Exeter Match Thread

Team news
Two changes for Town this afternoon, with Ludvig Ohman coming in for the injured Harry Davis, while Billy Clarke makes his first start up front.

New signings James Tilley and Josh Benson are named on the bench, and James Hanson is back from injury

TOWN: McKeown; Hendrie, Pollock, Ohman, Glennon; Hessenthaler, Clifton, Whitehouse; Wright, Clarke, Vernam.

Subs: Russell, Hewitt, Starbuck, Benson, Buckley, Tilley, Hanson.

Rose not on the bench. Is he injured ? Going out in loan ?

No proper defender available for the bench. Hope no one gets injured!

Quoted from Jackie Lewis

Rose not on the bench. Is he injured ? Going out in loan ?

With Clarke coming in and Hanson back, he is down the pecking order i would have thought.

Great that Hendrie is starting. That is a scary bench as far as Exeter are concerned, I am sure. They really think they owe us one.....I suppose they do, really. But I am predicting a repeat of the scoreline from St James Park

Quoted from sam gy

No proper defender available for the bench. Hope no one gets injured!

Hewitt can cover most defensive positions.

Quoted from ginnywings

With Clarke coming in and Hanson back, he is down the pecking order i would have thought.

Below Buckley?

Ground is filling up nicely, and its a decent pint today, gonna be great day today hopefully

Would’ve liked to have seen Benson and Tilley start (assuming they are match fit)

Same team that finished at Orient, no issues defending but I thought we lacked something going forward, hope we don’t have to bring them on from a losing position. Get them on 3-0 up, bed them in gently!

Livescore has someone called Driscolls at left back for town?

Quoted from AdamHaddock

Livescore has someone called Driscolls at left back for town?

Yes Driscoll-Glennon, double barrelled.

Quoted from AdamHaddock

Livescore has someone called Driscolls at left back for town?

Signed from Barcelona [ or was it West Marsh Rovers ] this morning

Quoted from Jackie Lewis

Rose not on the bench. Is he injured ? Going out in loan ?

Humberside have just said he's having hamsting troubles

Bar-stewards, got freeview channel 721 on in lobby but forgot my phone... Came back and supervisor appeared and changed channel glued to telly 😩 hates footie.

Grimsby Town app says I need to upgrade subscription but doesn't give me any option of being able to and all the freeview apps installed don't have 721 😩

Anyway, enjoy those that are there

Scunts 2 down. They’ve lost us shape twice

Not dynamic enough at the moment. Crowd a bit quiet

Not dynamic enough at the moment. Crowd a bit quiet

Decent save there by Macca

And another one

Exeter starting to look more dangerous.😨

Wright hasn't found his form since injury.  He gives away far too many free kicks.

cardwell scores for chorley

We're definitely getting louder!

How are we playing, are we matching Exeter?

Quoted from Mayaman

Wright hasn't found his form since injury.  He gives away far too many free kicks.

He must have heard me.  That was much better.  Much better all round.  UTM.  

I see Macca is distributing his balls better instead of hitting up field

Better by Town.

Ollie drumming up the crowd.

Quoted from cmackenzie4

How are we playing, are we matching Exeter?

Seems quite even at the moment. John Tondeur puts it well though, "sloppy".

Telewag site makes it sound like we're playing well 🤔

Clarke failed to beat first man in four or five corner attempts now they say, that's disappointing

Unlucky but good effort!

WHitehouse has settled too.  Great play by him and a good effort.

Cracking effort by Whitehouse off the inside of the post

"Brilliant one-two football by Town, Whitehouse advances to the edge of the Exeter box and produces a fabulous curling effort that rebounds off the inside of the post! So close!"

Ooooohhhh!!! 😅

1 minute stoppage time 0-0 HT

An another note the iFollow footage is pretty good. Not bad for a fiver. Would be nice to see them add a few more camera angles though!

Fiver? You aboard? I paid 10.

I hear Clarke just had a good chance

Quoted from Rik e B

Fiver? You aboard? I paid 10.

I hear Clarke just had a good chance

Used an American VPN. Charged me $7. I use that Monzo bank and they don't charge for conversions (only Mastercard base exchange rate) so it comes to around £5.36.

Clarke nearly scored at the end of the half as well after some more decent passing and movement. All in all, not a bad half. Some good, positive play but playing so many passes out to the wings, we've got a couple wrong and we're a bit lucky not to be caught from one of them.

Were going to struggle at set pieces regardless of the end. We've got 2 players who are 6 foot or more, they've got probably 7 or 8!

Chances at both ends. Their keeper busier than ours. Decent game so far.

The pitch seems to to making it difficult for both teams to pass the ball today both JT and Lord Buckley saying it looks boggy.

Not a bad first half, our passing at times has been a little supsect but like I've already said I think we can blame the pitch for that today. When we do get it right we're getting some very pleasing one-two football. Once again Whitehouse continues to change my opinion of him (for the better). wright is starting to show a few more flourishes of what he can do.

Hess seems to of disapeared a little today after he fluffed that chance early on, but lets be honest its not often he has a bad game so I'll forgive at the moment. We seems to be keeping them contained quite well, they've had a couple chances but so have we and I think its a pretty even game at the moment.

I don't want to jinx it but the refs not having a bad game either not that either teams given him too much to do.

Quoted from BenBB

Used an American VPN. Charged me $7. I use that Monzo bank and they don't charge for conversions (only Mastercard base exchange rate) so it comes to around £5.36.

Thanks was hoping to wean some info 😉, will try that method sometime. Which vpn service might I ask?

Quoted from Rik e B

Thanks was hoping to wean some info 😉, will try that method sometime. Which vpn service might I ask?

