Come on Exeter

[jackal2]

Although I’m far from pleased to see Coventry go up, I can’t help thinking our hopes for promotion next season have just received a significant boost. Coventry have some good young players and a bit of forward momentum as a club. Perhaps their luck would have run out, but I think they would have filled an automatic promotion spot if they’d stayed down.

I’d be surprised if Exeter are challenging again next season. It looks like they’re about to lose their manager and they have a record of selling their best players. You can’t keep doing that and be successful.

It’s very irritating to see the lucky ones go up, but I think that’s one out of the way for next season.

I don't have any particular feelings for or against Coventry, other than a genuine suspicion that the way decisions have favoured them in the play-offs is almost too bizarre to dismiss as luck. However, Coventry as a club, like Portsmouth, are/were oversized for this league and would always have been challenging for promotion next year if they hadn't won it now, so it's a positive that they are out of our way. MK Dons, Bury, Northampton and Oldham are much more in keeping with what you expect to be up against at this level, and if we get our recruitment right this summer we should be in a strong position to be contenders in the coming year.

I think it's fair to say that the current ownership situation at Notts County is much more solid than the one at Coventry. Promotion will cover over the cracks for now, but in the long run a lot of the key questions for that club remain unanswered. If Mark Robins doesn't get backed to add players during the summer, then what he will have going into next season with a team that finished 6th in League Two, so it's not impossible they might find themselves struggling again. I don't wish that upon them, or on any club for that matter, but if you take any positive or negative emotions out of it, that's an honest assessment. At present, theirs is still a house built on sand.

[SolSigns]

Meh. To me this result just means they're a forgettable club again for at least another year.

[Airborn Pie]

Although I’m far from pleased to see Coventry go up, I can’t help thinking our hopes for promotion next season have just received a significant boost. Coventry have some good young players and a bit of forward momentum as a club. Perhaps their luck would have run out, but I think they would have filled an automatic promotion spot if they’d stayed down.

I’d be surprised if Exeter are challenging again next season. It looks like they’re about to lose their manager and they have a record of selling their best players. You can’t keep doing that and be successful.

It’s very irritating to see the lucky ones go up, but I think that’s one out of the way for next season.

Maybe we should nick their keeper?

Their player of the year.

[BanjoPie]

They have seemed to be really lucky in the matches they have played lately although let's not forget as fans they have been through it for awhile now so I'm glad for them in that way. I did find a lot of the fans classless after they beat us though and that's where the dislike has come from plus they're a team who cheats and then cries about it, their defender Davies who got banned said he'll carry on after suffering this injustice, poor little lamb, hope his mummy made him a nice bottle that night. They'll be on here again tonight looking for arguments or goading so I'm off for the rest of the day.



COYP.

"You make your own luck"

[Jeekay56]

no doubt you would have been calling for a re match had Coventry won.

[sidders]

You seem to spend your lifetime predicting the opposite of what the majority want & bragging/rubbing it in when you happen to be right, no doubt you would have been calling for a re match had Coventry won.

This post makes no sense.

[drillerpie]

Damn, I got it right again.

Fair play to you and Vlad for calling it. I thought Exeter would put up more of a fight and was surprised at their tactics.

If Sergio Ramos ever signs for Coventry the opposition will need to wear American football gear.

[Elite_Pie]

Maybe we should nick their keeper?

Their player of the year.

When they look back, I think he'll be surpassed by a ref (and linos) or two.