Torquay United Fans Forum

The next manager will be Geoff Harrop. Has applied for the job more times than Kattie Price has got her wobbilies out and has Bill Philips on his side now.

Not sure if he is the right person for the job tho, but then again who is???

Actually he is not the only person in the Academy to go. Also a few coaches have left.

A little birdy tells me that some of those we have now are not qualified to the correct level, and that we have more of the qualified ones looking at leaving due to how poorly things have started this season.

Some parents not happy also at having paid for kit thats not been provided still.

dutch the name came from getting back from Disney after taking the kids. Dunno why I chose it, must have been fresh in the mind lol

Dave, Thea has pumped in lots of money and I'm as greatful as you for that, but she is not a football person and needs either a good team to help her off the pitch (what I'm suggesting) or a new owner who knows what they are doing.

head

I know we are only little Torquay United but I cant help but feel that our beloved club is going downhill, and it seems to be gathering speed.

It was hard enough to watch the club get relegated last season, but to start the new season with so many issues that should of never happened, to me shows why we desperatly need a shake up.

We have had a delay in kit being here to buy, problems with stewards which then ends with a sarcastic post from the safety officer, and a cringeworthy piece on the website asking for £20 a month minimum for the training ground. As the wife pointed out, families in Africa with no food or water are only asking for £3 a month! Next of course we have a club with no email working, and thats not forgetting the fact we lost 3 influential board members and all this in the first few weeks of the season.

But I guess the real question is how to stop the rot and turn it around and give us fans something to really be proud of again.

Personally I think we need a big shake up, with people being replaced with someone who can do the job and not giving out jobs to people because the have played the game or been at the club a long time. Rob Stanley needs to go, if only for his I'm better than you attitude in his sarcastic post. Dean Edwards as good a player as he was is not the kind of commercial and buisness growing brain that we need. Do we need more board members or someone to come in and take over? again I think a chairman rather than a consortium would be better.

I want to be posative, but I also want to see action taken to move the club forwards. Not sitting on our hands watching the rot set in. Chris needs time to see if he can provide for us on the pitch, but we have to look off the pitch too.

Glad he has gone, bloke had a glass ankle and just diddnt have the balls to jump in the trench and fight with the rest to try and beat the drop. Yet was quite happy to get paid for doing sod all except moan at players for tackling him in training.

Also a point I think has been overlooked by some is the size of the squad we had (about 28 pro's?) towards the back end of the season.
Surely what we need instead of 28 below average players is 15/16 good players, and more empasis on bringing through the youth players.

Of those who have gone from youth team to first team in recent years how many have been given any real game time? Is there any point having a youth team if when they do produce players good enough to sign, we then leave them to rot on the side or loan them out to the dog and duck?

A good starting 11 and bench is a must, but then you have to make room for bringing in youth and this would also allow us more money to offer for better players in the starting 11.

nice big sausage

scumbag

just a thought but one of our ex players Craig Easton has been working within the academy as a coach this year, if he is/was still interested in playing would you re-sign him for next season?

ointment

but the smell

As a parent of a boy in the youth academy at Torquay, and with the time for reviews and new contracts fast aproaching, I would like to hear from a board member what intentions you have should the club be relegated.

The damage to the clubs name the last time the club closed the youth I would hope you will have learnt from, but many parents like myself are at the moment worried about signing anything when we could well be needing too ring up Plymouth and Exeter to try and help our children continue with their football.

I dont want to go into too much detail, but I think it is only fair with the commitment you have recieved from players and parents, over many years in he academy. That you or another board member makes a public statement about our futures.

willy

ice cream

my understanding is that its all to do with the EPPP that was brought in this year and that if we dont have people in to do certain jobs, and/or fail it then we are done for as would loose all funding towards the youth which would mean it shutting down again. Enough people were annoyed about it before and its certainly damaged the name/reputation of the club so I for one back them 100%, but as fan's should we not all do that anyway?