April 2023 (Page 5)

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Yeovil Town striker Malachi Linton has said revealed his team-mates have been told to “walk out the door” if they aren’t up for the fight for National League survival.

The 22-year-old, who is the club’s joint top scorer albeit with just five goals this season, said he believes that everyone in the Glovers’ dressing room is up for the fight.

But, speaking ahead of Saturday’s trip to Solihull Moors, he admitted the players have “let down” the club’s supporters with their performances in recent weeks.

He told BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins: “It’s been pretty blunt – if you’re not up for the fight, you may as well walk out the door. We are all here, everyone still has to believe, it’s not done until it’s done and we have to keep fight, claw, do anything we can to get those wins.

“It’s about having belief in each other and the thing we have lacked is cutting edge in the final third, myself included. If we had a bit more belief with shots and attacking crosses, we could have done a bit more and hopefully can do more in these next few games.

“We are all in this together, we know what it means, so I am confident we are all up for the fight. Winning cures all so a win will push in the right direction and we can start looking upwards.”

He also spoke of his frustration about the off-the-field noise’ that there has been at Huish Park – if you’ve been under a rock for the past few weeks, read the latest instalment – here.

He said: “There’s been a lot of noise throughout the year which is quite frustrating, but I am a player and I just have to focus on what I can do on the pitch and the team has stuck together and tried to be united. Whatever else goes on, goes on.”

But, he was full of admiration for club captain (and his house-mate) Josh Staunton who has won praise for a series of stirring post-match interviews after recent losses.

Mal added: “Without Josh Staunton we would be in a much worse position. I live with Josh and he’s just a great bloke who I know will look after me.

“He goes out and does interviews on the toughest of days when nobody wants to talk, he has done that all season.“

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Yeovil Town manager Mark Cooper has said he wanted to retain his integrity as he was quizzed about comments from prospective owner Matt Uggla.

Following the 1-0 defeat to Dorking Wanderers on Easter Monday, he made a series of comments on his Twitter account claiming he had backed the manager in the transfer market after Cooper claimed a decision not to sign striker Frank Nouble had damaged any hopes of surviving in the National League.

The posts have now been deleted, but Cooper said on Thursday that he was contacted by a number of players who had read the posts.

Speaking about the incident ahead of Saturday’s trip to Solihull Moors, the manager said: “For me it is about trying to be as professional as I can be in really difficult circumstances and trying to be there for the players and prepare them as best as I can for the last few games.

“There was a period not so long ago when we played really well against Eastleigh when everything was rosy and since then it has been downhill for one reason or another.

“I want to try and retain my integrity and be professional and, if I’m not, then I lose the respect of the players and I think it is important that I am there for them and they know I have got their back.

“We can’t change what has happened, it is done. It’s been a challenging few weeks for everybody, and we have to go in to these next four games and give it all we’ve got.”

On Nouble, who has since joined relegation rivals Torquay United, he reiterated that he wanted the former Colchester United striker to come to Huish Park, adding: “Frank was on his way here but somewhere along the line it didn’t happen, I would have loved Frank here, but we can’t change that, that’s gone.”

Cooper now takes his side to Solihull Moors on Saturday sat third from bottom of the table, six points adrift of safety, knowing that relegation to National League South is now just a matter of time.

And, just in case the task was not any harder, they then travel to top-of-the-table Wrexham on Tuesday night when the big-spending Welshmen could clinch promotion back to the Football League.

Asked about the task, the manager added: “If we won on Saturday, the picture could change and, of course, we have an unbelievably difficult game on the Tuesday where Wrexham can probably win the title and be promoted, so we will be there to see the champions led in – but this is football, you never know. We have to be professional right to the very end.

“I gave the players a couple of days off to try and clear their heads, they’re not going to get any fitter, it’s about clear heads and getting focused now. There’s been a lot of emotion, chaos behind the scenes, but we have to rise above it all.

“Our performances have not been bad, from our goal to the edge of their box, we have been fine, we just have to be a bit more of a threat inside the penalty box.”

