FC:Southport v Torquay United 3pm 28 March 2015

It would be nice if we could finish the season with a bit of form in our last 7 games. I'm going for 1-1 today. COYG!

Unchanged team from Tuesday with both Briscoe and Bowman being passed fit!

Dear oh dear. Our captain sent off after 13 minutes and we are 2-1 down. Glimmers of improvement against Kidderminster and first half Woking have once more been replaced by normal service it seems. Just end season, end damn you!!!

If you mean Football League future, I think we can forget that. A Cambridgesque stint of almost a decade is our best hope, the likelihood is that, at some point, staying in the Conference will be seen as an achievement and slipping into Conference South is more likely than a Football League return. When we did the double over Plymouth, I knew one day the tide would turn but never in my worst nightmares did I imagine this.

That's hardly surprising I guess. There's nothing much fresh nor encouraging to be said regarding matters on the pitch.

As in any walk of life, certain things may have needed to have been said. It's certainly clear there are those who are more than willing to continue to make their point. Equally, many others may have reached saturation point and will feel that endlessly discussing disappointment isn't much fun. That's not just here; it's elsewhere too.

To what extent forums such as this are a barometer of a wider lack of interest is unclear. I suspect Internet forums - any football club; any area of debate - may have lost their novelty. Younger people often use other forms of social media; older posters may have grown jaded and indifferent.

But, using forums as a measure, it's easy to say interest in Torquay United is at rock bottom. Whilst it's obviously not buoyant, I don't think it is yet terminal.

Nor do I believe the club is beyond hope. Although It's been a truly awful season, I'm hanging on to the belief that one bad season in this league does not declare a club dead and buried. Others have gone before us and have found themselves in similarly dire straights before recovering.

Ultimately I suspect there is a limit to how many such seasons this club can endure and come out the other side. Three more like this could put us beyond limits. But, even then, it depends on attendances, general level of interest and earning capacity.

As a rough measure we may speak in terms of five "attendance bands": 2400; 2000; 1600; 1200; 800. In each of these there will be occasional ventures into the band below. These are usually Tuesday night games after a bad run of results.

If 2400 is the going rate when we're doing reasonably well in League Two, I would argue we've just crossed the 2000 to 1600 threshold. If - in three years time - we were still in this league and this attendance band, I would still regard the club to have life and chances of something better. In the 1200 band I wouldn't have thrown in the towel completely. Crowds of 800? Well, it would take a lot to recover from that.

And, of course, all this is being written without a clue as to the future ownership of the club. Exciting times; frightening times? We simply don't know. But, come what may, this isn't a time to abandon hope, take our eye off the ball or whatever. We may not rush to the keyboard - or turnstile - quite as often as we once did. Yet we should still be ready. There could be a time - maybe sooner rather than later - when our support is needed more than ever. We'd best not get out of the Torquay United habit entirely.

Not my dream ticket, but knocks spots off a Tommy Agombar type becoming interested where there is a poorly supported Trust - though am guessing TUST numbers are up recently, as I don't understand why anyone still attending home matches wouldn't have joined in recent weeks if they had £2 a month spare. Oh, and Cameron and Farage calling the shots elsewhere. Non merci.

Go ahead, AJ. You've always had a furtive, and frequently comical, imagination. Next you'll be telling us our erstwhile Comrade Felix is leading an anarchist takeover - believed to be the first in the Conference - of Torquay United. If that's the case I fear there could be opposition should he suggest red-and-black as the club's colours.