Match Day Thread.Gas v Rovers of the Doncaster variety.

Interesting to read grimsby took 1,276 supporters to orient today with hollaway at the helm. I wonder how many gasheads would have travelled the same distance with any of the last 2 managers in charge. 400 - 500 would be my guess. We as a club are in a dark place.

still has two years five months and two weeks left on his contract

Thought Leahy did ok today as did keeper, menayese, TC and Alfie. Rodman had a poor game exemplified by bottling in when through on the keeper. JCH doesn't look fit, Barrett looks like he is carrying a stone or two. Reilly did liven us up. The problem was midfield. Two banks of two might work on the PS4 but it doesn't in L2. Felt sorry for Cam Hargreaves. He spent all his time on the pitch chasing shadows. It looked like Donny were playing a piss take piggy in the middle with him. Every time we had the ball they pressed us hard and either won the ball off us or forced us to hoof it aimlessly. Every time they had the ball they were able to pass it round us with little triangles because our shape and system gifted them the space to do this.

another truly abject performance that I wish I could erase from my mind. 

According to Philton, there will be clauses.

You would certainly hope that no wins in the firs 6 games would be one of them.

Either way, 5 1/2 months salary to move on from the farce we witnessed today, what do you reckon, good value?

I don't much watch us in the flesh these days, years since I have really. Just to get that out there first. I remember standing on the North Enclosure at Eastville one night when fans were giving a director (Stephens?) a really hard time after a home defeat when the old place had been rocking and we'd as usual f'd it up on the edge of promotion. I was about 18 I guess and got caught up in the frenzy shouting abuse and even now nearly 40 years later I'm ashamed by how the mob, of which I was part, ranted and railed as this balding bespectacled man stood there and took it. I shouted 'you don't even want to go up' and he looked right at me. Same as when I shouted once at Brian Williams to 'get a move on' in the 90th minute of a game when we were 2 v 0 down at home and he turned to the north enclosure and said with complete authority 'f**k off'. Fair.

I went to a Bath v Yeovil match in the mid/late 80s, Randall was playing for Yeovil and Graham Withey for Bath. Cup game I think. Twerton of course. Both came to the bar later, Withey was a friend of the manager of the band I was in. Randall told me that city fans are all c...s. Decent insight. Withey asked me if I was a north enclosure boo boy. I mumbled something unsatisfactory and he knew then that I was.

All this background to what end? I took my daughter back to exeter university today. We got there about 2:30 and driving in I realised how close I was to the ground so I parked up and walked. Not been there since about 85. Ground is nicely developed, a big terrace behind one goal and 2 decent modern stands running the length of the pitch. The away end, which I remember as a crumbling heap of low level concrete, seems to have been spruced up with a roof and everything. Well, a roof anyway. Not that there were any away fans in there, all 82 from Cambridge must have been elsewhere.

Had a chat with lots of their fans on the terrace. They are rightly very proud of the club and it's neat modernised ground and all the community stuff they do. The first half the team was terrible and there was a bit of low level moaning. Second half they seemed to have been given a managerial rocket and were transformed, pace down the wings and some coherent movement. 2 well worked goals and in the end well deserved.

The only consolation was that the people I spoke to said if I'd been a City fan they'd have been less welcoming.

I don't know but we seem to be being left years behind.

Cheer up, Rotherham next, top of the table.

Thank you Doc. It's years since I stood on a terrace and watched rubbish. I've missed it more than I knew.

We just paid a fee for barrett.
He was clearly overweight and unfit.
No pro footballer should be like that in january.
Its unforgivable but we payed a fee for him.

My take on it.

The electronic advertising hoarding had some things going on I haven’t watched before. There’s the regular emergency locksmiths I had wondered is a cunning sign to the players it’s time to break out our own half, though it clearly isn’t. There’s a whole load of lorry’s clogging into some sort of convoy - 10-4 my good buddies. And we have what’s looks like two television sets chasing each other around half the ground, or maybe making a break for it. In premier league they have walking dogs, maybe at this level all you can afford or expect are some indeterminate black squares.

Those poor sods in East Stand are missing out on these interesting developments.