Saturday will be a long and winding, twisty-turny 90-something minutes

Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info 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 looks at the drama that will be the final day Paul Wotton has told us over and over again: this National League South season is going to be decided in the last five minutes of the last game. I wrote recently, it might even be in injury time that the winners get the goal that sends them up. Whenever the final goal goes in, a goal-for to send one team to the top or a goal-against to send them into second on goal difference, Saturday is going to be as exciting, as nerve-racking, as enjoyable and as painful as football can get. It will not be for the faint-hearted. Let’s hope DAZN have sorted their stream out so those without tickets can watch from afar, after many fans were left disappointed after paying to see Torquay take on Weymouth, only to find it wasn’t working. If fans from afar had been able to tune in, they would have seen a wonderful sight. More than 5,500 fans packed into a Plainmoor that was lit up by the Easter Monday sun – a stark contrast to the rain and wind that many endured at Truro on the Friday. There the 500 plus fans were left out in the open but even when they were soaked to the skin, that goal by Matt Jay was greeted with an eruption of joy. That Torquay got the job down there set up Monday’s amazing game, with more fans inside Plainmoor than ever before at this level. In fact, let’s face it, many clubs in League Two – even League One – would like a crowd of that size. The roar when Jordan Dyer scored his third-minute header might have been heard in Weymouth – or Truro. It’s a shame Torquay couldn’t go on and get more goals in that first half. Weymouth were always going to be tired with just two players on the bench! So if the players could have maybe got three in the first half, we could be talking about being top of the table going to Hemel Hempstead. Still, it feels churlish to moan about goals not scored when three were. Paul Wotton said: “We spoke about it at half time and obviously we looked at the results. I think Worthing were winning 1-0 and Truro were 0-0. We knew we had to score a second goal but we felt like our fitness would come in after 65-70 minutes. “We saw that Weymouth only had one [outfield] sub on the bench, and that proved to be the case and that’s when we scored our second and our third. And Truro have gone and scored very, very late away at Weston. I think we played well today. I think we did everything we possibly could do.” There were good chances – Jordan Young could have got a better touch on a cross in the second half and Cody Cooke had a goal ruled out in the 12th minute for a debatable foul on the goalkeeper. But, really, it does feel churlish to moan. The ‘what about Chesham?’ brigade are probably burning up their keyboards right now – but surely any Torquay fans would have taken second on the same points as the team at the top on the final day, this time last year when the Gulls had just won a battle at the other end of the table. That we are going to Hemel Hemstead with the possibility of winning the title is amazing. After the game on Monday, it was awards time. And Jordan Young became the latest Gull to be crowned Player of the Year. The Young Player of the Year was Sam Dreyer, and Cody Cooke picked up the award for most goals. Goalkeeper James Hamon won the Ian Twitchen award for playing the most games – all of them. With these lot in place for next season, Matt Jay flying, and my choice for POTY Jordan Dyer in defence alongside Dryer again ... and Dylan Morgan to come back from injury and have a full pre-season, wherever we end up next season, the team will be competitive. And I’ll throw another possible into that mix: Tom Lapslie. The reaction of the players after the Weymouth game was a bit flat – after all, they wanted to go into the final game on top, not in second. But after going into administration and losing 11 points last season, I am going to allow myself to enjoy Saturday. The nerves though – it’s going to be a long and winding, twisty-turny 90-something minutes, that’s for sure. Hold on to your hat.