone else do not either like or approve of that or not is irrelevent; it is the major factor that has to be addressed or face a massive unravelling of the game as we knew it once or even know it now.