Torquay United Fans Forum

Richinns wrote:http://www.torquayunited.com/page/News/ ... 09,00.html

Reading between the lines it is likely we will only be in the market for 1 striker if Taiwo shows more than 'average' in the next two friendlies. Ling seems impressed already.

TCP wrote:"TCP has just been negative against everything Ling has seemingly ever done and I trust his judgement as much as I trust brucie's"

No offence meant, but I'm a little bit more qualified to speak about Ling's recent failures.

FWIW, I hope it works out for you guys, I really do, but I have a nagging feeling than his many managerial inadequacies will once again rear their ugly head this season.

Rjc70 wrote:He probably won't bother. Doesn't tend to when his drivel is picked apart and uncovered for what it is. However, it is worthy of note that Olejnik did not feature in brucie's post, so we have the brucie seal of approval for our Number 1 it seems.

tufcbrett wrote: You really have no idea about me. I have been working with Cardiff for the last two year, quite often out with some scouts watching players or out with the reserve side. With my role at Cardiff i got to see Newcastle reserves and under 18s a fair few times. In them times i have seen Leadbitter and i was always impressed with him. I feel he will suit league 2 fine, you can doubt me or him all you want.
If you really want me to i will send you the 18 page write up on each game ive seen and the 2 pages on leadbitter.

Regarding Saah i have seen him a few times playing for cambridge when they played Forest Green, Sailsbury and Bath City. Every time he dominated and played very well. Ok against not the best teams but he showed his class. Remined me of Mark Roberts at Stevenage and he did very well in league 2.

Im sorry Bruice is that enough evidence for you, being a Pro Football coach for a championship team? I know everyone can form there own views, but ive seen a lot of players over the last two seasons and have writen reports on them. Which im happy to make my views on.

brucie wrote:Brett - with all due respect what I find annoying about your post's is you state things which you presumably have little or no evidence to back up.
Can you tell me perhaps how often you have seen Leadbitter play to form a judgement that he is a good player. You can of course use the same arguement to suggest that i can't say he is rubbish (because I have not seen him play either). However with no league experience to his name either at his club or on loan and Lings assertion that he will have to "teach Leadbitter how to play league 2 football" you have got to wonder if he is a player ready for the first team aas yet. But you include him in your annoying stupid team line ups in every message.
Its the same with Saah - seen much of him have you? - to my mind its another "jury is still out" signings. The worry for me is that he was rejected by a couple of league clubs (us included) after he left Orient. sh*t normally finds its own level and you do wonder why he was not playing for a league club if he is as good as you seem to think. Even more worrying perhaps you might wonder what he was doing when Cambridge were getting shellacked by a whole host of shite teams when Ling was in charge of Cambridge.
In fact Ling's signing of Daryl Clare and paying 10k in the process is even more worrying than that. A decent player in his time but he was so far over the top when Ling signed him, he might as well have been skiing down everest.
And then there is Chris Mcphee.......
And as for Atieno - he has been released by so many clubs, they cannot all be wrong. could not get near Stevenage's first team either.
The truth is that Lings signings so far appear to lack quality, and the squad we currently have is nowhere near good enough.

brucie wrote:Brett - with all due respect what I find annoying about your post's is you state things which you presumably have little or no evidence to back up.
Can you tell me perhaps how often you have seen Leadbitter play to form a judgement that he is a good player. You can of course use the same arguement to suggest that i can't say he is rubbish (because I have not seen him play either). However with no league experience to his name either at his club or on loan and Lings assertion that he will have to "teach Leadbitter how to play league 2 football" you have got to wonder if he is a player ready for the first team aas yet. But you include him in your annoying stupid team line ups in every message.
Its the same with Saah - seen much of him have you? - to my mind its another "jury is still out" signings. The worry for me is that he was rejected by a couple of league clubs (us included) after he left Orient. sh*t normally finds its own level and you do wonder why he was not playing for a league club if he is as good as you seem to think. Even more worrying perhaps you might wonder what he was doing when Cambridge were getting shellacked by a whole host of shite teams when Ling was in charge of Cambridge.
In fact Ling's signing of Daryl Clare and paying 10k in the process is even more worrying than that. A decent player in his time but he was so far over the top when Ling signed him, he might as well have been skiing down everest.
And then there is Chris Mcphee.......
And as for Atieno - he has been released by so many clubs, they cannot all be wrong. could not get near Stevenage's first team either.
The truth is that Lings signings so far appear to lack quality, and the squad we currently have is nowhere near good enough.

Richinns wrote:
Not often I find myself agreeing with you royalgull but I do here (and I am a half empty type!).