Post by tufc01 on May 15, 2009 9:33:07 GMT
May 14, 2009 23:27:30 GMT @alpinejoe said:
An extraordinary result & I am very very surprised. 1. [glow=red,2,300]Although I am of the opinion that Steve Woods performances this season means that he fully deserved to win the award [/glow]
2. [glow=red,2,300]I was sure that a sufficient number of 'Bucklites' would deliberately not vote for him & thereby deny him the award[/glow]. I suspected the vote would be used rather as a means of showing solidarity with the Manager rather than actually acknowledging the best player.
Happily it would appear that didn't happen in sufficient numbers to deny Steve the prize he so richly deserved.
I had hoped that there had been a sufficient number of weeks for everyone to get all the anti Steve Woods sniping out of their systems in advance, so that by the time the result was announced we could confine ourselves to congratulating the winner.
Should we win on Sunday I will congratulate Paul Buckle on the achievement rather than use the occasion to point out that we would probably have gone up 12 months earlier had it not been for some of his eccentric decision making.
1. I take it this was said tongue in cheek to re-ignite the Woods argument?? There can't seriously be ANYONE who TRULY believes that Woods was our best player over the FULL course of the season. Ahead of Sills, Hargreaves, Bevan, Nicholson, Wroe??
You can't SERIOUSLY believe that Woods won it because of anything other than a crusade to undermine Paul Buckle. Isn't that the real issue here?
2. Here you are absolutely right. I will happily admit i am one of your 'Bucklites', as much as you are one of the 'anti-Bucklites'. You are also right in assuming that i used my 'votes' to try and show solidarity to the manager, just as it was obvious that those who were voting for Woods were using as a stick to try and beat him with it. (that said i reckon Buckle is a bigger man than to allow something as obviously contrived as this to worry him).
I personally believe that Bevan was Player of the season, thats who i voted for in the paper vote at Plainmoor, in the misguided belief that people were voting for footballing reasons. Once it became apparent that it was no such thing. I changed my allegiance to Tim Sills, who i thought would probably win it anyway.
By the time the results started to appear on the .com website it was more than obvious that it had turned into a farce. The number of votes cast was more than double the average attendance and there was still a few weeks to go.
The online vote allowed 1 vote per email address. There are 3 Torquay fans in my house. All 3 of us are pretty much of the same opinion that Woods did not deserve to win it, we have seen well over half the matches this season and had formed our opinions based purely on what we had SEEN ON THE PITCH, but we all differ on who we believe should have won it.
I can guarantee that we were able to 'canvass' several hundred votes for Sills in that last week, so for Woods to still win it is even more of a tremendous achievement.
I know you are going to cry foul, 'votegate' scandal etc, but we all know it was happening the other way around as well, i was trying to even the playing field. Obviously it didn't work and Woods won it 'Fair and Square' 'Untarnished'.
I enquired in a post last night if it would be possible to publish the actual number of votes cast. This i believed would show a massive number of votes, way more than we would have expected and therefore show the vote as the farce it had really turned into.
Strangely, i probably concerned myself more with this Paul buckle did. Probably time for me to move on from the whole Woods saga.
In fact i might now join the Woods for manager club, epecially now that i realise that Buckle should have got us promoted last season.
It shocking that a manager joined a club on the brink of going under, with 3/4 players on the books and 'failed' to gain promotion in that first season.
