FL2: Exeter City V Torquay Utd - 28 Jan 13

Didn't see that as a dive James, Tully got wrong side of Bodin, there was definite contact. Yes Bodin may have made the most of it but in my book there was enough to cause him to go down. It was not like he threw himself down with nobody near him!!!

No complaints from Tisdale about the penalty.....

Nothing wrong with the team spirit tonight and at last some very good and last ditch defending has earnt its just rewards!

Anyone know where Ling was tonight?

Interesting that Macklin was played instead of Thompson.

Sky said that Ling was in bed poorly. Am sure he has just had the best medicine possible.

Great display tonight against what I thought was a poor performance from Exeter. They didn't look as good as Southend.

Just wish we wouldn't give the ball away so much in the later stages of the game.

Some heroic performances tonight especially in horrid weather conditions.

oh dear, according to BBC breakfast, top scorer bodin won the penalty. hopefully he can go on from here and get the crowd off his back a la Saah who is looking like such a good player right now.

Five Devon derbies played so far this season and only one team actually won one of them, yes Torquay United but you might be forgiven for thinking that after reading this thread. Mind you had we let in a late goal, or got stuffed, you can be sure this thread would have reached eight pages by now.

No we did not score from open play again, but we did this time hold out to the final whistle and earned three very important points. Three points against a bigger club than we are and higher up the league as well, yet over the two games we got four points and they got only one.

With the lack of any transfer activity its three points that might just prove to be worth far more than we might realise now, we do have some hard games coming up and our lack of goal scoring has to be a concern. I’m not sure this win is going to turn our players into world beaters, but it’s a win that does show we are more than capable of beating any team in this division.

Mr Tisdale said on the radio this morning he had no problems with the penalty award, he felt Tully was guilty as charge and I admire his honestly. Mind you the city fans thought other wise as I found out this afternoon while in Exeter. I did not have my wits about when I was asked where does our team train. There was I telling them about the 3g pitch here in Paignton, when back came the reply “are you sure they don’t train at a swimming pool?” So they clearly felt our player took a dive in the box, something our Jamesb also seemed to think.

There still seems to be so much doom and gloom in our fans, yes I know results and performances have not been good of late, but this was our first win since the beginning of December and against our local rivals and surely that should give us all some sort of lift? Trust me there many not be many more feel good feelings happening this season, so let’s enjoy those that do come along. It’s something we have been doing ever since we first started supporting Torquay United and its how it’s always going to be.

As Rob has pointed out we are 9 points from the relegation zone, 6 from the play offs and 8 from the automatic places. Only 9 points between 3rd and 18th. There are still plenty of games left to get the required points needed to ensure safety and while I do not think it will happen, we can not rule out making the play-offs.

It’s not going to be one of those seasons where we win any honours, but we know the reasons why and we have been told we have to get through this season and then the attention will be turned to the first team. I do worry that fans might be lost if the football being played at Plainmoor does not improve, I can only speak for the last two home games and they were not that good to watch and would have done nothing to get any floating fans back through the turnstiles.

But as long term fans I’m sure you have all been able to look at the bigger picture and know there is only so much money coming into the club and there will be times some of that needs to be spent on taking the club forward off the pitch.

Back to last night’s game, well done lads for fighting to the end and earning those three very valuable points. Hope Martin Ling gets better soon, who would want his job? Yes Paul Buckle might be walking around for now with a smile on his face, but he knows what it is like when the fans turn against you when you can’t seem to even buy a win. Not that our fans have turned in any way against Martin Ling, but it must be so frustrating for him trying the get results knowing where the weaknesses are and not able to do anything about them.

Will be glad to get to 50 points.

Agreed. What did Mrs Richards expect to see from a Torquay hotel window?