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The Gloverscast’s end of season awards are back! The Glovies allows Yeovil Town fans the chance to vote for their Player of the season, Young player of the season and Goal of the season from the 10 shortlisted goals! Voting is open from 8am on Monday 20th of April and will end at 8pm on Sunday 26th of April.

The winners will be announced on Monday morning’s episode of the Gloverscast on May 4th.

Previous winners of the prestigious awards include;

GLOVIES WINNERS
Player of the SeasonYoung Player of the season
2020/21Tom KnowlesTom Knowles
2021/22Morgan WilliamsMorgan Williams
2022/23Josh StauntonOwen Bevan
2023/24Jake WannellSonny Blu Lo Everton
2024/25Brett McGavinSonny Blu Lo Everton
2025/26Jed WardJed Ward

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED – WE WILL REVEAL THE WINNERS ON NEXT WEEK’S PODCAST (MON 4TH MAY)

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Chloe Perham

Yeovil Town Women increased their lead at the top of the South West Regional Division One South table with a 4-1 win away at Feniton.

The Glovers took the lead inside ten minutes with a classic route one goal. Emily Hall launched a free-kick up the pitch and Jodi Cornwall expertly lobbed the Feniton keeper.

And there was almost a copy and paste moment before the break with Cornwall again running through, but this time the lob trickled just wide of the post.

The striker turned provider when Yeovil doubled the advantage in the second half, sliding a ball across to Laura Cheeseman who kept her cool to finish in the middle.

The third goal arrived on 69 minutes when Cheeseman found Chloe Perham, who in turn found time and space to fire home. The duo combined again as Cheeseman unselfishly squared to Perham to tap home a fourth.

Although Feniton pulled one back with ten minutes left – with a strike that was either a mishit cross or an absolute worldie – it did nothing to impact the result, with three points heading back to Somerset.

Attention now turns to a huge clash against second-placed Weston-super-Mare on Sunday 3rd May. While Yeovil currently hold a seven-point advantage, their title rivals have two games in hand, meaning a tasty encounter will be in store at the Optima Stadium.

Speaking post-match, coach Simon Linard said: “A really good performance from the girls, a really good squad performance. We came with a very clear game plan which we executed really well.

“We’ve got a really good squad here and we train well together as a squad, so the players that come in know their roles.”

And goalscorer Chloe Perham added: “I don’t think I’ve ever been on the scoresheet! I’m buzzing with that to be fair. I haven’t played in ages (because of) work commitments, but I’m buzzing.”

“A win today was very important and it sends a message to Weston to say the pressure is on. I think we are feeling the pressure but we train hard for it and I think the win today will push us forward to the Weston game.”

OppositionKick OffH/ACompetitionScoreLocationScorers
September
07.09.2025Wells City FC14:00AFA Cup1-6Wells City FCDavenport '11, Childs '30, OG '64, McNally '70, Hunt '85 & '92
14.09.2025Appledore14:00HLeague6-0YTCST Centre at AlvingtonMcNally '5, '20, '86, Hunt '53, '65, '83
21.09.2025Saltash Utd14:00AFA Cup0-2Saltash UnitedHunt '61, McNally '74
28.09.2025Feniton14:00HLeague2-0YTCST Centre at AlvingtonDavenport '21, Hunt '33
October
05.10.2025Winchester Flyers14:00AFA Cup1-0Winchester FC
19.10.2025Wells City FC14:00HLeague4-0YTCST Centre at AlvingtonMcNally '11, '47, Davenport '19, Miles '69
November
02.11.2025Weston-super-Mare 14:00ALeague1-2Optima StadiumSimmons '10, Cornwal, '65
09.11.2025Feniton14:00HLeague1-0YTCST Centre at AlvingtonCornwall '44
23.11.2025W*ymouth14:00ACupWalkover VictoryBob Lucas Stadium
30.11.2025Wells City14:00ALeague2-1Wells City FCMcNally '59
December
07.12.2025Weston-super-Mare14:00HLeague1-2YTCST Centre at AlvingtonCornwall '32
14.12.2025Appledore14:00ALeague0-4Marshford, AppledoreMcNally '53, '85. Ealson-Taylor '56, Davenport '83
January
No Fixtures Played -------
February
08.02.2026Wells City14:00A* League0-6Wells City FC
* Played at Huish Park 3G		McNally '2, '34, '45 '85,
OG '43,
Davenport '90
22.02.2026Weston-super-Mare14:00HCup2-3Huish Park 3GHodge '25, Cornwall '48
March
08.03.2026Wells City14:00HCup5-0Huish Park 3GMiles '20, Cornwall '26, '71 McNally '39, '43
15.03.2026Keynsham Town14:00ACup5-2The AJN StadiumMcNally '11, Cornwall '37
29.03.2026Appledore14:00ALeague0-3Marshford, AppledoreCornwall '12, Miles '30, McNally '89
April
26.04.26Feniton14:00ALeague1-4Feniton Playing FieldsCornwall '9, Cheeseman '52, Perham '69, '77
May
03.05.2026Weston-super-Mare14:00ALeague1-1The Optima StadiumEast '45