Speaking about an interview given by on loan striker Reo Griffiths – which you can read here – Cooper responded to claims that the Doncaster Rovers player was ready to score goals.

He said: “Talk’s cheap, it’s actions I need to see and that is not just on the pitch, that is during the week as well. If there is somebody in that squad that I see is going to score goals to give the team a lift, I am not going to cut my nose off to spite my face.”

Cooper also spoke about the performance on Easter Monday of referee Elliott Swallow who he described as “horrendous” after sending off defender Chiori Johnson.
The boss also pointed to a penalty appeal from striker Malachi Linton, saying: “It’s a clear red card when you see it back, I can’t see how you can’t get that right.”

He also revealed that he sent a video nasty of the 1-1 draw at FC Halifax Town last month in to the Professional Game Match Officials League (PGMOL).

The boss said: “There were some incredible decisions – there were two penalty shouts in there and a horrendous tackle on Edwin Agbaje that broke his leg, and the feedback I got was that the referee was correct in all their decisions.

“Until that changes, there is no point me doing a report for a referee or ringing up an assessor because they are just going to back the referee. So until that changes, we are wasting our time.”

Sadly, Mark, the Gloverscast’s Rule #1 agrees with everything you say. For reference, Rule #1: All National League referees are useless, there’s no point wasting your breath on them.

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For many people, the 2003 season represents so much, for plenty it’s the reason they are a Glovers fan today, for some it was the first football that wasn’t on the TV and for others, it was in their blood, in their family… forever destined to be part of their lives.

Abby Carter might fit into more than one of those categories, but as we saw first hand with her organisation of the Legends Game along side Kevin Gall, you cannot question what the 2003 squad means to her.

In this blog she tells us exactly why.

As we tumble through turmoil, heart break has been more common than cheer, 20 years ago feels like 200.

Some might say the joy we’ve felt makes the pain so much harder, but at least we have the memories!

Looking back fondly on days the club loved us as much as we loved them and Jon Goddard-Watts knew the power of investing for the local community has never felt so lost.
I wasn’t totally sure how to put those days into words, how do you describe the pride in the badge? The happy tears? The mutual united? The excitement of back-to-back open tour buses to Westlands Sports Club!? How do you explain that we achieved by unity to someone that wasn’t there?

A lot of the things that drove that success in those days, are gone, and whilst we could so easily get bogged down in the ‘where did it all go wrong’ question, there are a million potential excuses/reasons/musings.

Those were the days when every player had a song, everyone knew those songs, you loved your favourite players like you loved the club (never fall in love with Footballers).

We started that season at Dorchester town, the pitch was being re-laid and Gary took the team on a pre-season tour to Latvia.

In truth, I’m not sure 15-year-old Abby, from the parts of Dorset where you struggle to not replace the u in smurf with an e, even knew where Latvia was, but it certainly sounded a lot more exhilarating than Dorchester! Over the last 12 months Gary, Thommo and John Fry had signed a team of players that really had a point to prove, the ones that came close once, ex Premier League YTS’s or those struggling to get off the bench in Division 3, it was evident, we had a goal!

In the first month of the season Stanno broke his leg, so we needed a striker. By Christmas Kirk Jackson, whom we beat in the Trophy Final, was a Glover and he slotted into our united collection of local lads, Cockney accents, Northerners, 206cc drivers & ex bullsh*tters like he had lifted the trophy with us.

As we rolled into October we were back at the idyllic Huish Park, had spent a fair amount of the season top of the league, Tonks had left under a cloud of agent lambasting, Coatsie had built a Howard Forinton shrine, GJ had picked up a manager of the month, we walked in a Gavin Williams wonderland, the majority of us had yet to meet a real life internet hoodie and Badger, Hugh and co steered a strong relationship between club and fans through the iconic Ciderspace.

Christmas steamed by and we had lost 3 games as we entered the new year.

Carl Alford had gone, much to my personal heartbreak (never fall in love with Footballers).

We were playing silky, sexy, skilful, fast, mature football. Training and playing to standard beyond ‘little old Yeovil’.

