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 Torquay project and hope there is hope it will be a success

For those of you who are waiting for an update about the faulty gates at the apartments where I live, I regret to tell you they are still open – and the electrics yet to be fixed.

It was a slug that caused the problem, sliding into the control box and fusing the circuit. I presume this didn’t end well for him/her. My poor analogy last week that the gates needed to open too for Torquay – with goals coming too few and far between in those four games without a win – looked to be spot on again on Saturday, that was until the 86th minute when Sam Dreyer struck, with the help of a deflection.

With 4,434 inside Plainmoor and only 69 of them Eastbourne Borough fans, the noise when the ball hit the back of the net was spine tingling. The icing on the cliché cake was, of course, Omar Mussa’s........

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