Exeter City Yes or No

[John Cooper]

Yes. Win or lose, back in my gaff 80 mins after final whistle. Nice to have a short away jaunt.

 

[Balham Green]

Would much rather see Blackpool or Carlisle promoted than Exeter.

Ditto. I may be biased by my geography but we need to get away from this fascination with playing Exeter - the only reason they're a rival is because we've been unfortunate enough to have slumped to their level because of the mismanagement of the club when we went into admin. The sooner we can stop glamourising this fixture, the better. Its only a big game for them. We need to set our sights higher in my opinion.

It's a big fixture in the terms of attendance for us. ££££££
It might be easier for you to travel to Carlisle but I'd rather travel 40 miles and be home in an hour. I do enough travelling following Argyle so the closer the better for me.

But wouldn't we also get £££ from fixtures against the likes of Bristol City/Rovers, Pompey and any of the other "big" clubs that the armchair fan typically comes out of the woodwork to watch Argyle to see? We don't need Exeter to be in the same league as us to attract crowds, we just need to be in a higher league regularly playing more attractive opposition. The Exeter match is a nice pay day in League 2 but it's the not the be all and end all.

And the attraction of only a 40 mile trip wouldn't be a selling point for me even if I did still live in Devon. It's still a trip to one of the worst grounds I've seen and it's not exactly a nice day out what with the police escorts and the unfriendly welcome from the home fans. They're a small club with small club syndrome as far as their relationship with us is concerned. Bitter, twisted and unworthy of our attention.

But you are giving them plenty of attention! And you don't sound bitter at all! You don't think we would get a much bigger crowd playing Exeter than Carlisle or Blackpool?? All this wanting them to lose is very parochial and sad.

 

[oddball]

Would much rather see Blackpool or Carlisle promoted than Exeter.

Ditto. I may be biased by my geography but we need to get away from this fascination with playing Exeter - the only reason they're a rival is because we've been unfortunate enough to have slumped to their level because of the mismanagement of the club when we went into admin. The sooner we can stop glamourising this fixture, the better. Its only a big game for them. We need to set our sights higher in my opinion.

It's a big fixture in the terms of attendance for us. ££££££
It might be easier for you to travel to Carlisle but I'd rather travel 40 miles and be home in an hour. I do enough travelling following Argyle so the closer the better for me.

But wouldn't we also get £££ from fixtures against the likes of Bristol City/Rovers, Pompey and any of the other "big" clubs that the armchair fan typically comes out of the woodwork to watch Argyle to see? We don't need Exeter to be in the same league as us to attract crowds, we just need to be in a higher league regularly playing more attractive opposition. The Exeter match is a nice pay day in League 2 but it's the not the be all and end all.

And the attraction of only a 40 mile trip wouldn't be a selling point for me even if I did still live in Devon. It's still a trip to one of the worst grounds I've seen and it's not exactly a nice day out what with the police escorts and the unfriendly welcome from the home fans. They're a small club with small club syndrome as far as their relationship with us is concerned. Bitter, twisted and unworthy of our attention.

But you are giving them plenty of attention! And you don't sound bitter at all! You don't think we would get a much bigger crowd playing Exeter than Carlisle or Blackpool?? All this wanting them to lose is very parochial and sad.

Good points. Well made.

 

[Mark Pedlar]

Given the size of away followings in Div2 (and Div1 for that matter) they need our attendance revenue more than we need theirs.

 

[PAFC94]

C'mon Carlisle.

 

[ely grap]

:thumbs: :iagree:

C'mon Carlisle.

 

[Balham Green]

Given the size of away followings in Div2 (and Div1 for that matter) they need our attendance revenue more than we need theirs.

The away end is only about 1,000 isn't t?

 

[Ottawa Green]

1-0 Exeter Watkins

 

[PAFC94]

Pathetic defending from Carlisle. Clear your f#cking lines. Jammy b@statds.

 

[One Team In Bristol]

Hello greens. Im watching the Exeter game tonight as i did the first leg as we are linked with Watkins! No chance of getting him with the teams involved though.

How come Reid went to Exeter? Thought he was a very decent target man.

 

[Steve Evans]

reid is injury prone but a very good and dangerous player.i think he thought he was going to get plenty of bigger offers but kept failing medicals and eventually we had signed our player and exeter was his last chance saloon.

 

[Ade the green]

Long story short. We didn't want him except as a squad makeweight due to his injury problems. His agent touted him until Exeter bit. I don't think we missed him due to DA's style of play and we didn't do too badly this season.

 

[Ade the green]

1-0 Exeter Watkins

Well that's disappointing.

 

[loyal1970]

they were full of it when pompey won the title so f..k um.

 

[kernow19]

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