This weekend’s games (6th Mar)

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Exeter City
13:00
Leyton Orient

Barrow
15:00
Mansfield Town

Bradford City
15:00
Bolton Wanderers

Cambridge United
15:00
Walsall

Cheltenham Town
15:00
Port Vale

Colchester United
15:00
Newport County

Grimsby Town
15:00
Forest Green Rovers

Morecambe
15:00
Carlisle United

Oldham Athletic
15:00
Southend United

Salford City
15:00
Scunthorpe United

Stevenage
15:00
Harrogate Town

Tranmere Rovers
15:00
Crawley Town

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HT: Exeter City 3 Leyton Orient 0

Terrible first half for Orient who did not threaten Exeter's goal until their 2nd corner on 43 minutes when Craig Clay had a shot blocked and Cisse's weak header from the edge of the area went straight to Andresson in goal for Exeter.

Jake Taylor and Archie Collins are dominating midfield for Exeter. Exeter's 1st goal on 11 minutes involved some great centre forward play by Ryan Bowman who controlled Rory Mcardle's big boot of a clearance from the area on his chest on the halfway line and then laid the ball off to Joel Randall who ran through on goal and drilled a left foot shot through Lawrence Vigouroux's legs. Two minutes later, Vigouroux fumbled a Matt Jay shot from 23 yards and it trickled into the net. Exeter made it 3-0 on 42 minutes after great play by Josh Key who beat Danny Johnson to the ball in the centre of defence and then played it to Robbie Wilmott before charging forward to receive the ball again on the right. Key, Collins and Wilmott then exchanged passes before Wilmott's cross looped up off Joel Randall and hit the post. Matt Jay followed up to score his second goal of the game.

Orient would probably be better off with Jobi McAnuff on the pitch rather than in the manager's dug out.

[Tippy Tappy Football]

Rhys Bennett has been dropped today for Carlisle's away game at Morecambe. Carlisle are on a bad run at the moment.

[Aspleystag]

All this talk about keeping Cook and Maynard, we should have kept Vadaine Oliver

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All this talk about keeping Cook and Maynard, we should have kept Vadaine Oliver

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FT: Exeter City 4 Leyton Orient 0

Tunji Akinola (on loan from West Ham) chopped down Joel Randall in the 49th minute and Matt Jay stepped up to score from the penalty spot and complete his hat-trick. Game over (if it wasn't already). Conor Wilkinson came on at half time for Orient and was more of a threat up front. Danny Johnson was quiet throughout the game. He's not scored in his last five games.

Exeter City MOM: Matt Jay and Joel Randall
Leyton Orient MOM: Conor Wilkinson

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All this talk about keeping Cook and Maynard, we should have kept Vadaine Oliver

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Blimey

You’ve found a striker with a similar goal scoring record to Jamie Reid. Absolutely no chance Stags fans would’ve been happy with keeping him all this time until this season when his goal scoring rate has picked up (slightly)

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Bradford City 1 Bolton Wanderers 1

Bolton were the better team although they did not create many chances. The best chance in the first half fell to Andy Cook who blasted over the bar. Bolton had three chances on the trot around 66/67 minutes when Sam Hornby saved Ricardo Santos' shot and Eoin Doyle headed wide. They eventually took the lead on 83 minutes when Dappy Afolayan (who played well again) found Doyle in the area and his shot deflected off Anthony O'Conner over Hornby in goal for Nathan Delfouneso to chest in on the line. It may have gone in without him touching it. Bradford claimed offside. Danny Rowe came on as a sub and rescued a point for Bradford in the 93rd minute when Bradford keeper, Sam Hornby, had come up for the corner. The corner was cleared by Bradford but Levi Sutton pumped the ball back into the box and it flicked off Anthony O'Connor to Danny Rowe on the far side of the area and he smashed it in.

Andy Cook just had the one chance for Bradford but he did not cause too many problems for Ricardo Santos and Alex Baptiste who played well.

Bradford MOM: Anthony O'Connor and Niall Canavan
Bolton MOM: Dappy Afolayan and Lloyd Isgrove

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Harry Kewell has been sacked.