Mark Ellis insists Torquay are aiming to prove the doubters wrong once again and book a place in the League Two play-offs.
The Gulls went all the way to the play-off final at Old Trafford last season, to the surprise of most pundits and commentators, before losing to Stevenage.
And defender Ellis, who netted what turned out to be the winning goal in the 2-1 victory at Macclesfield on Saturday which sent the Devon club eighth in the table, is confident Torquay have it in them to recreate the form of last year and perhaps even improve on their performance of 12 months ago.
"There's a lot of people who don't think we can push up the table but we've got a lot of good players in the team," he said.
"We proved it last season and we want to go one further this time around.
"There was a lot of expectation about after how we did last season and everyone was expecting us to push on. We didn't have the best results earlier in the season but we think we are going the right way now."
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