Exeter sit currently in 2nd place having lost just 2 games in the league so far (a 3-0 home defeat to Lincoln and a narrow 1-0 away loss to old manager Tisdales MKD) scoring 22 goals and conceding 12 in the process their league form this season is WWDWLLWWWDWD with their home form this season WDLWWW.
Their leading scorer so far this season is yet again Jayden Stockley with 8 league goals, (defender) Pierce Sweeney with 4 and the 2 well travelled players Jonathen Forte and Nicky Law on 3 each.
They have just one ex Swindon player in their squad, Lee Holmes the former Swindon loanee back 13 years ago.
The only Town player who has played for then is James Dunne who had 3 season with Exeter when they were in L1.
Luke McCormick will no doubt be barracked by the Exeter fans with songs about him being a murderer as he always has to face when playing them.
Over all in games between Swindon and Exeter Swindon have the upper hand with a 58% win rate with 40 wins 29 draws and 26 defeats.
In matches between the 2 sides at St James Park we have a 46% win rate with 14 wins 16 draws and 19 defeats since our first match there in 1920.
Exeter have only beaten us 3 times in the last 17 matches there although the last one was last season in a 3-1 defeat early in Browns reign.
Rumours are that Doughty and Nelson could return to the squad giving Brown a full compliment of players for the first time in his Swindon career what with Conroy and Woolery coming through Tuesdays game, whether any of those 4 will start is a different matter. Woolery must be eager to start having scored against them in both fixtures last season for us.
We have been so inconsistant this season with some great wins on our travels at Yeovil and Plymouth yet some awful defeats such as the ones at Crewe and Lincoln.
The weather down this way today is wet and very windy so that will probably mean that our outlet of long balls from McCormick may not be ideal and we will be forced into playing it on the deck all game.
Exeter fans on their forum are super confident with almost all of them predicting a very very easy win for Exeter, with 4 goal wins mentioned. The last time home fans were that confident was the Yeovil fans and look what happened there