April 2024 (Page 8)

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Yeovil’s derby game at W*ymouth was called off due to unfortunate circumstances. Everyone at Gloverscast sends their love and best wishes to the Yeovil fan, and their family. Let’s see how the rest of the division got on.

There were certainly fewer goals than Friday’s fixture list, however one game didn’t get that memo – Torquay United and Weston-super-mare played out a 3-3 thriller at Plainmoor, as the visitors recovered from behind twice to leave Devon with a point. Another thrilling end came at Slough Town, as their unbeaten home run continued, albeit they had to settle for a point after a 92nd minute Shaun Jeffers’ penalty earned visiting St Albans City a point.

Plenty of 2-0 wins took place too, for those up and down the division, Eastbourne Borough got themselves out of the drop zone with their win away at Dartford; in Somerset, Taunton Town fell at home to Bath City, while two teams near the top end of the league faced off, Worthing getting the better of Hampton & Richmond. Braintree Town finished off the 2-0 results with their win at home to Hemel Hempstead, who don’t yet find themselves out of trouble near the bottom.

A big surprise came at Aveley, as Havant & Waterlooville continued to show signs of life with a 2-1 win to give themselves an outside shout of escaping the drop. Farnborough came from behind to beat Tonbridge Angels 2-1 to make it 7 wins in a row on their late charge to the playoffs, while there was a 1-1 draw played out at the Gallagher Stadium between Maidstone and Welling United.

The final two games only had one goal to speak of, but it was an incredibly important goal, particularly for Yeovil’s season. In the 14th minute, Henry Young scored for Dover Athletic, as they registered just their 4th win of the season to defeat 2nd placed Chelmsford City in one of the shocks of the season. The result means the Glovers need just 3 more points to mathematically win the National League South! The final game was a delayed 0-0 draw due to traffic, between Chippenham Town and Truro City, as the visitors began their run of 10 games in 20 days.

 

National League South results – in full

Aveley 1-2 Havant & Waterlooville
Braintree Town 2-0 Hemel Hempstead Town
Chippenham Town 0-0 Truro City
Dartford 0-2 Eastbourne Borough
Dover Athletic 1-0 Chelmsford City
Maidstone United 1-1 Welling United
Slough Town 2-2 St Albans City
Taunton Town 0-2 Bath City
Tonbridge Angels 1-2 Farnborough
Torquay United 3-3 Weston-super-mare
Worthing 2-0 Hampton & Richmond Borough

National League South table

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Here’s how the Glovers out on loan did this past Bank Holiday Monday – for most of them, it was a good day at the office.

Starting in the National League and Barnet got a 3-1 win over Oxford City, Jordan Maguire-Drew got the final ten minutes or so as the Bees look to solidify second place in the table.

In the National League South, there was a Cleano for Will Buse at Bath.

They beat Taunton at Wordsworth Drive 2-0, Buse was named in the Vanarama Team of the Day for Friday for his performance and picked up another three points today.

To Dorchester, and Ollie Haste played the full 90 for the Magpies in a feisty affair, they beat Tiverton 2-1 and both sides had a player sent off.

Down at Melksham, Benjani Jr was back in the starting line up, but they fell 2-1 to Frome Town in front of a crowd of over 1000.

Benjani was taken over just after the hour mark.

Welton Rovers had a tough afternoon, losing 8-2 against Falmouth. Jacob Shore was involved from the start for Rovers, Max Dyer was on the bench.

Finally, over at Gillingham, they picked up a 1-0 wn over Middlezoy Rovers and it was Josh Haskett who got the only goal of the game.

Jack Bareham, Harrison Foster and Harry Lock were also involved.

 

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Yeovil Town manager Mark Cooper said that common sense had prevailed following the early abandonment of the game on Bank Holiday Monday.

The Glovers were trailing 1-0 to W*ymouth when the game was stopped shortly before the 75th minute due to a medical incident in the crowd – after the game the Gaffer spoke to BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins and wished the supporter well.

“The most important thing is that the lady gets better, but we’re still no nearer to leaving, it could be two hours before the game restarts, I think after you’ve played 70 minutes you can’t expect athletes to get warmed up and go again, it’s just best that we wash our hands and move on to the next one”

“Our paramedic, Tony was with her and she was in a bad way and they couldn’t do what they needed to do properly so they had to do some real invasive treatment on her, I think, and there’s just no guarantee of when the game could have taken place.”

