Torquay United Fans Forum

Hi all, long time no speak. Quick correction to the opening post, Jermaine Grandison has played the last two matches at centre back, young Goldson has been filling in a right back, both have done very well. I think we will have the same back four from Arsenal against you owing to injuries to Regan, Sharps and Sherriff. In midfield and attack we look frighteningly threatening with Wright and Ainsworth's pace and trickery on the wings, Ainsworth in particular has really stepped up his game from last season. Morgan has also made a huge impact with his pace and power and ability to make things happen, and Gornell has showed himself to have super link up play and a great footballing brain, before getting sent off against Hereford. I'd expect him to replace Collins in our starting line up, despite his super goal vs Arsenal. Also yet to mention our central midfield pairing of Wroe and McAllister, who are both in the best form of their short Shrewsbury careers and are currently bossing the opposition midfields and running games. We're in really good form, in the league we've won 5 of our last 6 after a slow start, however your decent start hasn't gone unnoticed and I notice you're yet to lose away from home in the league.

Anyway, you guys, looks like a really changed team and of course a new manager, would you say you're stronger than last season or weaker? Howe and Bodin seem to have made good starts for you, we're not keeping many clean sheets, I can definetly see you scoring.

Safe trip up to all who come on Saturday, I think it will be a really close game, but sorry for you guys but I can see us nicking it by the odd goal

Unlucky guys but I did feel Stevenage were the better team. See you next season

Echo everyone else. We let ourselves down at Plainmoor and didn't do enough last night to get ourselves back into it. Could go on about how we were terrible but at the end of the day it was just that we were beaten by a better team. A bit hard to take, especially as we got within a whisker of automatic promotion, but all the best at Old Trafford, go and take that promotion

Well done, you definetly deserved it, we just couldn't break you down and you were always dangerous on the break. Best of luck in the final against Stevenage.

Raven and Sharps back is good news, as long as they're not rushed back and actually are fit, it gives us our first choice back four that kept 5 successive clean sheets in the last 5 games of the regular season. Sharps in particular is a good ball player aswell, so should help our overall football, attacking and defensivly.
Safe trip to all those that travel up here tomorrow, credit to you, hoping for a cracking game. Hopefully whoever qualifies deserves it over the 180, or 210 minutes

Victor Kasule wrote:We play in blue and white and the keeper in full black so I can't see any reason you won't wear yellow.

They wore black in the league game though.

Well played Torquay, you just seem to have the wood over us. Not sure why we didn't bring more, but oh well. Impressed with the attacking side full of pace Buckle picks. We haven't given a proper account of ourselves against Torquay this season, so it's going to be a tough ask to suddenly pull a 2 or 3 goal win from somewhere, but we'll give it a good go and if we take the lead it could be a cracking match, I can't see you not scoring so we'll probably need 3 at least. Our defence is massivly weakened by Sharps, who's rated as very unlikely to be fit for Friday, and Raven, who missed our last 2 games, and the previous one at Plainmoor. He might be fit on Friday, but it's the wrong time to have defensive problems. Anyway, congrats on the deserved two goal win and performance, but there's plenty of football left to be played.

andygull wrote:Jake has been poor of late. Started like a house on fire but has been fairly anonymous lately. I'd be amazed if he would play against his parent club should such a game happen in the play offs though. Stanners has played his last game for us and as for Tomlin i don't know. I hate to say it but i've a feeling Wycombe will get 3rd and we will end up meeting at wembley in the final. Good luck for the final game anyway.

Well I was amazed we'd let him play against you in a regular league game, so it wouldn't surprise me at all should we have to face him! He's probably, kicked his last ball for us anyway, his contract's up in the summer and spending the last 6 months out on loan suggests he won't be getting a new one. The problem is apparantly just pure and simply down to an administrative cock up at our end, we had some woman take on the job and she was still fairly new to the job on deadline day, she had 9 deals to do and somehow left the blasted clause in! Steve Leslie was loaned out to Hereford a few weeks later, he couldn't play against us so maybe she's learned her lesson, could be a costly mistake though, very costly!
You've possibly already worked it all out but this is my take on it:

If you win then you'll finish 5th and play Accrington Stanley in the semis
If you draw, and the other two teams win you'll finish 8th
If you draw, and one team wins and the other team loses or draws you'll finish 7th
If you lose and the other two lose you'll finish 6th
If you lose and one of the other teams lose and the other doesn't you'll finish 7th
If you lose and both the others don't lose you'll finish 8th.
I think that's right, it's so close between you, Stevenage and Gillingham though, and still totally open as to whether it'll be us/Wycombe or Accrington.

Anyway best of luck, I'm not sure a trip down to Plainmoor on a Saturday night would be great fun, especially as I'd have to be back in Shrews for Sunday, but we travel pretty well and I'm sure should we meet in the semis or the final it'll be more of a contest than last time we played!

Hi, obvs I'm a Shrewsbury fan, it's looking like the play-offs for us and probably you too so I just wanted to come and ask a few questions.
Firstly, well done on a good season so far and in particular the footballing lesson you taught us. While your not certain of a place in the play offs yet I think you should get in with a point at Rotherham as I don't think both Stevenage and Gillingham will win. I also think we will end up in the play-offs so there's a good chance we'll be meeting somewhere along the line!

First things first how has Jake Robinson been playing? He seemed to have an electric start but since that game against us I haven't heard quite so much about him. Is he still playing well or does he flit in and out of games getting subbed off after an hour?
Anyway about Jake, I don't suppose you lot know what his play-off situation will be? Nobody our end knows, so I was wondering if you guys know exactly how long you've got him for? If he ends up playing against us and knocking us out, well I don't think I could take that.
Also you signed a couple of other loan players in January, Stanley and Tomlin, are these players eligable for the play-offs or do their loans expire beforehand? Hopefully they're both unavailable, Tomlin scored against us and Stanley has won all three games he's played against us this season!

Anyway, hopefully you know the answers as us at Shrewsbury haven't a clue, especially with Jake, best of luck next week aswell and hopefully you make the play-offs and we don't need them