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 talks the successuve defeats and how the Gulls need to score goals

Outside where I live is a huge metal gate that opens with a little electronic clicker that us residents keep in our cars – or by way of a code that can be tapped into a panel.

When it’s all working OK, it’s all fine. No problems. But when it goes down, the system fails, there is no getting in or out for anyone – if you can’t find the magic key!

I watched a couple of my neighbours trying to figure out what was wrong while a woman coming home from a late shift had to stand on the wrong side of the gates twiddling her fingers.

You see, there is a key to open the gate that turns off the mechanism so you can swing the gates open. However, this morning, the key was missing from its hook in its special place ... hence the drama, and my minor heart attack as I watched Ray climb over a wall with a huge drop to one side!

It feels a bit like Torquay United have lost their key, too! How many times in the last four games have the Gulls done everything right, only for it all to go wrong at the end of a move? Without the key it feels like there has........

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