captainchris

playing teams of lower league standard so as we are up to speed with the top teams of this league !!!! I would suspect Farnborough are already booked for next year !!

This is completely and utterly the point........

And Nowich changed their manager to gain promotion ............

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LUCK !!!! So it's relying on luck is it??? This club cannot rely on luck this year. It's skill we need to win promotion - Exeter City need luck !!!!! For God's sake get a grip, your statement is exactly one million miles off course !!!!!!!!

For the record when do you think we will start to win then?

Agree.......NI has never been on my Christmas card list. Speaks for about a thousand or so fans and claims to be the spokeman for other tens of thousands - well he's never been my spokesman. However this sympton of high handedness by NC is totally wrong and the list of his lack of tollerance to various people and issues is growing week by week. I find the guy arrogant and distateful - like a child who wont share his toys....... Please don't come back with all that he saved our club stuff - that is granted but his attidude stinks!

why on earth not he's crep after all !!!!

Alan has fitted in well. However he leads a gang which which are short of one or two members who left last term and have not been replaced........ Alan rarely performs to his own professed high standards and will not make Prefect unless he shows more organisational skills. The Head Master is ware of Alan's shortcomings and will not lower this school's expectations to fall to Alan's level if he doesn't prove himself to be a pupil with the right application by October!

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Yes definately winning games is the key !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good point!!!!!!

Can anyone throw any light at all on why we didn't buy Antonio ?/?????? I thought AP said he liked him at end of last season and he did look mone our better players on many occasions last year and the one most likely to open up defences. This team will be so predictable and will struggle like hell with AP's long ball game........

This result is surely no surprise........

If this is the case how does this situation equate to lasts season's excuse that we didn't have time to get a team together?

Dreaming I'm afraid

So agree with this. Antonio and Papa made the difference in lots of games last year. They are players that can change a game - you need these guys. I'm concerned that these players have not been replaced. They papered over a hell of a lot of cracks last year. Currently we do not have enough to go up next year....

And the fact that as of now we have not replaced our pace in the team with Antonio and Papa gone..........Hopefully the picture will change dramatically very soon but right now we are heading for a reality check when the season kicks off!

This squad without Antonio and Papa will not be good enough to get out of this division..........= we need new faces to replace them plus right back etc.......

We are in Switzerland before that. Indeed last year we were told a thousand times that AP didn't have time to put a team together so this year you would have thought that additions to team would have been sorted well in advance. Evidently this is not the case - therefore no wonder there is some surprise that we are not ready with starting squad by now. What's left from last year will not suddenly be good enough this year.

It will be Eastleigh, Farnborough, Pooole Town, The mighty Salsbury and one very low league Div 2 team plus one good team for TB Trophy by which time we will be anything but ready for new season - as usual..........

Rose tinted glasses.......Papa and Antonio were our real get of jail free cards last year. They were flare players and without them we only have one real 'flare' player in AL and possibly JP on a good day. I am surprised we are leaving it so late to sign new players considering the whole of last season we were reminded of the late start AP had with his squad building......... Surely if you are well prepared you would have a very good idea by now who you want to bring in and get the thing settled. I know there maybe things going on behind the scenes but .............with just two weeks to go and a squad that currently will not be enough ?

if we continue to always play teams 'to get fit' only and play just one half decent team in the Ted Bates trophy we will continue to be ill prepared for the real games. I wonder where we might be touring this pre season? Farnborough - Salisbury, Eastliegh, a list of Swedish part time lumberjacks the redicilous list of pointless useless preparation games is endless.......Get a grip Saints and get some ambition by playing decent opposition and preparing to win the first game! In short, we are never up to speed at the start of the season for this reason..........................

Just shows - guess work isn't always accurate..................

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Whilst you are quite correct, the point surely is that a polite 'sorry we can't help on this occasion' would be respectful of the enquiry.