New owners of TUFC

I think you would have seen a very different response had there been any real prospect of TUST taking on the club. This was never going to happen and the constant briefing against TUST, probably by the likes of Masters and even fans of the club, would never help.

I fail to understand anti-TUST sentiment.

It is, and only ever will be, an organisation that wants to protect the long-term future of the football club we all support, yet it gets mocked for its membership levels (which aren't actually that bad), it's resources etc by fellow fans, who surely want the same thing.

How anyone can trust GI, with their clear agenda, their failed promises of the past etc and assume that there is a chance of a rosy future under them, yet disparage a group of people who want to hold GI to account, to ensure they do not rape and pillage our football club seems rather perverse.

In the end, those supporters towing the Peter Masters line, will get what they deserve. Sadly, the rest of us will have to suffer alongside them but at least those who contributed towards TUST have tried but if turkeys want to vote for Christmas then you can't stop them.

Indeed, the likes of Alpine and many a Popsider, will be won over by an initial bit of flattery and perhaps some gestural signing or two, but then the likes of Alpine and many a Popsider, were won over by Chris Roberts, a decade ago.

There is a brilliant series on Amazon called The Man in the High Castle. Somehow, I can't help but think of Alpine when I watch this. I'm sure he'd have a lot of admiration for Obergruppenführer John Smith and be all anti-resistance. I'm sure - with Clarke Osborne as Fuhrer - Obergruppenfuhrer Alpine would be looking forward to a long and prosperous GI Reich.

Alpine and Flo banging on about what TUST should or shouldn't do on a new owners thread. It's not as if it wasn't the same when we had the last owners. Sort of let's you know you're looking at TFF while surfing.

I guess we've had our monthly press release from GI and should just be content that the shift in emphasis on "formulation with key stakeholders of a 5 year plan over the coming months remaining in the season", to presentation of it on 20th January is in their gift as owners and early promises count for nothing anyway.

The more recent emphasis was always more likely than that of the earlier soundbite in any event and any favourable reaction to aspects of the outline can always provide sufficient backfill to give the air of consultation.

Flo questions whether they will follow through with anything, but wonders if anyone could ever do anything about it as they're the ones with the business muscle and Alpine showers with guff that not only what they want before it's announced is a thing of beauty, but they will follow through on it. Chuck in the obligatory moan about the trust and TFF's bromance is retained under new ownership. For better or for worse.

I've just watched Devon under 18's 1 Somerset 18's 1

Talking to a professional club coach they talked about our situation at Torquay.

1. They heard about G.I. and Knew it would be a mistake to talk to them as they've no interest in football.

2.They are not developers so they won't spend any money on a new ground.

3.Why would they want a new ground when they have a ground which if the council agree can put a greyhound track (Speedway) around the existing ground. 

4.This would mean moving the pitch toward the swimming pool and altering the clubhouse and stand. This would leave space at the away end for a track.

5.The pitch could be made narrower at the start of a new season.

6.It was said G.I. would let the football wind down and close due to money as they've no interest in football whatsoever. They will show what interest they have in football as soon as next seasons budget is revealed.

I came away thinking there is not enough land but there may be as these people are in the business of making money and do not waste it. It means they do not have to spend money on a new ground. They need the council to pass plans to alter the stadiums use to speedway and greyhound racing.
The land is for sport.

WMN 26/10/27

It is an interesting piece. Interesting that Councillor Haddock says it is a full Council matter as opposed to Mayoral decision. The Council's own literature suggests not as do other persons involved in the meeting of what the Council themselves chose to call a decision on "the disposal of Plainmoor".

It doesn't sound like the Mayor's "Executive Lead for Business" (Flo is TFF's, I reckon) would ever be likely to appreciate any attachment some of his TUFC supporting constituents might have to 'a bit of old Council property'. Let's hope we don't hear too much more from him, even if he is the first elected figure to publically refer to talk of a deal being already done.

I am ever so slightly concerned that Dave Thomas now sees part of his role as pouring cold water on legitimate concerns with this latest piece. I hope that isn't the case. It won't pan out well, that. Did he ever report that there were such concerns that are listed in the article before this article? Perhaps he did and I missed it. It's the lease, not freehold, was my last recalled instalment on anything related to the ground from an HE reporter. Probably a line or two somewhere. I have long been an admirer of DT. Frustrated of recent with the suppression of an obvious story or two of public interest, but an admirer nonetheless. I used to get a hard copy of Monday's edition of the HE sent up years after the internet age started just for his match reports.

Nobody wants to hear from me whether this sort of confusing reporting with council mouthpieces popping up ever happened in Reading, so they won't for now. Nor whether they were a patch on GI's sound bites. I'll let alpine pour his own cold water on that in this early period of a bright new tomorrow as we might get Kieffer in the morning. Plagiarism here, but maybe there is something fishy about haddock. If nothing else, there are always puns to be had.

Flo - Regarding rjdgulls post, Torquay United may be owned by who they are currently. That may not be in dispute. However, when someone talks, say, of preservation of the club, they are not necessarily talking about preservation of the recent investment by Riviera Stadium Ltd, a subsidiary of Gaming International, who recently acquired a majority shareholding in....etc. They may be slightly less Wall Street, or less literal if that helps, in their description of something they love. It happens. I've seen your irony takes as well. Give yourself a break back in Blighty for a bit. Take in a game.