Lund, 21, set Rovers on the road to victory by teeing up striker Tom Eaves for the opener before drilling home a 20 yard free kick himself.
But McGhee had banned him from taking free kicks after a howler in a recent game.
Lund revealed:
"I was on the other side of the pitch so the manager couldn't say anything! I'm always practicing free kicks well after training, but I'm never down to take them. Hopefully I've proved a point that I should be."
McGhee joked:
"I told him not to take free kicks. That was my contribution."
Midfielder Lund is on loan from Stoke until Christmas, but is playing as a full back to help ease Rovers injury problems. He said:
"I'm enjoying it and I'll play anywhere I'm needed. Stoke are watching me and so hopefully I'll do a good job, work hard, make the right impression and go back in the new year and take it from there."
Bolton loanee striker Eaves grabbed the winner in the 76th minute when he tapped in a pass by substitute Wayne Brown from one yard out for his third goal since joining Rovers on a three month loan deal last month.
Eaves had started the goal rush in the 15th minute by beating the Torquay defence to a lofted pass from full back Lund before chipping keeper Michael Poke.
Two minutes later Lund buried his low free kick after midfielder Craig Easton had handled just outside the area.for a first goal since joining on a loan deal until Christmas from Stoke.
Torquay then found themselves up against it after half an hour when former QPR defender Joe Oastler picked up his second booking and was sent off by referee Scott Mathieson. The first caution was picked up for a body-check on young winger Fabian Broghammer, 22, and resulted in the German leaving the field with what looked like a neck injury, a few minutes later.
Oastler's next 'victim' was Broghammer's replacement Wayne Brown who was taken out on the touchline. It was a soft booking, but I suspect that the ref decided he needed to get the lad off the field before he killed someone. He appeared to have lost the plot a little at that point as Torquay fruitlessly chased the game.
But in the 53rd minute former Rovers loanee Rene Howe curled in his seventh goal in successive games from the left edge of the box to leave the home side stunned - and equal Torquay's 58-year scoring record.
And six minutes later central defender Aaron Downes nodded in a cross from full back Kevin Nicholson at the far post for his third of the season to pull Torquay level.
Former Rovers loan player Howe, 25, told me afterwards:
"I'd like to go on now and make the record my own by getting one against Gillingham on Tuesday."
Aussie central defender Aaron Downes, 27, nodded in to give the Gulls hope level six minutes later, but boss Martin Ling said:
"I always say you can carry three bad players, but in the first half we were carrying ten. We look like a good mid-table team at the moment, but I think we've got a squad to be better than that. We haven't won back to back games since March and so consistency is a worry."
McGhee admitted:
"There's a wee bit of frustration. To produce the performance we did in the first half was what I'd been hoping for. What I hadn't been expecting was the sloppy start to the second half. We didn't bottle it though and kept working for that winning goal."
My clipping from this morning's paper
... and yesterday's 'effort'
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