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Exeter Rugby Club chief executive and chairman, Tony Rowe OBE, says excitement is already mounting as the two-year countdown to the Rugby World Cup 2015 begins today. In a series of events across the country, including at Southernhay Gardens in Exeter, England Rugby officials have launched its ‘Post in the Parks’ scheme. Single rugby posts are being installed in parks in the 10 RWC2015 English host cities, including here in Exeter, as visible symbols of the RFU’s commitment to broadening the appeal of rugby and to reaching out to new audiences and new areas. Across the land, the specially...

Watson Fuels, the Wiltshire-based fuel distributor, has today been announced as the Official Fuel Supplier to the Exeter Chiefs for the 2013/4 season as part of a year-long partnership with the Aviva Premiership rugby club. An independent and family-owned company, Watson Fuels supplies home heating oil, farm fuels, road diesel and a wide range of industrial lubricants throughout the West Country, and beyond. Founded in 1957, the firm has expanded from its origins in rural Wiltshire, and now delivers fuels and lubricants through a national network of 45 depots nationwide. Watson Fuels...

Report: Northampton 1 Exeter City 2

John O’Flynn scored a stoppage-time winner for the Grecians as they triumphed 2-1 at Sixfields against Northampton Town.

The home side had started on the front-foot, with Leicester loanee Jacob Blyth slotting in after just six minutes.

It could have been two when his strike-partner Clive Platt was unlucky to hit the bar with a thunderous strike.

But Scot Bennett drew level before the break as he got on the end of a corner – and City sub John O’Flynn was on hand in the three added minutes to head home a cross and send the...

Today (Friday 13 September 2013) marks the 10th anniversary, to the day, of the Supporters' Trust purchasing the majority shareholding of Exeter City FC .

Ten years ago today Dr David Treharne and Martin Ellicott, on behalf of the relatively newly formed Supporters' Trust stepped out of Ivor Doble’s jewellery shop pinching themselves that they had just bought their football club!

The Club had been in turmoil for months since the arrest of fraudulent John Russell and Mike Lewis. Members of the Supporters' Trust had been trying to keep the Club in existence, and all summer...