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First half so poor, awful piece of defending leading to the pen, and then it felt a bit like we were hanging on to half time.

Second half much better, Cooke is a real presence in the air winning the majority of his duals. Their keeper pulled off a couple of decent saves and that was ultimately the difference. I felt we deserved a draw (biased!). Hamon came to the rescue on a couple of occasions but they were saves you’d expect him to be making.

We will improve as the team gels, I just hope we get more performances like the second half and not the first…!

First away day of the season, full of early season optimism - 3-1 TUFC

Win on day one of a new season, can't ask for more than that. I thought the team looked good, and plenty to build on. On another day we could have scored 2-3 more and the result would have been more comfortable. On to the next one - COYY!

Job done - during periods of the game I thought we played well. Actually stringing a couple of passes together and getting it wide for Stobbs to run at their RB.

Ash put a real shift in and never stopped running but we miss having a sizeable presence up top to hold the ball up and win duals.

Yellow Army were on form and the atmosphere was great - when things started to get nervy everyone got behind the team and willed them over the line.

Can now put this horror of a season behind us, pray that we get a deal over the line for the club and start forward planning. COYY!!

My gut tells me it'll be a roller-coaster of a match tonight, when isn't it with us...1-nil down early to trigger the nerves and the boys to pull it out of the bag for 2-1 win.

Bottom line, if we don’t win Tuesday night we don’t deserve to stay up.

Big win - 7 games to go and it’s in our hands. Just hope we don’t take it down to the last day

Torquay 3 - Dartford 1

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Torquay win…and a clean sheet!!!

portugull wrote: ↑17 Feb 2024, 22:09 I am not sure about that york-gull.

Gary J looks a beaten man and I truly think for the Club, for Gary, and for his Family it would be best to call it a day now.

I hope common sense prevails because we all know something has to change and change quickly for everyones sake.

Agree common sense needs to prevail - frustration for poor performances on the pitch are aimed at GJ, but CO is ultimately culpable for the whole thing top to bottom. He has a duty of care to everyone at that club that if they are no longer fit for purpose he should take them out of the firing line.

The post match interview angers me, it’s fair to criticise the players for their performance but accept some of the responsibility yourself!! They’re your players, that you recruited, operating in your “system” and under your instructions for christ sake….

He talks about players being low on confidence, his job as a leader of that dressing room is to give the players confidence. Change is needed, is it coming? Unlikely….

Zero consequence for underperformance, GJ continues to show poor performance is rewarded….speechless that he looks set to be in the dugout for Tuesday night’s game.

Commendable effort from the boys tonight but a serious lack of quality, especially in defence.

We didn’t start either half well and that was our downfall…at 2-2 with 15mins to play I thought we could show some spirit and hold on. Unfortunately their captain has scored an absolute screamer.

2-0 Stones…

To us as fans GJs position is untenable, is bleeding obvious, CO is either incapable (or willing) to pull the trigger. The next 4 games include 3 (Maidstone, Slough & Braintree) who are either in a playoff position or would fancy a run at getting in with a strong second half of the season. I think GJs future is decided in the next fortnight, with the culmination of events resulting in an empty dugout for Farnborough away….

Can’t believe I’m saying this, think it’s the duration of time that has passed since we’ve been in the football league, but…I’d accept another season in the NLS if it meant we had a manager / plan that we can get behind, I just don’t hold too much hope in the short term…

For me the plan for TUFC over the next few years should be a simple one, set a budget that we can live within to stabilise our financial outlook, galvanise the community with decent two ways comms and slowly re-build. Whilst I don’t believe a new stadium will built under COs ownership, the prospect frightens the living hell out of me. The structuring of the finance will put us at risk, and Darlington comes to mind….new stadium which effectively pushed them into administration almost 10 years later and the club disappearing down the pyramid. Pray that doesn’t happen to us.