There was a sense of friendly competition for a place in the squad. We owned the diamond formation with the ferocity of Colin Miles talking to Trevor Kettle. Macca and Gav could read each other’s minds, Colin, Roy and Locky commanded the back line, Skivo was the ultimate captain, Wealey was the safest hands, Steve Collis was steadfast, El-Kholti had hit colt like status, Thommo & Gilesy were super subs, Weasel and Johno were a pain in every teams ass, Lindy and Critts were constantly bringing pace, Jacko was banging the goals in and we played every game like Giant Killers.

The fundamental thing, those lads loved each other, and they loved the badge, they lived next door to each other, their partners were best friends, all inseparable, every home game Friday night the famous trips to Tambourinhos, they integrated into the town and it showed.

In February Gally arrived, and not because we didn’t already have enough terrible haircuts, he bought more pace and more skill.

By March we were 12 points clear and our fate was all but sealed. Telford Home took us within a point of Champions and when the day came it was at Donny away.

For the last 5 or 6 years we had our own mini bus group, Brian would drive us, coming up from Newton Abbott with his Grandsons and nephews, and meet mum, nan and I, Pat and her marvellous and much missed husband Tony, couple of my school friends Kim and Pete, with some members of their families including Adrian, the late and great Bern and Bid, their son Rick, our friend Pauline and to be honest anyone else that fancied jumping in.

We were a strange, dysfunctional football family, everyone was welcome and there weren’t many away games we didn’t travel to, meeting up at home games to between running the shop and the various other voluntary roles mum, nan and I did over the years.

We had won the game on April 11th before our 5:35pm kick off.

The celebration was deafening, and the players quickly cottoned on, we celebrated that day together.

They ran over as we filled Belle Vue before the team had changed for warm up. We were Champions, 108 years of non-league football was over.

I can still hear the drum bang and the chorus of “HEYYYYY GARY JOHNSOOONN”. We won that game 4-0 but the result was immaterial. We stopped at the services on the way home, dizzy on the day, throats horse, as the players’ coach pulled in, we again celebrated together, we took over those services as a travelling army, we won that season together, and the next 2 weeks the celebration didn’t end.

By the last day, Chester at home, records had been broken, unbeaten at home, 17 points clear, +64 goal difference, the team had scored over 100 goals, multiple players achieved teams of the year and Jacko had just missed out on Golden Boot.

Medals were collected, the trophy handed over, celebrations didn’t stop. We had done it, together and everyone really felt part of the journey.

A lot of the names I mention are sadly no longer with us, and all so missed.

In the summer Gally and pulled together a game in Stannos memory, whilst recognising the contribution of so many loved ones.

We raised over £17,000 for the Adam Stansfield Foundation but more importantly we tried to bring those days back, and for the first time in a long time the excitement and love filled Huish Park again, these days I find it harder and harder to visit HP and see how far we’ve fallen.

The truth is, it will never be the same, it wasn’t even close when we won at Wembley 10 years ago and to try and explain those days to people that weren’t there, all I can tell you is we had a 20 lion heart Staunton’s, loyal, determined, honest, passionate and they all went on to have exceptional careers.

I make up the 5th generation of Yeovil fans in my family, that win was a family win, this history is my history, YTFC is part of my identity and who I am.

My story is like so many others, Huish Park is the home of the majority of my childhood memories, leaving games at half time to go to birthday parties, my Hamsters & Guinea Pigs were named after players (Lee Harvey, Paul Wilson and Al-James Hannigan, if you wondered), Martock Watermans is still my favourite kit, selling programmes with ribbons in my hair, sitting with my great grandfather and listening to stories of the sloping pitch and the Sunderland win, my first job was at the club, Fred Lewis was like another grandfather to me.

Even as the crowds grew players and fans alike stayed friends, and as we climbed and started playing the big boys, with no more FA Trophy, a different entry stage to the FA Cup, working to meet new ground rules, excited to visit new grounds, we had a collection of players that will forever be cemented in our history and enjoyed the wonderful glorious magic of league football.

