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.