Memories of Exeter City away..

I have only been there once,a night game in 1981...all I can remember about it was Frankie Prince playing for them.

Mid 80's, travelled to Exeter by train organised by the Supporters Club.
The train arrived at the halt over the road from the ground at about 1 minute to 3.
Consequently, I was still outside the ground when Paul Randall scored the only goal of the game at about 1 minute past 3.

The 2-2 Adam Stansfield game, emotional occasion & a steaming hot day. That tiny pasty hat ran out of almost everything after 30mins so had to get into a mars bar to try and cool myself down!

Oh and letting a 2-1 lead slip against ten men was most frustrating.

Ah - finally one of these I can actually join in on!  Seems odd - I've been to enough blimin grounds but none that have come up recently.

I have been to St James' many times but the one that sticks in the mind is 2003, which I think is the second time I went.  I was considering applying to Exeter Uni at the time so I combined the game with a trip round the campus.

We were in an absolutely horrendous state at the time.  This would have been towards the end of Graydon's first season in charge.  It was one of the most tense games I can ever remember because they were down there with us at the time - the atmosphere was poisonous and the main thing that sticks in the mind is both sets of fans trying their absolute damndest to get the ref to give them decisions because they knew a penalty was probably the only way either side was likely to score. I remember it as 0-0 but maybe that was just the quality of the game.  As a result that was good for us as we continued to eek out scores that just took us over the line to safety.  We were an awful side though.  At the time the one bright spot was Ijah Anderson who was on loan and was considered a key player in keeping us up.  In retrospect I think he merely stood out because the rest of that side was universally dreadful.  Michelle Di-Piedi played up front for a time in that much - he did so very badly.  In fact nearly all of our players in that game did their jobs very badly but we were still the better team which shows just how awful Exeter were.  To be fair if we'd had anyone who could finish we would have been worthy winners but Kevin Miller kept Exeter in the game and when they went down he signed for us.

Dreadful day - I remember that season as the least enjoyable I have had as a Rovers fan.  Honestly, worse than the relegation seasons - all of which I can remember at least having some moments of false hope.  The 2002/03 season had none at all and I remember that game being indicative of that. 

Also remember going down the year before when Walters was sent off in whatever the LDV AutoWindscreen Trophy thingy was called at the time.  One of his last games for Rovers - and it seemed indicative of the sad fact that he really was no longer capable and, at that point, neither were Rovers either.  You just thought bloody hell what an ignominious end to an era.

Haha!

We went by car that day. Consequently, we were right behind the goal when Randall scored. I can still picture it in my mind`s eye, even all these years later.

Right then, we probably shouldnt glamourise football violence, but the most entertaining fight I saw was away at exeter, it was an early kick off I can't even remember the score possibly 2 all, it was in the early 90s and both sets of supporters ended up meeting in a market about quarter of a mile up the road, and one bloke grabbed a tray of eggs and started throwing them at the exeter supporters then one of them picked up a bird table and started swinging it above his head, it was a point in my life where I was really into wwf wrestling and it was like seeing it enacted in front of me for freee

That sounds like the FA Cup game, Dec 1998.
Sure that was an early kick off as I remember being quizzed by PC Cox whether Rovers were going to make an appearance at Yeovil later in the day as they were home to Northampton. That would have been part of our FA Cup run to the 5th round when we lost at Barnsley.
We played them at home in the cup in 1996 and that day had it's share of incidents too.

I remember that well, we just got through the turnstiles but didnt see the goal.

On the train on the way home there were a group of lads playing cards, lots of money on the table and obviously no lights on those football special trains. When the train went into a tunnel, you could hear loads of shouting with people being accused of nicking money. When the train came out of the tunnel, all of the money had disappeared from the table!