I only heard about this today and everybody in our office thought the controller did a wonderful job. In moments of frustration we sometimes criticise the controllers at the airport (usually while waiting to drive Northside!!) but they do an excellent job mixing the multitude of light training a/c and heavy scheduled jets.
No wonder more and more military craft are using Exeter for training purposes, in fact i have heard that the SRA procedure at Exeter is better than some PAR at some local military airfields that shall remain nameless!