is there a "Exeter" thread?

[DrillingCobbler]

Enjoying my gran canary holiday, then I go online to find out we concede in the last minute of injury time.

4 points from 7 games and 2 1st round cup defeats is truly appalling stuff. There's no goals in the team and its not good enough defensively to nick 1-0s like it was last season. What I find so infuriating is that I could see at York what lay ahead yet with the exception of signing Blythe nothing's been done to sort the team out. We will really struggle to stay up unless signings are made NOW across the team. We are 3 or 4 players short of bein competitive, I'm not sure how anybody can disagree with that? Aidy had no one of substance to bring on in the 2nd half to win the game and that shows the lack of depth and quality in the squad.

Hoping for the tide to turn next Saturday now by some how I doubt it will. What happened to the experienced centre back we were
Meant to be signing this week? We may well have got something out of today's game if those words had been followed up with action...

[kingsleycobbler]

5 points off 16th says it all

[1HorshamCobbler]

Think we may have had a decent striker who Aidy didn't want!

[WasRambo]

If anyone comes on here and insists this squad is stronger than last years they can fck right off. The results are the only important gauge of how good we are and they're saying that we're crap. Wtf have you done Boothroyd? If people forgot about laughing at us after Wembley, you're giving them plenty more reason now.

I just can't believe how easy to beat we've become...

We need a goalscorer, two centre backs and probably a general in the middle too. And we need them five weeks ago....

[1HorshamCobbler]

Yep.

[IwishIwasafly]

this squad is stronger than last years

 

[marcmewordz]

i fear your all getting a bit depressed about what was obvious from the start of the season..............
no defence
can't score

don't let it get to ya...
their
DOOMED
and there is nothing that can be done about it...........,

sh!t ground/no atmosphere/cr@p tanoy/cr@p beer and far too expensive for what 'entertainment' is served up........

18th if lucky....

[Artlenock Cobbler]

Enjoying my gran canary holiday, then I go online to find out we concede in the last minute of injury time.

4 points from 7 games and 2 1st round cup defeats is truly appalling stuff. There's no goals in the team and its not good enough defensively to nick 1-0s like it was last season. What I find so infuriating is that I could see at York what lay ahead yet with the exception of signing Blythe nothing's been done to sort the team out. We will really struggle to stay up unless signings are made NOW across the team. We are 3 or 4 players short of bein competitive, I'm not sure how anybody can disagree with that? Aidy had no one of substance to bring on in the 2nd half to win the game and that shows the lack of depth and quality in the squad.

Hoping for the tide to turn next Saturday now by some how I doubt it will. What happened to the experienced centre back we were
Meant to be signing this week? We may well have got something out of today's game if those words had been followed up with action...

That was easily the best we've played all season and had we taken our chances we would have been out of sig...............aw, I just can't be arsed to re live it. I'm going to the pub.

[oop_north]

Embarrassment.

 i fear

Grey Day!

[Insider]

What to say?  A better performance today, the first hlf hour the best we've played all season.  But Clive "Banjo" Platt missed two absolute sitters.  Thought Blyth had a blinder apart from the one sitter he missed.  Defence went to sleep for the corner - who was on the post?  Deegan had a shocker.  Collins was almost excellent, but I think he lost O'Flynn for their winner, but once again in this instance our full back (Widdowson) got caught by a long cross field ball over the top - it is our biggest defensive weakness - and I said when O'Flynn came on that he's a bogeyman for us.   Tehir second was actually a really slick counter attacking move.  Carter, I am just not getting it.  ROD not really in it today.  But in the end not evnough shots when we had the chance to pull the trigger.  We'll play worse and win.

[GrangeParkCobbler]

Grey Day!

Shut up!

[Carlo Corazzins Corduroy]

If anyone comes on here and insists this squad is stronger than last years they can fck right off. The results are the only important gauge of how good we are and they're saying that we're crap. Wtf have you done Boothroyd? If people forgot about laughing at us after Wembley, you're giving them plenty more reason now.

I just can't believe how easy to beat we've become...

We need a goalscorer, two centre backs and probably a general in the middle too. And we need them five weeks ago....

How the f*ck were we easily beaten today? Typical knee-jerk response from our yokelly backward fans. Sick of it.

We were absolutely robbed today. Platt should have scored, but besides that linked up brilliantly with Blyth, who looks a stunning player. Only complaint was our inability to convert, and how predictable our gameplan became. Aidy needs to come up with something besides simply shifting it out to Hacket and crossing it in. Emerton looks a better bet than O'Donovan on the left. Carter a complete non-entity again.

