by hector » 24 Feb 2014, 07:51
budleigh wrote:Maybe I'm just soft, but...
I don't actually see any reason to hate another football team.
I don't see any reason to dislike Exeter City or Plymouth Argyle.
A little bit of local rivalry doesn't hurt on a matchday, but overall we would be far worse off if either team didn't exist.
Plymouth will find their level again; which is surely Championship level and Torquay United can then benefit from loanees and having a club of their stature on our doorstep.
Exeter City probably did more to help Torquay United during the formative years of the new consortium than any other club, with meetings between directors of both allowing Torquay United to use the experience of their near rivals in running a club from scratch.
I have friends at both clubs and can confirm that they are, surprisingly, quite normal people!
I would disagree that Plymouth's 'level' is the Championship. More likely League 1. If they do venture as far as the 2nd tier, they never last long there. Plus, they have spent more of their years outside the 2nd tier, than in it.
I used to dislike Exeter far more than Plymouth but it is the other way around for me now. The regular patronising attitude of PAFC fans, their misguided sense that somehow PAFC are sleeping giants, when they are nothing of the sort and basically the fact that the club shouldn't even exist anymore, having cheated businesses and cleared their debts through what seems an utterly unfair system, to be able to start again, with their access to much bigger resources, as though nothing has happened.
It may well be that Plymouth climb back to the 2nd tier but it is utterly wrong that they could do so by forgetting their debts. Same with Exeter.
[quote="budleigh"]Maybe I'm just soft, but...
I don't actually see any reason to hate another football team.
I don't see any reason to dislike Exeter City or Plymouth Argyle.
A little bit of local rivalry doesn't hurt on a matchday, but overall we would be far worse off if either team didn't exist.
Plymouth will find their level again; which is surely Championship level and Torquay United can then benefit from loanees and having a club of their stature on our doorstep.
Exeter City probably did more to help Torquay United during the formative years of the new consortium than any other club, with meetings between directors of both allowing Torquay United to use the experience of their near rivals in running a club from scratch.
I have friends at both clubs and can confirm that they are, surprisingly, quite normal people![/quote]
I would disagree that Plymouth's 'level' is the Championship. More likely League 1. If they do venture as far as the 2nd tier, they never last long there. Plus, they have spent more of their years outside the 2nd tier, than in it.
I used to dislike Exeter far more than Plymouth but it is the other way around for me now. The regular patronising attitude of PAFC fans, their misguided sense that somehow PAFC are sleeping giants, when they are nothing of the sort and basically the fact that the club shouldn't even exist anymore, having cheated businesses and cleared their debts through what seems an utterly unfair system, to be able to start again, with their access to much bigger resources, as though nothing has happened.
It may well be that Plymouth climb back to the 2nd tier but it is utterly wrong that they could do so by forgetting their debts. Same with Exeter.
