September 2023 (Page 3)

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The Football Association’s Discipline portal updated in the early hours of Sunday morning to confirm the one-match bans for both Jake Hyde and Matt Worthington. (clearly the official likes to get his paperwork done, promptly)

Both are listed as needing to serve a one match suspension on Saturday 30th of September – the date of the FA Cup tie against Didcot Town.

We’ve included a screen shot, below, but this does slightly go against what was suggested post-match with Mark Cooper telling the BBC that the ban would be “Competition Specific”.

This suggests otherwise.

It’s also worth noting that Cooper has said he intends to appeal the straight red card given to Worthington for Handball on the line. That will obviously happen over the coming few days.

Other points of note – Rhys Murphy is now on four yellow cards – one away from a one match ban, whilst Jordan Thomas of Hampton & Richmond has been given a two-match ban for his red card after the final whistle on Saturday afternoon.

We’ll keep you updated on the success (or failure) of the appeal on Matt Worthington’s red card.

FA Portal Screenshot – Correct as of 01:00am on Sunday 24th September

As a reminder, Red Cards are treated slightly differently at this level, here’s a handy explainer.

 

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Yeovil Town Manager Mark Cooper spoke to the BBC reporter Ian Randall at the end of the 2-1 win over Hampton and Richmond, you can hear the whole interview at the bottom of the article.

In a rollercoaster game, Mark Cooper spoke of how proud he was of the away win, how frustrated he was with the officiating (Gloverscast Rule 1 has been well and truly thrown out the window this week!) and how he wanted his side to have put the game to bed earlier.

“Some things in football are uncontrollable and they’re variable, and that’s nothing to do with my players, my staff, our supporters.

That’s an external source that we can’t affect that tried to affect our performance today because it was a totally dominant performance and I’m convinced we’d have gone to win it by a really good score.” Cooper said of the man in the middle today.”

Speaking about the two yellow cards for Jake Hyde, Cooper explains that the front man was harshly done by, with the second yellow in particular.

“So there’s an incident, he gets booked for kicking the ball away and I’ve just seen it, he is probably two and a half, three yards on side right in front of the linesman.

He gets given off side, kicks the ball away – wrong – and then he miss miss controls one makes a bit of a block and the referee sends him off for that. If that had been another 10 minutes, I reckon he could possibly have booked 22 players if he’d have carried on”

The words got a bit stronger to describe the red card given to his captain on the day, Matt Worthington.

“Laughable. Matt Worthington is defending the goal deflection off their players’ knee, it kicks up and hits Worthy.

He’s got his hand right by his side it hits him on the arm, can’t do anything about it. It’s not a penalty, and it’s a joke of a red card.

So there’ll be some explaining to do this week, I think for for the officials and the assessors and luckily, luckily, it didn’t affect the result, but it should have been so, so much more comfortable.”

Asked if he’ll appeal the red card, Cooper simply stated… 

“Yeah, 100%. There’s no chance you can get suspended for that. It’s just a joke.”

Just going to pop this unrelated picture in here.

Right, onto the performance and Cooper was very happy at the solid nature of his side, whilst also wishing the game was done and dusted in slighty more convincing fashion – on the score line at least.

“(We were) Very good. I think you could see that we’ve done an awful lot of work as a defensive unit this week to try and make us more miserly as a group and we look really solid as a team, I couldn’t really see them scoring, It was going to be a long ball that we didn’t cover around on.

My only little gripe is that we didn’t score four or five, we had two great chances in the second half.

Youngy, he’s come inside he usually buries them, but it’s just about the three points, massive three points and it’s two points a game again, and that’s where we need to be.”

“…it’s just about the three points, massive three points…”

Jordan Stevens scored the opener with a long range rocket, something Cooper was expecting to come sooner or later.

“If you look back at his goals, there’s three or four in there that are like that, he’s got that in him, but he’s also got in him where he can smash them over all over the place, so today was the one that he nailed, really, really sweet.

