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    Exeter City - How much will it cost to be a sustainable League One Club?

    Browsing at the Gas heads forum to see what is being said about Tom Nichols and found this interesting article about how much money clubs in League One are having to find annually just to be competitive. It shows that Rovers lost £1.3M, MK Dons lost £2.8M and two clubs ran up losses of over...
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    Exeter City - Our finest point in History?

    I saw my first game at SJP in 1977. I started going regularly in the early 1980's when we reached the quarter finals of The FA Cup and finished in our highest positions in League One for three consecutive seasons (Div 3 in old money). As a teenager I thought the early 1980's football was...
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    Spending our Windfall

    Making an assumption that the fee we receive for Ampadu and/or any subsequent sell on received for Watkins is a seven figure fee in excess of £1M should we go down the road pursued by the Swindon Town Trust in re-purchasing our ground?http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-39290058 This...
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    New Museum for Exeter City

    Well done to those who helped get the funding for this project. I look forward to donating a number of historical items including possibly the only remaining programme from our first ever league match v Brentford in 1920, ticket stubs from the 1931 Sunderland game and a fully functioning 1950...
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    Time to go on Loan?

    We have 28 players listed in our squad - 2 are on loan so technically 26 if they return to their parent clubs. I would assume that Tiz would know his best team by now and around 21 players would comprise his squad for the second half of the season. Would it therefore be sensible if we could...
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    Is £250,000 a year sustainable for a League Two Club?

    Regardless of results on the pitch can a club of our size afford to pay the Manager (130k), Director of Football (48k) and the Chief Executive (70k) a quarter of a million pounds a year in salary? If we can would it though not be better to put it all toward the salary of a top manager e.g. a...
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    A new purpose for the Trust?

    When the pioneers of the Trust set out on their journey from the initial set up to then taking over the club its purpose was clear - survival of the football club. We flocked in as members clear in our collective goal that we would do what we could to keep our club afloat. Some fans still...
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    Injuries - just bad luck?

    Not for the first year we seem to be in the midst of a horrendous injury crisis. None as far as I'm aware have occurred in matches with the exception of Tilson today? Are the training methods to blame? Is our physio team simply not providing what's needed? I say this as when we were in the...
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    So where has the money gone?

    This isn't meant to be an anti Tisdale/Tagg/Club post merely hoping someone can do the maths. Tiz stated this week in an interview that his budget is fully spent. From last season we have lost the services of a number of high profile players e.g. Noble, Nicholls, Stockley, Clinton, Hoskins...
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    Is Exeter City purely a feeder club now?

    for our Academy? Thinking back a few years Tis was clear in his squad building to have multiple cover throughout with there being e.g. four centre halfs and four forwards to enable a double substitution if Plan B was required. We now have a situation where we have a mere 13 senior players, 2...
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    Eamonn Dolan Tribute

    I have posted this as a new thread which I hope is appropriate. Reading have today announced Eamonn will be honoured with their North Stand named after him. His impact on our club was something I think we can all agree should be remembered for future supporters. In what way though? I hope this...
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    Positions that must be filled next season?

    Assuming this season has been a dress rehearsal for a full on promotion next year what positions must be filled with new recruits? For me assuming Ribs will play at right back and we have already got the hard man role filled by Russell Penn then I feel we must get another centre back on board -...
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    Non League Gems?

    Seeing how well we did with David Wheeler coming to us from Staines there surely must be a few players out there worth a look to replace Tom Nichols? A couple of players I'm aware of and I'm sure one or two on this forum likewise and it may just be possible that someone at the club will take a...
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    How best to use the Cash?

    So after many years of scrimping and saving and managing hand to mouth our club has the prospect of around £1M from the cup games and on the assumption Nichols is sold. The Grimes money we are led to believe was spent in the thirds of infrastructure, short term debts and increasing the player...
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    Do we need to 'Man Up'?

    The last two matches have to a significant effect been influenced by ref decisions - the last minute Luton goal and the failure to send off the Oxford player after clearly man handling our player with the score at 0-0. I'm not going to say the ref is the only reason for those losses but does our...
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    FA Cup Memories - the not so good ones

    What a bad day at the office this one was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lgR5NbDpTw My overriding memory was that of Keith Viney looking like the slowest player in the history of the game, and was that a young Mel Gwinett between the sticks? Anyway I'm hoping I don't get the same feeling at...
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    Tickets for Didcot

    I am need of an additional adult ticket for Sunday. I can't find reference on the club website as to whether reception is open Saturday? Does anyone know if it is or if the only means of getting an additional ticket is pay on the gate? This of course is only relevant if we haven't sold our...
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    Massive changes One Year on

    Well how many of this starting line up will feature against Yeovil do we think? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28647908 I can't imagine anyone other than Tom Nicks will start from one year ago! Will we break the 5,694 for that game? I think we will drop short by a few hundred despite...
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    One signing that got away?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32591522 He was someone who would have made a big difference I believe given our major inability to defend last season
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    Non League Punts

    As the club doesn't have an extensive scouting network they may need a hand in directing them toward the holy grail of finding non league diamonds out there. I am putting one forward that even our own manager could pop across and see. Nick McCootie is plying his trade at Bath City and has ten...
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