Exeter City Post Match Thoughts

[the_idiotb_stardson]

Same old Rotherham I’m afraid. Just a different Manager. They’ve always got a mistake or two in them.
Disgraceful result.
Been taken in by all the hype. Simply awful.

They let a creative midfielder leave before getting a replacement, but not only that HE GOES A DAY BEFORE THE GAME.

I mean you spend all summer waiting for the football season to start & then you can’t wait for the summer.

No width at all.

Think it will get worse before it gets better.

Rathbone creative? Really?

[Millmoordays]

Very first game and most on here have already thrown their toys out of the pram . Let’s see where we are in a dozen games.

Yes, and they are all SE men.

[flourbasher]

Passing , movement, quality, got the max out of their resources, kept going for 95+ minutes
That’s obviously Exeter and well done to them, they fully deserved their win. Infinitely better than us.

Rotherham. None of the above.
Need to do much much better

Maybe it will take another 100 years and 2125 until our next away win
We won’t get one this season playing like that
I’m sure we’ll improve but Jesus wept ….

[KerrAvon]

I am going to go early because it deserves it. Firstly TS fine Evans, refusing to shake hands at the end is a disgrace, it shows what a sore loser and bitter man you are, if you want others to respect you in the game you have to behave better than that, we do not want our club represented in that way, it will turn officials and others clubs against us.
The performance was awful only positives, was Nombe trying, the Forest youngster winning more headers in 5 minutes than JCH and Hugill did all first half, Phillips stopping it being 3 or 4 and a real battling performance from Odofin, other than that it was very very bad. I said after Grimsby we are just a huff and chase team and got passed off the pitch in the 2nd half, we haven't scored since then. We seem to hope for set piece goals yet in the last minute we can't even take a corner correctly. The style of football is shocking, in fact there isn't any football it is a series of "hail marys". Evans said we would get a Rotherham style back, well that was what we saw from Exeter, giving everything to get the points. There were a lot of players in Rotherham shirts that looked slow, not bothered and completely lacking any belief or confidence. Yes odofin should have scored just before they did and Christ just after, but we don't look capable of scoring goals, since we did preseason against the non-league teams we haven't looked like creating clear chances and taking them, that is a real worry. the midfield is crying out for kelly to bring some calmness into the game. I feel lower after that game than i did last year against Stoke it was a league higher, we got back into the game last year and went down to 10 men, we could have played another hour and we wouldn't have scored today. Now a lot has to improve, i don't want excuses from Evans the ref wasn't great but it was for both sides, I want us to put a good team out against Crewe and win the game in 90 mins and put a real performance in next Saturday, a lot has to improve on that today. Perhaps losing and playing so bad might help us in the long run, it certainly means we need to spend the Ollie money on a good player to run that midfield.

I don't mean this unkindly, but give paragraphs a chance.

[Ronners]

Exeter were better than us and always looked more likely to score.

I disagree but we all have our own opinion. UTM

[Tigerish]

After the hype a complete anti climax. "Strikers" were invisible. Midfield failed to impose themselves. Back four ....what were they doing for the goal? Keeper...he made a couple of saves but he makes me nervous. The one and only tactic was hoofball. Ok it's day one but that was a toothless lacklustre display. We need to move the ball quicker, our players need to bust a gut to find space and we need to get further up the pitch. The honeymoon is over

[mellowmiller]

I found it puzzling that SE started with so many of the failures from last season and they duly obliged by carrying on from where they left off.
Surely he will make wholesale changes for the first home league game (I'm not particularly bothered about the Crewe game).

[mellowmiller]

I disagree but we all have our own opinion. UTM

Specsavers have some deals on at the moment Ronners 😉

[Timbertop]

How to turn optimism to pessimism in just 90 minutes. Even allowing for being the first match that was pretty abysmal. Agree completely with derbymiller's assessment and there was loads to criticise. Just for starters why on earth has that slow.lazy lump Clarke-Harris been entrusted with the captaincy ? A shocking signing whose best days are well behind him.

[Lolmorgan]

Specsavers have some deals on at the moment Ronners ��

I think Ronners is suffering from the old red & white eye syndrome.