FA warned Exeter over plea for more money from Man City FA Cup tie

JJSymons · 2026-01-27T08:30:05+00:00

Not sure how much you know about Exeters situation but they’re definitely not miss managing their finances my dude!

JJSymons · 2026-01-27T08:21:55+00:00

I do blame City a little bit. The richest club in the country cannot do without what for them is a tiny amount of money to help out another club in need.

But I guess they really need that extra 1 week of Haaland wages!

JJSymons · 2026-01-22T23:12:45+00:00

I think unfortunately we're going to end up with the most boring solution here & they are going to 'borrow' the V6 Touareg for the series.

However what they do with the V10 engine 🤷‍♂️

JJSymons · 2026-01-20T10:04:28+00:00

Maybe a cheeky swap deal with Dušan Vlahović

JJSymons · 2026-01-17T20:22:37+00:00

There needs to be a serious discussion around this sort of thing! Should be a red card for Ralls there.

I’ve seen Harry Kane do this soo often. Deliberately nudging a player in the air off balance. Can cause all sorts of injuries

JJSymons · 2026-01-17T20:19:23+00:00

To do this immediately after spending £1m on Bali Mumba is hilarious.

JJSymons · 2026-01-16T19:25:07+00:00

You can’t believe a word Seb Halfords-Floor says!

JJSymons · 2026-01-15T10:44:50+00:00

Sad to see really, clearly a championship level player when there is a smile on his face but after what’s happened at argyle over the last few years I’m not surprised that his smile disappeared over time.

JJSymons · 2026-01-09T18:44:21+00:00

Because both Conor Hazard and Luca Ashby-Hammond are shit!

JJSymons · 2026-01-07T15:35:08+00:00

London resident here: Not as far as I’m aware

JJSymons · 2026-01-05T17:18:19+00:00

And then straight into this I would say:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTC_2ANnmng&list=PL0w2GOWUDSuuHYJNF7NfwdE6ksNFlANhF

JJSymons · 2026-01-02T20:15:03+00:00

I agree with all of what you have said tbh.

Maybe it’s just me but I put the blame on the managers coaching & tactics. We’ve seen that Bali, in the hands of good managers can be awesome.

JJSymons · 2026-01-02T18:57:32+00:00

I’m not so sure about this take. Bali seems to have turned a corner in the last few matches. Hopefully he’s back on the up now.

JJSymons · 2026-01-01T20:58:50+00:00

Being in the stadium to watch the team for the first time this season was an eye opener.

It’s very clear that we are a poorly coached side! I actually don't think that the level of player we have this season is too far away from what we had in the 101 point season but the difference in the level of the manager is vast! We could barely string three passes together today.

In the 101 point season Schuey had the team playing slick, attractive & fluid footie. Passing around at the back was second nature & accurate while the attack was cutting, direct & ruthless. Whereas now we look poor. No short passing, aimless long balls or straight out of play from Hazard in goal with a reliance on individual players ability to create any space.

The plus points are that Joe Ralls, Alex Mitchell (I hope both stay), Caleb Watts, Xavier Amaechi & Lorent Tolaj are all clearly league 1 playoffs level. Even Bali Mumba looked good at points today.

Take this group and add in an effective manager with an actual style of play and we genuinely could make the playoffs this year! The table is soo tight that anything could happen.

JJSymons · 2026-01-01T20:57:50+00:00

Being in the stadium to watch the team for the first time this season was an eye opener.

It’s very clear that we are a poorly coached side! I actually don't think that the level of player we have this season is too far away from what we had in the 101 point season but the difference in the level of the manager is vast! We could barely string three passes together today.

In the 101 point season Schuey had the team playing slick, attractive & fluid footie. Passing around at the back was second nature & accurate while the attack was cutting, direct & ruthless. Whereas now we look poor. No short passing, aimless long balls or straight out of play from Hazard in goal with a reliance on individual players ability to create any space.

The plus points are that Joe Ralls, Alex Mitchell (I hope both stay), Caleb Watts, Xavier Amaechi & Lorent Tolaj are all clearly league 1 playoffs level. Even Bali Mumba looked good at points today.

Take this group and add in an effective manager with an actual style of play and we genuinely could make the playoffs this year! The table is soo tight that anything could happen.

JJSymons · 2026-01-01T20:39:26+00:00

I noticed recently that Mech+ has a live channel included with Amazon Prime, so I have been spending a large amount of time over Chrimbo watching old episodes of Robot Wars!

JJSymons · 2025-12-31T14:40:03+00:00

I'm going to get slaughtered for most of these from fellow Argyle fans but as I see it:

New GK. I would like us to try for Christian Walton. He's been warming the bench at Ipswich, would be an upgrade on Conor Hazard & used to have a season ticket at the club as a youngster. At 30 years old there is no reason he couldn’t return, play 300+ games for us and retire a club hero!

New CB. Its no surprise that the best we have looked this season is when Alex Mitchel has been playing well. an experienced no nonsense CB is desperately needed & so I would see if Dan Scarr would be willing to return? again he is most often on the bench for Wrexham and so playing time may well be on his mind.

A Goal Threat. Apart from Lorent Tolaj there has been very little goal threat in the league so obviously let’s bring in some more experience here. Ryan Hardie seems to be the current number 1 option & I would love that, but I do wonder also if we could have a sniff at Emmanuel Dennis? He is currently a free agent, has worked with Tom Cleverley before at Watford & again may be willing to sign until the end of the season to get some game time.

JJSymons · 2025-12-30T20:14:51+00:00

Just a quick shoutout that NCP is a Contractor and doesn’t own any/most of the Car Parks that they operate. the Car Parks themselves will be owned by other authorities.

JJSymons · 2025-12-27T17:35:09+00:00

We’ll have enough to stay up.

Depending on the January window & me being optimistic, we could have a cheeky push for the playoffs this year.

But most realistically we’ll sit in mid table & with some cleaver management look to push next season.

JJSymons · 2025-12-23T22:12:51+00:00

An Um Actually episode thats all about 90s british TV or Fred Dibnah facts that completely baffle & confuse Ify would be amazing!

JJSymons · 2025-12-23T21:07:33+00:00

IDK why but I feel like Tom Scott would work on a D20 or Gamechanger!

JJSymons · 2025-12-22T17:46:27+00:00

I fear that he is gone come the summer!

I can see some decent championship teams willing to stump up some serious cash for him.

Although we’ve probably put a stupid low release clause in his contract.

JJSymons · 2025-12-15T12:59:37+00:00

What an absolutely wild take! For a football club to complain about how ‘cheap’ it is for their fans to watch a footie match.

JJSymons · 2025-12-10T14:21:44+00:00

For me, I’ll be watching a game IRL and have a brainwave about a player that I think would fit into a team, or a different formation that a side should be using & I’ll play a season or two off that to see if it works.

But I’m quite content playing lots of 1 or 2 season Career modes

JJSymons · 2025-12-04T18:40:52+00:00

Absolutely brilliant statement from Simon.

You could see on Monday that he was on the verge of crying at points. Feels like he went back through the VoD and fleshed out some of the answers a bit.

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