Aldershot Town a phoenix club formed after the demise of Aldershot FC have become a bit of a rival in an on the field sense, since our very first meeting in 2007, The Shots have been both a promotion and relegation rival of ours, and there has been some real battles between our two clubs in the past.
Two previous match’s stick in the memory, the first, with both clubs neck and neck at the top of the conference, took place at Plainmoor in March 2008 in front of a crowd of 4,510, after Lee Phillips had equalised an early Shots goal, The Gulls would be left heartbroken by a late Scott Davies strike, virtually ending all hopes of winning the conference title for Torquay.
The second of the two match’s, again at Plainmoor, took place in October 2012 this time in League 2, The Gulls were left stunned by a Reid hat trick, as The Shots led 0.3, however within a minute Bodin gave The Gulls some hope, further strikes from Jarvis and Yeoman, pulled The Gulls level, with Aldershot now on the ropes and Torquay poring forward the unthinkable couldn’t happen, could it, the roof almost came off with an 89th minute Howe strike gave The Gulls an incredible win from being 3 goals down, a result that turned out to be important, as, had Aldershot maintained their lead, it would have been Torquay who would have been relegated with The Shots, alas The Gulls would only survive one more season.
Aldershot finished 18th last season, and will be hoping for a much more comfortable finish time around, although The Shots are not in great overall form, they, like us have fared better away from home, they’ll fancy their chances here.
Featured Aldershot Town player
Phil Smith; born 14th December 1979, position, goalkeeper, Phil Smith’s career started way back in 1998 with Millwall, however would only make 5 appearances for Millwall before moving into non-league football, most notably with Dover, Margate and Crawley Town. Crawley Town would enter into administration in 2006, with all Crawley players made available for transfer, Phil Smith joined Swindon Town.
Phil Smith made 112 appearances for Swindon, winning a PFA fans player of the month award, and Swindon Town player of the season in 2007, Smith would be released by Swindon in May 2012 after being displaced by Wes Foderingham, Phil Smith signed for Portsmouth making just 4 appearances before joining Aldershot in 2014, Smith has made 45 appearances for The Shots to date.
Aldershot top goal scorers and season stats
Charlie Walker 6
Richard Brodie 5
Cheye Alexander 2
James Stevenson 2
Rhys Browne 1
Charlie Harris 1
Sam Hatton 1
HOME / AWAY ADVANTAGE
% Points (HOME) 41% (AWAY) 59%
% Goals scored (HOME) 39% (AWAY) 61%
% Goals conceded (HOME) 45% (AWAY) 55%
Current from
Aldershot Town; W-L-W-W-L-L
5 Sep Aldershot To. 3-2 Halifax Town
12 Sep Grimsby 4-1 Aldershot To.
15 Sep Aldershot To. 1-0 Welling Utd
19 Sep Barrow 1-3 Aldershot To.
22 Sep Tranmere 3-1 Aldershot To.
26 Sep Aldershot To. 0-3 Macclesfield
Last time out
Aldershot To. 0-3 Macclesfield
01 Smith
12 Alexander
05 Saville
08 Stevenson
20 Wilmer-Anderton
14 Beckles
07 Hatton (Browne - 46' )
16 Gallagher Dismissed
19 Walker
10 Walker (Lathrope - 59' )
17 Brodie (Barnes-Homer - 46' )
Substitutes
04 Lathrope
09 Barnes-Homer
13 Thomas
15 Browne
21 Harris
Aldershot Town boss Barry Smith told BBC Surrey:
That was a poor performance today, one that I didn't see coming.
"We have got a young team but too many of them had off days, it wasn't just one or two of them - there were too many and we weren't close to the quality of performance that they've been showing.
"I don't want to take anything from Macclesfield because they did extremely well, but if I am going to look at my players, I think we could do a lot better."
From a Torquay United point of view
With the appointment of our new manager, we say goodbye to Paul Cox’ assistant John Ramshaw, I’m sure John Ramshaw goes with the best wishes of us all, and thanks for all his help during this transitional period.
