Monday, 9 May 2022

GRECIANS SET TO PACK OUT ST JAMES PARK IN 2022-23

As well as facing a number of the 'fallen giants' who have dropped down from the Premier League in recent years, Exeter City's League One fixture list will also have a decidely local flavour to it. 

Wayne Rooney's Derby County, Ipswich Town, Bolton Wanderers, Charlton Athletic, Portsmouth and possibly one or both of Sheffield Wednesday or Sunderland will be visiting St James Park next season. In addition to these names, there will also be a number of Westcountry derbies for the Grecians' faithful to look forward. 

Prior to their final day fixture with Port Vale, which saw the Grecians narrowly miss out on the title, it was already known that they would locking thorns with arch rivals Plymouth Argyle. Now, following the end of their League Two campaign, they will be joined by Bristol Rovers who clinched the division's third and final promotion spot with a shock 7-0 win over already relegated Scunthorpe United. The Grecians will, of course, be facing Nailsworth-based Forest Green Rovers, who pipped them to the League Two title on goal difference. 

They could yet also be joined by Swindon Town, who reached the League Two play-offs where they are due to face Port Vale.