Ben Barrett (Page 11)

… can you ‘Splatt’ into somewhere? Or was that just a terrible effort to weave our new midfielder’s name into a headline pun? Not sure, anyway, I digress

Yeovil Town have announced the loan signing of Delano McCoy-Splatt from Wimbledon for the rest of the season.

Formerly of Fulham, the midfielder has been capped at full international level by Jamaica and head to Huish Park for the remainder of the campaign.

Two of the Glovers’ loanees; Dak Mafico and Josh Tobin have injuries which may take them out for some (or in the case of Tobin, possibly all) of the season and Splatt joins to bolster the ranks.

He’s represented Wimbledon a handful of times this season, including against Gateshead in the FA Cup.

Welcome to Somerset, Delano!

Dakarai Mafico looks set to miss the games against Gateshead and Southend due to his international duty with Wales Under 21s.

The midfielder, on loan from Cardiff has been called up for their U21 Euro Qualifiers against Belarus and Denmark.

Mafico will be involved on Friday 27th March (the day before Gateshead Away) and Tuesday 31st March – the same day as the Glovers head to Southend.

Prior to the game against Woking, Billy Rowley had suggested that – the currently injured – Mafico had turned down the chance to join up with the Wales U21s squad, but when the squad was announced at 2pm on Wednesday, his name was still on the Welsh FA’s list!

He said: “Dak has got tendonitis in his Achilles. Sadly for us, we heard a few days ago that he was going to be missing for three games due to a Wales (Under-21s) call-up which is great for him, sad for us. Injury has kept him out of that international call-up, so he has gone back to Cardiff for the next week and, as much as it would have been great for him to go on an international camp, he was going to miss three games for us. It might mean now if we can help him with this Achilles problem, he might only miss two games for us.“

Congratulations on the call up either way, Dakarai!

The Football Association have confirmed to the Gloverscast that Aaron Jarvis will serve a two-match suspension after picking up his 10th yellow card of the season against Woking.

The game was the Glovers’ 37th league game, which does represent the cut off point for a 10-yellow card ban, meaning had he gone unscathed last night, he would have had to get to 15 bookings before a spell on the sidelines kicked in.

Jarvis has already served a suspension this season following his red card vs Rochdale in February and will now miss the games against Morecambe and Wealdstone before being available for the trip to Gateshead on March, 28th.

Yeovil Town manager Billy Rowley has said that the second half performance against Boston has left him feeling ‘frustrated’ after the Glovers too the lead, but fail to capitalise and take anything from the game.
Speaking to BBC Somerset after the game he said;

“Frustrated, obviously. Especially to to to go one up, away from home, a tough place, they’re obviously really high in the form guide, got some good players. I

felt first half we were definitely the better team. But how many times am I saying that at the moment? And then they score a set piece from probably their first or second entry into our box, which is obviously bit of a bit of a killer blow.
So you’re sitting at half-time and you’re trying to reinforce like good things that’s happened, and I just felt like we blew up a little bit second half and obviously they’ve got the home advantage, they started to to defend higher up the pitch and get more pressure on the ball and felt like we didn’t deal with that as well as we’d like to have done. And naturally they get some rhythm and then they go two-one up, and we’ve got a mountain to climb.

I’m frustrated, like naturally when you lose a game of football, you’re either happy that you’ve won or you’re annoyed that you’ve lost, so that’s that is what it is.

I’m frustrated that that I’m saying sort of repeating myself a lot of the times in terms of saying that we were we were good with the ball and we we got into their box more than they did ours today. We had a lot of spells in their final third that we didn’t capitalise on.

So frustrated, that’s simple as that.”

Aaron Jarvis opened the scoring, the front man notching just his third league goal of the campaign.

“Yeah, [he] did well today Jarvs, looked hungry, looked fit, got to the ball. I think we missed a little bit of speed in the back line today, I felt I felt like we were trying to get pressure on the ball and then they had good quality to to get in behind us and just some of the distances in the team was tough, so it’s something that we’re going to need to look at and improve on. But yeah, I thought Jarvis played well today and and I’m happy for him to score.”

In perhaps one of the more telling answers, he opened up on not just his own frustrations, but possibly that of the team as well;

“You walk into a half-time changing room after being the better team and finding yourself 1-1and everybody’s heads are on the floor and you’re like you’re trying to you’re trying to pick people up and reinforce good good things you’ve done in the game, but I feel like we’ve obviously we’ve had some tough games lately, we’ve had a couple of okay results, but some of the performances have been alright.

They’ve been alright, if we were to if I’m standing here now and we got beat 4-nil or 3-nil and we didn’t ever create a chance, I’d be really worried. But you know, I feel like I repeat myself here, I felt we got into their final third probably more than they did ours, I’d argue maybe after 70 minutes they might have edged it slightly, but for 70 minutes we were we were worthy of more than one goal. And you find yourself here after another loss sort of thinking ‘how’s that happened?’. So, yeah, naturally frustrated, something we’re going to have to iron out and and improve on.

I think when you play well and you’ve had loads of spells in their final third, you probably expect the score not to be one-one. You probably expect it to be at least one or two nil and now you’re you’re in a great spot to to defend the game in for 45 minutes. But we weren’t, and, it’s no secret we’re obviously struggling to score goals.

We get into some good positions. We’re sometimes a bit loose with the final decision. I think we obviously know that we’re not probably going to score three or four goals, so naturally when you’re when you’re drawing a game when you should be winning, it’s just frustration.”

On new signing Millar Matthews-Lewis’ debut;

“He probably just needs a bit of game time, he obviously hasn’t played since January after his move to Burton, so, he hasn’t trained with us, that’s that’s why he was he was on the bench today, hasn’t even had a training session with the lads.
He he made his way his own way up to to meet us yesterday in the hotel. I think I think it was a tough game for him to step into, we didn’t, at that spell in the game when he came on, we didn’t have loads of the ball or spells we could really get him on it. So, I think I’ll be able to answer that better in a in a couple of weeks.”

The manager also confirmed that Luke McCormick underwent groin surgery on Friday and that Johnathon Page will be available at the weekend.

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