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I'm feeling pretty positive about tonight, I think the fact that it's exeter might make the players determined to get a win, especially as they know how much it means to us, you never know we could start our good spell here, like our good spell we had last season after drumming Wimbledon 4-0.
Saying that I'd be very happy with 1-0!! :lol: :scarf:

and goodness, what am I reading about Nicho being dropped??? :O

Mr. Chunkygull is correct and should be congratulated on his excellent memory.

Just realised we can do the double! #wishfulthinking #positive

[quote="wivelgull"]No.
Remember the Coombe match.
Att: 3, 122.[/quote]

Are you refering to the match in 1989 v exeter where the circumstances were - the week before kenny veysey got injured, torquay then pulled kenny allen :bow: out of retirement the following tuesday and played wolverhampton wanderers at molinuex in the sherpa van trophy southern area final 2nd leg. wolves were an all conquering,dominant team in the old division 4 the previous year winning the title and were doing the same in div 3 with steve bull and andy mutch an awesome strike force. torquay were 2-1 down from the home leg after steve bull who was an awesome prolific goalscorer scored 2 goals in the last 5 minutes.everyone expected torquay to get a hiding.torquay went 2-0 up at molinuex inside the first 15- :clap: kenny allen then went on to play a blinder as did defensively the whole torquay team winning 2-0 and going on to the sherpa van trophy final. the following saturday plainmoor was rocking :scarf: and the stage was set to greet our heroes amid a party atmosphere at plainmoor. an easy yellows home victory against our bitter rivals exeter city was expected. then a goalkeeper who was an unknown was selected instead of kenny allen. :| mark coombe - the name will go down in torquay folklore as producing one of the worst or unluckiest (depending on your point of view) goalkeeping performances in torquay united history and it had to be against "them" on derby day. :'( All the joy, good feeling and bounce from the pre match atmosphere had gone out of the torquay supporters by the final whistle as we got a 0-4 drubbing. :@ with goals gift wrapped (#) to an average exeter side by our keeper. veysey was sidelined for the rest of the season, coombe played on in the league matches, allen played in the sherpa van final. torquay fans were on coombes back after the exeter game and although he dropped a few clangers he did look at times a half decent solid stand in keeper. i think he returned the following season for a while also. :scarf:

I am confident for this one!

Throw on yeoman from the start with Jarvis and drop howe, now wouldnt that be a shock!

2-1!!! :scarf:

No.
Remember the Coombe match.
Att: 3, 122.

Fingers crossed for me TBH. Head says a 2-1 win heart says 0-1 loss in the 96th minute AGAIN!!!!!!! :B But Lets be upbeat as it's a local derby and things aren't as clear cut as they seem and Exeter may well cop a backlash so wouldn't it be really good to wallop em 4 - 0? It could happen so lets just visualise a rockin Plainmoor and those yellow shirts celebrating big style :clap: COYYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You gotta have a dream!

At least if we lose they only have the bragging rights for 13 days.

[quote="lankyben"][color=#FF0000]isn't that a slight contradiction?[/color] sayin drop nicho but keep mansell due to his experience? just say we dropped nicho against cheltenham you really think we have adequate cover in cruise to deal with someone like mcglashen? least if you drop mansell we wouldn't lose anything due to Craig or easton slotting in there and offering more creativity and also allowing us To play a extra winger and have someone who can beat the full back and also allowing Craig to offer more creativity from centre mid.[/quote]

On the point of experience yes there is an obvious contradiction, however one of the many key elements of a full back is pace dont get me wrong I am a big fan of Nicho's but sorry he is just far to slow now. You name McGlashen that is the very reason why I would move Nicho on now, last season McGlashen ripped Nicho a new buthole in the play-offs and I think Nicho as said despite slimming down hasn't got any quicker, its the full back areas that have cost us a lot of goals.

As for Mansell he can run box to box all day and all night long he by some distance more mobile than Easton and has leadership quailties like no other, experience and mobility down the centre is important, pace at full back more so over experience.

We'll p*ss this 3-1. The bet is on and make no mistake this game is in the bag. I'm so confident that money has been parted with and i hope that THIS confidence cancels out all the negatives i have posted today as i need 2 positives just to cancel out the negative. And right now i am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO positive. I am feeling it brothers and sisters, i'm feeling the lurve, i'm feeling the mood and right now the mood is goooooooooooooooood. I'm swimming in a sea of imaginary money, come tomorrow it will be REAL money ( well £46 ) to be precise my winnings will be. How many olympic size swimming pools could i fill with £46? I reckon i'd have to pick it up from the bookies in 1p's to stand any chance of having a swim mind. Still, i will swim in pennies, i will bask in the glory of a victory against our diseased rivals, not serious diseases i might add, i'm not that cruel or anything so at the very worst a mild candida infection but mek no mistek, the pride of Devon will lie well and truly in the yellow half of the county come 10pm tomorrow night until the rematch live in front of the nation where we end up getting dissected like a student opening up a lost frog and embarrassing ourselves in front of 6 people. Until then though the bragging rights are ours! COME ON THE GULLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


( is this ok? i've tried so hard to be positive that i've ruptured some facial capillaries but i think i can live with it)

Not feeling confident at all, I'm dreading it TBH! But I'm just hoping that this big Devon derby is the turning point that we switch on and beat City! We can't lose to the grecians!!

why not feel positive?
apparently we were "ok" at burton - as for the 2nd goal, a shot like that ends up in row Z 9 times out of ten!
its a devon derby against our most hated rivals and if the players cant get up for that theres something wrong.
win 4-0 lings a genius, lose 2-1 in the 95th min and its "ling out!"

isn't that a slight contradiction? sayin drop nicho but keep mansell due to his experience? just say we dropped nicho against cheltenham you really think we have adequate cover in cruise to deal with someone like mcglashen? least if you drop mansell we wouldn't lose anything due to Craig or easton slotting in there and offering more creativity and also allowing us To play a extra winger and have someone who can beat the full back and also allowing Craig to offer more creativity from centre mid.

Not feeling positive more hopefull, that said it's Exeter our whole club should be up for this our team should be self motivated.

Calls for Nicho to be rested are not awful, Lankyben. He like Oastler at best have been inconsistant, last season Nicho had the speed of a Sinclair C5 despite slimming down he now appears to be slower than a C5 all in all for a full back that equals disaster. Mansell has not hit the form of last term however he is the one player who has two key elements needed for a relegation scrap, experience and leadership he must remain in the team.

and a very good last 5 too! :)