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Post by Jon on Jan 1, 2018 9:40:56 GMT
Just stopped raining now and forecast to stay clear until about 4.
A huge amount of rain in the past week, but no sign of a pitch inspection so I assume it is game on.
Dowling back so we have 16 to choose from. I assume Higgins is not available.
Will Dowling start or will he be on the bench? If he does start, do we go more attacking and leave out Lathrope or do we leave out Gosling - who may struggle with two games in three days?
Or do we totally shake things up by rejigging the back five to get square pegs in square holes?
Given our appalling recent form - no wins and just two goals in six games - there is not much to look forward to on the pitch.
I am at least fortunate in that I can look forward to Chelston's "measured and erudite comments".
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Post by chelstongull on Jan 1, 2018 10:13:51 GMT
A huge amount of rain in the past week, but no sign of a pitch inspection so I assume it is game on. GAME OFF www.torquayunited.com/ |
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Post by Jon on Jan 1, 2018 13:31:06 GMT
Thanks for those erudite words Chelston. Perfect drying weather at the moment - windy and sunny - but there has been a hell of a lot of rain overnight and this morning so not really surprising. Had a walk round Berry Head and an excellent brunch in the cafe there. Beautiful weather for blowing away the xmas cobwebs, but lots of the paths were flooded. The chances of us scoring a goal this afternoon are only very slightly reduced by the game being called off. Maybe we will have our two new goal scoring strikers by the time the game is played. With both us and Eastleigh out of the Trophy at the first hurdle and looking at a blank Saturday on January 13, that is the obvious date for a re-arranged fixture - avoiding the need for a winter dark and cold Tuesday night game. |
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Post by Jon on Jan 3, 2018 23:21:40 GMT
Dowling back so we have 16 to choose from. Gnabouyou, Efete and Davey gone. Then there were 13 - including two keepers and just three defenders. |
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Post by Jon on Jan 3, 2018 23:22:19 GMT
With both us and Eastleigh out of the Trophy at the first hurdle and looking at a blank Saturday on January 13, that is the obvious date for a re-arranged fixture - avoiding the need for a winter dark and cold Tuesday night game. Now confirmed for January 13. |
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Post by atheringtongull on Jan 4, 2018 1:48:29 GMT
With both us and Eastleigh out of the Trophy at the first hurdle and looking at a blank Saturday on January 13, that is the obvious date for a re-arranged fixture - avoiding the need for a winter dark and cold Tuesday night game. Now confirmed for January 13. I see the long range weather forecast for Torquay on 13th January is 3.8 cm of snow and temperature of 1 degree C. |
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Post by stewart on Jan 13, 2018 1:31:28 GMT
I'm surprised that Jon has not reactivated this thread by forecasting what the team and formation are likely to be. Perhaps he has finally become as pissed off as I am about how far this club has fallen, not only in the past fourteen years, but particularly since the sixties and early seventies. It now seems incredible that I once had the privilege of watching Robin Stubbs, John Smith, and three great players from West Ham who decided that a move to Torquay would be the best way of ending their careers. One of them was actually an English international!
Tomorrow's (or actually today's) team will probably consist of two ever-presents, one (the goalkeeper) who has played in most of the games, three others who have played in half of them, and the remaining five, who will be appearing at Plainmoor for the first time. I'm not saying that the current management should take the blame for this amazing fragmentation. However, perhaps either Kevin Nicholson should have been left to bring about a third "Great Escape", or Owers and Kuhl should have been invited to select their own squad back in August. Who knows how either scenario would have panned out?
Alan Hansen once said that kids would not win the Premier League for Manchester United. He was proved wrong, and by the same token posters on here who believe that a series of loaned players will keep Torquay United in the NLP are equally mistaken. Whose fault that is no longer matters, as all we now have to look forward is seeing our club playing against teams next season which we would have well and truly thrashed in byegone days.
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