We welcome our new manager, Kevin Nicholson, an appointment that was never going to be met with universal praise from our fan base.
Kevin Nicholson wins a new found respect from me, the manager’s job at Torquay United, is a real football management poison chalice , Nicho you’ve got guts, I’ll give you that, as said on another thread, Kevin’s first job is to bring stability, and try and restore self-belief and confidence into the squad.
I do not buy into this, Cox assembled a poor team, they’re not world beaters we know that, I’ve always believed there is at least a lower middle eight finish in this team, and remember this team, has won at Halifax, beaten Macclesfield and picked a very credible draw at Grimsby, they’ve shown in patch’s they are capable of beating anyone on the day, just need start believing it again.
Us supporters, we can help our club rise again, or we can help drive it into oblivion, what do we want?
Kevin Nicholson’s job is going to be hard enough as it is. He’s going to need some luck, but most of all, he’s going to need the support and backing of us fans, we’ve had our moan and our whinge, now time to unite, behind the management and our club.
Time to put fire in your bellies, Ladies and Gentlemen.
"Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be alright.
Singing' "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be alright!"
Torquay United top goalscorers and season stats
James Hurst 5
Alex Fisher 4
Tyrone Marsh 2
Dan Butler 1
Josh Carmichael 1
Exodus Geohaghon 1
Angus MacDonald 1
HOME / AWAY ADVANTAGE
% Points (HOME) 40% (AWAY) 60%
% Goals scored (HOME) 35% (AWAY) 65%
% Goals conceded (HOME) 48% (AWAY) 52%
Current from
Torquay United; D-D-D-L-L-L
5 Sep Torquay Utd 1-1 Guiseley
12 Sep Welling Utd 1-1 Torquay Utd
15 Sep Kidderminster 2-2 Torquay Utd
19 Sep Torquay Utd 3-7 Bromley
22 Sep Torquay Utd 1-2 Boreham Wood
26 Sep Lincoln City 2-0 Torquay Utd
Last time out
Lincoln City 2-0 Torquay Utd
01 Spiess
29 Berry
06 Geohaghon (Fisher - 46' )
05 MacDonald Booked
18 Smith
28 Hickford
02 Hurst
27 Bell (Yeoman - 88' )
10 Marsh (Murombedzi - 76' )
03 Butler Booked
07 Briscoe
Substitutes
11 Murombedzi
14 Yeoman
17 Fisher
19 Chaney
21 Lavercombe
RAMSHAW ON LINCOLN LOSS
CARETAKER-manager, John Ramshaw, has given his verdict on our 2-0 reverse at Lincoln City.
“I felt that our game-plan was working really well until they got their noses in front,†he said. “There was absolutely nothing in the first half-an-hour or so of the game, in fact, if anything we were shading it.
“But in the end, their experienced players came to the fore and were able to grab hold of the game.
“That know-how and experience is something that we are lacking out there on the field right now; we’re a very young side and once we fell a goal behind, we found it difficult.â€
Read more at http://www.torquayunited.com/news/artic ... g2pZ7Re.99
Head to Head meetings
With Aldershot Town only
English Conference Premier
15.08.2007 Aldershot Town 0-3 Torquay United
03.03.2008 Torquay United 1-2 Aldershot Town
English League Two
29.09.2009 Torquay United 1-1 Aldershot Town
13.04.2010 Aldershot Town 0-2 Torquay United
28.09.2010 Torquay United 0-1 Aldershot Town
08.03.2011 Aldershot Town 1-0 Torquay United
16.08.2011 Aldershot Town 0-1 Torquay United
06.03.2012 Torquay United 1-0 Aldershot Town
02.10.2012 Torquay United 4-3 Aldershot Town
19.02.2013 Aldershot Town 1-0 Torquay United
English Conference
25.08.2014 Torquay United 1-1 Aldershot Town
06.04.2015 Aldershot Town 2-0 Torquay United (Last meeting)