If 2003 means something to you, you’re than welcome to share your thoughts and images by emailing ben@gloverscast.co.uk or by sharing your thoughts on Social media – @Gloverscast.

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The Football Association’s disciplinary portal has updated to show Chiori Johnson’s one match suspension following his red card against Dorking Wanderers.

Johnson was given the second of two yellow cards just before the half-time interval with the game at 0-0.

After the game, Dorking’s Manager/Owner Marc White said that his side were “fortunate” to be playing against 10 men thinking that the second of the two yellows was a potentially harsh decision, a sentiment echoed by Mark Cooper.

Johnson will miss this weekend’s game against Solihull Moors, but will be available for the Wrexham away fixture the following Tuesday.

The portal also confirms Mark Cooper received his fourth yellow card of his tenure during the game.

 

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In the next installment of the Gloverscast’s trip down memory lane, we are able to bring you the full Ciderspace coverage of Yeovil Town’s incredible 4-0 demolition of Doncaster Rovers on the way to a most incredible Nationwide Conference Title.

By clicking on the link below, you’ll find a full match report from Jeremy Gear, the Man of the Match voting, a full gallery of post match celebrations, as well as not one, not two but THREE videos from Chris over at Green and White Goals on YouTube.

How does the song go..? “… we won the blummin’ Conference, in 2003″ we did, exactly 20 years ago today.

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If social media is any barometer there’s been a clear feeling within the fanbase that the club’s recruitment this season has been truly abysmal. And I agree. We all agree. Even the people doing the recruiting agree.

I wanted to understand how you can possibly get it so wrong, ask who is responsible and ultimately look at what the bones of the squad will look like next season.

Now if you include all the players who’ve been named in the matchday squad at least once – then the club has had forty-five (45) players on its books this season. Forty-fucking-five.

It’s a genuine shambles but I’ve tried to make sense of it. Here goes…

Yeovil Town Football Club signed thirty-six (36) players since the start of 2022/23. I’ve unpacked this into segments. It isn’t a perfect exercise but it’s enough to make conclusions thinking about these questions:

  1. Who Signed Them?
  2. How Many Have Been Successful?
  3. Where Are They Now?
  4. Will They Be Here Next Season?

Who Signed Them?

Believe it or not, eighteen (18) of the players were signed under Chris Hargreaves and eighteen (18) were signed under Mark Cooper. A perfect 50/50 split. Or is it?

It’s obviously more nuanced than that given the club has had a change of ownership or ‘stewardship’ since the beginning of March and a new recruitment process/mess has been in flight.

Therefore, the pie chart looks more like this with new owner Matt Uggla taking responsibility, as stated on social media, for six signings since SU Glovers’ arrival in town.

How Many Have Been Successful?

Very few is the short answer.

The chart below demonstrates that just four (out of 36), in my opinion of course, have been successful and remain playing for the club today.

Some that I’ve deemed successful aren’t at the club anymore. The likes of Alfie Pond, Sam Pearson and Jamie Andrews are all examples of good talent identification and go down as good signings despite the short impact they had. It’s just a shame we couldn’t keep hold of them.

These players are now playing at a higher level – you could argue if we were fortunate enough to hold on to them for the full campaign, we’d be the handful of points better off to be out of the relegation zone.

Overall though the recruitment has been bordering on incompetent. The process resembles a blubbering drunken lady walking out of Neo nightclub looking for a 2:00am barrel-scraping shag and turning up with Matt Grivosti. Just one single match scouting this player would’ve told you he’s not good enough for National League football. Certainly not right now anyway.

I’d suggest that just four signings can be deemed successful and for a couple of these you could accuse me of being kind. Owen Bevan, Charlie Cooper, Scott Pollock and Jordan Stevens are the names I have in the successful bucket. Bevan has bled green and white while Cooper is clearly good enough for this level – if you can ignore his persistent whinging at the referee which annoys me so greatly. Stevens and Pollock are similar types of players and are certainly ones for the future given their age.

So how then can you get it so wrong that just 11% of this season’s signings can be considered successful? That’s a hit-rate of just over 1 in 10!

