*Official* English Football Season 2008-2009

[Craig]

Very annoyed, should of won tonight and the missed pen is so frustrating.

Got to be more clinical or this season could easily just drift into mid-table obscurity. Which I wouldn't of minded at the start of the season, but my sig seems apt, at the moment.

Could easily be in the top three now, yet we're on the fringe of the play-offs.

As an Exeter fan, and after your team won promotion what would you consider a good season? Anything other then relegation or looking at going into League 1 (Div 2 or whatever you want to call it)?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Would be nice if Anderson would score one though.

Winning the biggest double in football not enough for you?

 

[GIMH]

It's not just Gerrard's goals that I was referring to when I mentioned him getting them out of the mire itbt

 

[Tom Halsey]

Quite obviously missing the Steven Gerrard comparison with his match winning goals.

Wasn't a reference to you, just generally, you often hear pundits going on about how midfielder x doesn't score enough, don't get it.

 

[grecian]

As an Exeter fan, and after your team won promotion what would you consider a good season? Anything other then relegation or looking at going into League 1 (Div 2 or whatever you want to call it)?

A good season would be actually what we're doing now, challenging around the play-offs. Showing we're more then competitive in a league we haven't been in in five years, especially considering we were never even in the top 3 in the Tinpot. Winning promotion in anyway would be a stupendous season. The thing is, considering three teams had points reductions at the start of the season, just avoiding relegation won't count as being a good season, merely average, it may have done if not.

 

[sledger]

Quite obviously missing the Steven Gerrard comparison with his match winning goals.

Would be nice if Anderson would score one though.

Would point out that several of his goals last season were in fact match winners tbh.

 

[fredfertang]

A good season would be actually what we're doing now, challenging around the play-offs. Showing we're more then competitive in a league we haven't been in in five years, especially considering we were never even in the top 3 in the Tinpot. Winning promotion in anyway would be a stupendous season. The thing is, considering three teams had points reductions at the start of the season, just avoiding relegation won't count as being a good season, merely average, it may have done if not.

Just out of interest what did Exeter do with the cash they raised in their FA Cup run?

 

[chalky]

Wasn't a reference to you, just generally, you often hear pundits going on about how midfielder x doesn't score enough, don't get it.

Exactly how many goals did Roy Keane & Patrick Viera, the two finest midfielders of their generation, score ? So much more to being a central midfielder than getting goals.

 

[grecian]

Just out of interest what did Exeter do with the cash they raised in their FA Cup run?

Helped pay off our debts. Some say it saved us from going under. We were hugely handicapped financially when the Trust took over, through decades of mismanagement. We're still selling our best players, and not bringing anyone in for cash, yet we're reasonably happy as long as we're not facing bankruptcy and are progressing on the pitch.

Hopefully with the transfers out of Friend and Mackie we should be close to being in the black, and how many clubs can say that......

 

[Neil Pickup]

Just out of interest what did Exeter do with the cash they raised in their FA Cup run?

Stay in business and avoid going the way of Halifax/Canvey/Telford/Boston/Scarborough...

 

[fredfertang]

I'd not realised they'd all gone - that is sad - especially Halifax - its not that many years ago I went there to see us play them in the old fourth division and we weren't any better off than them in those days - should be more appreciative of Mr Madejski I suppose - The Shay certainly had some character - presumably it's a supermarket or such like now?

 

[Neil Pickup]

I think the Shay is still alive - or at least it was last year when we finally won there at the fifth time of Conference trying - they reached the playoff final the year before we did for the first time, but last year their debts just caught up with them and they went to the wall, reprieving Altrincham (again, again).

They're now reformed as FC Halifax Town, playing in Unibond 1 North (with our FA Cup conquerors, Curzon), in the fourth tier of non-league football - and are top of the table.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Exactly how many goals did Roy Keane & Patrick Viera, the two finest midfielders of their generation, score ? So much more to being a central midfielder than getting goals.

That's my point.

 

[Matteh]

Different type of central midfielder tbh.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Not really, Keane was very similar to Gerrard in style IMO, both box to box midfielders really.

 

[roseboy64]

Winning the biggest double in football not enough for you?

Just find it inetresting that he has a reputation of scoring some nice goals and he hasn't so far and rarely looks like scoring.

It's not just Gerrard's goals that I was referring to when I mentioned him getting them out of the mire itbt

Focus of the team?

Would point out that several of his goals last season were in fact match winners tbh.

One season though.

 

[GIMH]

Just find it inetresting that he has a reputation of scoring some nice goals and he hasn't so far and rarely looks like scoring.

Focus of the team?

One season though.

Just that he basically runs the game for them

 

[Tom Halsey]

Very outside possibility of Chelsea going out now, how I would laugh.

 

[GIMH]

What were tonight's scores, cbf to look?

 

[sledger]

Chelsea drew, Liverpool won.