IndoMike
Very well known Exeweb poster
Oh dear Mike.
That must be one of your corniest efforts yet!
(Or was it just intended as a rye comment?)
Anyway, I'm off soon to run free in the fields of Bali. I hop the police don't stop me.
Oh dear Mike.
That must be one of your corniest efforts yet!
(Or was it just intended as a rye comment?)
You're testing your hay fever Mike, come on, we all know now how it is done
Anyway, I'm off soon to run free in the fields of Bali. I hop the police don't stop me.
Some posters don’t seem to realise we could have a season or two struggling at the wrong end of league 2...give me 20th in League 1 any year.The main question is: would fans rather see us struggling near the bottom of L1, or in and around the promotion/playoff spots in L2?
If we had made it to L1, we would've been able to attract higher quality players in the summer, but given Matt T's signings of last summer, it's questionable as to whether any would deliver the goods.
Best therefore to have another crack at L2, and let's aim for the auto's this time. Sod the play-offs again.
The last part of your post is spot on, I think what differs this time around is that some are seeing it as 3rd loss in 4 seasons at Wembley (or fourth season of missing out).If fans would rather see us compete at the top of the table then they would always want us to miss out on promotion or even on occasion get relegated. It isn't a choice of the supporters though is it, we watch what we get. We play in the division we deserve to be based on the previous season. We can't choose to get promoted (cue the conspiracy theorists ), if we get the opportunity we go for it and get it or dip out.
If we did get promoted this season, it doesn't look as if we would have much more money to spend on quality players but we would have had to do the best we could with the players we have or got in (again probably only a couple). We certainly would have been seen as relegation favourites but then, we would have anyway no matter what squad we had.
It could be, and is, argued that losing the play off against Morecambe was a blessing in disguise as we were stronger the following season and bounced L2 as well. But really, we would never know.
Ollie's not done too badly for himself so far .The last part of your post is spot on, I think what differs this time around is that some are seeing it as 3rd loss in 4 seasons at Wembley (or fourth season of missing out).
Ultimately we will never know if that squad or potentially even if this squad would have been good enough to keep us in league one.
I really can’t see us being anywhere near the top three next season, I imagine with the way Mansfield and Bolton are splashing the cash that we might be in for a yet another play off push at best.
Who knows tho, I said Watkins was crap after seeing him play his first game for the first team and I’m pretty sure I’ve been proven wrong there!
We had a storming finish in Spring 2009 and ended up 2nd. They may have been Conference players, but they were very good ones. I can't all which match it was, but there was a game we won in L1 in which 8 of the team had played for us in the Conference.When have we been though? We had a team of mostly Conference players on 2009, managed to stay up and follow up with our joint best season.
I'd rather see us struggling in League 1. A day at the footy for me is not just about the result. Being in League 1 would mean new grounds to go to and a bit of change from the usual Cambridge / Carlisle / Grimsby etc that we seem to be visiting every year. It's all about the experience not just the winning.The main question is: would fans rather see us struggling near the bottom of L1, or in and around the promotion/playoff spots in L2?
If we had made it to L1, we would've been able to attract higher quality players in the summer, but given Matt T's signings of last summer, it's questionable as to whether any would deliver the goods.
Best therefore to have another crack at L2, and let's aim for the auto's this time. Sod the play-offs again.