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1 month ago | 
devonlive.com | Richard Hughes
Manager Paul Wotton said “it’s blinkers, full focus for Saturday” after the Gulls finished second behind champions Truro City in the race for the National League South title. In the end yesterday, after Torquay won 4-1 at Hemel Hempstead Town, but Truro beat St Albans City 5-2 in Cornwall, it came down to goal difference, with the Gulls finishing on the same points as Truro, 89, but two goals shy of their goal difference.
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1 month ago | 
devonlive.com | Richard Hughes
Torquay United finished second in the race for the National League South title when they won 4-1 at Hemel Hempstead Town this afternoon - but Truro City beat St Albans City 5-2 in Cornwall. On a dramatic last day, when Cody Cooke scored a hat trick for the Gulls, Truro were 1-0 ahead at St Albans before Torquay had even kicked off at Hemel - and three ahead within 10 minutes.
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1 month ago | 
devonlive.com | Richard Hughes
Torquay United manager Paul Wotton will have a member of staff on the bench with a hotline to what is going on elsewhere on Saturday - a day on which any one of six teams could still win the all-important National League South title. With the title will come automatic promotion to the National League - and with Torquay second in the table and trying to get above leaders Truro City, knowing what is going on at the other games is going to be paramount.
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1 month ago | 
devonlive.com | Richard Hughes
So there is now just one single game to go to decide the title or play-off fate of Torquay United and five other teams who can still be automatically promoted to the National League. This National South season has been an extraordinary one and still on the last day any one of six teams could win it. The other five will have to prepare for the play-offs.
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1 month ago | 
devonlive.com | Richard Hughes
Every Wednesday in the Herald Express, our Torquay United correspondent Richard Hughes takes a sideways look at what's going on in the world of the Gulls. This week, he looks at the drama that will be the final day Paul Wotton has told us over and over again: this National League South season is going to be decided in the last five minutes of the last game. I wrote recently, it might even be in injury time that the winners get the goal that sends them up.
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1 month ago | 
devonlive.com | Richard Hughes
Manager Paul Wotton said he wished Torquay United’s massive final-day game against Hemel Hempstead Town was “tomorrow” after the Gulls beat Weymouth 3-0 on Easter Monday to move up to second place in the National League South title race. At one point during the game Torquay were top of the table, but Truro’s two second-half goals at Weston-super-Mare means it is Wotton’s former side who top the table going into the final weekend – but they are only ahead of Torquay by a goal difference of two.
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1 month ago | 
devonlive.com | Richard Hughes
Torquay United beat Weymouth 3-0 on the penultimate day of the National League South season - and are second on goal difference behind Truro City, with just the trip to Hemel Hempstead Town to come. In front of 5,500 fans, the Gulls tried hard to get enough goals to creep in front of Truro, but they couldn't improve on the three scored by Jordan Dyer in just the third minute, and those by Matt Jay and Jay Foulston in the second half.
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1 month ago | 
devonlive.com | Richard Hughes
And so it continues, this amazing National League South title race is still anyone's in the top five to win, with just two games of the season left to go. Torquay United's 1-0 win at Truro City, coupled with Worthing's 1-1 draw at Eastbourne Borough, means there are just two points separating Worthing at the top (84 points), Truro in second (83), Torquay in third (83), Dorking Wanderers (82) in fourth and Eastbourne (82) in fifth.
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1 month ago | 
devonlive.com | Richard Hughes
A wonderful goal in the second half by Matt Jay won Torquay United an incredibly important three points at Truro City this afternoon - and now both teams are locked together, one point off the top of the National League South, with just two games to go. It was an impressive and composed performance by the Gulls, who started the day three points behind the leaders Truro - but now it's Worthing again at the top, one point above Truro in second, and Torquay in third.
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1 month ago | 
devonlive.com | Richard Hughes
Here we go: it's off to Cornwall for a massive six-pointer against the National League South leaders Truro City. After playing 43 games each, both teams have three games to go and Torquay United are very much a part of the race for the title. We hear from Paul Wotton - who joined the Gulls from Truro in the summer - on the game, and Guy Henderson, Richard Hughes and David Thomas talk it through too. It's going to be wet and windy Good Friday apparently - and perhaps not a game for the purists.
