Torquay United Fans Forum

Just seen you well in the play off hunt, so all the best on the last day and the play offs from the Cobblers!

I hear Mr Gilligan had quite an impact when he came on so maybe I will be made to eat my words! :devil:

Best of luck & I hope to see alot of you at Sixfields!!

ACobb1

Southampton Gull wrote:You come across the same as a lot of other Northampton fans, talking utter sh*t and deluded about how good you are.

Akinfatwat a star player? Any of your other players could have scored the same goals Gilligan did? .................But they didn't did they?

Teachers pet to more than one Manager yet he has an attitude problem? ..................I think that's yours as well as a few of your fellow fans.

He's not in possession of a mean streak? .........................................We don't need a player like that, we want footballers.

He frustrates you?.................................................. From what I've seen so far this season I'm sure that feeling is mutual.

Enjoy watching your recently signed superstars on the way to your championship winning season.

Yes star player. Top goal scorer, top assist and if you do go and spend the money on Cobblers Player to watch Gilligans goals like I did last night 5 of the 7 goals from open play he scored came from Akinfenwa touches. Thats not deluded thats fact. And yes actually alot did, Billy McKay did but he can't be there all the time!

Watch him play then. You don't have a fight with an assistant manager if you're an angel. EDIT: All i'll say is this from a recent interview with our manager

"When you strengthen the squad you soon find out who the strong characters are and who is determined to fight and scrap to get in the team and to stay in the team."

Sure but when you don't get a footballer you want someone who will run chase everything down, get stuck in and be a ball winner, a leader.

I didn't come here and once brag about any strength of our squad, who we signed when or how big either of our clubs are. If you want to kiss Gillys arse before youve seen him pull on a Gulls shirt go for it. Not once have I talked down your club, which I respect as I do like Buckles management style and the fact you do have Geoff Harrop who you nicked off us, he wouldn't join any club he in which he didn't would be 100% committed to the youth system, something we weren't. Like I said I know on good authority that him and his father both believe that he is a championship player and i'll tell you he's not.

I never once said 'we' were good. I merely commented on the player.

Gulliball wrote: Personally I'm delighted by that.

You don't win anything with marquee players. It's the solid players that turn up every week, give you their all and make you hard to beat that matter the most over the season. We already have players like Zebroski, Kee, Stevens, O'Kane and Robinson to be the flair players, but it takes all sorts to make a successful squad and players like Mansell, Stanley and Gilligan are a huge part of that.

I'm a massive fan of Kee and Zebroski, and to an extent I do agree. What I meant by that opening line was some fans (on here and NTFC forums) seem to think Gilly will now be your star player as 'little Torquay' have none. I was saying that personally I think thats a wrong assumption, but yes an alright signing indeed.

Hi guys yet another Cobbler in peace.

Some of you say he's a great signing 'for you' which i disagree with. Hes a solid signing for any club in the division but hes not a marquee player or signing.

So what about Ryan?

He came to us as a young lad under Calderwood and played a few games. He played over 200 games for us. Alot of them were in our Relegation season form L1 where he played as an infective striker. The best performances I have seen from him were the beginning of last season and I say this with great honesty he was the best of poor bunch.

As a youngster he never set the world alight but last season as so many have rightly pointed out he scored a great number of goals. But I urge you to watch these goals anyway you can (alot were penalty's). They were all played off our Star man of last season bayo akinfenwa. Of course as a player you need to be there to score them but i wouldn't put it past any player in our team to score the goals he did. Saying that he does work hard, although don't expect him to challenge in the air or get his foot in, hes not that type of player. Best performance of this season was in a Cup game where I believe he set up two goals against Brighton but Its that lack of consistency that he does this once every 20 odd games that frustrates alot of Cobblers fans.

I'll be honest he is frustrating. He does put a shift in but sometimes he thinks hes Ronaldo. I know for a FACT that he and his dad think he is better than this division, certainly the cobblers.

Yes 200 games says alot for a 23 year old, but he became a 'teachers pet' so to speak to alot of managers. Many called upon him as he is a very solid player, but he doesn't produce moments of quality often enough and then he doesn't have that 'mean streak' that you want from a centre mid.

Some of you I believe have posted him here as being a winger. He's played CM for us alot of the time and he was moved out onto the wing in recent months. I'll be honest he thinks hes better than he is and he thinks he runs a midfield. When he played as a winger he just didn't look interested. He has an attitude problem, last season eh had a fight with out then assistant after being substituted. If he plays Saturday he doesn't shut up shouting his mouth off at referees and often leads to yellows and he also gets involved with incidents nothing to do with him alot. I don't get this he gives 100% thing he puts a shift in for sure but ive never seen him get consistently box to box or chase players down.

I have seen a few people questioning that our fans are happy for him to leave. We are not idiots, a lot of us have withness all 200 of his games. Its saying something that the manager he played the most under got us relegated and then sacked. Hes an alright player sure. Leon Constantine played 32 games for us last season and he was utter garbage.

He has had his injury problems and around the time of the Liverpool game early this season he apparently needed an operation but he delayed this till the end of the season.

I think he will work very hard for you, if anything to prove all his doubters at Sixfields wrong. He's a 6 out of ten player is what I'd call it. He does some things well and others bad but he'll never be terribly poor but never terribly great either.

Best of luck!