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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: wayno on March 31, 2015, 08:43:57 AM
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There are a few of us travelling down on Friday morning to Torquay then returning Sunday pm
Was wondering if any others are staying over and will be out and about for some quiet sight seeing and sandcastle building on the beach .
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I will be in Penzance for the entire week before - which is a bloody long way from Torquay!!
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Me but the "out and about" is already organised. Plus the beach I visit is pebbles :o
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Have persuaded my missus and a couple of friends that a long weekend in Torquay would be lovely in April.
We'll be there from Thursday to Sunday.
We may find ourselves in the vicinity of Plainmoor on Saturday arvo. Anywhere near the ground god for a pre-match tipple?
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Still trying to figure out how to go as I'd normally use the train but it's 4-5 hours each way :(. About the same by road too.
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There is a Saturday morning flight to Exeter with flybe if that's any help
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Have persuaded my missus and a couple of friends that a long weekend in Torquay would be lovely in April.
We'll be there from Thursday to Sunday.
We may find ourselves in the vicinity of Plainmoor on Saturday arvo. Anywhere near the ground god for a pre-match tipple?
no the ground is in a wank area. Stick to the harbour
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I will be there, and making a weekend of it with the boss!!
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The harbour sounds good for a few on the Saturday am will bring the flag
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Is there a nudist beach?
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Is there a nudist beach?
No, but you can start one.....
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yes there is a nudist beach,think its called meadford.
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Is there a nudist beach?
Be careful of the floating Frank Sinclairs ;D
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Is there a nudist beach?
Be careful of the floating Frank Sinclairs ;D
Drifted down on the tidal flow from Colwyn Bay ;)
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Is there a nudist beach?
Be careful of the floating Frank Sinclairs ;D
Nothing that dangerous off Torquay.....just the odd great white.
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I'm So excited I could Crush a grape
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Im going down for the weekend with my missus. Travelling Friday coming back to Rhyl on Monday.
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We are here booked in at hotel
Off out to find a fish and chip shop in the harbour
No expense spared on the missus !
Hope the rest of you don't get caught up in the roadworks at Newton Abbot on A380
If you are coming down tomorrow you may wish to consider going via A379 from Exeter thro Dawlish and Teignmouth
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We are here booked in at hotel
Off out to find a fish and chip shop in the harbour
No expense spared on the missus !
Hope the rest of you don't get caught up in the roadworks at Newton Abbot on A380
If you are coming down tomorrow you may wish to consider going via A379 from Exeter thro Dawlish and Teignmouth
Definitely give more time. I got delayed near Brum for an hour and lost about 40 mins at Newton Abbott.
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We are here booked in at hotel
Off out to find a fish and chip shop in the harbour
No expense spared on the missus !
Hope the rest of you don't get caught up in the roadworks at Newton Abbot on A380
If you are coming down tomorrow you may wish to consider going via A379 from Exeter thro Dawlish and Teignmouth
Definitely give more time. I got delayed near Brum for an hour and lost about 40 mins at Newton Abbott.
Newton Abbot, nightmare!!!
Also trying to find a restaurant in Torquay without pre booking a table, another nightmare!!!!!!
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We are here booked in at hotel
Off out to find a fish and chip shop in the harbour
No expense spared on the missus !
Hope the rest of you don't get caught up in the roadworks at Newton Abbot on A380
If you are coming down tomorrow you may wish to consider going via A379 from Exeter thro Dawlish and Teignmouth
Definitely give more time. I got delayed near Brum for an hour and lost about 40 mins at Newton Abbott.
Newton Abbot, nightmare!!!
Also trying to find a restaurant in Torquay without pre booking a table, another nightmare!!!!!!
That's why opted to stay a little out the way in Paignton
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Lovely weather here
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Lovely weather here
You should be in bed, you'll miss breakfast, the greatest component of any hotel stay (presuming you are in a hotel)
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Sunny but with a strong cold wind here in Devon,will be setting off for the game about 1245ish ;D
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Saw the team coach loading up around 7.15am this morning outside ML. Hope the team have a pleasant trip down. Long way.