It was a cracking goal, but you see his pace, him and him and Young cause problems because they’re so quick and sharp.”

…and as for Rhys Murphy’s fourth goal in two games… 

“It was a good play, we had some play ball down the side and Murph sat about, sat about three defenders down and rolled it in a corner like he does.”

The gaffer wasn’t done with the ref though, Eugene Robinson is firmly off the Christmas Card list…

“But my thing is imagine how we would be feeling now or how we would be approaching this if we hadn’t won that game, but nothing to do with us, nothing to do with our performance or mistakes to do with an outside or an external source, it has to be better than that, Marks Ives at the National League, they need to look at this and things like this can’t continue to happen.

Otherwise, you’re going to have hundreds of players suspended before the end of September”

“Alex Whittle, felt his groin a little bit, so (his substitution was) just precautionary, but the team today were I thought they looked really professional, really robust, aggressive and played some great football.”

You Can Listen To The Full Interview from BBC Somerset’s Ian Randall Here

You can watch Mark Cooper’s conversation with the club’s official YouTube below, covering many of the same topics.

 

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Super Joe Day in goal, was up for Media duties following the Glovers’ 2-1 win over Hampton and Richmond, he was happy to get the win, even if his clean sheet was taken away from him late on in the game.

“First and foremost, it’s a good win on the road, any win in this league is going to be tough and I just thought that – second half especially – we held in there and saw the game off.

Today, I thought for most parts of the game we were pretty solid… we’ve been unbeaten since I’ve come in which is nice, so hopefully we can keep that going.”

The visitors went 2-0 up in fairly comfortable circumstances, but the hosts did force their way back into the game in the second half, Day thinks that whilst things are going well, there’s still more to come.

“It’s a balance, the Manager plays a good brand of football, he wants to be dominant with the ball, but if we have too many transitions it can leave us vulnerable at the back, it’s getting a balance and getting an understanding between every department on the pitch and I feel like first half especially today we had that nailed on, maybe we could have been better second half with the ball, but I think we’re getting there, we’ll only keep improving”

“I think we’re getting there, we’ll only keep improving.”

The Glovers saw the game out despite losing both Jake Hyde and Matt Worthington to red cards, in the latter stages, it was important at that point just to get the game done and take the three points home

“I’ll be happier when we start keeping some clean sheets, but I’ll take a win over a clean sheet any day, that’s the main thing. We expected a bit of an onslaught in the second half, with us being dominant in the first half, but I’m proud of the boys today, we defended well in difficult circumstances, saw the game out and got the win.”

You Can Watch The Full Chat on the YTFC Youtube Channel and below.

 

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Yeovil Town match winner Rhys Murphy has been speaking to BBC Somerset’s Ian Randall after the Glovers’ 2-1 win over Hampton & Richmond. You can hear the entire interview at the bottom of the article.

Murphy, who’s first half goal proved to be the winning one, said that the team worked well as a whole to produce a near perfect away performance.

“It’s always a good time to score before half time, but I don’t think there’s ever a bad time to score, Jordan (Stevens) took his goal unbelievably well – what a great tackle that was -So, yeah, two nil at half time and I felt like we probably started a little bit slow, but we expected a reaction from them.

But I think we were just starting to hurt them on the counter attacks and I thought that if we had got that third goal it would have been game done.”

The second half saw Jake Hyde (two yellows) and Matt Worthington (straight red) receive their marching orders from the referee, Murphy just want to focus on how the team dealt with the changes and saw the game out.

“I thought the team did ever so well to deal with what they had and see the game through.”

“But obviously then sendings off have changed the course of the game slightly, but I thought the team did ever so well to deal with what they had and see the game through.

At the end of the day, I thought the team worked really well today, there was another chance they created for me just before that and I didn’t quite get the ball set back to Frank who was in a great position, so that was one that I frustrated with myself.

