Your weekend has been saved* by Chesterfield, who will take Altrincham’s place at Huish Park on Saturday to face Yeovil Town.
Tickets purchased for Altrincham are valid for Saturday so no need to do anything, unless of course you were only going to watch Altrincham. In which case you can request a refund from ticketoffice@ytfc.net.
*result dependent.
Yeovil Town have confirmed the details for their Somerset Premier Cup tie with Bridgwater United.
The game will take place at Huish Park on Wednesday 22nd September, kicking off at 7:45pm
The Somerset Premier Cup is currently held by Weston Super-Mare following their victory in 2018/19 with neither of the subsequent tournaments taking place.
As for the Glovers, Somerset’s only full time football club haven’t won the County Cup since 2005… suggesting it isn’t that high on the priority list.
Should the game end level at 90 minutes, the game will go to extra time before, if needed, penalties.
Furthermore… the rules state Yeovil must play a ‘full strength side’.
Rule 3 (c ) says “Each Club shall play its full strength team in all matches, except for the reserve team strength of Football League Clubs, or be dealt with by the Management Committee and Clubs could be fined up to a maximum of £1000.00.”
Ticket details for the game will be released in due course.
Saturday’s match against Altrincham at Huish Park has been postponed due to covid cases in the Altrincham camp.
A statement on YTFC.net reads: “The club are in communication with another National League side to arrange a replacement fixture, with details confirmed in due course.”
By our reckoning, a trip to King’s Lynn or a match against Chesterfield could be on the cards.
We’d like to pass on our best wishes to the affected members of the Altrincham squad and wish them a speedy recovery.
According to reports, former Glovers are set to reunite at Sunderland. Mackem’s manager Lee Johnson reportedly close to appointing Phil Jevons as new first-team coach.
Jevons, is currently an academy coach at Everton and is rumoured to be joining his old teammate’s coaching staff, according to The S*n’s Alan Nixon.
Sunderland. Going to bring in coach Phil Jevons from Everton to work with first team. Been at under 18 level at Goodison … now stepping up.
— Alan Nixon (@reluctantnicko) September 12, 2021
Add this page to your favourites and watch the highlights of our 3-0 win at $tockport County on Saturday over and over and over again.
Charlie Wakefield’s goal gets better every time…
Well who saw that coming?
3-0 on the road at $tockport County.
Ian speaks to Ben and Dave, who were in attendance, about a 6/7 performance up North.
Enjoy!
The youth teams of the Yeovil Town Community Sports Trust picked up four wins in their opening round of Junior Premier League on Saturday.
The Trust’s Under-11s, Under-12s, Under-13s and Under-14s sides all won in their opening fixtures, but the Under-15s and Under-16s went down to defeats.
The Trust does not publish scorelines – that’s not what it’s about at that age – but did confirm their sides scored 28 goals across their six matches – a pretty good average.
Yeovil Town Under-18s suffered a 3-1 home defeat to Bridgwater United Academy in their second game of the new South West Counties League on Saturday.
Trailing 2-0, Jonny Lye scored a late goal to give the young Glovers a chance in the match at Alvington, but a late third from the visitors put the game beyond Yeovil.
Yeovil Town: William Armstrong, Callum Deemer, Max Dyer, Jake Graziano, Ollie Haste, Joshua John, Jonny Lye, Darren Mcalastair, Benjani Junior Mwaruwari, Callum Smalley, Fin Skiverton. Substitutes: Mason Alden, Korey Andrews, Samuel Hodges, Robert Holland, Joshua Sutton.
Venue: Edgeley Park
Saturday, September 11 2021, 3pm kick-off.
Conditions: Dry but dull
Ground: Fine
Scorers: Wakefield 26 (1-0), Quigley pen 53 (2-0), Yussuf 86 (3-0)
Attendance: 5,231 (207 away fans)
Referee: Scott Jackson
Bookings:
Yeovil: Knowles 8, Gorman 78, Smith 79
Stockport County: None
Sendings off:
Yeovil: None
Stockport County: Palmer, 52
Yeovil Town : (4-4-1-1)
Grant Smith
Dan Moss, Max Hunt, Luke Wilkinson, Jordan Barnett
Charlie Wakefield, Dale Gorman, Josh Staunton, Tom Knowles
Sonny Blu Lo-Everton
Joe Quigley
Subs: Alex Bradley (for Knowles, 76), Adi Yussuf (for Lo-Everton, 81), Toby Stephens (for Wakefield, 89) (for Wilkinson, 28), Max Evans (not used), Morgan Williams (not used).
