Truro City are a club that have finally found their home and mojo again. After playing away from home due to various ground shares for four years, the club finally returned ‘home’ this term, after having to ground sharing at Plymouth Parkway, Gloucester City and Taunton Town.
The Truro City Stadium opened its doors for competitive football for The Tinners in August of 2024, and there would only ever have been one man to score City’s first-ever goal at their new home.
28-year-old Tyler Harvey etched his name further into Tinners history, by scoring the first goal at the club's new Cornwall home on the opening day of the 2024/2025 campaign, but it wasn’t always that particular corner of the country that he called his home.
Having started his career at Plymouth back in 2004 when he was just nine, making his breakthrough to the first team eight years later in 2012. Fifty appearances for the Green side of Devon awaited Harvey between 2012 and 2016, including a memorable free kick in the Devon Derby against Exeter.
Away from Plymouth, loan spells at Salisbury and Bath City twice, before permanent stints at the latter, alongside Wrexham followed, before he finally found his home at Truro, in 2017, which lasted two seasons, before a quick return to his former employers, Bath City never took off and he returned to the Tinners that same year and remains a Red at the time of writing.
98 appearances and 43 goals from his first spell was a brilliant return for Harvey, but since returning to the club, he seems to have hit even higher heights.
107 goals in 166 matches is a fantastic record at any level, let alone National League, with Harvey’s manager, John Askey waxing lyrical about the frontman back in September.
Askey told BBC Sport: ‘ When you've got someone like [Tyler] who can come on, and again he's made a huge difference, he's as good as any striker in the league. We're fortunate to have him and that's just what he does.”
In pre-season last summer, Harvey handed Truro a huge boost in their second consecutive NLS season, by signing a new ‘multi-year’ contract. He expressed his delight for what he calls ‘his club” in an official statement.
“This has been my club and my home for a long time now,” he said, reflecting on his journey with Truro. He highlighted the importance of the new stadium and the opportunity to reconnect with the fans after a challenging period when the team wasn’t playing in Truro.
This season, Harvey has continued his sparkling form, with 15 goals in 23, which is already higher than his tally from last term and is on track to have his highest goalscoring season in a City shirt.
Harvey will be Truro’s key to flying high at the top of the table, and one man that Tinners fans hope can fire the club, to the National League, whether automatically or via the playoffs come May.
By Finley Chung
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