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Julian Tagg talks celebrations of 20 years of the Supporters’ Trust in his latest column

Julian Tagg is the Club president and director of external affairs of Exeter City FC

It looks like the football rollercoaster is well and truly underway! One minute we’re relishing in the big bank chorus of ‘we’re top of the league’ – and the next we’re taking a hammering from Reading. Talk about the highs and lows of football! The Reading match was always going to be challenging, with injuries and big games on the horizon, and we all felt for the young squad out on the pitch.

Talking of fan favourites, it was good to welcome back our two Finnish players from international duty. Goalkeeper Vil Sinisalo is back between the sticks, and hopefully it won’t be long before his fellow countryman, Ilmari Niskanen is back from the injury he sustained during his team’s match against Denmark. Having players on international duty in World Cup qualifiers, let alone getting injured in them, has not really been a problem we’ve had to deal with before.

Fittingly, we were top of the league for the weekend of celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the Supporters’ Trust purchasing the club. A year of celebrations culminated in the match against Leyton Orient, and although the result didn’t go our way, it felt like things came together beautifully for us to be in the top spot for that

But it’s part of the club that we are, and although no one wants to lose, we know our fans understand that at Exeter City, we have to do things a bit differently.

We welcomed two new signings who set foot on the hallowed turf of SJP for the Cheltenham match, literally having put pen to paper the day before! They fitted right into the squad and there was some fantastic play from Yanic Wildschut and a brilliant goal on his debut for Caleb Watts – I can see these two are already going to be fan favourites – especially if they keep playing like they did on in that match.

Talking of fan favourites, it was good to welcome back our two Finnish players from international duty. Goalkeeper Vil Sinisalo is back between the sticks, and hopefully it won’t be long before his fellow countryman, Ilmari Niskanen is back from the injury he sustained during his team’s match against Denmark. Having players on international duty in World Cup qualifiers, let alone getting injured in them, has not really been a problem we’ve had to deal with before.

Fittingly, we were top of the league for the weekend of celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the Supporters’ Trust purchasing the club. A year of celebrations culminated in the match against Leyton Orient, and although the result didn’t go our way, it felt like things came together beautifully for us to be in the top spot for that