April 2026 (Page 9)

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Dan Ellison has been recalled from National League South sides Weston-super-Mare.

With Jake Wannell on 14 yellow cards, Finn Cousin-Dawson still serving two more games of his suspension the decision has been made to recall the defender and give him a chance to claim a place in the side.

Ellison did return to the group for the FA Trophy clash with Southport but quickly returned to the promotion chasers in the league below to continue playing regularly.

Welcome back (again) Dan!

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The Football Association has published it’s annual list of agents fees paid by all clubs.

Yeovil Town spent a little over £33,000 on agents fees for the year between 4th February 2025 and 2nd of February 2026.

This is down ever so slightly from the previous year (see below)

These reports include: the total amounts of all payments made by Clubs to Football Agents registered with The FA; and all transactions involving a Player, Coach or Club where any Football Agent registered with The FA has been involved.

The Clubs included are from the Premier League, EFL and National League System, as well as the Women’s Super League (WSL) and WSL 2. The reporting periods covered are 4 February 2025 to 2 February 2026

Specifically, these fees were paid to the agents of the following personelle; Harry Kite, Tahvon Campbell, Kyle Ferguson, Alex Whittle, James Daly, Luke McCormick, Junior Morias, Michee Efete, Dan Ellison, Billy Rowley, Luke McCormick (again, for his contract renewal), Jonathon Page, Joy Mukena and Ryan Jones.

The top spenders in the league were Carlisle United who pushed the needle to almost the tune of £190k! Forest Green Rovers and York both tipped the balance into six figures.

Both Southport and Hemel Hempstead paid just £500 each!

Yeovil Town History of Agents Fees

2nd Feb ’24 – 3rd Feb ’25 – £35,628

1st Feb ’23 – 1st Feb ’24 – £41,492
1st Feb ’22 – 31st Jan ’23 – £2,210
2nd Feb ’21 – 31st Jan ’23 – £26,834
31st Jan ’20 – 1st Feb ’21 – £1,287
1st Feb ’19 – 30th Jan ’20 – £19,387

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Gloverscast Fans' Quiz #9

It's not a time to be an April fool, so get your lucky socks on and prepare to put your Yeovil Town knowledge to the test with our monthly fans' quiz. There's the usual categories to test your memories about green-and-white days gone by and those who are (hopefully!) fresher in your mind. Good luck everyone!

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In August 2001, Gary Johnson signed a player who had been the youngest scorer in the Premier League during his time at Tottenham Hotspur. What was his name?

2 / 12

Who scored the final goal in Yeovil Town's final game at the old Huish stadium in May 1990?

3 / 12

Which father and son duo by the same name played for Yeovil Town in the 1960s and 1990s?

4 / 12

Including the current season, how many seasons have Yeovil Town played in the National League level, including National League South, since the formation of the league in 1979?

5 / 12

Who has scored the most goals for Yeovil Town in the fifth tier of the football pyramid?

6 / 12

How many goals did Mickey Spencer score for Yeovil Town in the fifth tier of the football pyramid?

7 / 12

The final game of the 2021/22 season saw Yeovil Town travel to Altrincham in what was Josh Staunton's only game in temporary charge of Yeovil Town. Who scored in a 1-0 win?

8 / 12

Yeovil Town were relegated to National League South in the 2022/23 season, but who was our final fixture of that season against?

9 / 12

The Glovers' final fixture of the 2019/20 season was against the same opponent we faced in the first fixture, which club was it?

10 / 12

Which Championship club did Carl Dickinson begin his footballing career with?

11 / 12

Which manager signed Carl Dickinson for Yeovil Town?

12 / 12

How many yellow cards did Carl Dickinson collect in National League action during his 61 games at Yeovil Town?

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Having clocked up 1,350 miles travelling in the past week, Yeovil Town travel sickness struck as they went down to a 2-1 defeat at Southend United last night. Glovers’ fan Ed Turnbull was among the 68 travelling supporters in the away end and here are his conclusions.

