Post by Dave on Feb 24, 2013 8:06:08 GMT
Winning yesterdays game was always going to be a big ask of our players and no one can fault them for the effort and hard work they put into the game. To lose the game and not even get a single point that might well have been deserved, due to a defected goal, is the sort of bad luck struggling teams often get. It is often said you have to make your own good luck in games, but even with the best will in the world, you have no control over any bad luck that might come your way.
What is so frustrating is that we do have a great bunch of players; they work hard and can play some good football, but it has been clear for sometime now, we can’t score goals and that is what is costing us so many points and why we are on this painful losing run. We have been on such runs in the past, even under Paul Buckle we went on a few losing runs and we all know it can only take one win, to turn things around. Right now we would take that lucky goal to end this poor run, one would think it is time we had that little bit of luck we are due, but one can’t depended on that happening and we just have to find a way to start scoring goals again.
While I believe we are good enough to stay in this league, I do not believe we are to good to go down, better teams than ours in the past have ended up being relegated, football clubs much bigger than ours with far more support than we have at some point found themselves ending up in the conference. We all know the fears we have of ending up in that league again, we all know we might just find the way back to the football league again, would be so much harder the second time of asking.
One thing I have learned over the last ten or so years of my life is that you must never give up hope, where would you be if you did that? Yes there can come a time when you know the time has come when the hoping has to end as what is going to happen is going to happen no matter how much you do not want that to be the case. In football terms that comes when it’s no longer possible due to the points you have, to be able to stay up.
We still have things on our own hands, we are not yet in a situation where we are depending on results of other teams and so there is no point giving up hope just yet and writing off our team. This is the time fans prove their worth to the club and do their best to be that twelve man out on the pitch. The time has passed to lay the blame on the new grandstand, the money being spent on the new training facilities etc, as the main reasons we might be in this mess.
In saying that I do not think we should not be asking the questions why when it was so clear we were short of a few players who could have made such a difference to our recent results, was not addressed and why it has taken until now to wake up and see the problems we have all seen for sometime now.
One wonders if Martin Ling had not been taken ill, if anything at all would have been done, that we will never know, but I think we all know the new man is going to need much support from the club and needs to be able to try and add to the squad he has taken over. At least he sent out an attack minded team yesterday and fans on the whole were entertained far better than they have been of late, but the fact remains we suffered our sixth lose on the trop and that is relegation form in anyone’s book.
After all the highs we have enjoyed over the last four of five seasons, its no real surprise we are now having one of those sorts of seasons that once seemed to happen nearly every season in the past. While we have often failed at the final hurdle in recent seasons, to find ourselves near the bottom of the table this season, is not what we would have hoped for after all the progress the club has made since Roberts took us down.
Where we really just punching above our weight in recent seasons? If we are honest we did far better than might be expected of a football club that does not have the support it really needs to be challenging at the top of the table. I do not know how a club our size can even manage to balance the books each season, let alone put together a team capable of promotion.
We have talked in the past about all the reasons the club does not get the support it needs, such things as being located in a place where so many are not interested in football and care nothing about the Bay maintaining a professional football club. The very cost of attending games these days is another big factor and when you then look at what has been on offer for a while up at Plainmoor, its no wonder some fans have voted with their feet.
The new grandstand has not made the difference the club hoped for, but then you could build a brand new theatre in the Bay, but if you do not put on the sort of entertaining shows people are willing to pay for, it won’t matter one single bit how nice the seats are, or the views one might get of the stage. I have always felt the club fails time after time trying to reach out to the Torbay public, fails to try and win back all the lost fans that once would only be found up at Plainmoor on a Saturday afternoon.
This losing streak will come to an end, we still have enough games to get the points that will see us maintain our league status, staying up is all that is important right now and the club needs to make every effort it can to ensure that happens. I happen to share the fears some others have as what would happen to the club if it ended up back in the conference.
Let’s keep the faith fellow Torquay United fans, we have been in far worst positions in our history and we do support a club that has given us so many occasions in the past to be very proud of it. I have not given up any hope yet, have you?
What is so frustrating is that we do have a great bunch of players; they work hard and can play some good football, but it has been clear for sometime now, we can’t score goals and that is what is costing us so many points and why we are on this painful losing run. We have been on such runs in the past, even under Paul Buckle we went on a few losing runs and we all know it can only take one win, to turn things around. Right now we would take that lucky goal to end this poor run, one would think it is time we had that little bit of luck we are due, but one can’t depended on that happening and we just have to find a way to start scoring goals again.
While I believe we are good enough to stay in this league, I do not believe we are to good to go down, better teams than ours in the past have ended up being relegated, football clubs much bigger than ours with far more support than we have at some point found themselves ending up in the conference. We all know the fears we have of ending up in that league again, we all know we might just find the way back to the football league again, would be so much harder the second time of asking.
One thing I have learned over the last ten or so years of my life is that you must never give up hope, where would you be if you did that? Yes there can come a time when you know the time has come when the hoping has to end as what is going to happen is going to happen no matter how much you do not want that to be the case. In football terms that comes when it’s no longer possible due to the points you have, to be able to stay up.
We still have things on our own hands, we are not yet in a situation where we are depending on results of other teams and so there is no point giving up hope just yet and writing off our team. This is the time fans prove their worth to the club and do their best to be that twelve man out on the pitch. The time has passed to lay the blame on the new grandstand, the money being spent on the new training facilities etc, as the main reasons we might be in this mess.
In saying that I do not think we should not be asking the questions why when it was so clear we were short of a few players who could have made such a difference to our recent results, was not addressed and why it has taken until now to wake up and see the problems we have all seen for sometime now.
One wonders if Martin Ling had not been taken ill, if anything at all would have been done, that we will never know, but I think we all know the new man is going to need much support from the club and needs to be able to try and add to the squad he has taken over. At least he sent out an attack minded team yesterday and fans on the whole were entertained far better than they have been of late, but the fact remains we suffered our sixth lose on the trop and that is relegation form in anyone’s book.
After all the highs we have enjoyed over the last four of five seasons, its no real surprise we are now having one of those sorts of seasons that once seemed to happen nearly every season in the past. While we have often failed at the final hurdle in recent seasons, to find ourselves near the bottom of the table this season, is not what we would have hoped for after all the progress the club has made since Roberts took us down.
Where we really just punching above our weight in recent seasons? If we are honest we did far better than might be expected of a football club that does not have the support it really needs to be challenging at the top of the table. I do not know how a club our size can even manage to balance the books each season, let alone put together a team capable of promotion.
We have talked in the past about all the reasons the club does not get the support it needs, such things as being located in a place where so many are not interested in football and care nothing about the Bay maintaining a professional football club. The very cost of attending games these days is another big factor and when you then look at what has been on offer for a while up at Plainmoor, its no wonder some fans have voted with their feet.
The new grandstand has not made the difference the club hoped for, but then you could build a brand new theatre in the Bay, but if you do not put on the sort of entertaining shows people are willing to pay for, it won’t matter one single bit how nice the seats are, or the views one might get of the stage. I have always felt the club fails time after time trying to reach out to the Torbay public, fails to try and win back all the lost fans that once would only be found up at Plainmoor on a Saturday afternoon.
This losing streak will come to an end, we still have enough games to get the points that will see us maintain our league status, staying up is all that is important right now and the club needs to make every effort it can to ensure that happens. I happen to share the fears some others have as what would happen to the club if it ended up back in the conference.
Let’s keep the faith fellow Torquay United fans, we have been in far worst positions in our history and we do support a club that has given us so many occasions in the past to be very proud of it. I have not given up any hope yet, have you?