I genuinely hand on heart believe that I, a person who works at football statistics website WhoScored.com, could’ve overseen recruitment at Yeovil Town and had a better strike rate than 1 in 10. I could’ve used Sports Interactive’s Football Manager game as my only scouting tool and had a healthier hit-rate.

Where Are They Now?

The revolving door at Huish Park is knackered but still we had new players joining into late March. I’m aware that’s not unusual – but needing to make six signings in March is surely not a sign of a settled squad.

Most won’t be here next season, of course, due to the nature of their deals while some were just not good enough for the level required.

Of the thirty-six signings made, fifteen played first team games and found themselves leaving via the A303 just weeks later. Gime Toure, Jake Scrimshaw and Louis Britton are examples of players were awarded permanent contracts and left by mutual consent after not making the grade.

We made two permanent signings that are currently out on loan. Ben Richards-Everton and Ollie Hulbert. You can file these under ‘didn’t work out’ I suppose.

Will They Be Here Next Season?

This is up for debate and in some cases will depend on relegation clauses and other information I don’t have access to.

The likes of Jordan Maguire-Drew, Zanda Siziba, Will Dawes, Alex Fisher, Malachi Linton, Charlie Cooper, Scott Pollock, Jordan Stevens and Jordan Young have been signed on contracts that should see them here next season. Whether they want to or not is another matter.

There are others such as Jamie Reckord who have an option for another year should the club and player wish to renew. Chiori Johnson has a contract up for renewal and could be given a new deal if the new management believe he’s at the required level. After Saturday’s needless and naïve second yellow card, I’d think twice about renewing.

On the ‘definitely won’t be here next season’ list are mostly loan players such as Miguel Freckleton and Will Buse and I’m going to confidently predict that Callum Harriott (too good for this level) and Ben Richards-Everton (fans haven’t warmed to him) won’t be playing for Yeovil Town come August despite being permanent members of the playing staff right now.

As it stands, we have twelve players on contract until at least 2024 and two with options to extend beyond the summer in Reckord and Hulbert. Any notions that we should ‘rip up the squad and start again’ are foolish. Clearly a reset is required but there are players at this club who should be here next season irrespective of what league we find ourselves in.

In among those twelve under contract are players who will be ready for football in the National League South and can develop as the club progresses. Players like Stevens, Pollock, Young, Linton. We need hang on to them – they are the young, exciting forward players we must get behind in 2023/24.

Conclusion

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that the recruitment has been embarrassing. It’s the main reason (though there are so many reasons) why we’re going down – we can all see it.

In true ‘An Inspector Calls’ fashion, absolutely everyone running the club is to blame. That’s everyone who dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s on the incoming transfers.

Chris Hargreaves’ summer signings of Jake Scrimshaw and Ben Richards-Everton didn’t give the team a solid start back in August and we’ve been playing catch up ever since. Mark Cooper’s early dealings bringing in Anthony Georgiou and Louis Britton were complete failures and left us short of quality. More recently our deadline day call to opt against bringing in Frank Nouble, a player who had all but been announced as a Yeovil Town player, showed a lack of joined up thinking between the management and new ownership.

All in all, our impending relegation has been compounded by the Uggla versus Cooper handbags that have been increasing in viciousness as each weekend passes with another L next to Yeovil Town’s form. The pair have continued to stoop to take swipes at each other, through the media usually, with a clear disagreement across the board including the abilities of our latest signings Reo Griffiths and Zanda Siziba.

It’s time for the people running the football club to put their egos away, put their big boy pants on and start showing some leadership without plastering their thoughts on social media. I believe we should part ways with Cooper sooner rather than later, he’s a bad egg whose obnoxiousness and goading behaviour is bleeding the fanbase of optimism in what should be an exciting time under new ownership. The only way is up from here.

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Yeovil Town on loan striker Reo Griffiths has said he is fit and ready to play if and when required by manager Mark Cooper.

In an interview with the Somerset County Gazette, the former Tottenham Hotspur man has said he is “desperate” to played a little over an hour in two substitute appearances since joining on loan from League One side Doncaster Rovers at the start of March.

