New Youth Team Sponsor?

It is a shame that after they've made such large strides in a small space of time something seems to have gone pear shaped. Fingers crossed for things continuing as they have.

Could be worse we could be Grays...3 sponsors pulling out and players asked to take 50% wage cut or leave in January...thats got to hurt for their die hards.

Well it is made very clear, by the statement put out by City Link through their legal advisers -that this is not anything to do with any sort of financial problems - which quite honestly would have been far more easier to understand in the current climate - but purely down to a "difficulty with an employee of Torquay United".

In my opinion, it's a great shame and a huge disappointment that this problem - which would appear to be between just two individuals - could not be sorted out between the two of them, without it resulting in CLB pulling the plug on what was supposed to be a three year commitment to youth development at TUFC.

I have no idea what the issues behind this are, only that there seems to be have been some sort of "falling out" but it is disappointing that it has come to this, just a few months into the sponsorship.

On the positive side, it is good to hear Alex Rowe state that the football club are still committed to the youth scheme, and it does appear that it will continue. I think finding a new sponsor may prove difficult in the current economic climate though - and if it ends up that the directors of the football club have to put their hands in their own pockets to keep it going - that money may have to be redirected from the first team playing budget in future months/years in order to sustain it.

if it is a case of being some form of dispute / clash of personalities at the club and the sponsor then I cannot see much more being released from the club. Information hasn't been a regular thing from the club since the takeover last summer, but I've grown used to the situation the club have been very loud and clear in their ACTIONS (backing the team and developing the Plainmoor facilities).
I certainly prefer that to ownership that basically became 'rent-a-quote' and seemed to take more interest in the employment of family members!

Anyway, I digress. . . . .It's a shame that the partnership between the club and the sponsors to get the youth set-up has ended. The main concern for me is that the promising start continues and any setbacks are minimal.
If both parties would rather this remain behind closed-doors then it's surely better that this is the case and all parties can move-on.. An unwanted public row will do no-one any favours - let alone the most important thing - TUFC.