We looked knackered in the first half especially: And understandably so – I could’ve drafted this conclusion at 5pm on Saturday, and probably even a couple months ago as soon as the rearranged fixture dates were announced. But the minutes and the travelling really caught up with us in a bleak first half display. Southend out-ran, out-pressed and out-played us for the first 45 minutes, and it was this that ultimately meant they deserved the win after 90. I empathise with the players, but I lost track of the number of times our defenders were chasing shadows back towards their own goal only seconds after they had punted the ball up the line themselves unable to play any deliberate pass.

Jed Ward is helpless to keep out Southend’s Gus Scott-Morriss’ opener after his four minutes last night.
It was another game of two halves for us: Much like we deserved to lose the first half, I think we deserved to draw the second. We’ll probably never know whether the winner would have stood had goal-line technology been in use, but on another day we might have earned a very respectable point against a side which will almost certainly be in the play-offs this season. It was probably a mix of Southend allowing us more time on the ball, and us being more composed with it. There was still the big asterisk that we didn’t create much, but we held our own and, what I liked most was…
…the players showed they cared: You could say we’re more-or-less on the beach, but that wasn’t the mentality I saw on the pitch tonight. Whether it’s James Daly terrier-like in his pursuit to win the ball back in an unfamiliar central midfield position, or Alex Whittle coming bee-lining back onto the pitch out of nowhere with enough desire to get not only the ball but also a good chunk of substitute Aaron Jarvis, I am fully here for it. Once you consider the shift these players have had to put in of late, I was proud to partake in a good length applause of mutual respect between fans, players and coaching staff after full-time despite going home empty-handed.
Brett McGavin. Picture courtesy of Gary Brown.
We have some good players we need to build around for next season: James Daly has rightly got the limelight of late, but Brett McGavin has been immense. Following an injury-stricken and unimpressive first half of the season, he’s really proven his worth in the recent onslaught of fixtures. A near ever-present in a lightweight midfield department, not only has he shown his class on the ball that we’ve always known about, but he’s had to get through a heck of a load of dirty work. Moving on from Cannavaro, this guy is the Somerset Pirlo, our metronome if you will. I think he could be key to us becoming the free-flowing footballing side Rowley clearly plans to make us.
Time to finish the job now: There’s a good chance our current points tally will be enough to avoid relegation, but let’s not leave it to chance. Now’s the time for one or two big pushes to make it mathematically certain, and Truro City at home on Good Friday and Eastleigh are two favourable opponents to do just that. That’s not at all to say it will be easy, but let’s lick our wounds from tonight, keep our heads up and show why we’re above these two teams in the table.

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Yeovil Town captain Jake Wannell revealed the team were given a half-time “rocket” by manager Billy Rowley to spark a second half revival at Southend United last night.

The Glovers were second best in every department during the opening 45 minutes in Essex, but rallied after the break and pulled level when Wannell stroked home a Goal of the Season contender just after the hour.

It proved to be in vain as a winner from the hosts’ Keenan Appiah-Forson saw the visitors return to Somerset empty handed,

Wannell told BBC Somerset’s Josh Perkins: “They came out the traps and their fans got onside, it’s a tough place to come, but I don’t think enough of us stood up tonight. I feel like half the team did and half the team didn’t and you can’t come to Roots’ Hall and not have everyone pulling in the right direction. Billy gave us a rocket at half-time and we got hold of the ball and I thought we dealt with it quite well.”

What a finish, Jake Wannell.

​The central defender drew the game level on 64 minutes when he bent a superb strike in to the Southend net, but the captain was not keen to revel in the glory after a defeat.

Asked about it, he said: “Yeah, it was a great finish, but it means nothing, though, does it? We’re home with no points. I would have rather swapped the goal for a point or three.”

Wannell picked up a booking for protesting against that the game’s 84th minute winner from Keenan Appiah-Forson did not cross the line, but admitted no-one could be completely sure.

He added: “From my angle, it didn’t look like it was in. Jed (Ward, the Yeovil keeper) said it wasn’t in, but we’re obviously going to say that. I would need to watch it back because everything happens so fast, so we will dissect it, and try to address it for Friday.

​“You probably need a little bit of luck as well and unfortunately that wasn’t on our side tonight. I feel like we need to deal with those moments better, especially in the first half. You could see that they were flying and I don’t feel like we dealt with it very well.”

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Yeovil Town boss Billy Rowley said he was disappointed with last night’s 2-1 defeat at Southend United, but did not believe his players had disgraced themselves.

