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Whydoibother wrote: 13 Apr 2019, 20:06 Exeter crowd in playoffs 4103 with 270 away

Haha. Wow that really is a damning statistic. You absolutely cannot fault The Yellow Army.

I have to say I thought Woking were very unlucky today. They essentially outplayed us for 75 minutes.
Their two up top were quick, full of running and caused our back two plenty of issues. Their midfield picked up the second ball and competed a lot better than ours too.
Not sure why Hall started that game as it was clear to everyone he was injured and not moving well.
We just never really got going at all.
Our midfield was bypassed most of the game and far too many balls went straight to their keeper.

HOWEVER, we never gave up and I have honestly never felt emotion like that at the end of the game because I reckon that realistically confirms our route out of this daft league.

Without that goal wokings tails will have been up going into the last four and I reckon our pride would have taken a dent so who knows what might have happened. It feels like a win now though and I don’t think we can be caught.

Forgot about him.
He scored a penalty at Home Park if I remember correctly?

Not while we were still in it, I should say

Bigman wrote: 19 Sep 2017, 10:49 I was one of no more than 6 at Halifax on a Tuesday night in our first season in the conference with Buckle, Lee Phillips was the only player that didn't have a shocker and made the 3-0 scoreline more respectable with a couple of late goals. One stand was closed and there were hardly any home fans so don't think any United fans were hiding amongst them. I overheard one fan grumbling that they'd come all this way for that rubbish, then had a 6 hour drive home before going to work at 7.

We must've had quite a lot at Barnet for the relegation decider, coachloads of us ended up outside as there weren't enough tickets.

I was at that Halifax game. There was a lot more than 6 of us. There were 3 of my mates for a start. It absolutely poured and the pitch became a quagmire.
The Shay was absolutely huge for a 5th tier side and then they demolished that stand we were in for some reason.

Anyone know how Barrow-in-Furness got on today?

Anyone else fancy a game tonight?
I heard the lady on reception was keen for a run out?

I've got a Swedish mate who watches GAIS home and away who says he's one of the best players they've had in the last couple of seasons. He said he got injured and didn't benefit from crap players around him.
They're a second division side. The standard must be pretty dire.
This said, he could be an excellent signing. If latheniel Rowe turner signed for GAIS I wouldn't be telling my mate he was a good player...

Gerring is scoring 8 today. Don't worry guys.

Got a good feeling about this.
Gerring starting so we should be fine.
There's strong winds which will only help Moore.
Should be a breeze (no pun intended)

TUFC (9) 10 Gerring 8, Moore 2.
Eastleigh (1) 1 Constable

Att. 1789

Really, what is the point. What's the point of going to Basingstoke, or anywhere, to witness a team of losers get beaten by the worst team in the 6th tier of football?
3-0 isn't even a contest. It's not like there's anything you could salvage from that.
I'm not sure how much more of this slow and painful death I can take. Lets just jack it in.
Last season I was convinced it couldn't get any worse and was encouraging people to stick with the club. I can't blame anyone for giving up now. It's a joke. To lose 7-3 at home to Bromley and 3-0 to BASINGSTOKE is just a farce. It's over.
Those who are saying that today we lost against an experienced team, it was always going to happen etc etc, fair play to you. Your positivity is admirable. For me, I can't really stomach this anymore. It's embarrassing. The fans have been brilliant away from home this season. We've done our bit. The club have failed us. Everyone else at the club should be appalled with themselves for dragging this club down. The distance we have fallen in 4 years is completely unbelievable and inexcusable.
It's not worth it. It's not enjoyable anymore.

Hurst
Butler
Fisher
Exodus
Mcdonald

I was one of the 89 last night.

Oh dear.

That's left me terrified for the rest of the season.

If I hadn't been to a game since 2012, I think I would've left in tears last night.
However, even if, like me, you witnessed last seasons debacle, that was worse.

I'll start with the postives:
Speiss made an excellent save first half when the striker was through 1 on 1.
Butler looks a good player. He let the cross go into the box which led to the penalty, but looks good on the ball and gets about. He's probably wondering what he's doing here.
The players are tall.
The fans. Absolutely brilliant. Deservedly got a round of applause from the home fans. Brilliant all game.
That's it really.

It's easy to pour scorn on last night. Believe me, it's easy. But Paul Cox is clearly very much up against it. I suppose another positive is that with half of last seasons budget, we're not looking twice as bad.

This said;
We must have had about 20% possession. We could keep the ball, nor indeed win it back.

Fisher...was playing on the right wing. That didn't work.

Fenwick and Carmichael.....probably the best thing to do is to reserve judgement, because it's only one game, but suffice to say, I'm really hoping we don't have a couple of younger Ben Hardings. The game totally passed them by. Not least because our back 5 just launched it over their heads whenever we had the ball.

Smith..doesn't look like a right back to me. He's not very mobile.

Richards...is still Richards.

Quigley...didn't hold the ball up very well. Indeed, Lavelle-Moore did a better job when he came on.

The team looks and is very young. There didn't seem to be much leadership going on out there. We were like lambs to the slaughter really.
The goals we conceded were farcical. Really, really soft. We should've cleared our lines for the first and third goals and for the second, their number 10 was completely unmarked on the edge of the area, so he did the sensible thing and stroked in into the corner. It was actually a theme throughout the game, where their midfield had all the time they wanted to do whatever they wanted.

Wrexham looked good, but I think we made them look good. They got beaten 3-1 by Bromley, so they can't be that good can they.

We all understand the predicament we're in and yes, we're lucky to have a football club at all and I'll continue to follow the team around the country. But crumbs, I'm not really looking forward to the next game. I just don't really enjoy it anymore.
Sorry it isn't more positive.

Butler and Speiss.
No-one else deserves a mention.

He scored lots of goals in Belgium and Italy.
I'm not really sure of the standard below the top divisions there though.
I think if he hadn't got one goal in 14 appearances for Mansfield, I would be rather confident of this chap being a success.