Starting line-ups ahead of the local derby
EXETER CITY manager Paul Tisdale has made four changes to the side that won at Mansfield in midweek for today's visit of Bristol Rovers.Christian Ribeiro has recently undergone an operation so misses out, so Craig Woodman makes a first start since the September defeat at Accrington Stanley. Clinton Morrison starts up front alongside Jamie Reid, the first time that the pairing have played together, while David Wheeler is also back in the starting line-up.
There are four changes to the Bristol Rovers line-up that lost at home to Stevenage in midweek - former Grecian Jake Gosling misses out, new signing Rory Gaffney is in and fellow recent arrival Paris Cowan-Hall is on the bench.
LINE-UPS:
EXETER CITY: Olejnik, Woodman, Noble, Harley, Davies, Morrison, Nicholls, Moore-Taylor (capt), Reid, Wheeler, Brown.
SUBS: Holmes, Nichols, Hamon, McCready, Tillson, Watkins, Grant.
BRISTOL ROVERS: L. Nicholls, Brown, Clarke, Lockyer, Parkes, Mansell (capt), Sinclair, Clarke, Leadbitter, Taylor, Gaffney.
SUBS: Mildenhall, Harrison, Bodin, Easter, McChrystal, Cowan-Hall, Lines.
REFEREE: Philip Gibbs
ASSISTANTS: Adam Hopkins, Graham Kane
FOURTH: Adrian Tranter