Windscribe on the 'Windflix US' server. Need to turn it off and on a few times to get an unblocked IP. Apparently only actually need it for the initial purchase. Can use direct UK internet connection for a better picture/connection after that.

Telewag got their slightly rose specs on... 😝

"a half in which have been the better team , look fluid and purposeful going forward and defended well when needed. If we had taken our chances we could be 2-3-0 up."

Thanks Ben. I'd prefer to attend but sometimes it just not possible

Quoted from Rik e B

Thanks Ben. I'd prefer to attend but sometimes it just not possible

I'm up in Scotland so it's a bit of a stretch for me!

The queues at half time we're horrendous.

Geez do we need a new ground.

Tilley's been brought on for Wright.

Ref!

How are we not winning this?  We are starting to outplay them but their defense are capable lads.  Was it a foul on Tilley?

0 - 1 😐

sodomist

Hess off for Benson

Looking awful ever since that Exeter goal  

Won't be long before people like Ipswin starts shouting for Holloway to be sacked

Great save by the Exeter keeper there

Quoted from Davec

Won't be long before people like Ipswin starts shouting for Holloway to be sacked

I wouldn't dream of it Holloway is wonderful PR for the club perhaps he just needs to get Michael Jolley in as an advisor on how to beat Exeter

Ah well, encouraging nonetheless

Despite the loss, after a scrappy start, town played some quality football.  Macca and defence more composed, less needless fouls, some great long passing and better (still room for improvement) balls into the box.

Very unlucky at points today. Definitely something to build on. Can tell the lads tried their best. Onwards and upwards. UTMM.

Their man of the match was definitely the keeper so just one of those games where we couldn't get the goal we deserved. A pity that the winner came from an individual error as Clifton otherwise did very well, I thought. Good showings from Clarke and Glennon but Tilley didn't really settle into the game. More to come from him hopefully. I thought their No. 8 was the most talented player on show so not a surprise he got the goal.

How did we not score today. Gutted. So typical for a big crowd, we fail to win.

Unlucky there today against one of the teams that’ll get promoted  , we was worth at least a point .
4 new players out on the pitch today and one that just back from a long time out injured .
Hopefully we’ll soon get to know our best team and get them settled for the rest of the season

Can’t quite understand subbing Max Wright off after only 57 minutes. He was playing quite well and Tilley by comparison was totally ineffectual. I was quite impressed with Clarke though, looks as if he will be a decent signing, good control and linked up well. Should’ve scored from 6 yards out but it was great save from the keeper. All in all a decent performance against one of the top sides and we definitely deserved something from the game. We are creating chances again, just need to start taking them.

Good showing of support for Ollie with over 6,000 there.

Let's hope they keep coming as Ollie will improve us slowly but surely.

Problem we now have is an awful pitch to try playing a passing game, sub moves were poor, didn,t deserve to lose but we desperately need a goalscorer because their keeper did not make a save you wouldn't expect him to despite 2 or 3 easy chances. I await the red x for not being manically positive  

Always happens when we draw in a big crowd doesn't it. Played well first half thought we had a good first half but the second was very flat and we were punished when we madea  mistake. Subs didn't work and we still need a striker who knows where the net is and someone to be creative and make things happen, hopefully some of the new plays can fill these rolls.

Never seen BPs pitch look so bad. The work they did in the summer clearly didn't work or is it the penny pinching restricting what the grounds staff can do with it?

Onwards and upwards UTM

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Always happens when we draw in a big crowd doesn't it. Played well first half thought we had a good first half but the second was very flat and we were punished when we madea  mistake. Subs didn't work and we still need a striker who knows where the net is and someone to be creative and make things happen, hopefully some of the new plays can fill these rolls.

Never seen BPs pitch look so bad. The work they did in the summer clearly didn't work or is it the penny pinching restricting what the grounds staff can do with it?

Onwards and upwards UTM

I have a bit more faith in our fans than you do! Anyone who witnessed that performance will surely want to come back. We lost because they took advantage of Clifton's error. Luck or lack of it simply has to have played a part if none of those chances end up in the net.

Quoted from barralad

I have a bit more faith in our fans than you do! Anyone who witnessed that performance will surely want to come back. We lost because they took advantage of Clifton's error. Luck or lack of it simply has to have played a part if none of those chances end up in the net.

I'm not saying it will have a negative affect on the crowds its just we always seem to lose whenever we run these sorts of promotions to beef up the crowd and get people interested again, it happened loads during the dark days we were in the conference. It's almost like some sort of curse is activated whenever the crowd goes above 6000

A lot of those games we just didnt turn up. Today we deserved a point. The team DID turn up
Things are definately on the up

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Always happens when we draw in a big crowd doesn't it. Played well first half thought we had a good first half but the second was very flat and we were punished when we madea  mistake. Subs didn't work and we still need a striker who knows where the net is and someone to be creative and make things happen, hopefully some of the new plays can fill these rolls.

Never seen BPs pitch look so bad. The work they did in the summer clearly didn't work or is it the penny pinching restricting what the grounds staff can do with it?

Onwards and upwards UTM

But apart from that everything is ok then?😉

The pitch is usually the same for both sides, remember where the club was 6 weeks ago.

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Problem we now have is an awful pitch to try playing a passing game, sub moves were poor, didn,t deserve to lose but we desperately need a goalscorer because their keeper did not make a save you wouldn't expect him to despite 2 or 3 easy chances. I await the red x for not being manically positive  

Clearly you need a period in a re-education camp, you running dog Imperialist lackey!

listened on iplayer and just saw the highlights and their keeper played an absolute blinder. Much more impressed with our build up play with some neat passes to work chances. Didnt happen today though I reckon we probably deserved a point. Happy with the direction the team is heading in though.

UTMM