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 wonders whether Torquay United have hit rock bottom and if new proposed Government legislation would have helped them out

Rock bottom appears to have a basement – that was how former Torquay United striker Martin Gritton summed up last week’s events that saw the club docked 10 points and drop like a stone to 17th in the National League South table. Gritton was Harry Salvidge’s summariser on the Radio Devon commentary of Torquay’s game at Tonbridge Angels, and they were discussing the crisis that the club currently finds itself in.

After the game, Salvidge quipped: “Rock bottom appears to have a basement, and the basement is flooding.” It’s no laughing matter, of course, but the words of Gritts & Salvidge (idea for a podcast?) do sum up the terrible time that the club is going through.

And after Torquay had gone 4-0 down at Tonbridge, with the commentary position right in front of where the directors were sitting at the Longmead Stadium, Radio Devon listeners were ‘treated’ to an exchange of words between some pretty angry fans and the Torquay officials sitting close by. It was all quite unedifying, and bar cutting the sound altogether there wasn’t much........

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