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York City go in to the final day top of the pile after a 3-0 win over a patched up Yeovil Town side who finish their away day schedule with a bit of a damp squib in North Yorkshire, here are Ben’s Five Conclusions.

We showed relatively good discipline in defence.

York have an abundance of quality in every department and move the ball with such ease and pace in the opposition half the result itself was probably no great shock. But, with so many players missing and literally nothing to play for, I was pleased with how the back three (or five) and those in front of them kept their shape and discipline in the first half to nullify the waves of attack – for the most part – not pretty, but it really was the only way we could go about it.

Brett McGavin and Dan Ellison | Pic by Gary Brown

Tired legs, tired minds.

We’re knackered. Properly knackered, and I know we’ve been saying it for weeks (months?) but I think this was the first time I’d seen tired minds too. We didn’t play to the whistle for the first goal (more on that in a moment), and assumed the play would stop for the second ball on the field, countless times we lost a battle and you could see it take that little bit longer to fight back into position. We made two or three excellent blocks in the area by players who had made the error to create the chance for York. Effort remained high, execution wasn’t always there.

The ref wasn’t very good.

In a game with such an imbalance, you need an official who keeps things level. Mr Drysdale played the occasion more than once.

The two ball situation was odd because both were in the same area of play, should Yeovil have played to the whistle? Yes. Should there have been a whistle? Probably. Would there have been a whistle if the teams attacking were reversed? Almost certainly.

Josh Stones got a yellow card for an early challenge that fit an ‘orange card’ on another occasion that’s given as a red. There’s definitely contact on Will Merry in the penalty area, he makes a lot of it, but it’s a penalty. Ollie Banks got three or four final warnings before finally getting booked for being a constant menace off the ball, there was a definite handball in the build up to the second goal. Sour grapes, yeah sure, but the least you want is a level playing field. It’s hard not to feel harshly treated.

Page showed what we might have been missing.

What a pleasant little cameo from Jonathon Page. Some neat little touches in midfield, a real little terrier attitude in the battle, against some giants he more than put himself about and you have to wonder if he might have been something of an asset all along had he been fit.

Merry showed why he’s an option beyond this season

Will Merry didn’t really get into the game first half, playing right in front of the dugouts, he had a tough time getting on the ball, but in the second period he really upped it getting at the York defence on a number of occasions. The more I see of him the more I think he’s exactly the sort of player who we should be looking at to supplement our attack next season, glides with the ball, attack minded and has a physical element to his game too.

Will Merry on the attack

I could write about Jed Ward being ridiculous for the level, but you knew that. I could write about 200+ fans in the away end who drew praise from the home side’s press pack at the end of the game, but you knew that. I could talk about our injury problems mounting up again with McCoy-Splatt’s shoulder popping out, but you knew that.

