Torquay United Fans Forum

greb46 wrote: ↑27 Aug 2018, 17:27 Feel your right Scott,Osborne has the man he wants and his plan working to perfection he's found one of the most inept managers possible.

If Osborne doesn’t ditch Owers soon then we are finished. The longer this goes on then Osborne clearly means us to fail. Owers has proved to be yet one more disastrous manager at a club that looks to be at death’s door, a sickness that has grown over recent years, due to utterly incompetent management at Board level. Decent fans (most of us, although we appear to have been let down by a couple of morons today) don’t deserve this. I didn’t go today, I can’t do this to myself much longer.

Just home. To anybody lucky enough to have missed this farce, be in no doubt that we were pitiful, dreadful, disorganised, unable to even pass accurately, demoralised, second best and basically completely and utterly shite. Keating put in a decent shift for the second half and that is it. We were woeful, can’t even defend corners. If I were Owers I would be too ashamed to show my face in front of the fans again.

I left the ground more angry than I have ever been, and I have been furious many times over the years. What do these players do all week under Owers, spend the day at the bookies? Shapeless, inept and clueless. Hampton made us look like a poor amateur team’s reserve side.

Go today Owers, if you had any shame you would hand in your resignation now. I can only assume that this shit show is part of the grand plan. If Torquay United was an animal it would be put to sleep this evening.

I can stress how f’ing angry I am, I am bloody furious. Decent fans who have been pissed on by the shameful twats who manage this excuse for a team.

Hector’s post is sensible and balanced, unlike many on here. It is despicable to insult and humiliate your own players and managers. The hostility towards Owers has become unrelenting, it isn’t his fault that we were relegated from the Football League (for that look to certain past Board members, whose decision making at Plainmoor was shocking). We have some decent players, which at least does credit to the Manager for signing them. We haven’t been convincing so far, in fact piss poor at times, but we have won both Home games and drawn two of three away, let’s not throw our toys out of the pram yet.

The issue of Jamie Reid causes me most concern. He is a local lad, trying his best but struggling. I haven’t seen such hostility and downright bullying of a player for many years. If he was lazy or unfit I’d understand it more, but he isn’t, he’s just struggling to perform. I had a good friend some years ago who started his career with Arsenal, and ended up at Exeter eventually (also a successful Manager until recently). He moved to Oxford United in the 80s and had a dreadful time with the fans. He told me that his dad went to one game and ended up losing his rag with people behind him at the game, which didn’t do him any good as he wasn’t a well man. How would you like to be on a football pitch with your OWN FANS on your back from the off, it is disgusting and those who do this should take a close hard look at themselves. Bully the ref by all means, give the opposition a hard time, but don’t fully your own f’ing players.

I agree that Williams was poor in the first half, as were most of the Gulls players (their confidence looked shot to bits, thankfully returning after the first ten minutes of the second half). However, Wiliams’s performance & effort improved dramatically in the second half when Keating came on to partner him, they seem to have an understanding which is completely absent from the Williams/Reid partnership. I thought Williams played well during the last half hour, full of running and effort, a different player from the first half. Reid made a couple of decent moves, one to set up Williams early in the game and one good flick on to Davis, other than that I’m afraid he was poor and looked lost. I feel he has ability, but shows it far too rarely.

The other change, Nabi for Regis, brought the best out of Davis in the second half. Davis just couldn’t get past the Bath right wing back (an excellent player) in the first half, but in the second, with Nabi’s support, Davis improved immensely.

Overall, the two substitutions worked very well. I can’t see how Owers can keep starting with Reid though, this has failed too many times. It was lovely to win after being second best for the majority of the game. Well done to the players for not giving up, the relief on their faces when Davis scored was a joy to see.

brucie wrote: ↑09 Jul 2018, 11:20 Any opposition fan who thinks that they might get 3 points because we won't have a goalkeeper before the season starts must be brain dead.

Chelmsford Brucie. Have you not seen The Only Way is Essex? Thick as many short planks.

Rossi Martin wrote: ↑02 Jul 2018, 12:04 Enjoy your big mac

I think that’s one of the ingredients of a Big Mac anyway.

