Torquay United Fans Forum

some of those kits were hideous.cant believe how many clubs have the audacity these days to bring out anything up to 3 new kits every year.everyone always said man utd were guilty but loads of teams are at it.by the way what concerns me is the designs for colchester and bristol citys away kits are far superior than any home kit we have had for years.who the hell designs the kits,how hard can it be.yellow shirt with blue (proper) collar and trims,blue shorts with yellow trim,yellow or white socks (go brazil) with blue trim.it isnt hard.why did we have white socks last season?yellow,yellow,white looked crap!yellow shirt,blue shorts,white socks would have looked a million times better and at least it would have made a statement and gave people something to talk about.

wow,rufus brevett thats a name i havent heard for a while.i remember him playing for doncaster for a couple of seasons against us and then he went on to play at high levels even premiership i think.the rivalry and contest between him and our paul smith was a much made of thing when we played doncaster.smithy used to win and give him a bit of a roasting every time if i remember rightly.i was at plainmoor the night smithys hamstring went 90/91 and he wasnt the same again,in fact i dont remember him playing much after.but he was the quickest i have ever seen in a torquay shirt with or without ball.i digress,maybethis subject should be a new thread.

i remember my dad having the herald delivered as an evening paper,reading about tufc was the main reason,before we had teletext, on a saturday evening he bought the late paper to get the tufc match report(even if we had been to the game and he already had the earlier edition)and the full results,that was stopped .then that evening paper became daily,am i right its not even printed in torbay anymore but in plimuff.media in the world has changed so much and i understand about the digital age,teletext,sports channel,internet etc, but still a lot of people rely on the newspaper for information,whats going on,a weekly paper will be doomed,the news will be outdated and on principle i think people will just say b***ocks to it. if sales are down surely the content and standard of the paper should come under scrutiny.lots of people i meet(and i meet a lot of people in my job) have said for a long time the paper has gone downhill.its the same as everything else take the easy way out slash and cut,dont sit down reorganise and think about where the real problems are and find a solution,do it quick and it looks good on paper.i for one will boycott the weekly,just on principal,it should still be daily.

oh my word that footage was fantastic,brought back loads of memories of when i was a kid watching the gulls,forgot how much it has changed.the old mini stand with the concrete open space next to it, im sure the herald reported that is where cyril knowles used to get the 97/98 squad to train and play "murderball".i remember about 30 of us kids stood at the back of the mini stand singing along with the pop side (too young for the pop)also there was just a gate between mini and pop and people used to just walk around the ground.remember being stood in the open terrace end of the pop in the rain singing our asses off.turned up one afternoon to watch us play gillingham i think and a tree had fallen accross the terrace and the game was called off not long before kick off.also when we played scarborough in the 98 play off 2nd leg stood in the open terrace away end(the whole ground did a mexican wave)one of the best nights ever at plainmoor 4-1 (7-1 agg).im sure the ground used to have a lot more atmosphere.

like i said i can only judge keepers i have seen in my time watching torquay,the first three keepers there were before my time,remember matthew gregg though was very suprised when palace signed him.didnt he nearly drop a right bollock in the 98 play off final im sure a commentator said it would have been the biggest keeper error ever seen under the twin towers.

12:01 still no news, now its getting tense.perhaps we have to wait another week to see if alex mcleish or billy davies are interested.

regiment wrote:i'm feeling lazy at moment, may come up with an XI later on, but having breezed through, didn't see any mention anywhere of our Commercial Manager Dean Edwards. admittedly, i was a mere lad when we reached the Sherpa Van Trophy Final, so didn't see many games that year, but the ones i did see, he is one of the players who remains in my mind. not sure he'd make my XI anyway, but thought he was worth a mention. i'll probably be shot down in flames as a result, so feel free to correct me if i just happened to see the only good games he had for us !!

deano came very close to my list, (well subs bench),scored two different games at wembley, top scorer in promotion season ahead of tommy tynan.ran around like headless chicken a lot of the time but his workrate was fantastic.a lot of players from that era i look at with rose tinted glasses because i was a young boy then and footballers are like heroes at that age,hence a few have made my list.plus footballers werent such to$$ers then.(OR AT LEAST DIDNT SEEM TO BE)

goalkeeper was a tough choice i can only choose out of players i have seen and remember,in the 24 plus years i have been watching and supporting the gulls veysey just about comes top.big nev and andy marriott come close though.cant really name many quality keepers.im sure veysey was player of the year in 89 despite his season being cut short by injury and then got sold to oxford who were 2 divisions above,how many keepers have we got a fee for,he was pretty superb in the 98 season also(oh so close that time).

(gk) KENNY VEYSEY

(rb) PAUL HOLMES (cb) MATT ELLIOTT (cb) PHIL LLOYD (lb) BRIAN McGLINCHEY

(RWM) PAUL SMITH (rcm) ALEX RUSSELL (lcm)JASON FOWLER (lwm) MARK LORAM

(cf) DAVID GRAHAM (cf) RODNEY JACK
manager: LEROY ROSENIOR

subs: NEVILLE SOUTHALL,WES SAUNDERS,LEE SHARPE,PAUL DOBSON,

I need not say a word ladies and gentlemen because that team speaks for itself.

as a 3rd generation supporter of 24 years i would consider myself someone who could have an opinion by now,to be honest i have seen the motorola emblem the whole time i have supported tufc but i have seen the old emblems in photos and i must say the old style on a new kit would spice things up loads.

i know stevie breed,he is great at commentary on games and yes he is a tufc fan,but he is as neutral as he can be.