April 2023 (Page 7)

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We’re trying, honestly, to be hopeful! Dave, Ben and Ian are here to talk about the aftermath of the 4-0 defeat at Gateshead, and somehow look forward to Aldershot today.

Thank you for your continued support of the Gloverscast. Remember to add Gloverscast.co.uk to your favourites and check the website daily for the latest news and views from Huish Park.

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Can anyone really believe it has been 20 years since that incredible side blitzed the Nationwide Conference?

I can’t.

As part of our celebrations, we’ve put together images of the Programme covers that we could find… but as you can see below, it’s not a complete set and that’s where we need your help.

If you have any Programmes out there, collecting dust or in an old collection, can you take a snap of the cover and sent it to ben@gloverscast.co.uk and we can update the gallery below.

For now though, sit back and enjoy the covers and take note of how youthful all the lads look!

Now I feel old!

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Yeovil Town’s final game of the 2022/23 season will now kick off at 5:30pm on Saturday 29th of April, the National League have confirmed.

Glovers fans heading to London for the game against Boreham Wood will have to wait a little longer for the season to come to a conclusion.

As ever we will have a fully updated Ciderspace Away Travel guide for you closer to the time.

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At 4.45am on Wednesday morning, a supporters’ club coach pulled in to Huish Park filled with 50-odd of the Yeovil Town supporters who were part of a travelling contingent of 141 at Tuesday night’s 4-0 defeat at Gateshead, a warped trick of the fixture machine that they had to do that midweek.

Here’s the morning after the night before thoughts of Dave, who made it back to his (northern) home at 1.30am, on what he saw from the other side of the athletics track….

That’s it then. We’re down. “We’ve been to Elland Road and Bramall Lane, Coventry away……now we’re off to Taunton, Taunton awaaaaaay…….Taunton awaaaay!” echoed (to the tune of Rotterdam by The Beautiful South) from away end at the International Athletics Stadium in the second half. A bit of humour in response to what we were seeing unfold in front of us. If I have seen a worse Yeovil Town performance than that (and I remember the last time we played in regional football) then I cannot recall it. That was a team* without commitment (sorry, Mark, you might not be able to question it but after that you must be blind), without quality or at least not showing it, and without any pride to play for the badge or themselves. It’s National League South next season, I just don’t see how it is anything but. Please just put us out of our misery now.
*- as ever, Josh Staunton and Grant Smith came out of it with some credit.

Even the defence has lost it. The blunt attack has been there all season, heck it was there last season as well. It doesn’t even count as a conclusion to say that we’re rubbish at scoring goals – but the defence was the one thing we had to hang on to. Just watch the goals that Gateshead scored on Tuesday night and tell me if you have seen worse defending? Owen Bevan (who I still believe has a very bright future ahead of him) was targeted and turned inside out playing at right back (I mean, he’s not a right back) but Gateshead were literally taking the mick by the end of it. Playing little one-twos inside the box whilst we floundered around trying to stop them.

Can it get any worse if Cooper goes? Mark Cooper looked like a beaten man after that. I get he’s not a particularly smiley guy when the cameras roll, that he feels he’s been let down by the wrong recruitment and (even if he won’t say it himself) by many of his players. It’s hard to argue with ‘if we had a decent striker, we’d not be in this mess’ argument and that comes down to recruitment which he obviously feels it is not of his doing. But, can it get any worse if he was to be given his P45 today? We have been poor all season (just look at the results) but now we have a team and a management utterly demoralised. Chris Todd stayed after Chris Hargreaves left and looked to be the only one trying to direct proceedings on the touchline at Gateshead – why not put him in charge for the rest of the season? Honestly, can it get any worse?

If you claim you love this club – show it! Our absent owner Scott Priestnall told us he was a fan, Matt Uggla speaks with passion about how he’s fallen in love with the club – but whatever glacially slow process is holding up the transfer of power from one to the other is killing the thing they both claim to love. There’s blame everywhere for that – with those two, the owners prior to them, South Somerset District Council, players, managers, directors, you name it. But the time for pointing fingers and saying “it’s their fault” has passed. Supporters will (barring a miracle) be watching regional football next season, there’s staff at Huish Park (on and off the pitch) who will be wondering where their futures lie next season and a very public civil war breaking out all over the place. It’s time for people to grow up, put their differences aside and show their allegiance to the only thing we all care about – Yeovil Town Football Club.

