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Hi everyone, doing a piece for the Exeter City website for Tuesday where we get the views from opposition fans and wondering if you could help me by answering a few questions?

1. First things first; Barry Corr. What are your views on him? Sad to see him go? Will he be a success at Exeter?

2. What are your expectations ahead of Tuesday? Confident?

3. Finally how do you think your season will pan out? And any idea how City will get on.

Any other comment ahead of the match would be great!

Hello! I lived in Exeter a bit and went to a few games when I could be bothered.

1. He was good when he wasn't horridly injured. If he can stay fit you've got a good player there, but the lad's cursed.

2. I guess most people will say win or draw, we're on a good run at the moment but lacking the finishing edge.

3. I dunno. I still look out for results but really have no idea about your squad. Has Steve Flack retired yet?

He has indeed, he scored an impressive 98 (i think) goals for the club and he's always the player away fans remember. His retirement came before our recent rise up the leagues

1. Barry's a cracking player, he looked a cut above when he played for us in League Two, but he never stayed fit and for that reason alone we made the right decision in letting him go. He could do very well for you though

2. Given our recent form it's a game we shouldn't lose, and after wasting opportunities to win the last couple of games we should be looking to make up for it with a win. It's a funny old game though!

3. It's still hard to say where we are heading. Since the opening day we've looked like a good side in most games and confidence is beginning to rise. I think that a mid-table finish would be far from a failure, but we can atleast hope for a push for the play-offs. As for Exeter, I'd say a bottom-half finish but there are no certainties just yet about who will go down this year

Is Ben going to be quoted on your website ECFC? :)

1. Wish Barry all the best at Exeter (except on Tuesday)
2. Draw.No.
3. Mid Table for us. Exeter just below us.

I'll hopefully be able to use quite a lot of your replies and will happily credit them.

His red card on the opening day means we have only had a few games to assess Corr and a few of them have been as a sub so thought it would be good to give our fans some more indepth info about him from the people who know. What was his best moment for you?

Well I hope you're not. With a bit more work you could make those answers monosyllabic.

1.I would have loved to seen Corr stay like a lot of our fans,the trouble is he's made of glass,dodgy shoulder,dodgy back etc,had he not been so injury prone he will still be here now.

2.I think we'll win this game,after yesterdays performance i would have thought they would have had a few polite words spoken to them,which will hopefully do the trick 1-0 to swindon.

3.I think you will do ok to be honest,lower half of the table to which i guess you would settle for.


I love exeter as a place,we was down there in the summer and all those shops keeps the wife happy too.

Thanks for Shaun Taylor.

mmmmmmmmmmm.taking a chance on a wessex league player,or hoping a decent one at league 1 gets fit?
maybe we let corr go too soon?

Oh FFS. The bloke played about 15 games in 2 years for us. We simply had to let him go. He'd probably be injured now if he was still here.

As long as no-one sneezes near him or bumps the bench he's sitting on, in which case he promptly falls to pieces. You don't seriously think Austin is being seen as a replacement for Corr (or anyone come to that) do you? He's a punt, a development player who may or may not work out

Oh look! Some classic wishy washy nonsense form paulD.

If Austin hasn't met the grade by the time his contract's run out then we should definitely release him so he can go back to playing non league football.

Eh? I said he's a punt, he'll either make it or he won't, but we've made a modest financial gamble on a player who may come good. The point I was making was that comparing a "punt" player like Austin as a replacement for Corr is just nonsense. How's that wishy-washy? Take it you found them horse drugs you were after :)

I wish/whish/whoosh.

1. Barry corr was so injury prone it was ridiclulous, plus his extreme right wing views didnt sit too well with the "lets kick racism out" campaign, his violent anti-irish sentiment put him on a collision course with our ex manager Maurice malpas.

2. I think we will thrash you because we should. For starters you are based in devon. Devon! as if anyone takes you seriously, clotted cream and shoplifting in the summer is all devon is good for. i could go on...