The Glovers had taken themselves back into the changing rooms during the stoppage and discussions continued with the severity of the incident making it difficult to pin point a potential restart, with implications for players having to get going again.

“You’ve got to bare in mind that we’ve got Rhys Murphy back on the pitch, with a big calf injury, we’ve got two or three that are struggling with tight hamstrings, you ask them to go and play after 70 minutes – you’re in danger of those injuries reoccurring. 

At one point there was going to be a ten minute stoppage, then it went to 25, then it went to 40 and I think once you get to that time scale… listen the W*ymouth side will say we didn’t want to play and we’re losing, and I get that, I understand that, but listen, common sense has to prevail and I think the right thing was done.

The W*ymouth players are winning against the top team and having a right go at it, and they see it as we’ve backed out, but we’ve got bigger fish that we have to try and fry, in terms of, we’ve got a league to win, they’re safe, it doesn’t matter if one of them pulls a hamstring, it does to us.”

“Common sense has to prevail and I think the right thing was done”

As for the football itself, Yeovil were 1-0 down at the point of abandonment, but were trying to get back into the game. 

“Listen, Jamari Clarke was ruled out this morning, Olly Thomas’ performance when he came on on Saturday, we thought that it was the right decision to start him, looking back, it looks as though it wasn’t, we tried to react, Jordan Stevens felt his hamstring tighten up, so he had to come off. We tried to put lots of forward players on the pitch, Alex Fisher was just about to come on, which would have meant half the team were forwards.

We were trying everything to get back momentum, I thought we had a head of steam up when the game was abandoned, I was confident we would score, there was still 24 minutes to go in total.”

It likely means that Yeovil will have to make the trip back to W*ymouth before the end of the season.

“It’s a bit surreal, the atmosphere was incredible, unbelievable support from both sets of fans, Yeovil fans today, we went on the sea front, in the coach just to see the fans, it was incredible.”

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The game between W*ymouth and Yeovil was cut short following a medical emergency in the crowd.

We wish the supporter all the best – Gary Brown was at the game he snapped some of the action.

Pictures courtesy of Gary Brown. Please ask for permission before using.

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Mark Cooper has told BBC Somserset’s Sheridan Robins that Jahmari Clarke has a strain which keeps him out of the match day squad against W*ymouth.

Speaking pre-match the Gaffer said; 

“Jahmari (Clarke) doesn’t feel fit enough to play, he’s got a strain in his left quad muscle, so yeh, he’s not fit enough to start. 
Olly Thomas comes in, Olly was outstanding when he came on on Saturday [sic – Friday] , if we get him fired up and at it today he can be a real handful.

We have had to be careful with him [Olly Thomas] but he did great, if we can replicate that for a bit longer, he was great on Friday.

When he does grow up, he’s going to be 6 foot 4, I said to him that he should play in the Premier League with his physical attributes and your ability, but he’s got to put that into practice.

This is where he’ll learn, he’ll look back on this in years to come and think this did me really good, while he’s here we can get good performances out of him and we can benefit from it.”

There are 2,500 plus Glovers fans by the seaside today, and Cooper made sure the squad soaked up the pre match atmosphere.

“I made the coach driver drive along the sea front to see the amount of green and white and flares and everything and the support that they are getting today.

We have to do what we do, dominate large parts of the game with the ball, be brave, we can’t worry about the occasion.”

 

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Yeovil Town make one change from the 3-0 win over Torquay with Two-Goal hero Jahmari Clarke missing out on the squad altogether.

Olly Thomas leads the line with Alex Fisher on the bench in place of the Reading loanee.

It’s as you were apart from that,

 

 

 

 

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Is today the day?

Maybe, we’ll find out with Yeovil Town off to bother the Seagull Botherers and Chelmsford in action after… you just never know.

Lots of football still to play and on this episode Ben, Dave and Sheridan dissect the 3-0 trouncing of Torquay and look ahead to the Green and White takeover of that place down the A37.

Enjoy the game, Glovers!

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