Ed Turns

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Marked for Ed Turns

88 Edition

The Exeter City Courier

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match3 Apr 2028

Every point is an argument now for Exeter City

Position 24 and 35 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

Pressure builds in the Exeter City boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

John Bell has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Exeter City can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market3 Apr 2028

Ed Turns puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Exeter City, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout3 Apr 2028

Liam Walsh frozen out at Exeter City

This is not rotation. Liam Walsh has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Exeter City is pretending otherwise.

Match1 Apr 2028

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.

Squad3 Apr 2028

Jhonier Hurtado stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jhonier Hurtado and Exeter City agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Apr 2028

A falling-out at Exeter City

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

Match1 Apr 2028

Exeter City come up short against Huddersfield Town

Huddersfield Town left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

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59 Edition

The Exeter City Courier

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market13 Sep 2027

Mannou Berger puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Exeter City, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Mateo Anaya stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market13 Sep 2027

Jacob Labovitz’s move to Peterborough United falls through

The deal that would have taken Jacob Labovitz to Peterborough United has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Exeter City with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

The dugout13 Sep 2027

Ed Turns keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Exeter City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets13 Sep 2027

No thanks: Esapa Osong rejects the move

Exeter City had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Nottingham Forest, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Mannou Berger wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Exeter City can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad13 Sep 2027

A falling-out at Exeter City

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

Squad13 Sep 2027

Exeter City lose David Livingston

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Transfer targets13 Sep 2027

Exeter City rebuffed over Ben Sheaf

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Everton have kept their man, and Exeter City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

48 Edition

The Exeter City Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market28 Jun 2027

Alam Garcete hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Exeter City can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

The paperwork begins on Andy Cook

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

Market28 Jun 2027

Exeter City get their man

The chase for Regan Hendry ended with $75.0K changing hands and Mansfield Town out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Squad28 Jun 2027

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 targets28 Jun 2027

Exeter City rebuffed over Lamine Cissé

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Crystal Palace have kept their man, and Exeter City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Jacopo Sala is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 36 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Squad28 Jun 2027

A row about effort at Exeter City

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Guillermo Bassi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout28 Jun 2027

A promise honoured at Exeter City

Something was said to Reece Oxford and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Regan Hendry 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

20 Edition

The Exeter City Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Jhonier Hurtado beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Enso González 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.

Match12 Dec 2026

Nobody wins at Exeter City

9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

The manager makes an example of Luke Faxon

“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.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Ed Turns stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ed Turns and Exeter City agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Words at Exeter City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillermo Bassi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

Half-satisfied: John Bell on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

Brodi Hughes dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Match12 Dec 2026

No goals between Exeter City and Cardiff City

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Cardiff City will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

18 Edition

The Exeter City Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad30 Nov 2026

Ed Turns breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Anthony Scully scores twice — 8.53

Two goals and a mark of 8.53 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Exeter City

Enso González and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Home is on Jorge Colmán's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Exeter City are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Match28 Nov 2026

Anthony Scully sends Exeter City past Luton Town

It finished 2‑0, and it was Anthony Scully’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Exeter City.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Mateo Anaya

“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.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Mateo Anaya

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” John Bell kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

Looking ahead30 Nov 2026

Exeter City take on the side everybody is chasing

Leyton Orient arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief

17 Edition

The Exeter City Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Luke Faxon keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Exeter City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad23 Nov 2026

29 days out for Ed Turns after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Exeter City will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match23 Nov 2026

Exeter City sink to position 22

13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad23 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Exeter City

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

Match21 Nov 2026

Exeter City come up short against Northampton Town

Northampton Town left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Mannou Berger

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mannou Berger, and the manager let it.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Words at Exeter City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillermo Bassi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Too much change too quickly at Exeter City

14 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

John Bell: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief