Torquay United Fans Forum

Gulliball wrote:They don't have the money to sustain what they're doing for more than a year or two. He might as well sign whoever he can now whilst the cheques are still worth the paper they're written on. He'll be off to another club when the money runs out so he might as well build the very best team he can. The responsibility is with those who'll be at the club long term, the owners and the fans, to ensure nothing that damages the future of the club takes place - but I suspect it's beyond that stage already.

Awayday wrote: Oh come on be fair, Crawley is a sh&t hole. For my sins I know it quite well being my brother in law lives there and my own brother lived there for a while. I do believe you have some Muslim guy going around hacking people with a machette at the moment. Also the Broadfield estate....hhhhhmmmm gorgeous. Although you do have that nice park with the big lake (ideal for pike fishing) and the petting farm thing. Although even the pub there has now closed down and boarded up.

At least you still have the flight path I guess.....

Unemployment in Torquay is high at 6.8% – this compares with 3.9% for Devon, and 5.0% for England as a whole.[15]

Many locals were employed in the Pontins holiday centre before it was sold off.

royalgull wrote:There is that numpte, I just don't like the fact Crawley are a complete nothing club that have come into some money and now act billy big time. Their average gate last season 1004. Nice. This year another 1500 or so people have turned up, funny that since they've come into some money.

900 tickets sold for Torquay, thanks for the money chaps appreciated. Again peculiar when on last season's evidence you didn't get that through the home turnstiles. Got to take away crowds into consideration there. And whilst altrincham may have brought 30, Luton, Oxford, Cambridge etc would have swelled those numbers.

I genuinely wish you absolutely no luck whatsoever, and when you are bust in 4 years, nobody in the footballing circle will give a toss, none more so than the folk of Crawley who'll all be travelling down the motorway to help fill Falmer for Brighton.

royalgull wrote:Crawley have 1 year where their gate goes above 1000 and they give it the big un.

i went to crawley in the Conference, about 400 Gulls there in a crowd of 800 odd. Then in the home game, There were more people in the Crawley town dug out than there were in the away end.

Absolute joke club living well beyond their means and will be bust within 3-4 years once their owners realise they can't get further than League 2.

MidDevon wrote:I might be from Devon but I can count to 250!

even your own website says you had under 700 for a couple of conference matches just 2/3 years ago

The point I was making is a valied one, the vast majority of your supporters on Saturday week would have watched Crawley for less than 3 years, most less than a year.

Once again I would like to point out that breathing in too much avaiation fuel can tarnish your memory!

tufcgull wrote: and there is only one reason .. money.

cambgull wrote: We are still a small club, dont worry, we've never really had ideas above our station. We just don't believe we're a big club like many of your compatriots seem to believe about Crawley.

MidDevon wrote:I visited Crawley's old ground just before they moved whilst working away. The crowd that night was barely 250 poor souls.
I was also at Tiverton Town v Crawley Town in the FA CUP about 6 years ago. They bought 350 to Devon that day!

The point I am making is that Crawley fans should remember that the VAST majoriy of them never bothered going before. Being a Crawley fan is a new thing, some may even say they are jumping on the band wagon, and the massive majority of their fans have no idea what supporting a football team is about.

They are still a very small club in a very massive catchment area. The sprawl of Crawley and Horsham is certainly bigger than little Torbay.

They should in theory be getting the same sort of support as Yeovil used to get in non league...they don't because they have no foundations, and if they build their house too high, it could come tumbling down.

I hope that does not happen as those 250 fans wo have supported them in the past will still be there asking where did their footy club go.

westbaygull wrote:We're not arrogant, we just detest your management duo.

Have you seen Hunty play, I hear he's doing well for you?

CTFC wrote:
We were just a couple of hundred short of our capacity, Derby didn't sell their allocation. We would expect to bring 1000+, last time we went on a good cup run we drew Brighton and took 8000 to the Goldstone.

CTFC

cambgull wrote: Really?!

I think we should probably worry about getting through each round before we worry about winning the one after. In all honesty, I really cant see Crawley as being up for it. They must be pretty disappointed by getting us in the next round and that could work in our favour. This is probably our best chance of getting to the 5th round ever.