Torquay United Fans Forum

grockle wrote: 28 Apr 2020, 16:03 IF only football was as simple.

SteveDeckchair wrote: 28 Apr 2020, 10:10 If everyone else is playing youth teams next season, then surely that is the best chance of going up. Hold onto the best players and we walk the league.

Simples......

culmstockgull wrote: 23 Apr 2020, 21:06 Regional football will only bring bigger crowds, and yes it will be to the detriment of our exiled fans which I was for many years, Exeter, Cheltenham, Bristol rovers, Yeovil ,Newport to name a few would bring in on normal days 4000 plus crowds, yes we might have to go to southend and dover but that would still mean at least 75 per cent less costs on overnight stays than we pay now. its not just putting up 16 players but probably another ten from the non playing staff. Even if we only pay corporate rates for accommodation and food and transport we are still looking at well over 2 grand for each away game .
As for us being in the same boat as everyone else, I agree, but we wouldn't have the money to pay marque salaries, so you say to the likes of Reidy, Cameron,wynter,kalala, please stay and play for us but we will pay you half of what we do now, most of our players are imports from other parts of the country where they have families if not family homes , they could manage living closer to home without the additional costs of renting in Torquay but definitely not both.

culmstockgull wrote: 23 Apr 2020, 12:23
For Torquay who have no money, no separate fiancé stream, next season when ever that starts will be very different to the last, a good percentage of our team will be youth players whether they are ready or good enough because that will be the reality of football at our level going forward, I do not believe we will be disadvantaged because the majority of not all of teams in out league will be in the same position.

culmstockgull wrote: 23 Apr 2020, 12:23 Well rightly or wrongly decisions have been made, a fudge, a compromise , a bad ending to an insurmountable problem, all of the above, but never the less a decision, unlike the league and premier. We should have waited for a decision of the premier if they had made one as they are in one form of another, football's paymasters.
I note that one football journalist stated last week he understood that 2 championship clubs and perhaps as many 20 lower football league clubs will go broke within the month, that in itself poses questions for promotion and relegation.
For Torquay who have no money, no separate fiancé stream, next season when ever that starts will be very different to the last, a good percentage of our team will be youth players whether they are ready or good enough because that will be the reality of football at our level going forward, I do not believe we will be disadvantaged because the majority of not all of teams in out league will be in the same position.
Regionalisation of the national and league two must happen purely on financial terms, our days of hotels the night before will be a luxury that must be consigned to the sub heading of a complete waste of money.

grockle wrote: 22 Apr 2020, 15:38 In other words, no one still knows what division they will be playing in, if any, when football returns.