FINAL SCORE - GULLS 3 STEVENAGE 0

What a result, and a terrific performance.
Steve Woods shades man of the match for me, but Hargreaves, Sills and Carlisle have all been right in there.
Good stuff. Bring on Oxford on Thursday night!

FINAL SCORE - GULLS 3 STEVENAGE 0

What a result, and a terrific performance.
Steve Woods shades man of the match for me, but Hargreaves, Sills and Carlisle have all been right in there.
Good stuff. Bring on Oxford on Thursday night!

There are three minutes of added time to go. We have brought on Thompson and Carayol for Dsane and Green.
Who'd have thought we'd get three AGAINST the conditions!

GOAL - GULLS 3 STEVENAGE 0

Nicky Wroe makes it 3-0 with a great volley after 87 minutes after a cross from the left by Nicko.

Stevenage are making their third and last substitution with 10 minutes to go. Have we put the game beyond them now? Let's hope so.
Morison is certainly getting frustrated and Mr Kinseley is having a word with him and Steve Woods.

GOAL - GULLS 2 STEVENAGE 0

On 70 minutes Tim Sills makes it 2-0. Carlisle crosses from the right and Sills meets it with his head, then gets a second header to it to steer it over Day from eight yards.
Great stuff!

GOAL - GULLS 1 STEVENAGE 0

67 minutes gone and Chris Robertson puts us in front. Nicko floats a corner from the left to the far post, Hargreaves heads it back across goal and Robertson heads it in powerfully from eight yards.
It's all going on here, and Roscoe has a shot cleared off the line moments later.

The weather is getting worse if anything, and Wroe has just fired a decent chance over the top after some clever approach play by Roscoe and Wayne Carlisle.
There are 65 minutes gone now, and while we're using the conditions well, we're susceptible on the break when the ball goes over the top.

This is really lively now. Matt Green bursts through into the box in the 57th minute but Albrighton throws everything at it and gets a brave block in.
And Woodsy has just cleared off the line after Morison steers a shot past Bevan.

Morison has missed a great chance for Borough in the 48th minute, shooting wide with just Bevan to beat after being put through by Cole.
And Bevan has saved well from Vincenti down low to his left.
Hargreaves has headed a great chance wide from six yards after a cross from the left by Roscoe. Maybe he saw it late, but it was there for the scoring...

Torquay have a corner in the first 30 seconds of the half, and they have another immediately afterwards as Albrighton chests the ball behind.
But we can't make anything of it.
Now we concede a corner after Sills loses possession and puts us on the back foot.
Fortunately nothing comes of that either.
It's a lively first three or four minutes.

So, can we win this game against the conditions? Stevenage will be pleased to have got through that 45 minutes with their goal intact, and there's not much doubt that Chris Day is the man of the match up to now.
It doesn't look as if there are going to be any half-time subs, as both teams have all five replacements kicking around out on the pitch.
Kenny Veysey is putting Big Scott Bevan through his paces down at the Babbacombe End, making him kick into the wind and rain.

HALF TIME - GULLS 0 STEVENAGE 0

Morison has just summed up Borough's first half by passing a free-kick gently over the goal-line when it should have gone to Cole. it probably worked a treat on the training ground, but it just brought hoots of derision today.
Scott Laird is down in injury time after getting a whack in the face, but he's OK and back on the field with a bloody nose.
And that's the break.

In the 37th minute Green has another great chance in front of goal, but his shot on the turn is an easy gather for the keeper.
On one of their rare forays up to the Ministand end, Stevenage force a corner, but they still can't manage to give Big Scott Bevan any meaningful work to do.
Steve Woods is having a great game at the back for us. Whenever Morison and Cole do get through, they're coming up against a Woodsy on top form.

Stevenage are struggling to get out of their own half at the moment, but much of that may be down to the conditions.
Big Scott Bevan may have a little more to do after the break.
In the 32nd minute Roscoe drives one just wide of the left-hand post after a clever header from Sills.

Day is keeping Stevenage in the game at the moment. In the 27th minute he saves from Green, palming the ball away in his top left corner.
Now he is racing out of his box to head the ball clear. Roscoe spots him off his line, sets himself, takes aim, and chips the ball into the advertising boards.....

