SATURDAY 16th OCTOBER 1965.

DISAPPOINTING IN MATCH OF ONLY TEN MINUTES ACTION.

EXETER CITY 1
Shearing; Smyth, Ley; Fulton, Harvey, Buckingham; Welsh, BanksMcLean, Curtis, Peapell

BOURNEMOUTH 0
Best; McKinney, Keith; Ferns, Gater; Naylor, Bumstead, Archer, Hodgson, Ashworth, Coxon,

Scorers
Exeter City Harvey.

Attendance 5,383,

Exeter City's win over Bournemouth was a ten minute match. Ten minutes of action and interest sparsely sprinkled over an 80 minute yawn, Harvey's 32nd minute penalty, good shots from Welsh and Banks and great saves by Best, A handful of individual runs and a couple of attempted Bournemouth raids and that was it, the match summed up in one sentence! The rest of the game was wholly uninteresting and unentertaining and at times looked as much of a pain in the neck to the players as it was to the spectators. Neither side showed bits of imagination and everything became meaningless. Because Bournemouth were so poor, City players were able to pull out a lot of nice looking little moves and tricks yet they could not pull out a single action goal," There was something more useful and effective about a formation which had Curtis, McLean and Banks up front, with Peapell, Welsh and Buckingham just behind them. In particular it gave Welsh a lot of scope which he used to pretty good effect, especially when he worked with Banks, it was still not good enough, City are still far too patchy and unpredictable to give many signs of pulling away from near the bottom,

WESTERN LEAGUE 

BRIDGWATER TOWN 7
EXETER CITY RESERVES 1

Exeter Team
Barnett; Taylor, Arbury: Carter, MacDonald; Anderson, Rice, Riding, Wingate, Tolchard, Copp.

Scorers
Bridgwater Handley 5, Bevan, Thomas
ExeterCity Carter 2,

Former Torquay centre forward Handley, was the star goal getter for Bridgwater in their runaway defeat of the City reserves, He contributed five to their total of seven, Three of them coming in a second half spell of eleven minutes. Exeter were weakened when inside right Riding was taken to hospital with a shoulder injury in the 12th minute. Nevertheless they worked hard, but most of their time was spent in keeping out a lively attack Thomas got Bridgwater's first goal and after Handley's hat trick, Carter scored a penalty goal for Exeter, Handley scored again, this was followed by one from Bevan and another City goal from Carter, Handley completed his nap hand in the final minute,

MONDAY 18th OCTOBER 1965.

CITY TO PLAY IN RENNES ?

Exeter City FC, have had an invitation to go to Brittany in February and play a match against Rennes, as part of the French City British weeks activities. The sheriff of Exeter, Alderman Percy Hilton has already discussed it with the St James's Park officials and they are anxious to go. City chairman Reg Rose said that they wanted to take part in this if they possibly could. A decision will be taken at a later date taking into consideration the club's commitments,