tktufc91 wrote:If we end up back in the conference, so be it. We deserve to go down this season I won't have any complaints if the worst happens.
As for will I still attend? Absolutely will I attend. Torquay United will always be my club and I don't care if we're in the conference, league 2, even if we ever dropped down to the local leagues for whatever reason, I will always be a Torquay United supporter.
Hopefully BT sport renew their conference deal and who knows, we may get a few TV showings, especially if we're doing well.
Still 39 points to play for, it's not over yet (but it's getting close)
totally agree mate.
great post
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Personally, I don't care what league we're in next season. All I ask is two things.
1. The board keep the club alive and try to make us competitive.
2. We play good, exciting, attacking football with the ball on the ground.
Good football breeds confidence and makes the players enjoy what they do. It boosts crowd numbers and makes people feel like they got their money's worth, even if we lose. There is no excuse for playing drab, one dimensional football.
tktufc91 wrote:If we end up back in the conference, so be it. We deserve to go down this season I won't have any complaints if the worst happens.
As for will I still attend? Absolutely will I attend. Torquay United will always be my club and I don't care if we're in the conference, league 2, even if we ever dropped down to the local leagues for whatever reason, I will always be a Torquay United supporter.
Hopefully BT sport renew their conference deal and who knows, we may get a few TV showings, especially if we're doing well.
Still 39 points to play for, it's not over yet (but it's getting close)
Bloody hell. My "I'm not going again after the Accrington result" didn't last one f ing game. And I bloody well know I will be back on this site at approx 6pm frustrated and annoyed posting the same blinkin thing grrrrrr!!
I can't see the logic behind the "I'm not supporting a non-league team" view.
The conference is full of exactly the same teams that we have been playing for most of our history.
The players will be of the same quality as well, the players in the conference now would have been league players 20 years ago if they hadn't been displaced by the large influx of foreigners in the top 2 divisions.
cambgull wrote:Personally, I don't care what league we're in next season. All I ask is two things.
1. The board keep the club alive and try to make us competitive.
2. We play good, exciting, attacking football with the ball on the ground.
Good football breeds confidence and makes the players enjoy what they do. It boosts crowd numbers and makes people feel like they got their money's worth, even if we lose. There is no excuse for playing drab, one dimensional football.
At the standard professional footballers are or should be, even in league 2 or Conference/Skrill there should be no excuses for not doing this, whether we have no money for players or whether players come cheap (hardly cheap the money they earn for kicking a ball), there is no reason or excuse for just hoofing the ball aimlessly hoping somebody will get on the end of it. It cant be enjoyable just chasing the ball or battling for the ball endlessly for 90 minutes, it is certainly more energy sapping. Football on the deck gives you a greater chance of winning and should be an absolute must.
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Brian Clough
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I went to the Farnborough Town v Basingstoke Town conference south / skill whatever it is on Thursday night. The football wasn't too bad actually, well I didn't think it was too far from our performances this season anyway. The players seemed to be able to control the ball and pass it to one of their own at least. And Basingstoke had some fast dangerous forwards actually. They also seemed to be well committed and Farnborough didn't give up even when 3-0 down.
However!!!!! This was a local derby and the attendance was 226. No atmosphere and how these clubs survive I do not know. In fact I attended more games when we were in the conference and I bought a season ticket (it was cheap then though) but living in Basingstoke I don't attend every game. And for me if we are playing badly trying to motivate to drive down the 303 is bloody hard I can tell you.
MisterOkami wrote:For the matter of going to see games getting relegated will actually help me.
I'm a Torquay who lives no where near Torquay, I live in Warwick (so a 3 hour drive) and the nearest League 2 away game to me is Northampton 50 minutes away, after that it's Burton, Cheltenham and Oxford which are all an hour away.
If we get relegated then I could go see our games at Nuneaton, Kidderminster and Tamworth which are all closer to me than Northampton (although Tamworth look like they're gonna get relegated, but then again Solihull Moors could get promoted and then they'll be closest of all).
Anyway it shouldn't matter what level we play at, we are supporters of the club, not the league.
We played our first game in the conferance lastvtime against grays in front of over 4000, people have short memories, there is no reason if ch gets in the right players and we support our team like last time why we cant pull it off again, if we stick together then it can be done. People will soon start watching again when they are winning whatever league we are in?
It has to be recognised that when we were in the BSP previously, we had a sizeable budget (relatively speaking) to play with. Buckle had virtually a blank canvas (some at the time suggested having a squad of 4 was a disadvantage - it absolutely was not). Much better to have lots is spaces to fill, than lots if dross to shift. With very little unwanted baggage, and a hefty budget, Buckle was able to cherry pick the very best players at that level. The pro-Buckle element of our support refused to acknowledge the privileged position he was in at that time. But that was a very unique time in the history of TUFC, and it won't ever be that easy again. When we go down, prepare yourselves for a long stay. Our best chance of seeing league football again, is when the Skrill becomes League 3. If we're still in it.
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
Nice to see your so positive fonda, lets hope you eat your words, also nobody knows what our budget will be, people put 2 an2 together and make 5, I understand the negativity but it doesnt help, lrts just see what next season brings before we start putting the club into the ryman league.
Fonda is absolutely 100% spot on as far as I'm concerned. Add to the situation the club was in when we started down there the fact that there was a huge sense of injustice amongst the fans that our loss of league status could be put down to the hugely negligent acts of Mike Bateson and to a greater extent Chris Roberts - the club had a great deal of momentum behind it to get back at only the second attempt. Sadly that simply isn't going to be the case this time around. We've got people in charge who care about the club but unfortunately there simply won't be the resources or the numbers through the door to sustain anything near a title or playoff challenge in my opinion. You only have to look at the kind of sums Luton - and even Forest Green have spent in a division which is as fiercely contested now as it was then. Having said that there are examples such as Alfreton and Nuneaton who have done very well on modest budgets but in order to emulate that the club will have to be extremely well run off the field. Sadly I can promise you now unless we are playing Exeter there won't be anything like 4,000 there for our first home game. I think we will do well to sustain crowds of 1,500.
Considering the recent financial news I feel it could be some time before we are able to be seriously competitive again. The most important thing for me is we MUST stop the slide which has affected other clubs relegated for a second time. Once that's achieved it might be feasible to consider a challenge for promotion. A big factor in this will be to rid the place of the laissez-faire attitude which dare I say it seems to have infected the club over the past two seasons. If this can be realised we might be able to look forward to better things but its vital the fans stick together and back the club in the strongest numbers possible.
The conference is all about consistency, Luton have found theirs and will be going up easily! Cambridge and Kidderminster again have lost theirs and fallen away.
You have to feel that with the likes of Nunenton and relegated Barnet being up there you have to hope for a successful season which would hopefully sustain crowd numbers
league. 
