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Hi Guys

My belated debut on the forum is a baptism of fire ahead of the massive game with Barnet tonight.

As mentioned by our new chief executive Andrew Candy in a recent thread, I am the media man here at Plainmoor, which means I’m ostensibly in charge of the club website, match-day programme and press relations.

A brief overview of my background starts with missing the target as a striker in the Sixth Form at Torquay Boys Grammar School, later moving to the mighty Hele Rovers, where I was sensibly moved into a midfield role of kicking people, rather than the ball.

On a professional level, I went travelling for a few years, graduated from Cardiff University and was told to grow up and get a proper job by my dad. Soon after, Plymouth Argyle called and I spent five years working through the media team at Home Park.

Just as the Green house of cards came tumbling down, the job of press officer at Plainmoor became available and I naturally jumped at the chance to abandon traffic jams for a career at my hometown club.

Along with Andrew, my role on here will be to hopefully provide clarity on certain issues within the club and perhaps explain the background behind some of the decisions we make, and stories released on the club website.

I am happy for anybody to contact me at any time and I’ll endeavour to respond to every enquiry. I will obviously keep an eye on what’s being said on here and get involved where appropriate, but you can always drop me an e-mail on [email protected]

In the meantime, I’ve put a link to a recent story posted on the club website that may spark some debate. First of all, however, three points tonight is everything.

Come on You Yellows.

Tim Herbert
Torquay United Media Manager

http://www.torquayunited.com/news/artic ... 74035.aspx
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Interesting information about the pitch and the planned improvements-I understand the Argyle pitch(which at the moment is in a much better state than ours) is a sand-based one underneath and stood -up excellently,despite very heavy rain,when we played them on Boxing Day.
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Behind-the-Gulls wrote:Interesting information about the pitch and the planned improvements-I understand the Argyle pitch(which at the moment is in a much better state than ours) is a sand-based one underneath and stood -up excellently,despite very heavy rain,when we played them on Boxing Day.
Yes it did. Not bad for something they never paid for and therefore do not deserve!

May be next year(if we get a comfortable distance safe from a relegation threat) we can do the same and then go into administration thus not having to pay for it!
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Tim Herbert wrote:Hi Guys

My belated debut on the forum is a baptism of fire ahead of the massive game with Barnet tonight.

As mentioned by our new chief executive Andrew Candy in a recent thread, I am the media man here at Plainmoor, which means I’m ostensibly in charge of the club website, match-day programme and press relations.

A brief overview of my background starts with missing the target as a striker in the Sixth Form at Torquay Boys Grammar School, later moving to the mighty Hele Rovers, where I was sensibly moved into a midfield role of kicking people, rather than the ball.

On a professional level, I went travelling for a few years, graduated from Cardiff University and was told to grow up and get a proper job by my dad. Soon after, Plymouth Argyle called and I spent five years working through the media team at Home Park.

Just as the Green house of cards came tumbling down, the job of press officer at Plainmoor became available and I naturally jumped at the chance to abandon traffic jams for a career at my hometown club.

Along with Andrew, my role on here will be to hopefully provide clarity on certain issues within the club and perhaps explain the background behind some of the decisions we make, and stories released on the club website.

I am happy for anybody to contact me at any time and I’ll endeavour to respond to every enquiry. I will obviously keep an eye on what’s being said on here and get involved where appropriate, but you can always drop me an e-mail on [email protected]

In the meantime, I’ve put a link to a recent story posted on the club website that may spark some debate. First of all, however, three points tonight is everything.
http://www.torquayunited.com/news/artic ... 74035.aspx

Come on You Yellows.

Tim Herbert
Torquay United Media Manager
Hi Tim

Welcome to the site.

I think it is great the club are trying to reach out to its fan-base more and using this medium as a platform is a great idea.

I think we all hope we can get out of this season unscathed and move forward both on and off as well as with the pitch.
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Hi Tim, welcome to the best TUFC site ;-)
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Post by Colorado Gull »

Hi Tim

Welcome to the site, hope to see you and Andy soon sometime again.

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Post by Dave »

Welcome to the site, thanks for the linked article, was good read, enjoyed the bit about earhtquaking.. ;-)
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