3. I  think we will finish top half, have no idea who Bristol city are playing.

1. Big Bad Barry Corr is unfortunatly for him Balsa Wood Barry Corr, he will get a serious injury soon, if he hasn't already, classy signing IF and its a bloody big IF he can stay even remotely fit.

2. We won't lose, we will probably draw 0-0 or 1-1, nice close one for me....less than 30 miles from home to ground, can't wait, we should bring around 800-900 it would have been a near sell out if the game was on a Saturday.

3. We will be top half of the table 9th or 10th I feel , Exeter will avoid relegation but not by much 2 places above the relegation spots.

Someone find the footage of the goal he scored at Bournemouth.

Corr hasn't even managed a full season of games over his career yet has he? as in he's played less than 50 in total I think.

You have to sign him for 5 years to get a years worth of a contract earned.

1. Always gave his best for Swindon and if it wasn't for his crucial goals in our league 2 season we wouldn't have gone up - he was playing with a broken back at the time. If you can keep him fit and he shows that desperation to play football, then you have a decent enough player at this level. Sometimes his desperation to play lands him in trouble with the referee but you already know about that.

2. A rubbish game and a 1-1 draw is likely. It will be interesting to see if and how Wilson changes the personnel/system to add the danger we've been lacking in the last couple of games.

3. The points are ticking over even when we're not playing well. I think we'll finish top half.

I don't know about you but ex-players ALWAYS score against us. Worried the same will happen tomorrow?

What were Barry's best moments for you? Was he popular with the fans?

Thanks for all the replies  :D

Already been mentioned - he scored an absolute corker against Bournemouth at the CG.  Great close control and a smashing finish.  I always worry about ex-players scoring against us - is Barry playing at the moment? 

I agree with most of the above replies.  A very good, very brittle, lower league striker.

Barry Corr's best moment was without a doubt that late equaliser he bundled in at Bournemouth, not a patch on the first goal but nicked us a point and jumped straight in the away end causing a proper riot, mint.

Barry Corr was a decent enough player when he wasnt injured or elbowing people in the face. I know its all a bit hindsight but seeing our strikers now (Paynter on as only striker. Tope, Revell & Hutchinson all on loan) then we should have at least signed Corr on a short term deal to cover our backs. We could do with him right now and a fit Barry Corr would walk into our starting 11.

Sadly a fit Barry Corr was a very rare thing. I'm surprised he isnt injured yet at Exeter.

I think the game will follow our current pattern and be a 1-1 draw, where we are by far the better side. Play much better football, create loads more chances and fail to score and kill the game off. Corr will score for Exeter.

I think we'll finish mid table. We're a decent striker away from having a play off chasing team but we'll draw just as many games as we win. Probably finish smack bang in the middle unless we bring some more quality in, in January

Correct - problem is it wouldn't really have been "covering our backs", as when needed as cover, he would more than likely have not been fit, therefore providing no cover at all.  A shame it was, but we were right to let him go.

Barry didn't really play enough to get a real following if you know what i mean. He was kind of mythical: you knew he existed, you'd heard he was good, but you rarely saw him play. To be completely honest Barry looked good at times, but you were always on Tenterhooks because you knew the poor bloke was made out of porcelain and a stray pass might end his season.

Again, hindsight but he's fit now isnt he?

by covering our backs I meant - if we didnt sign a direct Simon Cox replacement (which we didnt) then we'd still have at least 2 strikers to start the season with as opposed to 1!

we wouldnt need Barry Corry to provide cover in our squad because he'd be on our first 11 anyway.

Am I the only one who seem to think Exeter will beat us. They aren't that bad of a team and fourfourtwo seemed to have them down to finish in the top ten.

Nope, I think we'll lose this one.

Can't win/draw them all :)

I think we're going to get punished for not killing off opposition at home plus Exeter have been playing okay (although losing) against League One's better sides.

1-0 loss for me.

