PIERCE SWEENEY IS THE CLUB CAPTAIN OF EXETER CITY FC

I think it’s fair to say, a lot has happened since my last column a fortnight ago!

First and foremost, we’ve lost three games on the spin, conceding 13 goals in the process. At the same time, we’ve bid a fond farewell to Millenic Alli, who has joined Luton for a reported seven-figure fee, while welcoming a number of new faces, as well as a couple of rather more familiar ones, to St James’s Park.

Having restricted league leaders Birmingham to a single goal at St Andrew’s seven days previously, it was desperately disappointing to find ourselves 3-0 down after just 45 minutes of our home game against Blackpool a couple of Saturdays ago.

We were much better after the interval and, having reduced the deficit to 3-1, might still have got something from the game had we not been denied what looked a stonewall penalty when the lively Tony Yogane, who joined us on loan from Brentford earlier in the week, was upended in the box with 10 or 15 minutes to go.

Then again, frustrating as the referee’s decision to wave away our penalty appeals was, you can’t really expect to take anything from a game in which you allow the opposition to race into a three-goal lead while hardly breaking sweat.

Unfortunately, it was a very similar story when Leyton Orient visited SJP three days later. On this occasion, the visitors scored twice inside the opening five minutes, and we found ourselves 4-0 down at half-time.

Again, we were much better in the second half, when a Millenic Alli brace – on what, it transpired, would be his final appearance for the club –halved the deficit and just for a........

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