Cruisinho wrote: ↑21 Jun 2018, 17:11 Has anybody else seen Gowling’s latest tweet? Apparently he was told if he went to his friend’s father’s funeral he would be fined?

Before all the chest beating starts, a word of caution. How many of you have employers that would give you a day off for every funeral that you ask to go to? In my experience you can expect compassionate leave from an employer for close family funerals, but would have to take a day’s leave for any others.

A fine player. When I was 16 I worked at Woolies in Paignton, serving ice creams. Cliff Jackson appeared at my counter one day, I was delighted to serve him an extra large ice cream. Quality winger, RIP Cliff.

Slough have just beaten Kings Lynn 2-1 and are promoted to NLS. I guess this means Hereford go to NLN? Probably a good thing, but I fear we won’t need to be worried about teams near the top of NLS next season.

Neal wrote: ↑02 May 2018, 08:44 in fact can someone list Owers achievements please since he has been here. This actually isn't intended to be a sarcastic post, but I really would like to know, I have probably missed them.

A very short volume I’m afraid. Available in a pack with the Jose Mourinho Book of Humility, the Steve Evans Book of Fair Play and the Osborne Guide to Building Stadia.

IanGull01 wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 18:43 Don’t know why your all worrying.
Like Owers said ‘it will all be sorted by tea time on Monday, makes no bones about it’.

Yup, by teatime on Monday we will have no, or hardly any, players. But, thank the Lord, we will have a useless manager, and even more useless (and overweight) general manager. And an owner that nobody trusts. It will all be sorted then.

Yorkieandy wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 18:31 Two things here.

Torquay would have played Man Utd IF they had beaten Crawley which they couldn't do. They got the luck just like Exeter did but couldn't take advantage.

Secondly. Considering that those who frittered away Thea's multi millions were in charge, what does anyone think they would have done with even more money from a cup run? Certainly not secured the clubs immediate future that's for sure.

Anyway a third thing.

Torquay HAD the money even without a cup run and it was wasted. Yet fans are whining about Exeter being lucky! It's embarrassing. No, they just used the money properly and good luck to them.

I agree with all of that. Two things from me:

1 Learning. Torquay Utd seems incapable of learning. I have learned that teams who get in the face of the ref, whose manager berates the fourth official and the Assistant Referees for 90 minutes, who rely on gutsy hard men, tend to do well. I remember the Crawley game as if it was yesterday, the Crawley side dived, shouted, berated the ref again and again and again, kicked the shit out of Torquay but played the innocent, conned the ref into giving penalties. Encouraged by the fat freak that managed them, a man who understands what you have to do to win. We have never managed this, our managers have been all far too nice, far too sporting, far too fricking gullible.

2 Frittered away money? Absolutely right. There are a handful of people, largely responsible for the shite we are in now, who should be ashamed to show their faces at Plainmoor ever again, people who took the piss out of Thea Bristow's naivety until her family stepped in. They know who they are. Bastards.

Southampton Gull wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 13:51 Nothing wrong with Waitrose

Bloody paupers!!

I do three things on match day at Plainmoor. In order of enjoyment they are:

1 Pub. I enjoy this the most by far.

2 Waitrose. Ok, if I go after a Saturday game I pick up as many discounted things as I can (Waitrose discount food heavily near to sell by date). High quality food and goods, everything that Torquay United is not. Great fish and meat counter.

3 Football. By far the worst part of the experience. No quality, misery, fails to meet even a very low minimum standard, treated like a dog before the game, during the game & after the game. All to watch a side owned by a shark, general managed by a fat fool, and team managed by a clueless man who should have resigned weeks ago.

Still seething. Absolutely **** seething. How dare these bastards do this to our Club? I generally don’t wish ill on people, but I wish all kinds of ill on the **** that have done this to a once proud Club, a plague on them.

merse btpir wrote: ↑18 Apr 2018, 23:25 Decent club eh ~ you think so?

My son and I could tell you a few home truths about Dagenham and being 'decent'; I know a few victims of their 'decency' and failure to correlate between player's remuneration and that of the manager.

I’ll rephrase it then, a Club with decent supporters like Dagenham.