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HeleVillageJunkie wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 11:45 What a sad period it is in the history of my beloved Torquay United football Club. I've been reading comments on this forum for many years and haven't left a comment due to the farce that is the Torquay United Fan's Forum.

From day 1 many supporters have been against Clarke Osborne being the owner of our club. Well Southampton Gull, SuperNickyWroe, Alan Merson and those idiots who run the Torquay Talk and the Torquay united supporters trust have got their wish.

What people don't seem to understand is that in the last 10 years the club has losses of over ten million pounds. Plainmoor is not suitable for a modern day professional football club.

I don't blame Osborne from walking away, only last week the club had a meeting with Torbay Council who again refused to provide land it owns for the 5th time. The council are complicit in Osborne walking.

The only mistake Clarke Osborne made was not sacking the manager when we were relegated last season.

So thank you Southampton Gull, SuperNickyWroe, Alan Merson and all the hirachary at the TUST for destroying my beloved football club.

HeleVillageJunkie wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 11:45 What a sad period it is in the history of my beloved Torquay United football Club. I've been reading comments on this forum for many years and haven't left a comment due to the farce that is the Torquay United Fan's Forum.

From day 1 many supporters have been against Clarke Osborne being the owner of our club. Well Southampton Gull, SuperNickyWroe, Alan Merson and those idiots who run the Torquay Talk and the Torquay united supporters trust have got their wish.

What people don't seem to understand is that in the last 10 years the club has losses of over ten million pounds. Plainmoor is not suitable for a modern day professional football club.

I don't blame Osborne from walking away, only last week the club had a meeting with Torbay Council who again refused to provide land it owns for the 5th time. The council are complicit in Osborne walking.

The only mistake Clarke Osborne made was not sacking the manager when we were relegated last season.

So thank you Southampton Gull, SuperNickyWroe, Alan Merson and all the hirachary at the TUST for destroying my beloved football club.

SuperNickyWroe wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 11:56 Seems like you have the perfect username after this post....... :
You are obviously so knowledgeable about how a football club is run.
Now, lets look at what you don't understand.....
It nay have escaped your attention, but nearly all football clubs in the pyramid lose money - from Manchester City to Torquay United.
It also appears to have escaped your attention - a fact that has been posted many times by numerous posters, is that Osborne has never built anything that he has promised to any type of Sports Club he has been involved with.
He speculated that £5m would get him the freehold, which he hasn't achieved. That's why he's walked.....
He would have been more credible if he had actually built a new stadium first......

Yeofan wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 11:56 Viewing from afar, the current problems seem to stem from taking out a loan in 2015 and being unable to repay it. If you borrow money beyond your means, then bad things tend to happen, and sharks like CO will try and profit from it. However that mistake is long gone now and you need to try and rebuild as best you can. I hope you manage it.

HeleVillageJunkie wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 11:45 What a sad period it is in the history of my beloved Torquay United football Club. I've been reading comments on this forum for many years and haven't left a comment due to the farce that is the Torquay United Fan's Forum.

From day 1 many supporters have been against Clarke Osborne being the owner of our club. Well Southampton Gull, SuperNickyWroe, Alan Merson and those idiots who run the Torquay Talk and the Torquay united supporters trust have got their wish.

What people don't seem to understand is that in the last 10 years the club has losses of over ten million pounds. Plainmoor is not suitable for a modern day professional football club.

I don't blame Osborne from walking away, only last week the club had a meeting with Torbay Council who again refused to provide land it owns for the 5th time. The council are complicit in Osborne walking.

The only mistake Clarke Osborne made was not sacking the manager when we were relegated last season.

So thank you Southampton Gull, SuperNickyWroe, Alan Merson and all the hirachary at the TUST for destroying my beloved football club.

Southampton Gull wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 12:41 If someone wants to credit me with being responsible for the demise of Osborne I'll take it all day long. Junkie by name........Dawlish by nature.......

SuperNickyWroe wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 12:43 Me too Dave.
I consider it an honour.

Southampton Gull wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 12:52 If it came from anyone but the village idiot in Dawlish I'd take it as a badge of honour

longfordgull wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 12:20 Well, what a day that was! And who knew that Southampton Gull, SuperNickyWroe etc had such power to bring a football club to its knees. I can see that Gary Johnson might well have been hurt and upset by some of the comments on the forum if he ever read them but the idea that Clark Osborne has been influenced by anything posted on here is quite ludicrous. It seems clear that the Council have refused yet again to risk the freehold of Plainmoor and Osborne has gone for his own purely financial reasons. The way that GJ did his usual press call without any idea of what was going on just shows again how badly the club has been run. Some of the posts from other club supporters about their experience of administration have been encouraging but strap in, it's going to be a bumpy ride.