Torquay have promotion belief, says striker Cooke
Torquay play four sides in the bottom half of the table in their remaining five games - as well as a potentially crucial trip to third-placed Truro City on Good Friday.The Gulls' recovery has come less than a year after the club was taken over by a consortium of local businesspeople.Torquay had been in administration at the end of last season after former owner Clarke Osborne stopped funding the club.Cooke says Torquay, who spent 87 years in the bottom two tiers of the English Football League before relegation in 2014, are capable of clawing their way back into the fifth tier two years after dropping down from the National League."You've got to dream about going and getting promoted and I can't see why not in terms of what we've got and where we've put ourselves," added Cooke."The league's not false, at this time of the season you are where you are on merit."We look around and the other teams who are in around us, if we've not beaten them during the season we've had good encounters with them, so we've got nothing to fear."
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