NL: Solihuil Moors v Torquay United 7:45pm

I see there is to be a pitch inspection at 3.30pm.

Off now lol

I wonder what the odds would have been against the three teams below us in the table, given who they were playing, all winning this evening. Moreover, I should be very interested in what the odds were against our escaping from the bottom four before tonight's matches. Despite being a supporter for the past 62 years, I feel that I may have missed out big time.

They will need to act quickly. ...we are in the bottom four!

Can offer my long or short answer and I'm going for the latter:

Torquay has never been a football town.

That didn't matter too much when it was still relatively prosperous and there were fewer leisure-time distractions.

As the area declined and the plight of lower league football clubs grew, a few people managed to paper over the cracks with varying degrees of success, but now we have finally used up all of our lifelines and there appears not to be enough interest or commitment in South Devon to maintain a professional football team and the sharks have moved in for the kill.

I don't think it is that necessarily the case. I think the fact Plainmoor can muster 1600+ for home game with Sutton United, is quite impressive, especially in view of the last 5 years we have witnessed. Half a decade of despair and yet that sort of attendance for this level of football - especially a club in the bottom 4 - suggests there is enough interest. The club has just been appallingly managed and supporters, if anything, are too forgiving. It took the team losing to opposition with an outfield player in goal and mustering one shot, for them to start to display a bit of anger. And this after 5 years of dreadfulness.

The local media has been compliant and complacent, colluding in the silence that clouds Plainmoor - the opposition, essentially quelled. The fact TUST failed to attract many people to commit to its initiative wasn't surprising. Not because people wouldn't but because what was the point? The club was about to be handed over to GI, therefore it wouldn't have made any difference. I think it would be different if it was TUST or die.

To think around this time 5 years ago, we were 2nd in league 2, looking good to go up. I feared the worst when we messed up promotion but I never feared anything as bad as this. It feels all so unnecessary and had say Alan Knill never been appointed, we might have been flirting with the play-offs in League 2 this season. Who knows?

Had David Phillips regime not come in and sacked Hargreaves for the hell of it, perhaps we'd be better off than we are now. But who knows?

So many terrible decisions have marked the last 5 years and our current plight -in my view - is a result of those, rather than our geographical location and the local populace in general.

Let's face it GI are the complete and utterly total pits! Seems their motto should be "say nothing, do nothing, achieve nothing"!