It may not have been a repeat of the five goal classic that occured when the two sides last met in the league in March, but Torquay United have a comfortable advantage over Shrewsbury Town in their League Two Play-Off Semi-Final first leg encounter.
First half goals from Chris Zebroski and Eunan O'Kane gave the Gulls a two goal cushion going into their second leg meeting with the Shrews on Friday night.
This season is the seventh time that Torquay have involved in the end of season drama that is the Play-Offs and the third time in the last four years they have been involved in the end of season finale.
Their first season in the Conference, the 2007-08 campaign, saw the Gulls face local rivals Exeter City in the Blue Square Premier Play-Offs.
After winning the first leg 2-1 at St James' Park with goals from Tim Sills and Chris Zebroski, Torquay were looking comfortable going into the second leg at Plainmoor and when Kevin Hill, who was equalling the club's all-time appearance record on the day, it looked as though a fairytale story was in the process of being written.
However, the Grecians hit back and ended up winning 4-1 and going through the final against Cambridge United.
The following season, Torquay found themselves in the Play-Offs again, this time facing Histon. The Gulls won the first leg 2-0 with Tim Sills and Nicky Wroe finding the target. Despite losing the second leg in Camrbidgeshire 1-0, Torquay won in the final at Wembley 2-0 with Chris Hargreaves and Sills finding the back of the net.
It is also worth noting that it is 20 years since the Gulls won their first Play-Off final when they famously became the first English club to win promotion on penalties when they beat Blackpool at Wembley.
After drawing 2-2 after 90 minutes and extra time with Dean Edwards and Wes Saunders scoring for Torquay. In the penalty shoot-out, the score was poised at 4-4 with Mickey Holmes, Chris Myers, Saunders and Paul Holmes successfully converting their spot-kicks.
In sudden death, Gulls' keeper Gareth Howells stepped up and fired his penalty past his Tangerines' counterpart Steve McIlhargey to make the score on penalties 5-4 in favour of Torquay.
Then Blackpool's leading scorer David Bamber stepped up to take his spot-kick which he drilled wide which meant that Torquay's 19 year exile in the basement division came to an end.
Could history repeat itself 20 years on!
