Hello friends and warm welcome back to my Torquay United story. This report will feature the build up to life in League One following our tremendous title win last season. So without further ado let’s get right to it. At the end of the season I was offered a new contract which I accepted though it seemed a bit stingy to me after just winning the title but I decided not to negotiate and be [Read more]

Hello friends and welcome to my end of season report from the English Riviera. As you know we wrapped up the tiitle by the end of March so lets see how the last eight games played out. Results As we really had nothing to play for other than amass points the team actually performed quite well only losing two of the remaining games. Disappointingly hardly anyone showed up for our home games except for the [Read more]

Hello my friends and thanks for dropping by as I bring you the latest update from Life on the Riviera. The first game of the month was away to Hereford which allowed Omar Koroma to finally get a start up front after joining us on loan from Portsmouth. It didn’t take long to get himself on the scoresheet pouncing on a deflected shot by fellow loanee Victor Palsson after just 8 minutes. We had to [Read more]

Hello friends and welcome back to the next installment of my Torquay story. The new year began with a Third Round FA Cup tie at home to Swansea in front of a capacity crowd of 6,100 fans. We put Swansea under pressure immediately with both Barrowman and Freeman going narrowly wide and yet again Nicky Wroe hiting the woodwork. An injury to Shane Hooks saw us briefly down to ten men and Swansea took full [Read more]

Hello everyone and thanks for checking in as I bring you the latest update in my Torquay story. As the month began Craig Eastmond who was one of our short term Arsenal loans left the club and returned the London. He ended up with a rating of 7.23 and I would highly recommend him for lower league action. Our first game of the month was at Plainmoor against Cheltenham and we quickly estbalished a base camp [Read more]

Hello friends and greetings from Canada where the 40C humidity has finally broken thank goodness. The first game of the new month was away to Stafford Rangers in the FA Cup First Round. I knew this would be a difficult game but nonetheless I decided to rotate a few players in that hadn’t managed a first team appearance for some time. With their match fitness a bit suspect and the prospect of an upset, Stafford [Read more]

Hello friends and welcome to another Torquay update. It was a public holiday in Canada on Monday which gave me a few hours to play! First up and by request from Ravenie is the profile of Jake Thomson. Our first game of the month was against Bury which proved to be one of the toughest games so far with Bury causing us all kinds of problems. However we held firm and got the only goal of [Read more]