Torquay United Fans Forum

Yorkieandy wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 20:03 Totally agree Jeff. I'm 100% behind the OP and i'm 100% for a phoenix club but neither of us, nor anyone else is going to be the catalyst for it to begin. That's the blunt truth of it. I have my 'issues' from a mental health perspective and also have a distance issue to overcome. Whilst i could be a passionate part of a newly formed club and be able to help in many ways, i'm not a suitable person to be responsible for overseeing things and being one of the 'main men' so to speak.

From that angle this makes me even more frustrated because i do know that without my health 'issues' i'd have had an AFC Torquay up and running years ago. I guess that's why i'm quite aggressive and pushy with the pro-phoenix club agenda.

What a phoenix club needs is a handful of people to really stop faffing around posting on message boards (no disrespect to WestLondon et al, i'm just as guilty) and actually get together and start working out how exactly we will go about achieving this. Action not words.

Unfortunately i can never see this happening and that makes me fearful for the future of football in Torquay because i'm of the opinion that fans are sleepwalking into a catastrophe with regards the current TUFC and there just won't be the pro-active individuals needed to raise a Phoenix club when (IMO) that inevitability occurs.

Jeff wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 19:50 If this has been on the cards since Ling left, why has nobody actually done anything?

It's all just hot air

arcadia wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 19:38 You give up you'll have nothing.

arcadia wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 19:28 If we are to survive you've got to stick together and support the team not turn away from them.

arrywithanh wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 19:17 Yes but when AFC Wimbledon and Darlington etc did it they had some element of financial backing... unless you are proposing investing 10/20K? then why not get the ball rolling?

Yorkieandy wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 19:04 Apologies WestLondon, i mistook you for WestYorksGull in my earlier post. Honest mistake.

Jeff wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 18:49 The whole "Phoenix Club"' idea is just made to sound so simple, but it would be so far from that. And I sincerely doubt it would work as the people of Torbay are so apathetic towards TUFC they wouldn't get behind it.

First major problem - where would they play?

Second problem - what league would take it? Peninsula league level most likely. Who would watch that? Not me, that's for sure.

I think people getting riled up by the predicament on the field is missing the point. I don't see that GI have screwed the club by not investing in the team. I see a squad that looks expensively assembled - but of players still dining out on halcyon bygone days. And KN was stupid enough to meet their wage demands when no-body else would.

Our team would be top end L2 material if we had this group of players back in 2011. They are now miles beyond their best, slow and unfit.

Not everything is rosy under GI, but the reason we are cut cut adrift at the bottom of the league is down to KN

Ray Johnstone wrote: ↑19 Aug 2017, 16:54 Gosling to get TUFC's goal, before Dunkley equalises for a disappointing point for the home side.

Ray

Ray Johnstone wrote: ↑19 Aug 2017, 17:00 It looks like the Nicholson critics may be laughing on the other side of their faces tonight. I'm afraid you've made your bed, now you have to lie in it.

Ray

Ray Johnstone wrote: ↑01 Jul 2017, 15:48 There are several results when you log him in to the search bar. Dylan has earned excellent reviews from those at Longford. I would welcome him to Barrow as Paul Cox's 8th Summer signing.

Ray

Ray Johnstone wrote: ↑05 Jul 2017, 12:56 Nice shirts, but it's a shame that TUFC didn't consider Miller's excellent designs. We have had a similar problem at Barrow, with Chairman Paul Casson choosing our bespoke playing kit from manufacturer Player Layer without consulting the supporters.

Ray Johnstone wrote: ↑02 Jul 2017, 14:27 1. If we aren't e-mailing, then how are we communicating.
2. The photograph was incredibly juvenile. As you and I both know, Barrow do not sell branded wheelbarrows in the club shop.
3. We were talking about Barrow AFC's new bespoke kits from manufacturer Player Layer, not Barrow AFC's latest summer signings, Scott. I did not find the photograph offensive, as you incorrectly suggest.

Ray

merse btpir wrote: ↑27 Jun 2017, 22:17 I asked you to treat and regard those of all faiths and those without with due respect, reverence and tolerance ~ that was the simple nub of my posting in response to your obsessive listing of atrocities and incompatibility between Islam and other faiths and practices and giving the impression that it is the religion that is the root cause of terrorism, atrocity and imposition of fundamentalism rather than fanaticism.

As one who lives in and amongst a heavily diverse community which embraces the followers of many different beliefs and religions I am appalled at extremist views being perpetrated to the denigration of our way of life....if I can live in peace and harmony with those of other beliefs then so can you!