07-10-2023, 07:13 PM
(07-10-2023, 06:04 PM)Hammie Wrote: Almost all of those players need match time. With no reserve league, this cup fulfills a really useful role.
It also allows those who cannot afford a load of season tickets together to go as a family or group. They cannot do that for league games as we rarely have more than single seats left as a game approaches.
Any kids who went to the Exeter cup game will have been hooked for life.
Yes I was being a bit glib calling it a nonsense game. It does give some game time to players who need it but in the midst of a serious promotion contending season when we've already been there and won it this is largely an irrelevance.