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AustrianAntheaGull wrote:I'd be honoured to have Ricey as our No.1 next season and Pearce if he can somehow be persuaded to stay would be an immense coup for us. That's it.

Chappell is not a league 2 player. He is a slightly better version of Billy Bodin. All fancy tricks and no end product. He has had plenty of opportunity to prove otherwise but not done so. IMO it is because he isn't up to the standard required and we should stop making excuses for these players and claiming that we've seen glimpse or flashes of what they can do. Well why don't they just f**king well do it more often than once every 3 months then?!!! Because they aren't good enough is a viable answer.

Get rid of everyone else. If Hawley stays then he must NOT pull on a TUFC shirt ever again. Just pay him to do what he has been doing all season which is piss all but this time he can go and play golf or summat on a Saturday. I don't want him within 50 miles of Plainmoor when a game is on.

If Bodin is given a new contract then that's me done no word of a lie until he leaves the club. There are people out there with REAL talent getting up at the crack of dawn making hand woven hand baskets out of splints of wood in the shape of giraffes, people using their creativity and talent and actually applying it such as painting oils on canvas of the sunset over Berry Head or transforming beachcombing finds into elaborate jewellery and articles to sell on. All in the face of a crippling economic climate but they have belief in their ability, a passion for what they are doing and they are willing to do what it takes to earn a living and be proud of what gift they possess.

These people are trying to showcase what they have and make an honest crust. They don't claim to be one thing then churn out endless bollocks and excuses. There are none. Excuses mean failure and no money coming in for these people. Bodin is a charlatan and hides behind 10 others in order to get paid. A total joke. He should be thoroughly ashamed of himself and be made to undertake workshops with all the individual talented folk out there who have an ACTUAL gift and a desire to make others happy. Then he might see that he is in the wrong profession once and for all. If we re-sign Bodin then I will not go to ANY Torquay game until he is gone. He has had 2 whole seasons FFS and given absolutely nothing. He now usurps Jamal Easter as the worst ever Torquay player I have ever seen.

For those who say he will stay in the football league because he's too good for the conference then I say show me the evidence. He would struggle in the conference IMO and he needs to start lowering his sights and look for a new club such as Macclesfield or Lincoln perhaps because that is probably his true level.

Downes I'm not sure on. He has struggled a lot this season and I have a feeling he's come to the end of the road. Sad though it is.

tommyg wrote:I would guess Poke, Rice, Mansell, Labadie and Bodin will be offered new deals. The first three will probably re-sign but the latter two will likely get a better offer elsewhere. Nicholson can't even get on the bench so think he'll be released, along with Thompson and Craig. Cruise, Yeoman, Stevens and Lathrope could go either way.

From the contracted players, Pearce will surely be off, while Hargreaves clearly doesn't rate Downes or Chappell. We'll be stuck with Benyon, Hawley, Tonge and Harding. Cameron appears happy to stay based on his interview last week. I'm guessing Sullivan and Hutchings will be given a chance.

Staying
Poke
Rice
Tonge
Hutchings
Mansell
Harding
Cameron
Sullivan
Benyon
Hawley

Plus maybe Cruise, Lathrope, Stevens and Yeoman.

That's what I think might happen, not necessarily what I'd like to see. I'd personally prefer a much cleaner slate.

gullno4 wrote:I see absolutely no reason why cargill, coulthirst, o connor, or Goodwin would want to play non league football for us? they are capable of league football! let's be realistic!

Rjc70 wrote:Of our presently contracted TUFC players, the definites that I'd want to keep would be Pearce, Lathrope, Harding and Cameron.
Maybes include Chapell, Rice and Downes.
Definitely nots are most of the rest, but certainly include Tonge, Nicholson and Mansell.

arcadia wrote: Rice will jump at staying who else will sign him, I expect several players have release clauses in their two year contracts. Mansell at the right wages will stay and is needed. I think you've got to be happy to get a few to stay as it's hard to get quality players to come to the area.