Chris Robertson makes Day save in the 20th minute with a drive from the edge of the box.
Nicko drives a free kick into the wall and Sills has a shot charged down by Albrighton. And Day makes a great reflex save from Green as the Torquay striker spins and hits a loose ball eight yards out.
We're right on top now.

Wayne Carlisle looks to be right on his game today. He has just left the Boro left back on his backside before crossing for Matt Green to head wide.
That's 15 minutes on the clock and no score.

In the fifth minute Carlisle pings in a great cross from the right but Roscoe can't quite meet it at the near post.
The rain is blowing in clouds down the pitch behind the Gulls, who are attacking the Babbacombe End.
Carlisle tries his luck from 25 yards but it's an easy save for Chris Day.
And Roscoe fires one in from the left in the 10th minute, but again Day hangs on.

And it is a 4-3-3 for us, when we're going forward at least. Dsane will play on the left.
Stevenage force a corner in the third minute, but it comes to nothing and Albrighton is caught offside.

There's a minute's silence before the game today to remember both former director Tony Cavanna and the legend Tommy Northcott, both of whom died recently.

And the team sheets have thrown us a bit of a curve.
Roscue Dsane comes in for the injured Elliot Benyon for us, and Wayne Carlisle is back from injury, relegating Lee Hodges to the bench.
But does that mean a 4-3-3 for us, with Roscoe joining Matt Green and tim Sills up front?
Anyway, we have Scott Bevan making his home debut in goal; Lee Mansell, Steve Woods, Chris Robertson and Kevin Nicholson across the back; Carlisle, Nicky Wroe, Chris Hargreaves and, maybe, Roscoe across the middle, with Sills and Green up front. On the bench are Thompson, Hodges, carayol, Stevens and Adams.
Stevenage are Day; Wilson, Oliver, Albrighton and ex-Gull Scott Laird at the back; probably Martin, Bostwick, Henry and Vincenti across the middle and Cole and Morison up front. Morison, with eight goals, is the BSP's top marksman this season.
On the bench for the visitors are ex-Gulls keeper Ashley Bayes, Anaclet, Mills, Willock and Anderson.
Referee is Nick Kinseley from Essex. All we know about him is that he booked Danny Stevens for over-celebrating at Aldershot last season, and he likes to make his presence felt.

GULLS v STEVENAGE LIVE

Half an hour to go to kick-off, and it's a gloomy autumnal Plainmoor, weather-wise. Light rain, a blustery wind and no chance of a glimpse of Haytor over the roof of the Pop Side today.
The team sheets are a little late, so we're watching the Gulls warm up while we wait. They have just done a strange kind of high-fives routine, and Mustapha Carayol has just put a shot into the directors box from 10 yards in the warm-up. Get it over with before kick-off, eh?

Elliot Benyon is likely to miss the visit of Stevenage on Saturday with a hamstring injury, according to the manager today.
Chris Todd and Mark Ellis are also still sidelined, but Chris Robertson and Wayne Carlisle are likely to be fit.
There's a full preview in Friday's Herald Express and at www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk.

Meanwhile, don't forget you can follow the Stevenage match as it happens on this blog throughout Saturday afternoon.

How will the credit crunch hit Torquay United?
Chairman Alex Rowe answers this and a few other tough financial questions in Wednesday's Herald Express and at www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the BSP Northwich have given manager Dino Maamria permission to go home and do a bit of gardening while certain club matters are resolved.
Nice weather for it, Dino...

TRIBUTES are pouring in after the death of Plainmoor hero Tommy Northcott.
A full obituary by David Thomas, with contributions from Robin Stubbs, John Benson and others, appears in Tuesday's Herald Express and at www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk
And on our back page today there is one of those great football pictures, taken in front of the Pop Side in 1966 with Tommy in full flight. You can almost smell the Bovril and the Woodbines...

WREXHAM 1 GULLS 1

ANOTHER great result on the current run, and there's plenty to say about it in Monday's Herald Express and at www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk
We have reports, pictures and reaction, plus news that loaned keeper Martin Rice, curently plying his trade down at Truro, is likely to be our number one choice for cup matches this year. That means Truro won't be able to play him in their cup campaigns.
And there's some sad news today, with the death of Gulls legend Tommy Northcott. Tommy, who played more than 400 games for us, was 76 years old.