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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 16 Hollywood Comes To Town Friday 24th January 2025 During the Christmas period, we have to play twice in three days and those two fixtures were real tough ones against two teams that are chasing a playoff place. However, our first result is an excellent one as we avenge an opening day...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 15 FA Cup Heroics Saturday 21st December 2024 Halifax Town are chasing a playoff spot as a minimum this season and find themselves 6th in the table and on target to meet their goals. And that's why this was such an impressive result for us as we continue to cement ourselves as genuine...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 14 Rising Up The Table Tuesday 12th November 2024 Being an extra rung up the ladder in the English football pyramid has it's additional benefits and one of those is being able to enter the FA Cup two rounds later than we did last year. It's Weston-super-Mare for us in the 4th qualifying...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 13 A Ridiculously Competitive Division Wednesday 9th October 2024 September was a good month for loanee Will Jenkins-Davies who bags the young player of the month award. It may only be early days in the new season, but our next game still feels like a must win. Tamworth are rooted to...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 12 National League Campaign Begins Sunday 1st September 2024 All in all, our pre season preperation for the Vanarama National League has been good. Big wins against lower league opposition such as Oxford City, Melksham and Maidenhead were backed up with a victory over League Two side...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 11 Building For The National League Saturday 20th July 2024 To justify the ticket price rise to the fans, I needed to bring in a couple of 'stars' for them to see in action this season. One signature I am genuinely delighted to have captured is that of a striker who has scored plenty of...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 10 END OF SEASON REVIEW 2023/24 Competition Winners Premier League - Manchester City Championship - Luton (Norwich and West Brom promoted) League One - Wrexham (Bolton and Birmingham promoted) League Two - Doncaster (Colchester, Bradford City and Notts County promoted) National League -...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 9 Champions! Monday 22nd April 2024 March was a good month for us and one that saw me lift my 4th Manager of the Month award of the season. Matthew Carson has been a regular at left back for me all year and has 21 assists in 40 league appearances...he's been nothing short of...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 8 First Ever Youth Intake Sunday 31st March 2024 After playing two of the best teams in the league, we travelled to Slough to take on the side that was sitting rock bottom, with only 4 wins all season! However, in probably the most bizarre twist of our entire season, we are beaten by...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 7 Building Momentum For The Final 3rd Of The Season Saturday 9th March 2024 We were knocked out of the FA Cup by National League opponents, and now we may face the same fate in the FA Trophy as we go away to Eastleigh in the 4th round. They are sitting in mid table in the division above...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 6 Cody Cooke's Replacement Arrives Wednesday 10th January 2024 Brentwood Town in Essex was the destination for our FA Trophy 3rd Round match and the bookies had us at 2/5 odds on to progress to the next round against lower league opposition. I'm glad to report that we justified those...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 5 Injury Crisis Tuesday 5th December 2023 We had already beaten Enfield Town in the cup this season, but with our top striker now out with injury, this was a different game and although we created plenty, putting the ball in the back of the net proved a problem and we could only manage...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 4 Major Injury Rocks Our Season Monday 30th October 2023 Chippenham Town are struggling in the early stages of the league campaign this year and sat 19th as they came into this game with us. Despite that, we made hard work of getting the 3 points here, but we did and I suppose that's...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 3 First Defeat & First Cup Game Wednesday 20th September 2023 We kick off this chapter with some bad news. Jordan Young is about to miss up to a couple of months of football as he has picked up an injury following the Hampton & Richmond match. A massive loss for us as Young is one of my...
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    The Gulls - A Torquay United Story

    Chapter 2 The League Begins! Saturday 19th August 2023 I said that if the opportunity came up to sign a better goalkeeper, then I would jump on it...and I have. 24 year old Brad Wade is a considerable step up for us and joins the club on a free transfer - his signing has taken me over our...
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