ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR EXETER CITY. DEFENSIVE AND ATTACKING FAILURES AT GILLINGHAM.

Saturday December 10th 1960.

GILLINGHAM 4
(Pulley 2, Lobbett own goal, Bacon)
EXETER CITY 2
(Carter, Rees)

Played at Priestfield-road, attendance 4,925.

Gillingham:- Simpson; Parry and Hunt; Wilson, Hughes, and Proverbs. Bacon, Shepherd, Terry, Pulley, and Brown.

Exeter City: Lobbett; Foley and MacDonald; Wilson, Harvey, and Thompson; Welsh, Rees, Wilkinson, Carter, and Dale.

Referee:- Mr R. Reddaway of Kettering.

Exeter City's trip to Gillingham ended with another defeat, their twelfth of the season, and with nearly half their matches played the club is on the very bottom rung of the League ladder, and with some lee-way to make up on the teams immediately above them. Exeter today were unable to build up any sustained pressure on the Gillingham goal, and their shortcomings in both defence and attack cost them the points.

Harvey did well to hold Gillingham's lively leader, Pat Terry, but the wing halves did not command the same control over Shepherd and Pulley.

Although Lobbett pulled off several brilliant saves, especially in the second half, he was directly responsible for the third goal against him, when he palmed a corner kick from Bacon into his own net.


Western League 
Weston Super Mare (h) 

Exeter City Reserves, whose team included four amateurs, drew their match with Weston at St James's Park, three goals all.

Virtue rewarded

It took Exeter City Reserves more than half of Saturday's Western League game at St. James's Park to turn their superior-style football into goals. But. for once, soccer virtue brought some sort of reward. and from being 2-0 down against Weston-super-Mare the Reserves came back to draw 3-3. writes TONY COURT. (Express and Echo)

Weston's more direct style brought quicker results on the pudding-type Park pitch, and within 14 minutes inside-left Clare had given them a two-goal lead. The Reserves had as much, if not more, of the play in the first half. and even centre-half Alvan Williams moved up to try to get them a goal -but they seemed to have caught the first-team disease, and most of their work broke down on the edge of Weston's penalty area, The tide did not really turn in City's favour until 20 minutes from the end. when Peter Gordon ham- mered in a shot from outside the penalty area Scott got the equaliser six minutes from time.

City Reserves: L. Blackmore; B. Turner, Whitnall; Williams P., Williams A., Packer; Harrison, Scott, Bennett, Gordon, T. Irons.