Post by hector on Dec 28, 2014 19:01:55 GMT
It is the paradox of supporting Torquay in this nightmare of a non-league shithole, that before the game, I would probably have taken a 0-0 away to a non-league, part-time club like Welling. How horrendously far we have fallen and the sort of acceptance, from some, that this is ok and reasonable.
Defeats to the likes of Braintree, Alfreton and Telford really are the lowest ebb this club has been at for nearly 90 years - it really is abysmal and draws to teams like Welling - without wishing to be disrespectful to them - are really not good enough. I don't blame Hargreaves like so many others would, I'm not sure it really is anyone's fault, other than whoever made the decision to appoint Alan Knill, but it does feel like the stuffing has been knocked out of the club and the collective will just isn't there.
Having spent Christmas with my family, and chatting to my dad, who has supported and attended Plainmoor for almost 60 years, we both agreed that we utterly understand those who stop going. If you no longer go, you no longer have to face the disappointment and sadness following Torquay, in current times, brings.
It's different to other years when we have been poor. We have never been so poor at such a low level, in anyone's living memory before - the text I received from a mate - an ex-season ticket holder - who said he wasn't going on Boxing Day contained the line 'I've fallen out of love with TUFC,' and I completely understand that.
The talk of promotion was empty - Hargreaves rationale of 'keep them up, or get them back up,' is looking a little daft now and I just do not know where we go, other than becoming a Lincoln, then worse.
Defeats to the likes of Braintree, Alfreton and Telford really are the lowest ebb this club has been at for nearly 90 years - it really is abysmal and draws to teams like Welling - without wishing to be disrespectful to them - are really not good enough. I don't blame Hargreaves like so many others would, I'm not sure it really is anyone's fault, other than whoever made the decision to appoint Alan Knill, but it does feel like the stuffing has been knocked out of the club and the collective will just isn't there.
Having spent Christmas with my family, and chatting to my dad, who has supported and attended Plainmoor for almost 60 years, we both agreed that we utterly understand those who stop going. If you no longer go, you no longer have to face the disappointment and sadness following Torquay, in current times, brings.
It's different to other years when we have been poor. We have never been so poor at such a low level, in anyone's living memory before - the text I received from a mate - an ex-season ticket holder - who said he wasn't going on Boxing Day contained the line 'I've fallen out of love with TUFC,' and I completely understand that.
The talk of promotion was empty - Hargreaves rationale of 'keep them up, or get them back up,' is looking a little daft now and I just do not know where we go, other than becoming a Lincoln, then worse.
