Looking ahead to pre season

[Glostergull]

I know it's a bit early to be looking at this but if I leave it I will forget it and it will never get aired.
I wonder whether our club has ever looked to tour further than our home area when playing pre season matches.
I have answered and made questions on the Pop side threads and it got me thinking if we ever did tours of, Say for example Scotland. I know I would be up for following them up there and it would make for an interesting holiday. I know of many teams both small and large who do a tour each or every other year. Rovers in the past have toured the Isle of White. Scotland and the North.
Sheffield and Midlands teams have tourse Devon. So would it be feasable for our team to tour somewhere and some of the fans can take in a holiday at the same time. If given enough warning I am sure some would like to plan something or am I wildly optimistic
PS Dave or Louis. Not sure if this is right section But Banter board didn't seem correct either and I wasn't sure about pop side

[Southampton Gull]

It's Torquay related mate so no problems being here

I wouldn't mind a tour of Scotland personally but I think the Club see us hosting PSF's as a bit of an earner at a time when no money has been generated at the Club so I can't see it happening unless we get some serious investment.

[Dutchgull]

In DonO'Riordans days we had a great tour of Eire. Guinness, Guinness Guinness.......

[Glostergull]

Oh don't tell Dave. we will never get him out of the pub.



Just noticed, not the best post for my 1,000, but there again.
sorry for all the drissle I have writted in th last Millenium.
But theres probably a lot more to come.

[Alpine Joe]

If it's going to be a tour of Scotland we need to get on with it. A couple of years down the line & all that business with getting your passport stamped & the hold up while the relevant border checks are completed by Jock Security will put many people off going.

For smaller clubs the expense of travelling & putting up a whole squad over a couple of weeks or more can be prohibitive.


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[stefano]

Prior to the start of the 1967/68 season we played four pre-season games in what was then called West Germany and came home undefeated: Dorsten (5-1), Lippstadt (2-0), Leverkusen Bayer (1-1), and Bonner Sports Club (1-1). It was the season we were top of the old Division 3 (League 1 now) for much of the time only to fall away at the end and finish 4th.

[Glostergull]

Would that be the team we now know as Beyer Leverkusen. wow we drew 1-1.
I hadn't known that. Being only a youngster and obviously too young to apreciate what we did away let alone what happened pre season I didn't realise we had played such a big team and to get a result like that is awesome.

[Alpine Joe]

At this rate it won't be long before someone comes along suggesting that Exeter have played Brazil

[Dave]

I am led to believe that Brazil's first ever game was played against Exeter, just a suggestion................

[yellow]

I am led to believe that Brazil's first ever game was played against Exeter, just a suggestion................

I think this confusion arises from a time when the Pop were singing “It’s just like watching Brazil” as the Gulls were taking the Greeks apart on but one of many such occasions in our illustrious past.

[stefano]

I think this confusion arises from a time when the Pop were singing “It’s just like watching Brazil” as the Gulls were taking the Greeks apart on but one of many such occasions in our illustrious past.

Made me smile before heading off to work!

[gulltom]

I would have said a tour was out of the question economically. I'd imagine its very expensive to put a whole squad up somewhere for a week including travel and we'd earn little revenue from the matches due to low attendance.

I'd be much happier with a bigger playing budget and continuing with the usual format of local games and a few larger teams at Plainmoor. Our team has been together for a long time now so it probably needs to bond less than if we'd cobbled together a load of strangers over the summer!

[Plymouth Gull]

In an ideal world, they go on a tour of the Innsbruck region of Austria for a couple of days, that would be nice! As said though, it wouldn't be worth it for the amount spent compared to how much they make from it..

[happytorq]

It's about time the Commercial department sough to break into the lucrative North American market, surely? Start with a game against New York Red Bulls, the the Revolution up in Boston, before swanning off to Chicago to play the Fire, before playing the MLS AllStar game in front of a capacity 19,000 crowd at PPL Park in Philadelphia

[AustrianAndyGull]

A tour of Yorkshire would be great playing Donny, Dirty Leeds, Tykes and Whitby Town to finish for a nice day beside the sea!