Exeter Carabao Cup Date Set
Monday, 25th Jun 2018 23:15

The Blues’ Carabao Cup first round tie against Exeter City at St James Park will be played on Tuesday 14th August (KO 7.45pm).

Town will be allocated only 350 tickets for the tie as the Grecians’ stadium is currently being redeveloped. The club will announce ticketing details in due course.

The teams last met in the competition at the same stage at St James Park in August 2010 when the Blues won 3-2 after extra-time, Ronan Murray netting once and David Norris twice for the Blues and Ryan Harley, who is still with the Grecians, scoring both for the home side.

The clubs also faced one another in a two-legged first-round tie in 1998/99. The first leg in the South-West ended 1-1 with Matt Holland putting the Blues in front and Jonathan Richardson equalising for the home side in the final minute.

Town comfortably won the second leg at Portman Road, Mauricio Taricco, Holland again, Mick Stockwell, Alex Mathie and Paul Mason, playing his final game for the Blues, scoring the goals in a 5-1 victory. Richardson again netted for Exeter.

Overall, the Blues have won 11 of the 26 meetings between the sides (eight in the league and one in the FA Cup), nine have ended in draws (eight in the league), while Exeter have won six (all in the league).

Unlike the 2010 match, this year's tie, which will be played in the week commencing August 13th, won't go to extra-time, the additional half-hour having been scrapped with a number of changes having been made to the competition for the season ahead. While the draw was regionalised on a North-South basis, there was no seeding.

Last season Town won 2-0 at Luton in the first round before a very youthful team impressed but were beaten 2-1 at Crystal Palace.

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Chicago_Blue added 10:51 - Jun 26 Any news on the Norwich game yet? Still scheduled for Sat 1st Sep currently. In all likelihood it'll be moved to the Sunday for TV (andor because the police over-think and over-worry about it). I've got an event booked for the Sunday, and waiting to hear if I need to move it.
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wessextractorboy added 11:37 - Jun 26 Not too happy about the 350 tickets only for the Exeter game. There are a lot of town fans in the West country that got excited about this draw.
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ajs83 added 17:02 - Jun 26 Chicago Blue - I don't know for definite but the Norwich match will almost certainly be on Sun 2nd September. Phil (or anyone) - I know I'm getting ahead of myself but is the second round of the league cup in its usual slot - i.e. 2 weeks after the 1st round?
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