Spare a thought for JG-W. In a few weeks time we will mark the 20th anniversary of the club’s promotion to the Football League. It took 108 years to get there and now things have never felt bleaker. I thought back the other day to Jon Goddard-Watts, the founder of Screwfix Direct whose generosity created all of that. He invested to take us from part-time to full-time football, he invested to get us in to the Football League – he had no desire for minor celebrity status in fact I am not even sure how in to football he was. He wanted to do a good thing for the community which had served his business and when he resigned from the board in 2005, he wrote off a £1m loan to the club. I imagine he’d roll in his grave to see what those who followed him have allowed to happen.

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The Gloverscast is celebrating a couple of key anniversaries over the coming weeks and to help kick start the festivities, we have launched a competition in asscotiation with HomelessGhostPrints

In order for your chance to win an A3 Sized Yeovil Town Print – as seen below.

Head to Twitter, Retweet and Like the Gloverscast post pinned to the top of the feed advertising this competition and then make sure you’re following both @Gloverscast and @PrintsGhost

The competition will run until Wednesday 12th of April at 5pm when a winner will be chosen at random and contacted by the Gloverscast.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled for some cool stuff celebrating 10 years since 2013… and 20 years since 2003!

 

 

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We at the Gloverscast have been trying to salvage the best and most important part of the Ciderspace archive and we are proud to share with you the first full match page from the 2002/03 run in.

On April 5th 2003, the Glovers beat Telford 3-0 with goals from Michael McIndoe (x2) and Kirk Jackson.

Click on the link below for the Full Ciderspace Match Report from Noddy Elms, including the original team news graphics.

You’ll find the original Man of the Match results, a full match gallery including some familiar faces in the crowd shots as well as a snap of the Match Day Programme cover.

Finally, we’ve embedded the excellent footage from the YouTube Channel Green and White goals of the Kirk Jackson goal.

CLICK HERE

 

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On this month’s episode of the Gloverscast, Ben and Dave speak to a goalscoring hero, Kirk Jackson. What we’d do for him eh?

Thank you for your continued support of the Gloverscast. Remember to add Gloverscast.co.uk to your favourites and check the website daily for the latest news and views from Huish Park.

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Leave us a review and share the pod with a pal.

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Mark Cooper said he should have left Yeovil following the victory against Eastleigh and that the club didn’t get recruitment right before the transfer window shut, laying bare the division at Huish Park.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins after the Glover’s 4-0 defeat at Gateshead, Cooper said: “I’ve been promoted out of this league as a manager, I think I know what a good National League player looks like. Obviously some people didn’t think that I knew that. We haven’t done the right thing and we haven’t reacted the right way to what we needed to do before the transfer window shut, in my opinion. The proof will be in the pudding and we’ll all get judged on that.”

You don’t need a PHD to read between the lines, with Cooper clearly taking aim at the club’s potential new owners. He added that the recruitment has affected the changing room: “I think it’s clear over the last few weeks it’s affected the changing room. In any business, if you don’t get your recruitment right you’re in for disaster. You’re always playing catch up and hopefully it’s a lesson for everybody, that in future, wherever we are that the recruitment needs to be solid.”

There was chants of “We want Cooper out” during the game, and Cooper understood the reasoning.

“It’s part of the job, you have to accept that. If you don’t win games, it’s coming. I think the reasonable, proper fans understand and know what’s going on. I wanted to come and build this club like I did at Forest Green for five years and make it into proper football league club. But you need support and you need backing for that,” he said.

When asked why he hasn’t walked away, Cooper said he wasn’t willing to walk out on the players, but that he “probably should have done after the Eastleigh game”.

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Venue: Gateshead International Stadium
Tuesday, 4th April, 7:45pm kick-off

Attendance: 959 (141 away)

Pitch: A bit bare in places, but not bad for athletics pitch.
Conditions: Dry and not that cold.

Scorers: Dinanga 19, 27, Pani 55, Bailey 88

Bookings: None

Referee: Aaron Jackson

Yeovil Town (4-3-3)


Substitutes: Malachi Linton (for Jack Clarke, 63), Ryan Law, Chiori Johnson, Jordan Maguire-Drew (for Charlie Cooper, 56), Zanda Siziba (for Max Hunt 58).

