Jack Bycroft

Goalkeeper - Exeter City
18 Dec 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Jack Bycroft

7 Edition

The Exeter City Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Both of them Alam Garcete's — 8.45

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.45, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

No end in sight to Exeter City's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Exeter City has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Exeter City

Enso González was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets

Newcastle United tell Exeter City: Sean Steur is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Late, late show earns Exeter City a point

Minute 90, against Lincoln City, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

Match

Exeter City and Lincoln City take a point apiece

It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Jack Bycroft lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Squad

The formation has left Reece Oxford behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Exeter City will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Johnly Yfeko

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

  • The dugout Dan Happe asks for a word with the manager
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Squad Alam Garcete finally opens his account
Back issues
5 Edition

The Exeter City Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Jack Bycroft keeps Exeter City in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom

Belts tighten at Exeter City

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

Transfer targets

Exeter City bid $1.0M for Will Aimson

The offer went to Wigan Athletic this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Stuart Findlay turns down Exeter City

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Oxford United keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Match

4 matches without a win for Exeter City

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Exeter City are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A falling-out at Exeter City

Luke Faxon and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Harvey Davies

Exeter City asked and Liverpool said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

A bad afternoon for Exeter City against Mansfield Town

0‑1 to Mansfield Town, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Anthony Scully 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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Exeter City Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Jack Bycroft keeps Exeter City in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Ethan Brierley goes up and wins it — 7.94

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.94 for the rest of it.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Stuart Findlay

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Exeter City have done the hard part with Oxford United, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Toby Savin

Exeter City asked and Wigan Athletic said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Ethan Brierley’s goal not enough for Exeter City

Ethan Brierley scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Port Vale, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Alam Garcete 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.

The terraces

Exeter City supporters have found a favourite in Ethan Brierley

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ethan Brierley has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

A bad afternoon for Exeter City against Peterborough United

0‑1 to Peterborough United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Dan Happe is a square peg at Exeter City

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief