The Exeter City Courier
Match16 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Exeter City
0‑2 against Port Vale, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Exeter City
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Exeter City are no longer polite ones.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a goal for Exeter City
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ethan Brierley in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Exeter City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Amankwah Forson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Ethan Brierley's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jack Bycroft gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ethan Brierley could not find anything
4.79. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Andrew Oluwabori
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Match Exeter City and Huddersfield Town cancel each other out
- Player ratings Jack Fitzwater spends the afternoon fouling