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Very long day considering how far some people have to travel to get to Moss Lane, unless they stayeover somewhere local last night.
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Hmm, not going too well thus far
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84 fans in the away end.How reeve's goal was given offside i dont know.Also according to radio Devon,Baldwin should have been sent off after scoring their pen after throwing the ball at parton,Moult got a booking for pushing baldwin away,then a silly booking in the second half which meant we were down to 10 men.this was a strange game we played well in the second half and were the better team in that period,we were poor in the first,though they were no better than us in that first half.Sinnot did not seem interested and backed out of a lot of 50/50 balls which he might have won.
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84 fans in the away end.How reeve's goal was given offside i dont know.Also according to radio Devon,Baldwin should have been sent off after scoring their pen after throwing the ball at parton,Moult got a booking for pushing baldwin away,then a silly booking in the second half which meant we were down to 10 men.this was a strange game we played well in the second half and were the better team in that period,we were poor in the first,though they were no better than us in that first half.Sinnot did not seem interested and backed out of a lot of 50/50 balls which he might have won.
I thought Reeves goal looked ok.
But wouldn't stake my life on it.
84 away fans, I counted a hundred.
A good turnout anyway.
The team has done a lot of traveling recently, and it is showing.
So glad we have the points in the bank!!
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[quote author=hsmith1 Sinnot did not seem interested and backed out of a lot of 50/50 balls which he might have won. Should never start him should be very lucky if he's on the bench he is absolutely awful seen better pub team players
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One of those games where the team did not turn up .. would have struggled to pick a mom out of them
They were not much better either ...
Weather was nice ...
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That about sums it up for me too. It comes to something when a very embarrassed / frustrated looking Chairman (fair play to him) comes over to us to apologise for the awful playing of the team. They can play so much better.
One of those games where the team did not turn up .. would have struggled to pick a mom out of them
They were not much better either ...
Weather was nice ...
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To be fair, reading that the team travelled down this morning I kind of expected this result. I'm guessing if we had of needed the points the board would have sanctioned an overnight stay. To be expected given our restrictions and makes sense to save money for the Summer.
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If I remember rightly the club did a few overnight stays last time up and sacked them off because results didn't improve we won at welling looking at Torquay at are place and seeing welling that was a harder game
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84 away fans was the offical number put up on their score board.To be honest if Stu had not got injured and had to go off,i dont think their first would have happened.Stu is a lot more vocal than Dave and would have given luca hell to get rid off the ball.
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Felt like we'd gone back to 2010/11 yesterday. Wasn't 4 4 1 1 it was 4 5 1 with an isolated Reeves.
Hope that this is just us winding down the season..
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He's doing his lad no favours playing him out wide.
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From what iv seen he can't tackle he is not calm on the ball but best assert although not great is he can put a cross in so out wide is maybe best position
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Felt like we'd gone back to 2010/11 yesterday. Wasn't 4 4 1 1 it was 4 5 1 with an isolated Reeves.
Hope that this is just us winding down the season..
Jack the players against us then were far better Pehaps that's why we were more negative if we were winding down we can do everyone at alty gets asked to stay on
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from the Torquay forum
Let's not get too excited, Alty are an embarrassment to football
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from the Torquay forum
Let's not get too excited, Alty are an embarrassment to football
Considering they are lower than part time little Alty in a league not such an embarrassment. Has all the millions the lottery woman chairwoman put in the club been eaten by Briscoe? I'd be more embarrassed about that to be honest rather than shout about another club.
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they are a horrid club,no wonder they are called slime down here in Devon
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Are they not liked in Devon ? I had no problems there the times iv been
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from the Torquay forum
Let's not get too excited, Alty are an embarrassment to football
Silly tw*t that posted that. Torquay are hardly well known for reaching the pinnacles of football. I used to work with a Gulls fan at Merton Council who once went away to Hartlepool as he was attending a wedding in Co Durham. He was the only away fan and was given his own personal steward, Leigh RMI style.