This team creates, whether it’s for me or for someone else, this team creates lots of chances every game, so it’s a good team to play in.”

The result moves the Glovers up to second in the table – for a short while going top of the league during the game, Murphy says that the group wont settle for anything less.

“We’re picking up points, which is pleasing, all season whether we’ve win, lost or draw, we want more, so that won’t stop all season, so we’re going to keep demanding off each other and I think today was a good away performance.

I thought everybody was tremendous today, down the middle of the pitch Morgs, Wans, Coops Worthy, unbelievable performances from them boys, especially when we go down to ten men.
They do so much work for the team and that’s not forgetting anybody else, but they probably do a lot of work that goes unnoticed.

So yeah, to keep the ball out of Joe’s box and stop him from making saves and Josh (Owers) came on, did terrific, so did the skipper. 

It’s hard coming on as a defender in those types of games, so everybody did really well. It’s a good win.“

Whilst the scoreline suggests a close run affair, the feeling is that the Glovers had their opponents in a comfortable place for large parts of the game and the front man is happy that the team can see games out in that style

“I’m not sure it was that tight of a game. I think – ask Joe – probably quite a comfortable game up until the sendings off, so I thought we had quite good control on it, even when we didn’t have the ball.

We weren’t getting hurt. So, again, I haven’t watched it back, obviously, but as away performances go, I think today was quite a good one, which is positive.

We can mix it up and if we need to win in the ugly ways or any way, then at the moment we’re doing that.”

You can listen to the entire interview below, including a few words about preparing for Didcot Town in the FA Cup next week.

 

 

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For a short while, Yeovil Town were top of the National League South table, but, results elsewhere means the Glovers finish Saturday in second after a 2-1 away win against Hampton & Richmond… it was not without incident.

Jake Hyde saw red (two yellows) and Matt Worthington joined him late on after handling on the line. as the away side finished with nine men, but still picked up the three points.

David Coates was there here are his thoughts… 

First half

From the off it was clear Jordan Stevens was going to be an outlet down the right side and it was the ex-Barrow man who tested the Hampton keeper Adam Desbois after three minutes.

At the other end, Mason Bloomfield headed a free-kick wide, but neither side particularly carved out a notable effort.

On 15 minutes, ex-Glovers’ loanee Ben Seymour twisted and turned on the edge of the box but his effort was deflected wide.

Charlie Cooper picked up his regular yellow card after wrestling a Hampton player to the ground after 17 minutes, and he was followed a few minutes later by Rhys Murphy for a less obvious foul. The referee clearly keen to show he has brought his cards.

If the opening exchanges were in the visitors’ favour, Hampton grew in to the game. A clear cut opportunity still eluded either side.

It took a moment of true quality to break the deadlock. On 34 minutes, a free-kick from the right by Cooper broke to the edge of the area where Jordan STEVENS rifled home an unstoppable shot. Get the rocket emojis out.

Murphy tried to out-spectacular his team-mate moments later, but his bicycle kick from inside the box went over the bar.

The away clearly not adhering to the Green Day Clause of not judging anything (or even looking at the league table) until September is over. A chant of “we are top of the league” went up from the Keith Hussey Stand.

But their enthusiasm was not tempered by a second goal after 43 minutes. Good commitment from Alex Whittle down the left saw the ball played forward to Rhys MURPHY who toyed with the hosts’ defenders before slotted in to the far corner.

Half time: Hampton & Richmond 0 Yeovil Town 2

 

Second half

Referee Eugene Robinson appeared to be more focused on pulling up players for perceived time-wasting, but allowing clattering of Yeovil players. Notably Jordan Young who remained on the ground whilst the referee was unmoved. 

Fortunately not hurt, Young picked up on a blocked Murphy effort to fizz a shot wide on the hour mark before Hampton substitute Rob Hall put one over the bar.

Rhys Murphy was replaced by Jake Hyde on 69 minutes and soon picked up a yellow card for complaining at (a blatantly incorrect offside decision – as someone who was in line with it) and then five minutes later he picked up a second for a foul.

