Torquay United Fans Forum

The pictures of our clarence road stand brought back memories. Too young for the first picture, but the second one i remember sitting in it till it got demolished (ok, till it fell down due to woodrot!!). Decent all seater stand in its place, now aptly called the 'Cyril Knowles Stand'. Great manager, rest his soul. some good stories about him from the players!!, well known to yourselves as well
Effion Williams..... bet we both still had him now eh?.... scored a cracker against our lovely neighbours darlington to send us up. always gets a good reception up here.
And yes, we were 8 minutes away from the championship in 2005. ref gives a pen to sheff wed which wasn't a pen (totally honest,no bias), sends one of us off, we get another sent off, lose 1 to injury, down to 8 in injury time, lose 4-2. What you expect being a poolie.
That’s when the owner pulled the plug (his own financial problems), been a downward spiral ever since, ending in the cockney chancer stripping the club to the point wonga would refuse us a loan. Gives Del Boy a bad name.
Whatever team we field this coming season, the fans will embrace it, some new grounds to visit, some eye-openers I bet, but some good ex league clubs to visit and to come to the Vic.
Mid-table would be an achievement at this moment with what is / is not going on behind the scenes. Supporters trust have a meeting at the end of the month to detail where the club stand financially from supporters direct looking at the books.
Looking forward to the games between us, still bring more away support for both games than most others will by all accounts.

Hi all, Hartlepool United fan in peace.

Not looking good for us at the moment. No president, chairman, manager, backroom staff,no one to do the retained list of the spineless gutless players we have and the 'lovely' chairman has resigned but wants a golden handshake although crippling the club with 1.2m of debt.

Not here to have a moan about us, just stating no pools fans think we will be 'the big boys' of the league next season. Far from it. We have just witnessed York.

Looking at fan ownership, going to be hard and a slog. Have seen yourselves having a struggle since losing league status,but glad to see you still have heads above water, even though it may be different under the surface.

All the best, I genuinely hope it comes ok for yourselves and you can start looking up the league again. A few rollercoater years for us I predict.

What's the betting our 2 games are bloody tuesday nights by the way? My last visit to Plainmoor was 1990 in League 1 ? think it was the season we went up automatically and you won the play-offs. First game of the season, you beat us 3-1, and there was someone in one of your stands ringing a bell every 30 seconds. that bell was bloody annonying!!! lol.