Today marks a
tragedy for Cornish sport and Truro City fans in particular as they face their
club being moved to Torquay for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps
forever. It’s a disgrace that in the near six years under the current ownership
that the owners have failed to obtain a location either permanent or temporary
even within the boundary of Cornwall let alone Truro itself. We now find
ourselves voluntarily vacating Treyew Road without even the completed business
case required to enable the Government to consider providing the funds required
to start work on the Stadium for Cornwall, a project which the current owners
spent much of their tenure ridiculing rather than supporting.
Much has been
said about the current owners stepping in to save the club six years ago but
the reality is that whilst they have managed to maintain Truro City’s place in
step 2 of the footballing pyramid, the heart and soul of the club has been
ripped out as we have seen the reserve and ladies team abolished, a failure to
establish youth development scheme, the closure of the social club and a
general alienation of its fans and the Cornish footballing community.
If the
current owners were to walk away from the club today they would do so without
losing a penny of their own money, having been repaid by the developers who now
gain from the city’s loss.
The current
tragic situation represents a dereliction of duty and failure of custodianship
by the current owners. Of course we desperately now hope that Stadium for
Cornwall comes to fruition but the question for Truro City fans is, will they
even have a football club by the time that happens. A total failure to
deliver for Truro City. A very sad day indeed!
