Torquay United: August 2009

Hello friends and welcome back as I begin the season with my new team Torquay United

The season had finally arrived and our opening game was to be at the Plainmoor Stadium in front of our home fans. The game belonged to our new strike partnership of Barrowman and Subotic who made the most of early opportunities and had wrapped the game up within the first thirty minutes. I was a little disappointed that we weren’t able to produce any second half goals but nonetheless we’ve kicked off with three points in the bag and dominated the game.

Three days later we faced Crystal Palace at home in League Cup action. You all know my track record in this competition and so as usual got knocked out in the first round. Enough said about this game.

Our following game was away to Dagenham and after falling behind early we setteld into out stride and Subotic found the equalizer for us just before half time. The second half was a very tight affair but the deadlock was broken in the 76^th minute by right winger Jake Thomsom who latched on to a nicely placed pass by Shaun Hooks which turned out to be the wining goal.

We stayed on the road for our next game away to Burton who were tipped for relegation but seemed far from basement potential for the first 20 minutes but once winger Wayne Carlisle put us ahead then Burton totally crumbled and the floodgates opened to give us a 4-0 lead by the interval. Burton did put up a little more resistence in the second half but we added two more late in the game to cap a magnificent attacking performance.

Next up was a home tie againt Barnet which was and end to end encounter with the result always in the balance until a breakaway goal by Subotic near the final whistle ensured we took all three points. Barnet were a hard nut to crack but we did it and now have won four league games in a row!

The final game of the month was away to title favorites Bradford City. Although we enjoyed the greater possession Bradford were constantly on the attack and gave Southampton loanee golakeeper Michael Poke an extremely busy afternoon. Thankfully he was up to the task and was constantly in the right place at the right time. At the other end of the field we struggled with a very organized Bradford defence but skipper Nicky Wroe got the only goal of the game with a superb 35 yard strike from a free kick and so we got the victory and ended the month with a 100% league record. Amazing!

Our best player of the month was Wayne Carlisle who ended up with an average rating of 7.80. Here’s his profile.

League Table

Fixtures

We start off next month with a difficult game away to Bristol Rovers in the JPT and hopefully I can continue with these winning ways.

Thanks for reading.