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The Russian Gulls

Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 11:12
by RussianGull
From September I'm going to be living in Russia as part of my degree, so I've been doing some research and I've found the Russian Gulls!

Much in the same vein as the Norwegian Gulls, they post on the Russian version of Facebook and here is their page if any of you guys fancy having a look:

http://vkontakte.ru/torquay_united

Might not interest all of you, but I thought it quite interesting to see how widespread the Gulls fans really are...

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 14:38
by Southampton Gull
Nice to see the name of TUFC being spread so far and wide. They should be able to help you along with the language anyway ;-)

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 15:26
by Awayday
Southampton Gull wrote:Nice to see the name of TUFC being spread so far and wide. They should be able to help you along with the language anyway ;-)
All we need to do now is find an English TUFC supporters forum to help SG with his English, have your tried TFF?

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 15:33
by united09
Great to see there are so many Torquay fans around the world. Could even get to read a few posts with google translate :-D

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 16:14
by Trojan 67
RussianGull wrote:From September I'm going to be living in Russia as part of my degree, so I've been doing some research and I've found the Russian Gulls!

Much in the same vein as the Norwegian Gulls, they post on the Russian version of Facebook and here is their page if any of you guys fancy having a look:

http://vkontakte.ru/torquay_united

Might not interest all of you, but I thought it quite interesting to see how widespread the Gulls fans really are...
I clicked on the link for a read and it's all in Russian ! :@ :rofl: What use is that ?

Then I see translate in the bar at the top of the pooter. I gives it a click and up it comes in English, bleeding pigeon English ! :nod:

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 16:21
by Trojan 67
I did notice the club official site link.

Is the Torquay Fans.com link on their site ?

As I no speaka da Ivan I don't know who to post them a link.

Over to you Russian Gull. :-D

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 16:39
by happytorq
Oh, good stuff. I've been trying to get the Russians in my office to follow Torquay. Maybe this will help.

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 17:30
by RussianGull
Been talking to two of the chaps for a couple of hours, gave them the link to here but, in the same sense that you guys don't understand Russian, they don't understand English... Good lads though

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 17:36
by happytorq
got my Russians to take a look. They were...bemused. Turns out that several of the fans there (there are 74) found us through the FIFA video games; there's a thread entitled "how did you become a fan of Torquay United"

They're pretty up-to-date, too; mention of Stanley loan deal, Wroe leaving, Benyon leaving.

This has made my day, thanks.

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 17:41
by RussianGull
The guy I was talking to said that since we were on the 2006 Fifa he's been hooked on following us, like you said they know everything..

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 18:31
by gullsflyinghigh
RussianGull wrote:The guy I was talking to said that since we were on the 2006 Fifa he's been hooked on following us, like you said they know everything..
Tell them they should come over to a game sometime! :clap:

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 20:51
by RussianGull
Aye, they could show the ultras how its really done - a la Zenit St Petersburg =D

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 21:04
by Plymouth Gull
shame I couldn't find how to translate the page..

russian seems an interesting language though.

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 10:13
by Louis
Cool, I've come across that site before, good to see it is in use and gets updated then!

Oh if you convince any fellow Russian fans to join on here get them to use a non .ru email address - had to whitelist the .ru domain as so many spammers were using those email addresses.

Don't be a stranger to the site :)

Re: The Russian Gulls

Posted: 08 Apr 2011, 14:00
by PhilGull
Some great translations through Google Chrome...
Brian Clough referred to as "frenzied grandmother"!!