Torquay United Fans Forum

Unitedtillidie wrote: ↑15 Sep 2024, 10:16 How do we no Wotton is a good manager, because he took Truro out of the southern league , oh whoopee doo . Yesterday was a shambles , clearly the majority aren’t good enough and we’ve got lucky all season . Hoofball with two short arses up front ain’t going to work as I said last week the attendances will drop off with this style of football .We havnt got a gk that will play out from the back and just keeps kicking long , Seymour looks like a lost schoolboy , Crosbie is nowhere near this standard , Ash needs twenty chances to score one , reminds me Of Dean Edwards just a lot worse , Palmer and Hammon are part time and boy can you tell . But don’t worry we have our club which is a big positive , just have to get used to results like this

I'm guessing that you don't know much football if you think PW only got Truro out of the southern league, bloody hell- he probably had one of the toughest jobs outside of the top 4 divisions in English football....I stand by that statement 100%...Truro were robbed of promotion during COVID, they had their ground sold off and ended up playing at Torquay briefly and in Plymouth having to put on free transport for a while for fans to attend games, they've had a nomadic existence for a good few years, culminating with playing in Gloucester last season for home games, and their schedule come the end of the season was colossal, I saw PW being interviewed at that time on sky sports news, he never once moaned or groaned, played the victim card or anything like that, he just knuckled down and got on with it, nobody has had it tougher in my view in the last 2 or 3 seasons than Truro and PW was at the helm of that situation, they were odds on to be relegated last season but they ended up with a respectable finish in the table...Gulls fans should be grateful that he's our manager

Paul Wotton is a very good manager and nobody really should be questioning him, he's only been in the job half an hour, with a new squad,it'll take time, yesterday it sounded like not 2 or 3 had an off game, but nearly all of them did, it happens to the best of teams, for whatever reason everyone has an off game, I'm going to just call it a blip, the next few games we need to bounce back and show what we really are about, I said on here some time ago ithat getting into the play offs would be a good achievement, I stand by this,..one last thing on yesterday is this, congrats to Bishop's Cleeve fc, probably the biggest win in their history, I heard they played well, and these guys really are posties,plumbers,brickies etc, so let's not overlook what an achievement for them to beat us, ex football league club with our history, so fair play to them.

Gulls 2-1 Aveley.

That's a good win today, very positive outcome, I've kept my thoughts to myself of late, but after 5 games I wanted to express my observations, PW has got an honest bunch together,well drilled and organised, the nucleus of a team is there...from what I've witnessed,read,and talked with fellow fans is this, we are direct,and we go from back to front quickly, we've had a bit of a luxury in playing Enfield and Chesham who'll probably struggle at this level, being a full time team you'd expect us to beat them...at the moment we are playing what I call functional, pragmatic football,it's not spectacular or mesmerising but we are winning football games and after the past few seasons I think we will all be happy with this, and factor in a new squad which takes time to settle.. maybe a bit more flair or style will come?, I'm not entirely sure it will, but if we do well this season I'm sure fans won't mind to much, I think finishing in the play off spots if it were to happen would be a good season.

Bath 1-2 Gulls

Farnborough 2-2 Gulls

Gulls 3-2 Enfield.

No!, lol, I'm not on the wind -up, but these players are loan players......ex Gulls to me are players who signed for us permanently, that's my opinion anyway... understand if other fans don't agree.

Loanees aren't our players...

I understand the thread, but to many loanees get mentioned in this section, half of whom I can't even remember, I hope the move for Ryan Bowman works out at Cheltenham, esp after his health issues of a few years ago,good on him.

Good luck to Ethon, always thought he was very much a "trier" who was always busy and energetic, hopefully it'll work out for him at Cheltenham.

SuperNickyWroe wrote: ↑21 Jun 2024, 15:24 No, the Cheats.

Why are MK Dons "the cheats" am I missing something?

I genuinely think Ash is a good player, I've no doubt he'll show this (he has in flashes) his record in the past two seasons is pretty solid, Crosbie is a bit of a wildcard,he could be a fantastic signing or it may not take off,but something tells me he'll be fine...and Seymour had a good season last season, got to think and stay positive, Jarvis had been good for us, but a lot of his goals were penalties, he seems to go on a good streak, then it would tail off, that was repeated a lot in his spell with us, good luck to him, but I'm not overly worried by him going, bit of a shame Archer has gone as I liked his work rate and enthusiasm.

Absolutely adamant that we use to run out to La Bamba by Los Lobos.....around1984/1985.... please someone confirm it for me!!. Or it played in the pre match warm up??

Nobody's being negative to suggest a mid table season at all, it's realistic in my eyes, and just glad that we (hopefully) won't be near the wrong end of the table next season, can anyone tell me o another club where 8,9 or even 10 new faces have been put together and it's just worked immediately??, I'm struggling to think of any, and I'm saying this quietly....9/10 it usually has the opposite effect and it doesn't happen, my big hope is Paul Wotton is in charge and he knows this league inside and out, and we are in safe hands with him, I just think we need to be realistic, esp with some decent teams in this league that we all saw last season, and now Borehamwood as well.