[Devongone]

Look, the real trouble is the site needs some oomph to interest new users. Stairs has done a great job keeping Babble going, but it must stretch him financially just for the site to remain the same. And it needs a change of format at its heart to drag in people who might want to chat to three quite old blokes and one quite young one. It needs something worthy of interest on other social media. We have good friends on here, but it is a bit like a nice book group meeting every Tuesday for a glass of wine and a failed assault on Finnegan's Wake.

Somehow my every return to this welcoming, familiar site reminds me of my own failure to escape Devon. Of course I like my friends on here and miss them in the close season, but I also can't escape the feeling that last season Chesterfield achieved everything I wanted and I feel like Captain Kirk beaming down to a new planet and finding nothing remarkable about it at all ........