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A frustrating day. Up to five players please.

Away crowd estimates would also be very welcome.

Open to stream viewers as well.

Up to five players please.

Up to five players from today please.

Up to five players from today please.

Open to stream viewers and matchday fans.

Any away estimates also very much welcome.

Up to five players from today please.

Forgot this last night in the excitement.

Up to five players from last night. Open to fans at the game and also stream viewers.

My understanding is that TUST have already invested £50k from their funds for a seat on the board. They are now trying to raise funds via the Share Issue for a second seat.

Not sure I understand your belief that things are usually free - we're owned by a consortium, meaning people buy into it. It's not the same as Osborne controlling the whole club, funded by the property developer and free to appoint whoever to run the club for him whilst he never turned up. The people who buy into the Bryn Consortium have to fund the difference between our income and expenditure, which in recent years has been several hundred thousand pounds. Far from being free, I suspect the current Bryn Consortium have committed a lot more than £50k (or even £150k) each for their seats.

The difference between a free fan representative under a different ownership structure and TUST buying into the club now is that TUST would own a share of the club rather than just having a fan voice.

I suspect also that the TUST want to inject some money as a means of contributing more to the club. If you saw the figures from the forum a few weeks ago, £100k is a decent amount of money now we no longer have a propery developer underwriting losses and expenditure will be a lot less. Given that TUST are by nature Torquay United fans, they want to help the club. Reading the article as well, the second seat brings with it protection on the name, stadium, kit colour, nickname etc - which is surely very welcome news given what we have just endured with the previous owner.

The consortium have stated their longer term ambition is to hand the club over to the TUST rather than run it forever themselves. Step one towards that is TUST being involved, voluntering to do jobs around the ground and saving the club money. Step two would be TUST raising money for itself and seeing if the potential is there to generate enough funds to run the club. Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but they are going to give it a go. Probably at worst they will inject some money into the club and help it out right now.

Also, in our 125 years we have changed name from Torquay United to Torquay Town and back to Torquay United.

Up to five players from today please.

Currently have 500 as a rough estimate for the away breakdown, if anyone has any thoughts on that.

This feature will return for a 15th year. Who would have thought it.

For anyone new, there is a link to the background of what this is all about here: https://www.torquayfanstats.com/fan-vot ... f-the-year

There is also a sidebar which let's you look at the 14 years of data to date, as well as other things on the site of course.

All you need to do is choose up to five players in order from today and I will allocate them points depending on how many votes they each receive. A man of the match is picked each game, but everyone who receives a vote gets some point(s), which tally up at the end of the season to give a winner based on the 46 league fixtures. The winners are quite often the players who play for a lot of the season and pick up points regularly, without necessarily being the man of the match itself every game.

Admiral wrote: ↑23 Jul 2024, 19:11 Good signing, anyone got an updated squad list? We’re probably just looking at loans now

https://www.torquayfanstats.com/current-squad

Cody Cooke still to be added, but up to date until 6.30pm today.

His arrival makes it 18. We are short a second keeper and probably some numbers in midfield, but if you think loanees are often among the best squad members and we still have up to 5 to come, is looking like a pretty healthy position.

Let me edit that for you...

Jon co-authored the Official TUFC Centenary history in 1999. He is also the reason the book was published in 1999 after correcting the notion the club was founded in 1888, as you may see on some older club merchandise, by finding the original newspaper article published in 1899. The club weren't interested in correcting this, but I understand he contacted Rothmans with the evidence, had it corrected there and eventually by the club as well. Years later the club is using '1899' branding heavily and he is now inside the club himself, and a truly great asset I think he will be.

A lifelong fan, who has spreadsheets of every match Torquay United have ever played, every player to play for us and they are incredibly detailed, cross-checking and cross-referencing. Thousands of hours of love, passion and research to find and collate that level of detail. Being that detail oriented with that level of love for the club, it's hard to think of anyone better for the position really.

gullsgullsgulls wrote: ↑14 May 2024, 22:22 How old is Junior Hoilett? Warnock took him to Aberdeen in January…

As someone who lived in Aberdeen for five years and remains interested in them, he's playing most weeks and making noises about a new contract. He's 33.

Is also on probably £5k a week and playing regularly in front of 16-18k, so doubt he's going to be pulled by NLS unfortunately.

My understanding, based on what's been announced to date, is that the Bryn consortium always planned to take over the club if their bid was chosen. If that happens, TUST will run a share issue to raise £150k and have a seat on the board. Until the takeover is complete, they are likely preparing for the share issue, but it won't launch until the ink is dry.

Being a safety net I assume refers to the original preferred bidder, who are indeed now out of the running and the Byrn consortium are in line to take over.

Plan A was always for TUST to join their bid as soon as they completed, so I suspect once the takeover is finalised, you'll hear about a share issue and TUST raising funds to buy into Bryn.

So the previous preferred bidder has pulled out or couldn't prove funds, and this consortium is next in line and taken over as preferred bidder in the last week.

I think it's positive news. Or certainly in a world of everyone else has pulled out and the AGM is five weeks away, it's this or potentially no club.

People called it a TUST bid, but it really isn't. It's a consortium of fans, the leader of which I understand is a millionaire. They offered TUST a chance to 'buy in' for a seat on the board, which in terms of fan engagement seems pretty positive, and TUST backed the consortium's bid (others weren't public so would be harder to back).

They also didn't say we would be part time, they said it was an option. Which seems sensible at that stage (they werent even preferred bidder at that stage) not to commit or over promise before knowing all facts.

Certainly given what we have been told, a consortium of rich fans seems pretty positive for the future. Everyone dreams of a millionnaire signing cheques and bankrolling the club, but it seems that wasn't on the table (or the previous two times the club was for sale).