Meanwhile, Alex Whittle was replaced by Josh Owers after a heavy challenge on the full-back. You guessed it, no action taken by Mr Robinson.

It had been a quiet afternoon for Joe Day but with six minutes remaining a free-kick in to the box led to a goalmouth scramble which saw the on-loan keeper pull off a fantastic reaction stop before the ball was cleared.

With 85 minute saw Josh Staunton replace Young with the visitors looking to close the game out. Nouble slotted in to the middle of midfield, presumably for his size with Stevens left to chase up front.

I’ve broken Rule #1, so let’s do it properly. With two minutes of remaining, Morgan Williams gets a clear shove in the back. Nothing given. Hampton break down the left and find Deadfield in the box who shoots but Day saves. Presumably it requires someone in blue to commit murder to be guilty of any offence.

In the seventh minute of seven added on, a goalmouth scramble saw Matt Worthington handle on the line to keep the ball out. No hesitation from the official to give a straight red and award a spot kick which Ben SEYMOUR fired home.

There was an even hairier moment in the following added time as a push forward saw a Hampton player felled inside the box. The protests continued after the whistle giving Mr Robinson the chance to continue his inept performance with another red card for the hosts’ defender Jordan Thomas after the game was over.

 

Full time: Hampton & Richmond 1 Yeovil Town 2

Match Details

Venue: The Beveree Stadium
Saturday 23rd September – 15:00

Pitch: Lovely sunny day
Conditions: Looked like it hadn’t been played on – because it barely had.

Attendance: 1,269 (485 away supporters)

Scorers: Jordan Stevens (0-1), Rhys Murphy (0-2), Ben Seymour (pen 1-2)

Bookings: 
Yeovil Town: Charlie Cooper 17, Rhys Murphy 20, Frank Nouble 37, Michael Smith 51, Jake Hyde 69, Jake Hyde 74.
Hampton & Richmond: TBC

Sendings-off: 

Yeovil Town: Jake Hyde (two bookable offences), Matt Worthington
Hampton & RIchmond – Jordan Thomas

Referee: Eugene Robinson

Yeovil Town (4-3-3)

Substitutes: Jake Hyde (for Rhys Murphy, 66), Alex Whittle (for Josh Owers, 70), Josh Staunton (for Jordan Young, 84), Jordan Maguire-Drew (not used), Will Dawes (not used).

Hampton & Richmond: Desbois, Thomas, Donaldson (for Kurran-Brown, 69), Inman, Fernandez, Seymour, Gray, Deadfield, Wishart, Dunne (for Hall, 58), Bloomfield (for Whittingham, 60).

Substitutes (not used): Cheadle, Pitblado.

 

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Yeovil Town boss Mark Cooper has said that the decision to leave out captain Josh Staunton was a tactical change rather than one surrounding an injury.

Cooper, chatting to Ian Randall of BBC Somerset, said that the decision to leave out both Josh’s – Staunton and Owers – was down to searching for the right combination.

Morgan Williams replaces Staunton in the back line, he was missing from the FA Cup game with a tight hamstring but the manager confirmed he was not risked with this game in mind. 

“It’s tactical, we are just trying to find the right combination in the middle of the defence and trying to find the right relationships.

Morgan (Williams) was going to play last week (vs Stoneham) in the FA Cup, but had a tight hamstring, we rested him with this game in mind, and I’ve just picked a team which I think can win the game and an attacking team. Rhys Murphy and Frank (Nouble) together up top and two really attacking wide players, so I’ve picked a team to try and win the game”

On the inclusion of Murphy following his hat trick in the FA Cup, Cooper said;

“(The 7-1 win) should give us confidence to go and attack, hence why Rhys Murphy is starting, he scored a hat trick, he can’t do much more than that, so we sacrificed a midfield player for a forward, hopefully it’s the right move”

You can hear the full conversation below.