Gateshead: Marshall, Tinkler, Storey, Pye, Pani, Wearne (for Ward, 71), Francis, Whelan, Olley,(for Conteh, 64) Campbell, Dinangna Substitutes:  Montgomery, Bailey, Martin

Match Report

In what was absolutely a must-win game against relegation rivals, Yeovil Town were hammered 4-0 by Gateshead this evening. The Glovers are 5 points adrift ahead of a trip to 20th-placed Aldershot on Good Friday.

Here’s how it unfolded in front of Coatesie.

First half

After a quiet opening six minutes, a good move down the right side by Scott Pollock caused a moment of panic but it came to nothing more than a corner.

Two minutes later it was a misjudged header from Pollock which almost let the home side carving out a chance. As ever it was Grant Smith who got the block in to nullify the danger.

Jordan Young lifted an effort just over the bar after good play down the right from Bevan, before the best chance of the game of the game came fell to the home side. A mistake by Bevan saw Marcus Dinanga lifted the ball over onrushing Smith and and Campbell headed it goalwards, only for Max Hunt to head off the line.

If that was a warning, it only took until 19th minute for the warning to become a mortal blow. DINANGA broke the offside trap and lashed it in from the angle off the underside of the bar and past Smith. Sloppy defending again punished by a striker willing have a shot. Not rocket science. 1-0

Eight minutes later and it was 2-0 and effectively game over – obviously not, but as a contest. A superb ball by Greg Olley was met by the header of DINANGA. 2-0.

On 30 minutes it could so easily have been three. You guessed it, another mistake saw a ball to the back post fall to Campbell whose effort was blocked by Smith.

The mood in the away end turned. What had been relatively supportive and noisy, fell angry and muted. Such little movement and attacking intent was on display.

Even when we did get forward, the mistakes were everywhere. A rate forward press saw the ball break to Bevan but his effort ran out of play – on the other side of the pitch. Then an error in the Gateshead back line was seized on by Charlie Cooper, but his pass to Young was overhit.

“Que sera, sera, whatever will be will be, we’re going to Bath City,” sang the away support. It only got more toxic when the half-time whistle blew.

Half time: Gateshead 2 Yeovil Town 0

Second Half

The players were sent out early for the second half and whatever was said at least seemed to create some spark. Well, a deflected shot from Cooper which went wide for a corner.

On 52 minutes, an aimless ball forward to Andrew Oluwabori broke down and the home side attacked down right and drilled a low cross in which was crying out for a Campbell to turn it in at the back post. Inexplicably he put it wide.

But third goal was not far away and it came in some style. Connor PANI simply looked up from 25 yards out and hit a thunderous effort past Smith.

That was enough for the away end to turn on the manager. Very audible chants of “We want Cooper Out” were heard. The manager was unmoved with Chris Todd directing affairs on the the touchline.

Whoever was making the changes, they made three of them. Maguire-Drew replaced the injured Cooper, Zanda Siziba was on for Hunt and Malachi Linton was on for Jack Clarke.

The difference was….minimal, I’m being generous. Pollock dragged an effort wide after 65 minutes and on 76 minutes Siziba jinked in to the box and hit one over the bar.

Probably the biggest insult was that Gateshead, a relegation rival (albeit in decent form), genuinely took the mick out of us as the game dragged on. Dinanga had the ball in the net only to be denied his hat-trick by the offside flag, and then he played one twos inside the box with Campbell.

The final (of many insults) came with 86 minutes gone. BAILEY, on as a substitute a minute earlier, poked home a fourth goal.

If I have seen a worse performance from a Yeovil Town side than this, I can’t recall it. Devoid of everything. Effort. Talent. Confidence. A bleak night.

Full time: Gateshead 4 Yeovil Town 0

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Yeovil Town have made three changes to the side that lost against Southend on Saturday.

Matt Worthington, Jamie Reckord and Max Hunt are in the starting line up with Jordan Maguire-Drew and Ryan Law dropping to bench and Miguel Freckleton suspended.

Malachi Linton, Zanda Siziba and Chiori Johnson make up the bench, with no room for Reo Griffiths again.