It looked like it was going to be a long night for the Glovers when they fell behind to Gus Scott-Moriss’ opener after just four minutes and found themselves second best for the entire first half against their hosts buoyed by reaching the FA Trophy final and still firmly in the play-off picture.

But, a second half revival saw the visitors level through a wonder strike from captain Jake Wannell before a hotly disputed winner from Keenan Appiah-Forson sunk them six minutes from time.

Speaking to BBC Somerset reporter Josh Perkins after the game, Rowley said: “Whenever you lose a game, you don’t walk away happy, so that’s my overall feeling. If I try and compartmentalise the halves, obviously first half we were really bad. It reminded me a little bit of Woking away a couple of weeks ago, but emotionally this place does something different to you than Woking. You’re playing in front of nearly 8,000 people—fantastic support, really, really good team—and I felt like the occasion probably got to us a little bit.

​“(At half-time) we just reminded the lads about how clear we wanted to press and get the ball back. Obviously, goals change games and Southend score, and you come out second half and you’ve got nothing to lose then. We started to find a bit more bravery and composure to get on the ball and work on what we work on every day and we looked good. We then score a great goal through Jake—I thought it was a top finish —and then the game state then changes again. They’re back to being on the front foot, high line, more pressure on the ball. They make four changes; all four players are top level, a lot more energy into their press.

​“We were just on the tilt at that point. We couldn’t really get out of our half, and you have two choices when you’re under the cosh like that: you can go ultra-brave and try to keep playing, or you can just try to get the ball over the opposition a little bit more and try to get in their half. We kind of did neither. Sometimes we went long, but we weren’t great at getting up the pitch, and then sometimes we tried to play but didn’t drop off quite enough to actually get clear of pressure and stuff.

“We found ourselves in an arena which was, you know, difficult on the night. Good team, good management team, and I thought over the course of 90 minutes they probably deserved the win, but I thought second half we were probably the better team.”

Was it over or was it not? Chris Phillips of the Southend Echo was not sure.

The winner from Appiah-Forson’s back post header sparked fury among Yeovil who argued the ball had not fully crossed the line before it was grabbed by goalkeeper Jed Ward. The decision that it had was given by the assistant rather than referee Abigail Byrne, an truthfully without goal-line technology it was impossible to call.

Rowley said: “I’ve got a friend who was actually behind the goal as a Southend supporter and I just caught up with him and he just said it probably wasn’t a goal either. I haven’t seen it and the angle we’re seeing it from, it was not great, so I can’t really comment on that. This is what almost 8,000 fans do to referees and officials—they influence them. I’m not saying that it wasn’t over the line or it was, I haven’t seen it, but I think as a referee when you’re in front of 8,000 people, it’s probably easier to side with the home team at times.”

​The defeat in Essex was the game in hand Yeovil had over many of the teams below them in the National League Premier Division and means they go in to the Easter double header still nine points clear of the relegation zone. They host bottom club Truro City on Good Friday before travelling to another side battling at the wrong end of the table in Eastleigh on Bank Holiday Monday.

Dakarai Mafico. Picture courtesy of Gary Brown

Rowley said he is hopeful on loan Cardiff City midfielder Dakari Mafico, who has been missing through injury in recent weeks, would return soon.

He said: “We’ve got another three days to recover, the aren’t slowing up anytime soon. We’ve got tired legs out there, but we’re going to have to go again. I felt like the boys did that tonight, and one thing I can massively praise them all on is their effort and endeavour and aggression. I’m not standing here devastated by the performance; we’ve just lost to a team that should probably be in League Two, if we’re honest. It’s no disgrace to lose here, but we are disappointed to lose.

​“Dax will probably be back in another week or so, Troy (Perrett) will be suspended until Monday. We’re going to be pretty light against Truro, but yeah, the boys that are on the pitch look good, they still look hungry. Their tanks are running on empty at the minute, but they’re still finding ways to compete against good teams.

“We’ve been really good at Huish Park; I think I saw a record the other day, we’ve got a good win percentage at home at the moment. The fans have been brilliant there, so hopefully it’s a nice day, we can turn up, we can play our style, we can imprint on what we want to do to the game and get three points.”​