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In-form striker Rhys Murphy is recalled to the starting line-up for Yeovil Town’s trip to Hampton & Richmond today (3pm kick-off).

The frontman, who netted a hat-trick in the FA Cup win over AFC Stoneham last weekend, is one of two changes with Jordan Stevens also handed a start.

Captain Josh Staunton and midfielder Josh Owers are both named among the substitutes.

 

 

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Seb White is a man with split loyalties on Saturday.

He’s been at Huish Park as a diehard Yeovil Town fan, he’s been on the board at Hampton and Richmond.

He’s fallen in love with YTFC and also in love with H&RBFC… His half and half scarf is at the ready for the weekend’s game.

We chat with Seb about how he ended up with a foot in both camps, how his love for both clubs has changed and what it means for the Beavers to host the Glovers.

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It’s back to National League South action for Yeovil as they travel to face an improving Hampton & Richmond side.
 
The Glovers go into the match in fine fettle after beating lower league AFC Stoneham 7-1 last week in the F.A. Cup. 

The Beavers have also come into some form recently after a slow start to the season, picking up just one win in their opening seven fixtures. Now unbeaten in three in all competitions, the London side will want to build on their improving form. 

Their last outing saw ex-Glovers’ striker Ben Seymour on target in a 2-1 win at Southall in the FA Cup. Check out a stunning 90th-minute winner from midfielder Sam Deadfield later in this preview.
 

Yeovil Team News: 

Manager Mark Cooper believes his team aren’t yet playing at their full potential. He said: “ I think we’ve settled but there’s still improvements… I still think there’s loads, I still think we’ve got 30%-40% left to develop and we’re not as fluent as I would like.” 
 
Cooper does feel that “freak results” have lead to an “open league” but believes that it will “settle down once the yellow balls come out.”
 
The former Swindon Town manager reiterated his stance on every game being tough and feels Hampton & Richmond will have some tricky players. He said: “Obviously there’s a wealth of experience in there this year and it makes life easier in terms of delegation around the dressing room and around the club things kind of look after themselves a bit more.”
 
Mark Cooper is only missing defender Jamie Sendles-White for the visit to Hampton & Richmond.

Glovers’ captain Josh Staunton spoke highly of the dressing atmosphere at the club. He said: “

The ex-Halifax Town man believes his team will “get the job done” if they “focus on themselves.”
 
The only missing player for Yeovil is defender Jamie Sendles-White, who has been missing since the 3-2 away win at Weston-super-Mare where he picked up an Achilles injury.
 

Hampton & Richmond News

 
Hampton & Richmond manager (and former Yeovil Town loanee) Mel Gwinnett spoke briefly about the Yeovil game, saying how “massive” the game is for his team. 
 
Gwinnett does believe his team have the necessary quality to put and end to shaky start to the season. Speaking following a 2-1 FA Cup win at Southall and the weekend, he said: “Technically they are all good footballers but they just make poor decisions, all their best attacks came off us on the ball. That has been a bit of a story of our season so far.
 
“We lost three on the spin and now we are three unbeaten on the spin…The one thing I have got is a team that can change shape.”
Hampton captain Jake Gray.
Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.
 
The London team have two ex-Glovers amongst their squad in captain midfielder Jake Gray and striker Ben Seymour. Those two are also the two main threats for The Beavers.
 
And, yes, Gwinnett himself had a spell on loan at Huish Park in the late 1980s. [Thanks to reader Phil Sparks for the tip – Editor]. Having requested a transfer from Exeter City in 1988, Gwinnett was sent out on loan to Huish before signing permanently for a lesser club on the south Dorset coast in March 1989. Initially on loan before Gerry Gow brought him to W*ymouth in a £10,000 deal which saw Richard Cooper also cross the border…..and the Terras were eventually relegated. Good work Agents Cooper, Gow and Gwinnett.

There are no players missing for Hampton & Richmond.