Reserve Team Or Smaller Squad

yep reserve team for me as well.

When we are in the league next season we could afford it.

Always look on the bright (yellow) side of life

We certainly couldn't afford to reduce the playing staff. Two players for every position is roughly what any manager would want at the start of a season i think. But i also don't believe it's feasible to think we're in a position to introduce a reserve side. That would certainly be the solution in an ideal world, but to run a reserve side, and play the amount of games necessary without too many players having to play a couple of games a week, you're looking at carrying a squad of 30+, and i don't see that being financially viable. I think the obvious option, which Bucks has done to an extent this season, is to utilise the loan system - it doesn't have to be one-way! A squad of 22, with 3 or 4 out on loan at any one time (with recall clauses) keeping in shape, has to be the best choice for us in our current situation.

You're probably right, we couldn't afford to carry 22 players of decent quality - certainly if several of them were harldy to kick a ball. With the selection preference of the manager, we could maybe manage with 15 or 16 quality players, with 5 or 6 lesser squad members, who would be happy to be called upon only when desperation calls. Didn't we try that before though?

Given the obvious investment due the board's determination in achieving promotion and the very obvious loss of a third of last season's average support, I don't think any right thinking person would be surprised when a substantial financial loss is announced for this period.

This only goes to underline just how much of a thankless task and an almost impossible mission it is to adequately fund a competitive professional football operation in any area let alone Torbay, and even in the BSP as opposed to the Football League.

Promotion back to the Football League will ensure the club receives a substantial monetary influx by way of the "reverse parachute" arrangements put in place when two up and two down were agreed between the Football league and the BSP a few years ago.

Failure to win promotion will inevitably result in a much reduced budget being in force for next season, a budget that could well have far reaching consequences for OUR football club and ALL those who are employed by it.

Therefore I continue to find it extremely exasperating that a growing juvenile and lame brained faction are showing their inability to grasp even the most basic of tenets, namely that the Football Club can only function as well as the support of the public allows it, AND as well as it's all round financial income allows it.
They show this inability by jumping on such things as the "Woods Is A Martyr" bandwagon, the "Hargreaves MUST Be Employed For Ever" school of thought and the "It's Too Expensive To Go In" lobby, when in fact the match day entrance cost is set to remain virtually unchanged for three years now.

Taken all that into consideration, isn't it obvious just how important this Sunday's match is in the future of OUR football club, and the future prospects of all who work for it?

I'm afraid it appears to be the opposite with so many though, given the pathetic wittering of Fonda over his latest hobby horse and the Player of the Season awards............................wittering that hardly command a support faction of one on this forum yet seem to attract the like mindedness of a considerable percentage of juvenile or juvenile minded contributors to "another site".

If ever a subject told a particular story as to the intelligence and common sense of the two sites' various and varied contributors, then the topical points of the past twenty four hours, then this is it; and if ever a subject were to reveal those who choose to continue to contribute to that "other site" then this would be it.

Shane we talked a while ago about your membership on the forum, nothing has changed in anything I said to you then. Firstly you freely joined and as a fan of TUFC you were welcome to become a member.

Being a member gives you the opportunity to post any views you may have, it will mean that those views may often be challenged, but then you know that as do all who use forums.

What you should also expect is that only your views are questioned or agreed with and nothing should ever be aimed at you that might be considered personal. As adults on here we should be able to disagree without the need to start being rude or insulting or being over personal.

Last night you posted your views, I came back to you with mine and then you replied fair enough that is how it should be done by everyone.

So the question is do I think you are a serial moaner Shane? there are times I would have to be honest and say yes, but I know you go to plenty of games, pays your money over and therefore you have a right to have views like any other fan.

This is only my view, but where I think you go wrong is not looking at something from every angle before you make a post on it. For example, you could feel that Woods was pushed out of the club unfairly and also truly believe he won the award only because he fully deserved it and then you see the presentation not going ahead as normal, then there would be nothing wrong asking the question, is Woods being treated poorly again.

But stand back and read what the club said on their website and also in the Herald Express and ask yourself is what they are saying making good sense when the game is a season defining one.

I know that if it was Wroe who won it(I voted for him) and the club put out the same statement I would not worry that Wroe would have to wait to receive his award and I don't think anyone else would. Its only because Its Wood who left the club under what some might like to call a cloud.

Even if the club had taken the decision because it was felt that Woods was voted for to put two fingers up to the manager, you would not expect them to make a statement to that fact. As I said before its a case of looking at what really is the most important part of the day and at this time just before such a big match, we really should be posting our views and thoughts on the game.

Its so easy to look to deeply into things and spend far too much time trying to find answers that may not even be there, sometimes we just need to except that some things are done for the reasons stated.

Go back a few months to a thread title that appeared on the other forum Colin Lee Bans The Sponsor posted only knowing one half of a story and not considering all the true facts.

Two powerful men locked in a dispute over a private matter, one the CE of the club and one the sponsor. Knowing the two men would it really have been wise to have them both in the same place at that time? well I don't think it would have been and as Colin Lee is the CE, you would not expect to see him being asked to stand on the popside.

As a result of all that was put out on that forum did anything change? did Alex Rowe resign as asked, or even Colin Lee, did Bucks agree that he can't have any medical supplies as was stated for his players? I can tell you nothing did change and what good did any thing that was written do, nothing just so easily could have caused real harm.

It was all very sad for all concerned and there as always must have been blame on both sides, but that night we also had a game on and someone at the club has to make decisions putting the very best interest of the club first.

That I believe is what has happened now and lets please put our energy into writing some good points about the game ahead.

Fonda

Please dont delete your link to this site.

I for one enjoy reading your views and I do think that sometimes you get a raw deal...from what I recall you used to get a raw deal on the kids site too.

Keep plugging your point of view no matter who disagrees with it , I for one think that this s ite would be poorer if you left.

Your view is as valid as the next persons.