The 22-year-old has not featured since appearing off the bench in the 1-0 defeat to Bromley three weeks ago despite the Glovers being the lowest scorers in the National League.

Griffiths said: “I’m desperate to play and help the team stay in the National League. I’m 100% fit and ready to score some goals for the team.

“I have been patiently waiting for my chance and I know the fans have been asking why I’m not playing but I honestly don’t know why.

“I was brought in to score goals and that’s what I would love to do for the club and fans.

“We have incredible fans and they travel up and down the country spending hard earned money to watch us.

“We have four cup finals left and there is enough quality in the building for us to score goals and finish on a high.

“I’m really fired up for the challenge ahead and whilst we still have a chance of staying up we have to fight for that.”

Griffiths has  missed out due to loanee rules on a number of occasions but has travelled to games with the squad including at Halifax where he did extensive post match running.

It was following that game, Mark Cooper had said the frontman had “missed training.”

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In keeping with the entire season (and probably the one before), rock bottom fell even lower for Yeovil Town with defeat at home to Dorking Wanderers putting another nail in the coffin of their National League status.

Marcus Duncomb was on co-commentary duties for BBC Radio Somerset at Huish Park on Easter Monday and here are his conclusions on what he saw….

Everything about that game summed what’s been wrong with us this season. We played some nice football, had more of the ball and were trying to do the right thing. But as soon as we got anywhere near the final third there was no-one in there making a lung-busting run or screaming for the ball. It’s as if we have no idea what to do when we get near the opposition goal. Then Chiori Johnson decided to get sent off by making a stupid and needless decision which ultimately doomed us. Self-capitulation seems to be a theme in Yeovil’s recent history. Finally Dorking rubbed salt into the wounds to win the game, showing us just what we were missing. A decent pot-shot from range was parried and first to react was Jason Prior who showed predatory striker’s instinct. Just what we’ve been missing. He was signed in February and has scored six in 11 to rocket Dorking towards safety…

We’re not achieving by unity and ultimately that has relegated us. Managers, players, owners and directors all come and go but they all occasionally manage to mention the club’s motto of ‘Achieve by Unity’. Never has it been so far from the truth. Alex Fisher hobbled out just before kick off to give a heartwarming message of thanks to the Huish Park faithful and he ended his speech with the club motto which roused the crowd. The match and the aftermath showed how little that phrase is being followed though. The problem isn’t wholly that we didn’t sign striker X who could have saved us (although it definitely could have helped). It’s that we’re in a farcical situation where our manager is telling fans through interviews that he plainly doesn’t agree with how the club has been run in the past few months. And then our not-yet-but-probably-soon-to-be owner bites back with a Twitter rampage (which later got deleted, but we’ve all got the screenshots), listing half the players in the National League and whose idea it was not to sign them or sign them. This petty civil war has completely derailed our season and once again Yeovil Town has been the master of its own downfall. We’re the laughing stock for rival fans and I don’t know how any player would want to be at this club in its current state. We may be a full-time club but we’re certainly not professional in any way.

If there was any hope, it is gone. I know we’ve been saying that every result since the Southend home defeat has doomed us, but this really does feel like the final nail in the coffin. I don’t know how I had any hope after the Gateshead mauling – but looking at the table it wasn’t impossible. Torquay, Gateshead and Dorking have shown that, no matter how down and out you look, you just need to pull together a string of three or four wins and it completely saves your season. That’s all it takes. Unfortunately for Yeovil fans, we have seen absolutely nothing to show that we can go on a run of victories. We’ve won one game in 16 and haven’t had back-to-back victories since Darren Sarll. The squad look completely dejected and disjointed and sadly it would be better for everyone’s sake for our inevitable fate to be sealed sooner rather than cruelly dragging it out like this.

