Exeter

I think rich and les sum it up.

Right time, right place.
Fortune has favoured them

Interesting that this time last year they were awful and the fans wanted Tidsdale out. Next stop the play offs

Look at Scunny a few years back, they were selling a forward for three years on the trot, Sharp I think to Sheffield Utd, Hooper to Celtic and another who I can't remember, they all went for a million each, since then they haven't hardly sold anyone, it's the luck of a certain player finding form.

I just don't know why clubs at our level have youth systems. I think ours is run independent from the club but hasn't really produced any players that have gone on to be first team players for years. I remember years ago we had a great youth system and most of the players that played in the youth team went on to be first team players that either stayed with us or were sold on to bigger clubs. I'm talking about the era when you produced Drinkall, Ford ect. Yeah you get the odd lad coming through, we had a lad who made a 12 second sub appearance called Jack Hobbs who we then sold to Liverpool for about £450.000 but aside from him in the last 2 decades we have produced very few home grown players. I've always advocated that we would be better off running a reserve team in a competitive league but it seems that clubs don't have the finances to do that anymore.