Bristol Rovers 2 Exeter City 2 (Exeter win 5-4 on pens) - Meltdown

Artur Krysiak saved a penalty from Byron Anthony in the shoot out to send Exeter into a two-legged southern Johnstone's Paint Trophy final against Brentford.

My clipping from today's paper

It capped a miserable night for Anthony who sliced an own goal past Mikkel Andersen from former Bristol City Scott Goldbourne's cross in the 65th minute.

Rovers had taken the lead in the 20th minute.

Skipper Stuart Campbell won a crunching tackle in his own half and took the ball forward before releasing it to Will Hoskins who blasted home a terrific strike for his eleventh of the season.

The home side didn't let their heads drop though and regained the lead in the 78th minute.

Hoskins took the ball to the line before cutting it back and young winger Ben Sawyer buried his second of the campaign.

At that stage Rovers looked to have sealed the win and weren't troubled too much ... until the 89t minute.

Ryan Harley latched on to a flick on from former Rovers striker Jamie Cureton and drilled his shot past Andersen to cheers from the 799 travelling fans, groans from the home support and cries of "bugger, bugger, bugger" from the Press Box where is was having to totally re-write my report!

In early stages of this competition they don't bother with extra time and go straight to the penalty shoot out . Everyone of the players took great penalties - even poor Anthony. Krysiak then pulled off a superb save to stun the Gasheads and send the Grecian support wild.

Results have not gone Rovers' way during the last two months and now that they are out of all three cup competitions and have dropped into the League One relegation zone, the pressure is on boss Paul Trollope.

Trollope is still defiant though and believes in his side. At the post match press conference he said: "I've looked into the eyes of every player and see a hunger and a desire to play for Bristol Rovers."

Those qualities might well win the day and see Rovers move up the table, but you can't help feel that many more slaps in the face like last night and they'll go into total meltdown.

Trollope's a good man, and when you speak to him, it is obvious that he wants the nest for the club and still believes in the players. The question is: Do they still believe in him? They really need to give an answer on Saturday whe  they play Colchester at the Memorial Ground.