FA Cup - 3rd Round Draw - Exeter H - (KO TBC)

grecianmax said:
To us Gloucestershire is more than a little further North!

I'm excited to visit the Etihad, it's been on the list for a while but now I get to go with City

A lot of EFL fans will say their club is unique, but ours definitely has more about it than a lot of others. Largest standing terrace in the league means we have a proper "kop" which holds 4,000. We obviously own our club, and despite some difficult times recently our model has done well thanks to the academy producing players like Ollie Watkins, Ethan Ampadu, Matt Grimes, Jay Stansfield etc.

The Stanno story is well-trodden but his dad played for us and died of cancer at just 31 whilst in the squad. Jay, one his sons came up through the academy before joining Fulham - he later returned to play on loan for a season wearing his dad's no.9 and playing front of our newest stand - the Adam Stansfield stand. There will be songs about Adam, he was a local lad who played for the club he supported. No doubt the Stansfield's will also travel as they are supporters of the club.

Devon football is cut off and therefore has produced a derby that is far more volatile than a realise until experiencing it. There might be 40 odd miles between the two cities but we hate each other. That alone gives us a bit more prestige than a bog standard club in the midlands with no rivalry to speak of. I get that we're not an exciting name but genuinely there's more about us than the likes of Northampton or Walsall.

All Devon sides, including Torquay travel well over much further distances than most so the numpty comparing us to Salford is well off. Our travelling support is always decent in number and noise. Unlike the United game in 2005 I envisage less plastics with us this time for obvious reasons. United still popular down in these parts (I don't think news has caught up with the plastics that they are now mostly irrelevant with the big trophies ;))

Average home gate is 6,500 and we have a trust membership list of around 5,500 currently who pay their subs to the organisation that owns the club. Should easily fill out the allocation granted despite being half the size of our inbred neighbours down the road in Cornwall.

We'll likely get battered however our manager is pretty decent tactically, despite not winning over fans fully in his time here (including me). Ultimately the pay day will help bide us some time to find the right investor who still allows us to retain that important 51% ownership.

It's tough being fan-owned in the third tier but no impossible. I do believe it adds to the connection between the fans and the players.
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Went to Exeter Uni in the late 80’s, it was a great place, had an awesome 3 years there, fantastic hazy memories.

Used to go to St James’ regularly to watch the games, was always a good atmosphere. Will always have a place in my heart.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Went to Exeter Uni in the late 80’s, it was a great place, had an awesome 3 years there, fantastic hazy memories.

Used to go to St James’ regularly to watch the games, was always a good atmosphere. Will always have a place in my heart.
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I remember frequenting the Double Locks many a time back then. I’m assuming it’s still going strong. Probably a couple of night clubs down there too, though I’d be struggling to remember the names. Never went to the footy though.
 
chesterbells said:
I remember frequenting the Double Locks many a time back then. I’m assuming it’s still going strong. Probably a couple of night clubs down there too, though I’d be struggling to remember the names. Never went to the footy though.
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Ha, yeah, used to love a Sunday lunch at the Double Locks.

Red Cow and Artful Dodger were the main places to get twatted though.

I lived in a village called Silverton in second year, which was a beautiful place.
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
That statement may have its basis in truth, but it’s also extremely lazy. Whilst there is undoubtedly a ‘type’ of supporter who will latch themselves onto the rags or Liverpool, the casual dismissal of everyone in England’s footballing outposts who follow Premier League teams first and their local club second, as ‘glory hunters’, overlooks the reality of following football in the modern era.
Even when I was a kid in the 60’s and 70’s, the Premier League was mammon. I grew up in East Devon and although there wasn’t the blanket TV coverage that there is now, it was still all we ever talked about and I’d say 80% of my class at school supported a top flight team first and foremost, even though, primarily for geographical reasons, it was Exeter City they went to watch on a Saturday afternoon (if they went at all).
The only difference between then and now is that then classrooms contained those who followed Liverpool, Spurs, Stoke, Leeds, West Ham, Pompey, Chelsea and, in my case, City, whereas now the non-stop deluge of red-shirted propaganda coming out of Sky TV, results in a far more concentrated demographic.
City fans always get excited about this issue, I suspect because it’s a handy stick with which to beat the rags, but how many modern day junior blues live closer to Rochdale, Altrincham, Stockport, Macclesfield, Bolton, Oldham and even now Huddersfield, Wigan or Accrington, than they do City? A fair percentage I’d be willing to bet.
I still go and watch Exeter 4 or 5 times a season (usually away games, because I no longer live in the South West), but my ‘team’ is, and always has been, Manchester City, where I’ve been a season ticket holder for 3 decades, and I can assure you that for most of the near 60 year period I’ve been following them, any ‘glory hunting’ element has largely been conspicuous by its absence!
The same premise, sadly, will apply to (at least some) long distance rags and dippers. In fact I have some of the former in my family, who still live in the West Country and who are (nearly but not quite) as resolute in their support of United as I am City……
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My mate's a long time City fan, and he moved from Manchester to Paignton, in Devon back in the early 90s ..... don't quite know why I mentioned that, but there you go ... but anywhooo, he must like it, cos 35 years on, he's still there!

The only time I went to Plymouth Argyle was back in 1988, when we were in Division Two, and we lost the game 3-2 ..... a six hour trip on the football special train .... lovely walk from Devonport train station, through the park to the ground though!

Can't say I've ever been to Exeter, or Bristol Rovers ... but have been to Bristol City twice.
 
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One thing that no-one has mentioned yet (surprisingly) is that these Exeter folk think that is normal to go cream first on their scone.

Hope that the City catering team are prepared for having to deal with these proper wrong-uns.
 
1961_vintage said:
One thing that no-one has mentioned yet (surprisingly) is that these Exeter folk think that is normal to go cream first on their scone.

Hope that the City catering team are prepared for having to deal with these proper wrong-uns.
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We Exeter types do it right, with jam on top of the dairy product. If it was butter instead of cream, you wouldn’t put it on top of the jam, would you? Only those weirdos down in Cornwall would endorse that sort of malpractice!
 
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