Exeter boss Gary Caldwell was proud to bounce back from a “really low moment” at Wanderers a year later.

The Grecians were thrashed 7-0 at the Toughsheet Community Stadium last November but left with all three points this time around thanks to goals from Kamari Doyle and Millenic Alli either side of half time.

“It feels really good,” Caldwell said after the final whistle. “To win any game at this level is difficult.

“But to come to this stadium after last year, where we were when we played here, it was a really low moment for the team and for the club.

“This group of players have quality but today I think what won us the game was our mentality.

“Bravery at times in possession, I still think we can do better second half and we will work on that.

“But the commit to run and fight for each other… I questioned the players last week and said we need more out of possession, we need to be a tougher team to play against. I thought every single player on the pitch was outstanding today.”

More than 22,000 supporters were in attendance as Wanderers held their first Community Day of the season.

“We spoke a lot about the stadium and how we control the crowd, I thought we did that,” Caldwell added.

“When you go in at half time and there are boos around the stadium, you are doing something right.

“We spoke about the start of the second half and how they would come out in a more positive frame of mind.

“We had to still play on the front foot and set pieces are something we have done a lot of work on over pre-season.”

Exeter had suffered back-to-back defeats ahead of their trip to Lancashire, and Caldwell was delighted with their response against the Whites.

“I think a lot of credit has to go to the players, tactically. The information they are receiving, how they carried that out was outstanding,” the manager insisted.

“We always want to dominate possession and create overloads. Bolton gave us a problem today, they have played 3-4-2-1 all season.

“I think they probably thought about the game last year, the two nines and wide eights hurting us, and tried to go with that again.

“But the players can work it out, we had a stoppage with Joe (Whitworth) when he went down and managed to tweak a few things that allowed us to be better in the game out of possession.”