I’m exhausted (you knew that too), the lads are exhausted, the gaffer is exhausted, let’s get this post-season friendly against Solihull out the way and get next season rolling… after a little nap though, yeah?

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Billy Rowley said his side are ‘limping over the line’ as the Glovers fell to a 3-0 defeat to top of the league York City. A(nother) tap in from Ollie Pearce, a Josh Stones strike and a stoppage time goal from Joe Grey consigned Yeovil to defeat, but was not enough to clinch the League for York as Rochdale grabbed a late winner at Braintree.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Josh Perkins, Rowley, who added Terrell Works to Delano McCoy-Splatt to the injury list, said his side didn’t do themselves ‘justice’.

“We’ve lost to potential champions today. You can see that they’re obviously a top team. Every single player – including all subs that came on – are incredible footballers. They can handle the ball, you can’t really get close to them, they just roll you and spin and twist and turn and [are] unbelievably comfortable in possession, really well coached. Some of their timings of movements and stuff are excellent and in order to match that, you have to be the very best version of yourself with all players available,” he said.

“I said it a couple of weeks ago, we’re sort of limping to the line at the minute. We’ve got another injury yesterday in training, Terrell felt his hamstring, had to be left out the squad. We’ve got two young academy boys on the bench. Even Dak, today he was told he could only play like 45, 60 minutes. So look, I’ve got the violin out here a little bit. We’ve been beaten by a far better team, far more equipped to win this division than we are. And rightfully 3-0 winners.

There was a moment before half time where Will Merry could have had a penalty and Rowley – albeit clutching at straws – felt a decision there could have made a difference.

“I think back to just before half-time – I’m clutching a little bit – but Will Merry goes in the box and I think if you’ve got the home advantage there, it’s probably a penalty. So you go in at 1-1 and it’s like, “okay, game on.” But instead, they go down the other end two minutes later and score, and you’re now 2-0 down and it’s game over really. So look, really disappointed. Fantastic place to play football. Didn’t do ourselves justice, but like I say, we’re kind of limping over the line at the minute.”

McCoy-Splatt joined the injury list during the game with a dislocated shoulder, meaning the Glovers boss introduced Jonathan Page earlier than planned, but Rowley though Page did well: “[I] thought he was really good when he came on. He’s a very intelligent footballer. I think him and Brett [McGavin]…[it’s a] shame they haven’t played more together. They’ve got two really good football brains and I think they’ve got a good relationship and understanding of how they see football. So [we] could probably play some nice stuff with them in the team and it’s not been a lot of minutes we’ve had them on the pitch together. Pagey got us in a couple of times, some decent balls over the top. It’s nice to see him back out there.”

That was Yeovil’s final away trip of the season, with next week’s match at Huish against Solihull the last in what has felt like a long season, and Rowley said he’s learned a lot.

Yeah, [I’m] pretty exhausted. It’s been really tough. Coming in in the winter time where it’s, 4°C outside [and the] pitches aren’t amazing, you’re trying to implement new ideas and new styles every day. We then hit a spell in the season where we were doing well in the Trophy and we were just playing every three or four days, so we didn’t have a chance to train loads. I’ve learned loads about the league, about what it takes to win at places like this. So it’s been an incredible experience for me and I’ll definitely be starting next season a lot stronger for it.”

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Yeovil Town lost their final away game of the season 3-0 to York City, who thought they had the league wrapped up at the LNER Community Stadium.

Here’s how things fared in North Yorkshire.

First half

Within the opening five minutes, York carved out two chances with Ollie Pearce going close and then Josh Stones stinging the palms of Jed Ward.

The front two harried the Yeovil back line throughout the opening 15 minutes with Stones a physical presence. He picked up a yellow card in the 18th minute for a over-zealous tackle on Dakarai Mafico.

