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The Glovers picked up a point in the National League, but there were plenty of other Glovers out and about picking up wins, goals… and there was even a late-in-the-season debut for our young Keeper, Max Evans.

Let’s start in the National League, Charlie Wakefield wasn’t in the Woking side that came from behind to beat Dorking – another former Glover, Rohan Ince scoring twice.

Ben Richards-Everton played the full 90 for Scunthorpe who lost away at Gateshead.

Into the divisions below, Ollie Hulbert scored for Leamington, his opener helped lead his side to a big win over Hereford.

Jake Graziano – fresh off the back of being named Toolstation Premier Fan’s Player of the Month for March – was back in action for Dorchester, but they succumbed 2-0 to Chesham Utd.

Ollie Haste was used from the bench as Truro came from behind to beat Harrow Borough 4-1, Sam Hodges was back in the starting line up for Gillingham Town, but they went down 2-1 against Wincanton.

Finally, goalkeeper Max Evans made his debut for Hungerford Town in the National League South, but couldn’t prevent a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Hampton and Richmond, with one of the goals coming from former Yeovil midfielder, Jake Gray.

Both Plymouth Parkway and Tiverton play on Saturday, rather than Friday.

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Matt Worthington has said how pleased he was with the response of the Yeovil side after coming from 1-0 down to salvage a point against fellow strugglers, Aldershot.

After the 1-1 draw he spoke with BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins and starting by comparing the game with the 4-0 defeat to Gateshead on Tuesday.

“We did play much better than Tuesday night, it was excellent, people coming off the bench but it wasn’t enough unfortunately.”

“But we’re still in the fight and hopefully the traveling fans can can see that. We need to take it on to Monday.”

“I thought we had a lot of possession in the final third like you said it’s the history of season, unfortunately we didn’t take our chances in the first half, we didn’t really test keeper enough which is probably the only the only bad thing about about our performance, but we reacted well to going one nil down, it was a very soft goal, it’s pretty inexcusable to allow the biggest player on the pitch to get a free header in their in our box so that was really disappointing but we reacted really well.”

The result still leaves the side adrift at the bottom, five points from safety with five games to go, but Worthy, much like the manager, isn’t throwing in the towel just yet,

“We’ve got a lot of lads in there with a lot of fight especially me, I’ll fight until it’s impossible to that we can’t stay up and I still believe that we have a chance and we want to have that belief and I’ll keep fighting.

“(the goal) was brilliant, like I said we reacted really well (to going 1-0 down) we had a lot of those chances in the first half but, I was just really happy that we got that goal back.” 

“I’ve got a lot of fight and that is for them (the supporters) and the club, this club means a lot to me so it’s yeah it’s it’s hard at the moment but you know we’ll keep on fighting.”

Attention turns to another huge game against Dorking on Easter Monday, a game the side are looking forward to.

“Everyone can be frustrated at times but ultimately it’s we had to stay together without a Unity it’s this point of stuff’s going up the pitch we have high standards in there and a lot of things are said after games but we put it to one side as soon as we get back and we have to roll our seats up and go again Monday.”

“Monday is a big game, I said to the lads you’ve got to enjoy that sort of pressure going to a game you have to win I think today showed that if we perform like that there’s no reason why we can’t win the majority of the games, so we have to keep believing.” 

“The gaffer is brilliant, I have nothing but good things to say about him he’s a great manager for this level and he’s constantly encouraging us, picking us up no matter what sort of criticism he gets he’s given us players a lot of belief and like I said we fight for the gaffer, we fight for the club, the fans, the backroom staff.”

 

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Following the Glovers’ 1-1 draw with Aldershot on Good Friday, Mark Cooper hailed the improvement from the Tuesday night defeat to Gateshead.

Speaking post match to BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins, he thought his side were denied a late penalty but that more than just a point was deserved.

“I thought from start to finish we were outstanding, yeah of course we made some mistakes, committed, one mistake from us from the corner you know you you’re relying on people to do their jobs and and we let somebody get free header in the Box.

