Torquay United Fans Forum

ferrarilover wrote:Consolidation please. In fact, I don't ever want TUFC to go up beyond L1, but I'm well happy with L2 for the next few years.
What I really like about TUFC is that it's a small club. I like that the whole thing is worth less than Wayne Rooney's monthly salary. I like it because it's £13 to get in. I like it because I can wander up to the players at full time and congratulate them on a performance. I like that I can hang out by the tunnel and get my shirt signed. I like that I know by sight if not name, every supporter who stands within a 50ft radius of me. I like that Rotherham away is a big game. I like that our record signing cost £50,000. I like that the supporters have to paint the steps in the off season. I like that we sit and watch the FA Cup draw in case it produces a single tie which could change the course of the history of the club forever. I like that tea is £1 and a programme is £2.50. I like I can stand up. I like watching guys who earn good, but realistic money. I like that they all WANT to play, because if they don't, they can't feed their families or pay the mortgage. I like that I'm excited every time we get even a brief mention in the national media.
Yeah, Premier League football is better quality, but it comes at a massive cost, one which I am unwilling to pay. I don't want to have to pay £30 to get in. I don't want to have to pay £5 for a programme or £3 for a kipper tie. I don't want have to sit down in a 40,000 all seater stadium built miles out of town, surrounded by tourists and glory supporters. I don't want to have to win a competition or pay £500 to get into the VIP area of some gaudy nightclub just to catch a glimpse of our centre-back. I don't want to be disinterested in the FA Cup draw because our Russian or Middle Eastern owners have more money than they know what to do with. I don't want to pay £50,000,000 for Dave Torres just because it's a drop in the ocean to our owners. I don't want to know that my £30/week goes to paying some Spanish c**t with too much hair product and monogrammed alloy wheels on his pussy pink Ferrari.

How boring must it be to be a Chelsea fan? The only way is down. Since they are expected to win every game, the 90% of the time they do, there is no sense of thankfulness or excitement but the 10% they lose produces such depths of depression. Equally, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference how much a player costs or wants in salary, Abramovich just pays it and puts up.
Imagine just how incredible it would be if TUFC won the FA Cup. There are riots in Manchester if United DON'T win the FA Cup.
All those guys all over the world wandering around with the Arsenal crest on their shirt, what do they have in common with Robin Van Persie? By contrast, aside from occupation, each and every one of us could reasonably compare our lives with that of Mark Ellis, or Danny Potter.

In short, top level football is boring, it's killing the game and the sooner it all comes crashing down in a big ball of TEN FIGURE debt and prawn sandwiches, the better.
I want TUFC to stay as far away from it for as long as possible and I absolutely do not want them to get any closer than the middle of L1.

Matt.