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 says what he wants on the opening day of the season.

Today, at 1pm, the fixtures for the National League South season are released – and in the words of Torquay United manager Paul Wotton: “That’s when it gets real!”

While Paul wants a home start but says he won’t be “gutted” if we’re away on August 9, I for one will be... I want to go to Plainmoor on the first day of the season and watch the Gulls thrash whoever the visitors are eight or nine nil. I want silky skills and fast-slowing football with goals to break the internet and become memes that get hits in the billions.

I want a full house, with fans crying in Boots & Laces because they........

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