I'm supporting the Greeks

AustrianAndyGull · Post by **AustrianAndyGull** » 23 Feb 2014, 18:09

but just on Saturday.

If we fail to win any of the next two and Wycombe win at Exeter on Saturday then we will be left cut adrift and too far to realistically escape. It could be as much as 7 points should they win. Even a draw and we will need 2 wins just to get level. These next two games are vital and if we don't win any then I will accept the conference next Saturday evening regardless of what Wycombe do.

We have to do ourselves a favour and then hope the Greeks do one for us too.

Can anyone bring themselves to want the Greeks to win just for one game?

COME ON THE GRECIANS!!!

taxilady · Post by **taxilady** » 23 Feb 2014, 18:17

A couple of games last season when we were playing far away, I went to SJP & supported the Greeks against teams which we desperately needed to lose. This Greek hatred is all reasonably recent; years ago, both Gulls & Grecians hated the true enemy to the West & tolerated each other better than they do now.There's also a degree of solidarity between the Gs, both having endured the fall & rise again from the dreaded Conference. I also live, & have done for a long time, in Grecian territory !

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 23 Feb 2014, 18:19

There was a time (before your time of course) when there was nothing more than friendly rivalry between all three Devon clubs.

Glostergull · Post by **Glostergull** » 23 Feb 2014, 18:30

Gullscorer wrote:There was a time (before your time of course) when there was nothing more than friendly rivalry between all three Devon clubs.

Yup. I remember that time. Moses was leading the isrealites to the promised land. The Romans had not been invented. (what did they do for us anyway) and Torquay united were always league champions because we were the only team in Devon. In fact In the world

Rjc70 · Post by **Rjc70** » 23 Feb 2014, 21:15

They never seem to do us any favours. Fully expecting a Wycombe win. Anything else a bonus.

AustrianAndyGull · Post by **AustrianAndyGull** » 23 Feb 2014, 23:11

Correction. I meant if Wycombe beat Exeter on Tuesday.

budleigh · Post by **budleigh** » 24 Feb 2014, 07:47

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!

hector · Post 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.

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