Paul Tisdale was quick to praise his team’s spirit despite losing an encouraging unbeaten run to resurgent Southend on Saturday. Scot Bennett’s 51st minute goal was wiped out by late strikes from Barry Corr and Freddie Eastwood and despite this setback, Exeter remain in the third (and last) automatic promotion spot. Speaking after the final whistle he stated: “I’m bitterly disappointed we lost but taking an objective view and I thought we played really well and looked a very competent team. “The players are irritated about the fact that they got away from us to score that goal from a...
On a dull and overcast afternoon the football did little to brighten things up as City scraped a 1-1 draw against York City with a late equaliser in front of 4092 supporters. City lined up: Krysiak; Woodman, Baldwin, Coles, Amankwaah; Davies, Bennett, Oakley, Sercombe; O'Flynn, Cureton. It took a full fifteen minutes for City to weather York's near dominance of the opening exchanges and carve an opportunity, but as would be the case so often during the afternoon, in the end it amounted to very little. It was a very valuable point that on another day could have been all three, however that...
