Seevio
Guru
- Location
- South Glos
As the crow flies, St James Park is 70 miles from the Memorial Stadium. Not entirely sure I'd describe it as a derby.
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As the crow flies, St James Park is 70 miles from the Memorial Stadium. Not entirely sure I'd describe it as a derby.
Pele was good but was he better than Gorgeous Gus from the Victor comic,him and Alf Tupper my two favourites,now i might just Google to see if i got Gus's name correct.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
The only one of those close enough to really be described as a local derby is Huddersfield v Rotherham IMO.
Bradford Harrogate? Less than 20 miles. I included Bristol Rov Exeter as I would have thought that would be classed as a West of England derby given clubs are pretty spread apart (more so with Torquay being in the National League)
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
I'm surprised they are that close TBH. It took a fair bit more than half an hour to drive from Leeds to Harrogate IIRC, and I thought Bradford was further. Maybe I'm just recalling it badly, it is a fair few years since I was there.
But yes, if it is that close, it certainly classes as a local derby. I don't think Exeter really have any local derbies at present.
Seevio
Guru
- Location
- South Glos
Ah, the old" West country" thing. Although Bristol is generally classed as west of England due to our awesome accents, it is closer to that London than Cornwall.
If Exeter has a local derby, may I suggest that it would be Plymouth. Rovers of course have a local derby with another club south of the river who are doing annoyingly well. If we are insisting that the other team be in the same division, there's Forest Green, Cheltenham and even Oxford that are closer than Exeter.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
There is a big difference between 2 football clubs that aren't that far apart, and a local derby against your nearest and fiercest rival.
The origanl point stands than on the two big holiday football days, Boxing day and new years day, there were no such game scheduled in the EFL (I was actually looking at the championship when the point was made but by the by), whereas the National League etc has actively scheduled such games and reaped bumber crowds from it.
The origanl point stands than on the two big holiday football days, Boxing day and new years day, there were no such game scheduled in the EFL (I was actually looking at the championship when the point was made but by the by), whereas the National League etc has actively scheduled such games and reaped bumber crowds from it.
Chislenko
Veteran
Didn't they do away with them initially to deter violence / fighting at the games?
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Is Faes an LFC fan too? ⚽ ⚽
- Location
- Essex
I was at the West Ham game last night and you can look at the stats and see we had more possession and more shots but stats don't tell the whole picture.
Apart from Rice hitting the post and Paqueta going close we did nothing.
We are so predictable now and clubs have sussed us out.
Plenty of tip tap passing which never comes to anything and when we eventually do get a cross in it's poor.Defence looks slow and Dawson has reverted back to type.
I have to say i was impressed by Brentford last night.Easily soaked up our pressure and then hit us with the sucker punch and this is from a team that probably cost a lot less than ours.
I think it's time Mr Moyes got his coat!🧥
Apart from Rice hitting the post and Paqueta going close we did nothing.
We are so predictable now and clubs have sussed us out.
Plenty of tip tap passing which never comes to anything and when we eventually do get a cross in it's poor.Defence looks slow and Dawson has reverted back to type.
I have to say i was impressed by Brentford last night.Easily soaked up our pressure and then hit us with the sucker punch and this is from a team that probably cost a lot less than ours.
I think it's time Mr Moyes got his coat!🧥
Hes our top goal scorer at home lol….
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
Rashfords scored* ... that will help!
Always been a fan of Moysey, and we are not at half way point yet, but tend to agree.
*edit ... ooh, 2nd one disallowed.
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
It's like a late xmas prezzie 
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
Surely not!
The 2nd best team in Europe, winning without scoring a single goal against a lowly-placed team that’ll be in the relegation battle for the rest of the season.
😉
