CITY FORWARDS FAIL IN FRONT OF GOAL. SIDE NEEDS TIME TO SETTLE DOWN.

Saturday August 20th 1960.

EXETER CITY 0-0 CARLISLE UNITED

Played at St James's Park, attendance 9,933.

Exeter City:- Jones; Foley and MacDonald; Mitchell, Harvey, and Thompson; Harrison, Gordon, Wilkinson, Donaldson, and Dale.

Carlisle United:- G.Thompson; Brown and Terris; Cavanagh, Bradley, and R.Thompson; Bevan, Walker, Smith, Fleming, and Morgan.

Referee:- Mr A.L.Mason of Aylesford.
Linesmen:- Messrs E.G.Dodge and D.G.Jarmin.

A lot of things may have changed at St James's Park since the end of last season, but on the team's showing against Carlisle United the playing performance is pretty much the same. The score, or rather the absence of a score, practically tells its own story, for this was yet another in the string of Division Four games in which the City have made 90 per-cent of the running when facing moderate Northern opposition, but have not secured a win because they have failed in front of goal. And it was another of those games in which right at the end there was just the chance that the Northerners would break away and snatch the vital goal themselves. Exeter City may prove to be a good side this season, but the side, and especially the inside forward trio, needs time to settle down.

• Playing their first Western League match against Chippenham on the latter's ground the City Reserves were beaten by 3 goals to nil.