Corr is indeed fit and came on for last twenty minutes on Saturday at Charlton. He's not been injured other than minor knocks since joining the club which can only be good for us!

of course i dont see him as a replacement for corr,but they are both centre forwards so they will be compared to a point.austin will be cheap and corr wouldn't have broken the bank.
corr admitted last season that a pay as you play seemed all he'd get here.
he didn't get that option, so i said what i did for those reasons.
a comparison is fair imo.

A comparison is fair if and when Austin has played 15 games for us.

You seem a nice chap but how can you say this when you never watch us play?

They are currently one point above the dotted line. And since when did fourfourtwo's predictions mean anything? As I said before, they are definitely not a team you'd write off straight way, but I can't see them making the top half, and I'd expect them to spend a lot of time looking over their shoulders this season.

And two points off 9th place, let's face it the table doesn't really mean all that much till you start to get into late October. Which hasn't stopped me being all chuffed about us being 7th, natch

Barry Corr was fucking brilliant. He produced a lot of the highlights of the last few years. Scoring at Lincoln turned that season around. Scoring inside 5 minutes in front of a packed Stratton Bank against Mansfield to get the party going. Late equaliser against Leicester. Scoring at our end at the sag heads. Two goals at Bournemouth, one of which was goal of the season. Used to score big goals. Always played with a lot of heart. I even loved him when he got sent off for stupid things like stamping on players.

There were a good 15 Swindon squad players I would have let go before Barry Corr. But Wilson said he wanted a small squad and took the only option releasing him. Last summer we were eyeing up our squad and thinking Cox and Corr up front could be the best strike partnership in the league. But of course Barry Corr only ended up playing about 5 games. You have 2 or 3 players like Barry Corr in your squad (good but injury prone) and all of a sudden your squad which looks decent on paper is actually crap. Its dangerous to have players like Barry Corr, but he is worth the gamble.

Cheers SW that's just the sort of thing I was looking for! Keep the comments coming  :)

so you were hoping someone would write nice things about him?

I think he was a useless cunt, always injured and the touch of a rapist. Scored a couple of decent goals inabout 3 years. Fuck knows why everyone loved him so much, shit player in a shit team.

Hows that?

and he's only scored 1 goal this season and managed to get sent off - presumably the fact he's only started half the games he's played in is either lack of form or fitness?

and suspension ...

I genuinely believe it was a huge mistake to get rid of Barry Corr, we nursed the guy for two seasons and then let him go. Looked a real class act when we gained promotion from Division Two and mentioned earlier by another, we thought we had the dream forward line with Cox and Corr lto spearhead the attack.

I have a lot of respect for the guy, he is a true professional and gives everything (when fit).

I don't really know why but he always reminded me of Rory Fallon...  Big, lanky, lazy, floppy hair and pretty shit, but capable of moments of genius...  Unlike Fallon he was about as about as sturdy as a Taiwan trainer, and on the wages he was probably on (having come down from the Championship), I think anything but letting him go would have been sheer madness...

Wonder how long its going to take Corr to score tonight?

 >:(

Or how long it take him to go off injured?

God, just think if we still had Ifil. Ifil woulda smashed him into a thousand little Irish pieces with one of his tackles.

Barry Corr will give everything hes got tonight...........and be sent off!

I hope he does play, Cuthbert would destroy him. Our defenders only realy struggle against pace, teams with pacey strikers (ala Jackson) are the teams which will most likely take points from us this season. Corr has next to no ace and if he plays i believe Cuthbrt and Greer will have a comfortable night with him.

For those too lazy to check the other topic, The quotes from here are now on the official Exeter Web Site.

http://www.exetercityfc.co.uk/page/NewsFeatures/0,,10436~1812167,00.html

cunt didnt quote me. :)

Wouldn't worry about it, they were quite insulting about those they did use
How's a res-ponce different from a normal ponce?

Thanks for all your replies, best of luck for the rest of the season (after tonight!)