This squad is a complete mish mash. It’s similar to the previous point but as I watched us limp to defeat against Dorking Wanderers, you could see a complete mix of players. You had three from the Darren Sarll era in Smith, Worthington and Staunton, who all happen to be our three top performers this season. There were four carrying on from Chris Hargreaves’ short and, let’s be honest, forgettable 17 games at the helm – Johnson, Reckord, Bevan and Linton. C. Cooper and Maguire-Drew were from Cooper’s early recruitment and then Pollock and Freckleton as the two from Uggla’s recruitment. Thanks to Matt’s handy Twitter thread, we know exactly which players were whose signings! There are four different people, all with completely different ideas, beliefs and styles who have assembled this squad. It’s no wonder it looks so disjointed on the pitch and that there’s an unsettled dressing room. When our club captain says it’s ridiculous that we’ve used so many players in a season, you know something has gone wrong. Yes, part of this is down to summer recruitment being off and ultimately failing, but the lack of alignment since then has not helped.

Alex Fisher is the nicest man in football. I had to try and find one positive, and believe me it wasn’t easy. But the Fish coming out beforehand really did lift the spirits of a nervy Huish Park before kick off. This was something entirely of his own accord and to be quite honest I’m really not sure he was in any fit state to be parading around the pitch. However, he did it because he cares and that’s been a lot of what’s been missing this season. Our number nine has come under a lot of stick this season, and much of it unnecessarily in my opinion. It’s not his fault that he’s been burdened with the pressure of scoring the goals to fire us to safety when he’s never really been that type of striker. He’s scored more goals this season than he had in his past three seasons combined. Whatever happens to us next season, Fisher is someone that you want around the club even if he’s injured until the new year. Thanks for caring, Alex.

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A bad day for the Glovers in green and white… what about those who play in a whole range of different colours?

In the National League, Ben Richards-Everton was an unused sub as Scunthorpe saw their relegation to the National League North confirmed.

Charlie Wakefield wasn’t in the Woking side who confirmed their place in the National League play-offs.

In the NLN, Leamington suffered a 3-0 defeat in something of a six-pointer against Kettering, Ollie Hulbert played the full 90.

Truro lost the battle of the Bolitho against Plymouth Parkway as the two ground sharers went head to head, Ollie Haste was an unused sub for Truro, still no Toby Stephens for Parkway either.

Hungerford drew 1-1 in their game with Havant and Waterlooville in the NLS, Max Evans was in goal for the home side.

Dorchester went down 6-1 against Poole Town, Jake Graziano wasn’t in the squad.

Gillingham Town drew 1-1 with Warminster, Sam Hodges played the full 90 minutes and was awarded MOTM (hat tip to Lee Hodges on twitter for the update), the Gills have been really pleased with Hodges overall, an update sent to the Gloverscast says, “Sam has started our last six matches in centre midfield. Playing will, industrious, hard working and retains possession well.”

Thanks to Gillingham Town for the update!

Tiverton were in action away to Weston Super-Mare, but no sign of Charlie Bateson on the team sheet.

So, yeah, lots of players not playing for their loan clubs… cracking.

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In a long thread post on his Twitter channel, prospective Yeovil Town owner Matt Uggla has responded to claims from manager Mark Cooper that he had not been backed in the transfer market.

The thread can be viewed on Twitter – click here – and if you are interested in it, that is probably the best place to read it in full because some tweets seem to have been deleted and the narrative is a little tricky to follow.

However, after we published comments made by the manager claiming he was not supported in the transfer market, it only seems fair to give right of reply to the owner-in-waiting. If you wanted to read what Cooper said about Nouble – see here.

On Nouble, he says: “The fact Frank Nouble didn’t sign is down to a number of reasons. One being Mark Cooper and his agent. We have back the man. Plus he sat in my house in Hampstead in January saying we don’t need to sign anyone else.”

Recognising that there’s people for and people against Cooper staying as manager and SU Glovers completing the takeover of the deal from chairman Scott Priestnall, we’re happy to report both sides of what is a very public civil war.

But……these antics (on both sides) could not be further away from the calls for unity we have heard from both sides in recent weeks and quite frankly they are only making a bad situation in to an absolute laughing stock.

Uggla signs off his thread: “This is my last tweet until the start of next season when positivity will be back.” Now that does sound like a good idea.