Stockport County: Hinchcliffe, Hogan, Palmer, Barclay (for Fryers, 46), Southam-Hales, Rooney, Whitfield, Raikhy (for Walker, 32), Croasdale, Madden, Reid (for Dünnwald-Turan,66).
Substitutes (not used): Collar, Ross.
A complete performance saw Yeovil Town pull off the result of the as they cruised to a 3-0 win at one of the National League’s promotion favourites Stockport County.
Charlie Wakefield opened the scoring after 26 minutes before a second half penalty from Joe Quigley which led to the dismissal of defender Ash Palmer and a late third from substitute Adi Yussuf sealed the victory.
The performance was unquestionably the Glovers’ best of the season so far and one manager Darren Sarll described as “right up there” in the best during his time in charge.
It can be said that the expensively assembled Stockport side, boasting the likes of Paddy Madden, Ben Whitfield, John Rooney and last season’s top-scorer Alex Reid, did not look like a side worthy of their lofty credentials, credit must go to the visitors for nullifying their hosts.
Here’s how David Coates saw it from the away end…..
For the second weekend in a row, Darren Sarll was able to named an unchanged starting XI as he went with the same team that won 1-0 at home to FC Halifax Town seven days earlier.
We had been told to expect a Stockport side which dominated possession but did very little with it and that was how it proved to be with nothing that threatened the visitors’ back four of Moss, Hunt, Wilkinson and Barnett.
The game’s first meaningful opportunity fell to Wakefield who linked up with Sonny Blu Lo-Everton who was playing in the number 10 role behind Quigley for the third consecutive match. That set Wakefield away but his effort was turned around the post by Ben Hinchcliffe in the Stockport goal.
Following a performance which rather passed him by against Halifax, this was a very different Lo-Everton with the Watford loanee added a little more robustness to his undoubted quality on the ball.
Perhaps with opponents more akin to himself, he was not subjected to the rough and tumble he may experience against less cultured midfielder, but there was plenty to like about his performance.
That sparked a spell of pressure with Madden, who found himself playing almost permanently in midfield looking for the ball in the first half, having to scramble a corner wide before Josh Staunton‘s header called Hinchcliffe back in to action.
So when WAKEFIELD open the scoring on 26 minutes, there was no doubt it was a well-deserved advantage. Strong play for Quigley saw him find Lo-Everton whose lovely side-footed pass picked out Wakefield arriving on the right of the area to smash a superb angled drive in to the far corner.
Dale Gorman forced a flying stop out of Hinchliffe soon after before Stockport boss Simon Rusk made a tactical change to try with Tom Walker replacing Arjan Raikhy, who joined from Premier League Aston Villa where in the summer where he was a highly-rated member of the academy.
The move was testament to the tactics of Rusk’s opposite number whose tactics driven by the disciplined performances of Staunton and Gorman nullified their expensively-assembled opponents.
As he and his team-mates celebrated in front of the 200 travelling supporters, the boos rang out around Edgeley Park.
Striker Adi Yussuf is starting to find his fitness having arrived late in to the Yeovil Town squad, according to manager Darren Sarll.
The 29-year-old arrived at Huish Park less than a month ago and has appeared as a substitute in the Glovers’ opening three mtches.
He opened his goal-scoring account with the third in a 3-0 win at Stockport County on Saturday having replaced Sonny Blu Lo-Everton with nine minutes remaining.
Speaking after the game, the manager said: “The third goal was all about Adi’s pace and power. We have to remember a lot of these younger players have had (much longer) to prepare and it does take players coming in later time to get up to speed.
“I have felt in the last couple of games that Adi has been a huge presence at a time when we have needed pace, power and directness which is obviously a nice contrast to Sonny (Blu Lo-Everton).”
The former Solihull Moors and Wrexham man missed two good chances having come on as a second half substitute in the 1-0 home win over FC Halifax Town seven days earlier.
