Exeter run into their own trap

Exeter City 0 Barrow 0

by DONALD READ

EXETER team manager Jack Edwards is making desperate efforts to sign another forward before the transfer deadline. And there is not much doubt that he needs one. For when inside-right and top policed as he was by Barrow, there seems to be no one else in the Exeter team capable of getting a goal. This game was as lop-sided as the Tower of Pisa-it was Exeter all the way, and in the second half Barrow were struggling even to get the ball over the halfway line. Exeter have got where they are in the League table by concentrating on defence. Barrow obviously went to St. James's Park with the same idea and Exeter were caught in their own trap. When Exeter pushed the ball high into the middle, Barrow beat them to it. When they tried to make a breakthrough on the ground, they always found one Barrow man too many. It could have been so different but for a fractional decision in the first minute when Banks ran through to nod a Grace cross into the net-and was given offside by what could only have been inches. A goal at this stage would have given Exeter all the confidence they needed. On the other hand, the same might have been said for Barrow, who had a similar goal disallowed by an equally slim margin just a few minutes later as inside right John Darwin belted the ball into Exeter's net from an Eddy free kick. After this, though, it was almost all Exeter. But in spite of all their attacking they had few clear-cut chances, and only a George Ley header which went inches wide and a Mitchell header which Brian Caine stopped with a spectacular dive, were really worthy of goals.


EXETER CITY
Barnett; Smyth, MacDonald; Mitchell, Harvey, Anderson; Rees, Banks, Thorne, Grace, Ley.
BARROW
Caine; Arrowsmith, Cahill; Eddy, Wearmouth,' 'Clark; Maddison, Darwin, Ackerley, Brennan, O'Neill,

Attendance 5,891,

Referee J.E.Cooke (Cambridge)

Western League 
Poole Town v Exeter City Reserves 

POOLE TOWN 0
Linton; Leather, Drummond; McNeish, Penzer, Rushworth; Bodger, Roberton, McDowell, Hale, Brewster,

EXETER CITY RESERVES 4,
Parkhill; Quarrington, Parsons; Spiers, Henderson, Rutley; Welsh, Riding, Curtis, Gough, Symington, Linton

Scorers
Exeter City Riding 3, Welsh,

WEDNESDAY 11th MARCH 1964.
Western League 

EXETER CITY RESERVES 1
DORCHESTER TOWN 1.

Wednesday March 11th
at St James's Park.
This was a disappointing game, made even worse by the gale force wind which howled from one end of the field to the other.

City Reserves:
Parkhill; Quarrington and Parsons; Spiers, Henderson, and Rutley; Welsh, Riding, Curtis, Gough, and Edgar.

Dorchester Town:-
Neal; Eaton and Smith; Curtis, Groves, and Wray; Drake, McGugan, Fuge, House, and Greening.

Fuge scored midway through the first half for Dorchester, and saves on the goal-line by Rutley and Parsons were all that stopped them getting two more goals. Curtis equalised with a well taken header from Edgar's corner kick twenty minutes from time.

FRIDAY 13th MARCH 1964.

CITY WANT HANCOCK.

Exeter City are desperate to sign another forward before the transfer deadline on Tuesday, they would like to sign Exeter born wing half and inside forward from Devon rivals and fellow promotion challengers Torquay UnitedHancock who has been on the Torquay open to transfer list at a fee of £1,500 would like to come to Exeter, but United are not prepared to give City an answer till Monday.