[oop_north]

Shut up!

Did that one yesterday. Must be on repeat

[fwalden]

From what I heard, this was our best performance of the season!

[guest49]

Now the fortress has well and truly been breached, we seriously need to turn around our shocking away form.
However good the new and improved Platt is and however much people banging on about Bayo's lack of goals for us since Jan, he is the biggest hole (literally) in the squad. 
Whatever went on between him and AB, his inability to manage him or effectively replace him, will be his main undoing if results don't turn around in the next couple of months. Gutts should have stayed too.

The biggest disappointment for me is that we only lost in the final of the play-offs a few months ago. The average club would anticipate, or actually expect, to build on this or at least hit the ground running. Too many wholesale changes IMO. You can blame luck, injuries, refs etc until the cows come home. As bad runs continue you tend to run out of them. We always seem (or plead) to have the most injuries, which can't be a coincidence. If things don't turn around and we finish up mid-table/bottom half, what do you do, change all the players again? We had a foundation for promotion this season and disregarded it.

Anyway, it's a marathon not a sprint, although we currently seem to be enjoying a steady jog.

It's just sad that we have clearly had two back to back capable managers. It must be a Cobblers thing.

[A view from the east]

From what I heard, this was our best performance of the season!

Er , that's whats worrying. It probably was but still not good enough to see off a very average Exeter.

[bungle]

However good the new and improved Platt is and however much people banging on about Bayo's lack of goals for us since Jan, he is the biggest hole (literally) in the squad. 
 

I actually disagree with this. I actually think that Blyth (although he isn't actually our player) is a better all-round option than Bayo right now.

The biggest hole(s) in the team IMO are the ones left by Carlisle, Langmead and Gutts. Last year scoring one goal at home was enough for us to win the vast majority of games; this year the defence/midfield aren't tough enough to grind out results - that's why we're struggling.

[sixfields starling]

That was a real kick in the teeth today and hard to take after, playing our best football for months.Goals win matches and at the moment we are creating enough chances,but not being clinical enough and it's costing us dear. Platty's miss ,which he admitted he should have buried,being the game changer, score then and we would have more than likely gone on to win.Yet the front two worked really well together and look a good pairing,Platty won everything in the air and his hold up play was excellent ,but he is not a prolific scorer,never has been,he's a target man who flicks on a hell of a lot of balls that the midfielders need to start getting hold of. My only criticism of them was nearly every time Hackett crossed the ball they both were within a yard of each other,one needed to stay back on the far post,he would have benefited big time,but that's just my opinion. The big worry today was that for all the possession and chances we had ,we would get caught out ,which we were and it was a carbon copy of Torquay's  second goal,with Joe being caught out with a ball over the top and a clinical finish following. The positive to come out of today however, is carry on playing like that and cut out the lapses in concentration and we will soon start climbing the league, i'm pretty sure of that,at the moment anyway!    

[TbananaG]

Er , that's whats worrying. It probably was but still not good enough to see off a very average Exeter.

I'm going to back up Aidy on this one: we were dominant for long periods of the game today and had so many more chances than they did. It didn't seem to matter that we kept missing them because they kept coming, but they had two chances and took them - really can't remember Duke making a save. To be fair, their second was a bloody good goal, but their first was really soft and I can't imagine that being scored with Langmead bossing things. Platt did so much better again, but there were two almost unbelievable misses from him - he's certainly not a natural finisher. I'm also going to stick up for Deegan a bit: yes, he had a really difficult day, but I think he's better than that. Carter? - well, he's going to have to show something soon - looking every inch the Cheltenham bench warmer he was by the end of last season.

As for Exeter: yes, pretty average, but deserve credit for moving the ball around and being pretty watchable.

[tcobb]

 Couple of things standing out in todays game, Hacket has a this ability to land a cross and/or a corner to nobody!!
 Today he sent a cross to the far post (twice) when the runs had been made to the near, he sent a cross to the near post when the run had been made to the far, then when one player had made a run to the near post, and one to the far, he landed the ball in the centre. His corners either go over everyone or end up in the Goal Keepers hands, no threat at all.
 Another point was the replacements made in the game, Aidy's had no bearing on the game what so ever. The game play remained the same, Exeter made changes that affected the style of play, a sub scoring the winner.