The Voice - Match preview #46: Exeter City vs Bradford City Saturday 2nd May 2026 3:00pm

The hard way as always.

Draw will do.

 

Absolute f**king correct. How can you be so negative at a point we have not been in for a decade?
This "it's a Bradford City thing" may have some substance but I'm going bet it happens to a large percentage of football teams up and down the country, whose fans probably rattle on about the same thing. Stockport Tuesday, as a example.

Embrace these much better times and some of you, get a f**king grip.

 

Correct as always Dave . Not everyone claims to be in Leicester

 

feck Rochdale got knocked out of the league and in the most cruel/tragic/comical situation were literally back in the League bar the latest of latest equaliser
Tottenham, champion leagues participations and finalists could be out of the pl

It goes on and on everywhere, that's football. I've watched City 40 years and I want to embrace these good times.

 

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Bang on, I posted the above before the Stockport/Vale game, if the game had been earlier in the season I believe it would have been that home banker, although mangers try and dismiss it pressure isn't a thing you can hide, and before some might suggest Port Vale were lucky on the night they more than held their own.

 

As I was saying to Bronco last night on the phone, drink it all in, savour these moments cos they don't last forever. Infact they are very much against the grain, most of the time as a football fan it's like having teeth pulled.

 

I think it's a very English mentality to have to put yourself down so if the bad thing happens you can say "i told you so". In the last 3 seasons we've had something on the last day and in all 3 we've done what we had to do with a draw against Orient to secure the play offs, a comfortable win against Newport which wasn't enough due to Barrow and Crawley doing what they needed to do then last season winning against Fleetwood when we needed to.

If we do end up missing out it will be because them things happen in football as not because it's us. Across the 3 divisions there's up for grabs:

• Championship: the last automatic spot and last play off spot
• League 1: 3 play off spots
• League 2: the last automatic spot, effectively a play off qualifier between Swindon and Chesterfield and both relegation places with 3 teams who could drop into them

I am certain that there will be a story somewhere and a team who is in the position needed falls out of it as it happens every year and the law of averages says it will.

I'd certainly be more confident that we will get the job done if we were at home but I have every faith in this team that even if we were to go behind as we've shown in recent weeks we can come from behind. The only teams I'd swap position with are the top 2, Bolton and maybe Stockport but the rest I'm sure would happily swap places with us

 

It’s probably the most intriguing end to a season across the entire EFL and the Prem in many a year . You win some you lose some , but whatever happens tomorrow, many across English football will cry for various reasons?

 

Do you think our English players adopt that school of thought? I bet Sarvevic was thinking that just before the Fleetwood game.

 

The Italian in him would never let him....

 

We will get a 96th minute winner and Sarcevic will claim it, even if he doesn't touch it. The real question is, which current player gets his name tattooed after the game?

 

We are going to need to be at our best tomorrow to get a result we need. If you are in any doubt about this then you should watch the highlights on YouTube from their 3-3 with Stockport

 

Exeter play 4–2-3-1 we’ve always struggled against this formation, we’ll find it hard to break them down and with us being toothless up front, the best we can hope for is a draw.. god help us if they score first

 

Chill mate. In recent games Barnsley, Plymouth and Bolton scored first, we fought back to at least draw in those games.

 

They've also only managed 1 win in 19, it's not like we're trying to break down some world beating 4231 later today, I'd say if you win 1 in 19 your tactic is a bit naff.

 

Let's hope those around them score and are winning, or we score first. That may bring about a change in formation. We don't want to give them any hope at all, and implement the dark arts to frustrate them.

 

Pressure is on both teams
They have to win, we need a point
They will have to push from the off
This could leave them open at the back
A goal for Orient will be know and could make heads drop
We might lose and still make the playoffs, though i would rather attain this through our own effort
Whatever the outcome and lets hope we have at least two more games to come
Wembley would be amazing snd anyones on the day
Its been a good season and far better than most could ever of thought last August

 

Tactics are irrelevant at this level. It’s the quality of the 11 players on the pitch that matter and if ours are better than theirs we’ll most likely win.
The caveat to that is you pick your best players in their best positions

 

Or the Yugoslavian