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" I just think if we can get a little bit more consistency in our away games we will be right up there come the end of the season. As players we've got to be aiming as high as we can - and that's got to be at least the play-offs.
" Everyone is working for each other and it seems like much more of a family here than I have experienced before. It's so much easier playing for a team like that because you are able to enjoy your football - and we're all enjoying it at the moment. "
In team news for the Grecians, through injury they will be missing both striker Jamie Cureton and centre-half Matt Taylor. Cureton absent after being substituted in the first-half of City's 2-1 defeat at Walsall last week with a hamstring strain. The same fate occurring to fellow frontman Danny Nardiello who had to go off midway through the second-half with his own hamstring problem, Nardiello though was taken off as a precaution and so he should be able to play at St James Park tomorrow.
Club captain Taylor meanwhile has been out since the first week of the season with a continuing back problem. So, with fellow centre-half Troy Archibald-Henville suspended for one game tomorrow after being sent off at Walsall for picking up two yellow cards, that means that 37-year old former Blue, and City first-team coach, Rob Edwards will be forced into defensive action. Joe Heath and Marcus Stewart now looking likely to make the move up to the Grecians bench after not featuring recently.
The referee for tomorrow afternoon's match is Steve Rushton from Stoke-on-Trent, and he will be assisted down the lines by Adam Nunn from Trowbridge in Wiltshire and Paul Rees from Bristol. Meanwhile the fourth official is local Devonian referee Andrew Turner.