Torquay United Fans Forum

cambgull wrote:I swear this forum is full of 4 year old children at times.

Back on topic - Charlie, I appreciate your honesty in this and it is nice to see you trying to answer our questions. It's something which I believe is important as a fan of a small club, and it's a shame that TUFC haven't felt the need to do the same. It had gotten better when Andrew Candy joined TUFC but he seems to have slowed down his posting, probably through workload.

If TUFC weren't to find a new sponsor, would you still be willing to take up the mantle?

Than kyou for your message, this forum does have a nature to go off topic at times.

I know Andrew is on the forum but as you said his workload is high and maybe has not had a chance to login as much as everyone would like to, Im sure he wouldnt mind you picking up the phone if you have a genuine concern about the club, or an email to him directly.

as I have said before, we were not made aware of who is taking over us as its very confidential until the press release, there are rumours of several different companies, but best to wait to hear it from the horses mouth.

The answer to your question of would we be willing to step back in again, we moved aside for more money to be put into the club, which is for the better of the club, more money = better players etc..

but we would consider it, if anything fell through with new contacts.

bixieupnorth - I am sorry you feel that way about us, we started with Torquay as Del is a huge fan and has been since he was a kid, also the company started in Torquay Harbourside - We were happy to sponsor for five years but as fans we made a decision that more money for the club is better in any league!

Exeter is where our HQ is situated and as we have had signs at St James Park for three years and our love of football still remains, which is why we went to Exeter, I am a fan of the club as well as Torquay as it is my home town.

Moving on to answer Richinns question, WTS still do not know who will be on the front of shirt next season for United, a few posters on the formu have mentioned that they will give it a time frame and now believe different to what has been posted.

A sponsorship deal is a very big thing to handle as a business and also a football club, there are lots of planning to be done with various parts of the agreement, the kit has to be ordered in the perfect colours and ordered from overseas - again this takes time.

Announcing the sponsorship for next season will be done when United and the new business are happy for it to be released, also at the right time, (for example: if its sunny outside, everyone will be out enjoying the weather instead of reading the official site) other news involving the club will distract readers attention, then it goes to the paper and if something large is happening in the torbay area the Herald will print that over new sponsors.

We still have good relationship with the club and Del and I have both left amicably, we are happy to phone Thea/Andy/Dean or whoever and have a chat about anything still.

Also dont forget we have raised our sponsorship for the Ladies team to stay loyal to Torquay as this is where we started and have not forgotten that in 2006 we were a small business growing.

Hi all, if you have any questions for us at WTS then please fire them this way, would rather this than Chinese whispers

I still do not know who the new sponsor will be, a big company will be nice to give the club what it needs the most at the moment, who ever it is though I will still be buying a new kit next season!

Thank you everyone for your nice comments, we will still visit the club as fans and like everyone, cheering the team on back to the football league!!

despite the relegation we have enjoyed this year it certainly has been eventful

Good Morning everyone, there seems to be a bit of Chinese whispers going on this specific thread, (in my opinion) so I thought it was only fair that you all hear it from the horses mouth, well the sponsors mouth!

as said in a previous thread there was no stipulation in our agreement to end the agreement if TUFC ended up in the Football Conference, neither are WTS streamlining or in any financial trouble

after every season we would meet with the board and the commercial team to discuss the season etc.. discussions about the 2014/15 season was obviously on the table and we always made it clear from day one that if a major company like samsung wanted to take over then we would happily step aside (this does not mean that samsung is taking over by the way)

We do not know who will be the new sponsors as this is kept quiet until everything is finalised and releasing the news at the right time so it has the most readers.

Richinns wrote:IF WTS have stepped aside because the club have found someone who pays more than we must be very grateful to WTS for their support and the honourable step aside.

A worry I have that the WTS contract was signed with the stipulation that we are a league club and now WTS have exercised the right to withdraw after this status was lost. A completely fabricated suggestion on my part but with the hits we have had recently I would not be surprised!

I hope the first conclusion is the case and we are not left without a sponsor which will further hurt / destroy the budget.

Good Morning Richinns, I am the Group Operations Manager for WTS and can confirm that there was no stipulation on what league United were in, We have agreed to go our seperate ways to allow another sponsor to put more money into the club when it is most needed, I can also confirm that we at WTS do not know who is taking over the front of shirt.

Hi BayGull

The score was Staff 2 - 3 Fans

I played for fans,

Andy Candy, Callum from Restaurant, Patrick Tinkler were a few of the players on the staff side!

Does anyone have any photos from last night? I did see a few photographers

Good Afternoon everyone

Great to meet a lot of you after the game on Saturday, really got a feel for everyone love of the club

Has anyone opted in to take part in the game Thursday evening against the staff at TUFC??

Charlie

happytorq wrote:Hey, Charlie - is this limited to only UK-based fans?

I mean, I live in the States. You can't really get more western than that

Good Afternoon 'happytorq'

The competition is open to any Torquay United Fan - anywhere in the world

If your names is picked from the hat we will contact you for an address to post the shirt!

Thank you so far to everyone who has entered them selves into the competition

When the competition closes we will download a list of new 'likes' from today until 7th September and then print all the names off and randomly select the lucky winner!

SuperNickyWroe wrote:great idea charlie......

however, I will "unlike" you if I dont win...............

Matt - ferrarilover

A very quick answer to your question above is simply nothing at all apart from the likes themselves

But we find Facebook a fantastic way to speak to our customers and it is a great way for us to get in contact with the fans and increase more awareness for the company

It would be lovely if Facebook paid us for every like but unfortunately that is not the case

It is also a very simple way to enter into a competition - There is no junk mail being sent out all the time and entering names address etc, So we find this approach more customer friendly too.

Hope to see you and meet lots of fans at a game this season!

Charlie.

Torquay United have now started the season ahead and with a brand new look for the 2013/14 season.

As Torquay United's principal sponsor, Western Training Services will feature their logo on the new kit, supplied by Sondico, the global sportswear company.

To celebrate the new kit, We are giving one lucky gulls supporter the chance to win a new home shirt For your chance to win this amazing prize.

simply "Like" Western Training Services on Facebook. and thats it!

Competition closes on 7th September 2013

Facebook Link: http://www.facebook.com/westerntrainingservices

Here is Western Training Services team photo.

Just to let everyone know (incase they do not already)

http://www.ppauk.co/fotoweb/default.fwx?archiveId=5003

This website always has images of the games played for TUFC

I know there is already the newsprints website, but they do not seem to have updated it with any of the friendly games recently