Torquay United Fans Forum

Eunan on the bench against a full-strength Germany tonight!

Great to see

Hopefully he gets on

Has just signed for Chester

Intresting article about depression in football by Lingy, especially at his time with us.

Shame he hasn't got back into football propably and would be more than happy to see him back.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26647517

A price of £295 is quoted as "fantastic value" on the OS.

A small value comparison then of clubs within a reasonable distance....

Southampton £585
Cardiff £249
Bournemouth £250
Yeovil £299
Bristol City £299
The gas £225
Plymouth £320
Exeter £275

Exeter Chiefs £300 including all cup, reserve, youth and friendlies...also discounts on bar, food and shirts etc....

This shows how naive the club are being and anyone willing to fork out this sort of money for North Ferriby Utd on a Tuesday night in the middle of February are barking mad!!!

The club must reconsider, because the hard earned cash you do spend on an annual ticket is best value elsewhere, and this will most definatly show in early-bird sales!!

Ive heard Karl Hawley has already hit the acting scene on come fly with me....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/comeflywith ... rtainment/

Ricey said there is a pitch inspection at 9AM on facebook!

probably a Wales Under 21 hat-trick which means he returns to the Torquay starting line-up for another full season

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23143347

happy days!

...should have seen that one coming!

No ringers! I've heard all about you, Mr Semi-Pro!

Anyone else?


Matt.

All I have is a long-throw and more pace than Nico!

Im in aswell

Easy 3 points!!!

Very happy with the appointment

Knill did a great job while keeping the same team and formation and always saying during press conferences that the team was not his and the way the lads will play will be under the "lingy" way

Now he can have his own grasp on the squad and play his way and with his own players

Should be an intresting summer...

I have a match today,

The nerves will be jingling when I have to check the phone after all the results are through!!!

COYY

I would have agreed if we had lost last night.....

perhaps putting Joe Oastler and Damon Lathrope up top and bringing Danny Stevens and Lloyd Macklin at centre-half may have solved our horrendous recent run!!

Recently I played away at Keynsham Town in the Toolstation League for Elmore FC.

Keynsham have a "plastic pitch" which was a rubber crumb artificial pitch with all this high-techno grass gizmo stuff!!!

It took Elmore a while to get used to the way the ball moved around the surface as we expected it to whizz over our heads and any pass with any amount of power would go for a goal kick meaning we overestimated everthing within the first 15 minutes. Unexpectently the way the ball moved round was very true to a high level playing surface and was very odd to play on as the ball held up and stuck to the pitch, like any other decent surface would.

Sliding tackles were also odd as it hurt more to hurl yourself into a tackle on grass than it would on this artificial pitch.

What I am getting to is that in the first part of the game, we didnt know what to expect and Torquay can capatalise on this as teams come down to the "hallow turf"!!!

After the game I was talking to the Keynsham coach who talked about the main benefits...

Firstly, no game is ever called off for obvious reasons meaning when the bad whether hits, the attendences rise...Keynsham are the highest supported team, on average, in the Toolstation Divison 1 coincedently.....Torquays attendences could rise as "groundhoppers" and alike would be attracted to a "different" ground...fans would be intrested in coming down to watch football on the only "plastic" pitch in the football league.... Almost like a USP!

Also he said that the pitch is used almost 24/7..."The floodlights are always on"......the under 6`s to under 18`s use it.....schools and colleges use it and 3 mens Keynsham sides use it. Many teams such as the colleges would pay to use the facilities. Torquay could work some money back in to pay this "£600,000" off. Torquays ground at the moment can only just manage with 2 games a week...

The coach also mentioned that the only maintenence ever needed is to replace the rubber crumb onto the pitch.....half of which was in my boot after the game!!! The pitch lasts about 10-15 years and you can see that over this time-frame the costs seems to look a lot less daugnting!

The potential of the facilities for Torquay United can also be incredible....Football is a seasonal sport and in the summer our population quadrouples....a fantastic opportunity for the club to host music events, bands and random other gatherings which the club can promote.....all we have is that bloody Sunday carvery at the moment!!!!!

On the whole, if used to its full potential, a plastic pitch would be an exellent move for the club going forward.

(Elmore also won the game 3-1.....happy days!!!)

Mini_Mid_Devon