Josh Stones on the turn inside the opening stages.

With 23 minutes played the inevitable happened as the visitors’ defence switched off from a quick throw in and Ollie PEARCE popped up with a header for his customary goal against Yeovil. Controversial though as replays appear to show there were two balls on the pitch just before the ball hit the net.

Ten minutes later, an error from Mafico almost gifted York a second as Malachi Fagan-Walcott tried to showboat inside the area, giving Yeovil the opportunity to clear.

There was a period as the game progressed we at least had a spell of pressure but, aside from a corner thanks to the efforts of James Daly, it did not lead to much. A hush fell around the LNER Community Stadium – which was pretty quiet as it was – as news of title rivals Rochdale taking the lead at Braintree Town filtered through.

But with two minutes remaining until half-time, they were back on their feet as Josh STONES doubled their lead. Unsurprisingly it was all about the power and persistence as he thumped home a second.

Half time: York City 2 Yeovil Town 0

Second half

If the task was not great enough, it got tougher as both Mafico and Delano McCoy-Splatt were withdrawn replaced by Harvey Greenslade and the lesser spotted Jonathon Page.
The first chance of the second half actually fell to Yeovil with Troy Perrett firing over the bar with two minutes gone.
But, with 52 minutes on the clock Jed Ward had the opportunity to show the television cameras what an excellent keeper he is. First making a great stop to push away an effort from Banks and then an even better one to keep out the rebound effort from Stones.
York defender Mark Kitching put an effort in to the side netting on the hour mark before Ward did well to deny another effort from Stones with his feet. Going the other way, Will Merry was against a bright spark down the left side. I like that his first instinct is to go forward whenever he gets the ball.
Will Merry on the attack
As the game pressed towards its conclusion, York brought on four substitutes with quality additions including Joe Grey and Greg Olley coming.
With two minutes of normal time, the previously silent (we’ll put it down to nerves) home support exploded in to life as news came from Braintree that they had pulled level against Rochdale. The title was coming to Yorkshire.
Two minutes in to second half stoppage Joe GREY curled home a third to add to the fervour inside the stadium.
The final whistle sounded with the home crowd waiting expectantly for the final whistle to sound a Braintree – only to hear that Rochdale had got a winner in the ninth minute of stoppage time. The title will be decided next Saturday when the two meet for a winner takes all tie.

Full time: York City 3 Yeovil Town 0

Match Details

Venue: LNER Community Stadium
Date: Saturday 18th April, 5.30pm kick-off

Competition: National League Premier Division

Scorers: Ollie Pearce 23 (0-1), Josh Stones 42 (0-2), Joe Grey 90+2 (0-3)

Pitch: Overall good despite the funny blue lines
Conditions: A beautiful Spring day

Attendance: 8219 (209 away supporters)

Bookings:
Yeovil Town: Dan Ellison 58
York City: Josh Stones 18, Hiram Boateng 76

Referee: Darren Drysdale

Yeovil Town

Substitutes: Jonathon Page (for Dakarai Mafico, 46), Harvey Greenslade (for Delano McCoy-Splatt, 46), Jaydon Biss (not used), Ollie Hughes (not used), Matt Gould (not used).

York City: Harrison Male, Ollie Banks, Hiram Boateng, Ben Brookes, Malachi Fagan-Walcott, Alex Hunt, Zack Johnson, Jeff King, Mark Kitching, Ollie Pearce, Josh Stones.

Substitutes (not used): Daniel Batty, Ryan Fallowfield, Joe Grey, Callum Howe, Alex Newby, Greg Olley, George Sykes-Kenworthy.

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Cardiff City loan midfielder Dakarai Mafico returns to the Yeovil Town starting XI for today’s trip to title-chasing York City (5.30pm kick-off).
There is no place for Terrell Works with a hamstring worry keeping the Fulham loanee out of the squad.
There are just five players named on the Glovers’ substitutes bench for the fixture.