Despite the costs involved however a return journey of what must be at least 550 miles in a day is not good, I can't see a decent display being likely after players getting up at say before 5am in some cases then sitting on a coach for 6 hours. The splendid Torquay United Fc would of course have flown up from Exeter airport and put the team up in a decent airport hotel no doubt. Even if they are as skint as a busload of tramps.
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i live near exeter Jimmy so worked with quite a few exeter fans and they always called Torquay the yellow slime
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From the Western Daily Mail
Torquay could have won 3 or 4 nil against an Altrincham team that offered nothing all day
Later on
Ex youth team keeper Bobby Babbacombe was deservedly named man of the match after a string of fine saves in the second half
Hmmm
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i live near exeter Jimmy so worked with quite a few exeter fans and they always called Torquay the yellow slime
Not really a general reflection is it?
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Would love to see a video of Reevs offside goal.
Just looked at the still on the main site!!!
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From the Western Daily Mail
Torquay could have won 3 or 4 nil against an Altrincham team that offered nothing all day
Later on
Ex youth team keeper Bobby Babbacombe was deservedly named man of the match after a string of fine saves in the second half
Hmmm
Bobby Babbacombe....sounds like a music hall turn, or someone out of The Only Way is Torquay
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their keeper is Daniel Lavercobe
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I personally though Lavercombe was a bit shaky and if Alty had managed more shots on goal rather than losing the ball all the time, they could have got a few in.
their keeper is Daniel Lavercobe
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they are a horrid club,no wonder they are called slime down here in Devon
Yesterday was my first visit to Torquay i have to say its a fantastic town centre and sea front, some amazing views and great pubs and bars with real ale etc
Very friendly out in the town and really welcoming . The food and hotel were great and very reasonable as well and going for the weekend was the right shout given the 4 hour drive there and the 5 hour return.
In terms of the hospitality at the ground well there was none, its an amazing ground and the location and view from the top is fantastic of the pitch and local hills etc
They were very flat (fans) and i would think that they must be running at a huge loss with 1400 there on a great day, rumours at the game of 5 players on 1k a week and lets be clear they were poor - we were just worse...
A mid table finsh for them must be a huge disapointment.
There must have been 15- 20 stewards and they were unfriendly
i understand rules are rules but i hate liars to be told that i was told on entry that i can not take pictures in the ground was a lie, i even gave my bag to be searched on entry without being asked for it and there was no issue on entry if there was they could have told me there
anyway the £25 huge prize draw did not go my way and i was gutted i was hoping to retire, but at least the benny hill music was funny
If progress in football means you have to treat fans that way i am not sure i want to progress
Yesterday reminded me again how much i love home games at Alty - a friendly family club
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Also my first trip to Torquay and spent 4 days there making a short family holiday out of it. Also 4 1/2 hours drive each way plus stopping times.
Nice place, clean, friendly and we were very fortunate with the weather. I thought the TUFC staff were fine and the stewards were only doing their job.
Also nice bumping into several Alty fans from the 1970's who have lived in Torquay for years.
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Defo agree about the weather ! Amazing
Few burnt heads and noses in our group
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I see the official Torquay United video of the match highlights is up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVwfROGBkU&spfreload=10 now.
Shame they missed out Reevesie's goal at the start of the match as I was hoping to see if it made any more sense to the linesman's offside flag. They also very left out the melee after their penalty.
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I see the official Torquay United video of the match highlights is up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVwfROGBkU&spfreload=10 now.
Shame they missed out Reevesie's goal at the start of the match as I was hoping to see if it made any more sense to the linesman's offside flag. They also very left out the melee after their penalty.
I have said it before,
Let's see Reeves goal.
With them not showing it, I assume it was a goal.
The lad who scored the pen should have been sent off. It's not good enough to apologise after the incident.
The officials had a mare😡