Torquay United Fans Forum

brooker wrote:I broke my foot on Barnet's crumbling terrace! just after Danny scored last season. Wasn't fun at all.

Gullscorer wrote:Here's part of a post by 'Posh' on the Football Forum:

"Firstly your pitch looks in a shocking state. While it's working for you at the moment (especially watering it beforehand as our players were slipping everywhere). Players were taking two touches sometime as the ball jumped. Will only get worse as the winter goes on and could be a real problem for you in terms of results and quality of games.

Secondly who planned your new £2.1 million stand? No toilets and no food in the stand for away supporters, cables running all over the place for the press that was a health hazard and bloody freezing. I know there's a block of toilets behind the terrace (closed) but if what was open it would breach league rules on sectioning grounds. We weren't great with our new ground but you seem to have trumped us. The mismatched brick effect is quite fetching too."

1. What can be done about the Plainmoor pitch? At this time of the season in past years it wasn't this bad. Is it the wet weather, or too much watering of the pitch? Certainly it needs to be maintained in a reasonable state over the rest of the campaign, for the team to be able to play decent football. What's going wrong...??

2. No facilities for away supporters in the new Bristow's Bench? Breaching League rules? Cables causing a safety hazard? What's going on...??

EmetEdadsBeard wrote:Barnet is the worst league ground i've ever been to. How the fook they got into the league with their 'facilities' is a mystery. No sinks where you can wash with soap and water in the bogs, instead that fookin' alcohol gel that I can't use 'cos I have psoriasis. And like our kid the 'moustache' said, you cant gel it off if you have a finger through the bogroll mishap!
The place is disgusting and breaks health and safety rules on all levels.
Wont ever go there again and hence hope they get relegated forever.

ferrarilover wrote:Yeah, no toilets, that sounds true... What he means is, he didn't look for the toilets and then whinged that he didn't find them. The food hut was open and always is. If YOUR players were slipping everywhere but ours weren't, is that the fault of the pitch (which is the same for both sides) or your players footwear?
Bloody freezing? You've got A) a bloody cheek coming from Morecambe, which is basically in the Arctic circle and B) What, exactly, would you like us to do about it? Perhaps if your daft little club had more than a handful of fans, you could have huddled together and kept warm? If the cabling being used by the press causes you consternation, Sir (although I fail to see how, since the press box is miles from the away fans), then I suggest you take reasonable care of yourself, it's not hard.

If you're so shocked by a perfectly average L2 ground, then, as per Andy, might I suggest you take yourself off to Accrington, or, perhaps worse, Exeter's away end, or Hereford United. Of course, if L2 grounds offend you so much, Morecambe could always get promoted...

Matt.