TammyAB Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 Torquay fans have launched a bid to save their beloved club who are currently in financial trouble, so if anyone here has any change spare then feel free to help them out here: http://www.gofundme.com/a53svkr8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoons Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 strange situation considering last season they were owned by lottery millionaire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cider_boy Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 Looks like it's going well - raised £55 in 23 hours.That could buy a few new white plastic chairs for the gas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 I guess they have already tried tapping up Helen Chamberlain, she is their biggest fan and worth a few Bob I would think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenkibby. Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 strange situation considering last season they were owned by lottery millionaireThe lottery winner was quite a few years ago and I'm pretty sure he's now dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 The lottery winner was quite a few years ago and I'm pretty sure he's now dead.His numbers up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Red Rich Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 The lottery winner was quite a few years ago and I'm pretty sure he's now dead.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1290913/Britains-generous-Lotto-millionaire-dies-aged-59.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRock Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 Poor old Torquay! Be a real, real shame if they fold. Nice ground and a core of really passionate and loyal fans, who follow the Club through thin and thin.The lottery millionaire was really generous. After he passed on his wife took over and continued to support the Club.... but she gave up last year... the family having pumped millions into the Club including funding a new stand. Percentage wise put far more in to 'their' Club than SL has to City (although that no slight on the supremely generous Lansdown family). Know the former CEO well, who I believe actually worked for the Club for free initially - a real fan who lived and breathed TUFC. Just one of many Clubs that are suffering from the Sky-inflated market place. Be nice if a small slice of the billions in the game went out to the Clubs on the margins. As it is, prices the last time I went were comparable if not more expensive than City and they're still struggling to make ends meet.Can never forgive them though for being 2-0 up against the Slags into the second half and losing 3-2 a few seasons back. Infact, been friggin years since they beat them. Will pop down for a midweek game sometime to show my support and give them a few squid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoons Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1290913/Britains-generous-Lotto-millionaire-dies-aged-59.htmlhis widow carried on running it for a few years. Seems there in a right mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenkibby. Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 Poor old Torquay! Be a real, real shame if they fold. Nice ground and a core of really passionate and loyal fans, who follow the Club through thin and thin.The lottery millionaire was really generous. After he passed on his wife took over and continued to support the Club.... but she gave up last year... the family having pumped millions into the Club including funding a new stand. Percentage wise put far more in to 'their' Club than SL has to City (although that no slight on the supremely generous Lansdown family). Know the former CEO well, who I believe actually worked for the Club for free initially - a real fan who lived and breathed TUFC. Just one of many Clubs that are suffering from the Sky-inflated market place. Be nice if a small slice of the billions in the game went out to the Clubs on the margins. As it is, prices the last time I went were comparable if not more expensive than City and they're still struggling to make ends meet.Can never forgive them though for being 2-0 up against the Slags into the second half and losing 3-2 a few seasons back. Infact, been friggin years since they beat them. Will pop down for a midweek game sometime to show my support and give them a few squid. can remember going to plainmoor many times in the early 70s div 3 most of their games K.O were 7.30 on a Saturday nite.stubbs,mitchinson,cave.they had a pretty tidy side!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Orns Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 I read somewhere that all the home teams in the UCL next week are giving €1 per ticket sold to refugees Wouldn't it be lovely if one (or more) of the big boys here helped clubs out in the same way. Not that I'm comparing the two situations, you get my point...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoons Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 remember Leroy lita scoring a hat trick at plaimoor but not seeing any of the goals due to fog!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenkibby. Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 Before the lottery winner torquay were run by a guy that sold double glazing, how lucky are we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogbad the Bad Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 Torquay away. In the early to mid 80's that meant a riot in a Torquay night club the night before the game, several City fans being rescued after getting so drunk they attempted to row out to sea, and City hitting the national headlines after one of the Nolan Sisters reported her terror at having her car rocked from side to side and almost turned over by irate, and far from gentlemanly, City fans after the game. Think we somehow contrived to lose as well, so all in all a fairly typical away day of that era in every respect.Good luck to Torquay, they're obviously a far, far superior football club to Bristol Rovers ( for instance ) and hopefully they'll outlast them by a very long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Can never forgive them though for being 2-0 up against the Slags into the second half and losing 3-2 a few seasons back. Infact, been friggin years since they beat them. I seem to remember them going to the Mem the season before last an beating them 2-1....a result that started the NLBR thread and set them on their way gloriously marching into the Conference.Save Torquay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marina's Rolls Royce Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 remember Leroy lita scoring a hat trick at plaimoor but not seeing any of the goals due to fog!!That's exactly what their keeper said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrs Court Red Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Shame, top away day. Really hope they do a Bourmouth and rise to the top level, so we can play them in the Prem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 The target only seems to be £10k. This might buy a few plastic chairs, but not much else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Colby-Tit Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 I guess they have already tried tapping up Helen Chamberlain.I tried that and ended up with a restraining order Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheatus59 Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 I tried that and ended up with a restraining orderId chuck some dough in for them , lovely little team , quaint ground , nice place to visit , we need all west country teams to survive . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Before the lottery winner torquay were run by a guy that sold double glazing, how lucky are we?He saw a window of opportunity obviously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiverRed Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Maybe we could buy Levi Ives from them... no, wait, ummm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swampy Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 wayne rooney give a few day's salary?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Sod Torquay - they regularly humiliate us pre season.TFR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldstandrobin Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Used to take my elderly uncle down to Plainmoor years ago as he could have a pint in 'Boots and Laces' and we could sit him in the stand opposite the Pop Side, take him a pasty and Bovril at half time and back for a drink after the match. The missus and I used to stand at Crackers Corner with a bloke who always took the p*ss out of the away substitutes. Some times when they reacted it was hilarious. Remember the bucket coming round one match to pay the wages for Jason Roberts when he played for the Gulls on loan. Lovely little club, I will donate and just hope others will as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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