But, you take that out – of course at the end we’re pushing bodies forward and they have a couple of counter attacks – but their players were going down like flies and we kept going, we kept going we kept going and that’s an horrendous decision from the referee at the end it’s a blatant penalty, everybody in the stadium sees it and he panicked. I think he thinks I can’t give that that late in the game.”

“it’s a great performance, a great following, nice to see the prospective owner and his friend in there leading the chants and, yeah great following.”

Callum Harriott returned to the side to grab a late equaliser, in a game which saw plenty of changes including seeing Jordan Maguire-Drew in an unfamiliar role centrally.

“We’re just trying to find a formula you know, we’re playing with a lack of front players and we’re trying to cover that up.
Jordan Maguire-Drew. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

We played Jordan McGuire-Drew in midfield today him and him and the other midfield players were really good I thought, some good performances and if we play like that until to the end of the season we have a chance (of staying up)”

“When you get the fans behind you, you see the response you get from the players and it’s so productive when they’re like that.” 

Yeovil did fall 1-0 behind early in the second half, but Cooper was pleased that his side were able to get back into the game.

“When confidence is low it’s easy to cave in when you go one or down but I thought there was some real top performances today and I thought we deserve to win the game. ” 

In the dying embers of the game, Aldershot had the chance to get all three points after Chiori Johnson was adjudicated to have fouled a Shots’ attacker gifting the hosts a penalty – which they would blaze over the bar. The decision was a contentious one from referee James Durkin.

“It’s difficult to see for me but I thought he looked to me like he diverted the ball in a different direction but referee couldn’t wait could he? When it was at the other end he was never going to give it.”

“We should have won the whole day felt like we were here, everybody was here and we were going to, I spoke to the players before the game, no matter what’s going on, all the outside noise it’s just about going back to when you were seven or eight years old in the playground, it’s not about we have to win and we’re going to get the club around again it’s about enjoying go and enjoying your football and we tried to take the pressure off them and I thought they were magnificent.”

Attention turns to another huge game against Dorking, the third of three against relegation rivals, and Cooper believes that his side are still in the fight to survive.

“We’ve got to keep going if we win on Monday then we could be two points and you know if we get to the last game who knows we’ve got games obviously we’ve got a really difficult one against Wrexham but the others are winnable.” 

“It was a great performance, that’s what I’m I saw what we’re asking for, a great spirit, we know where we’re short and we can’t affect that now because we can’t do anything about it but as long as we get that that commitment we’re fine… we’ve got a real core group of players that want to scrap or want to fight for everything and we’re going to need that in the last five games.”

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Can anyone really believe it has been 20 years since that incredible side blitzed the Nationwide Conference?

I can’t.

As part of our celebrations, we’ve put together images of the Programme covers that we could find… but as you can see below, it’s not a complete set and that’s where we need your help.

If you have any Programmes out there, collecting dust or in an old collection, can you take a snap of the cover and sent it to ben@gloverscast.co.uk and we can update the gallery below.

For now though, sit back and enjoy the covers and take note of how youthful all the lads look!

Now I feel old!

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Yeovil Town’s final game of the 2022/23 season will now kick off at 5:30pm on Saturday 29th of April, the National League have confirmed.

Glovers fans heading to London for the game against Boreham Wood will have to wait a little longer for the season to come to a conclusion.

As ever we will have a fully updated Ciderspace Away Travel guide for you closer to the time.

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The Gloverscast is celebrating a couple of key anniversaries over the coming weeks and to help kick start the festivities, we have launched a competition in asscotiation with HomelessGhostPrints

In order for your chance to win an A3 Sized Yeovil Town Print – as seen below.

Head to Twitter, Retweet and Like the Gloverscast post pinned to the top of the feed advertising this competition and then make sure you’re following both @Gloverscast and @PrintsGhost

The competition will run until Wednesday 12th of April at 5pm when a winner will be chosen at random and contacted by the Gloverscast.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled for some cool stuff celebrating 10 years since 2013… and 20 years since 2003!

 

 

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We at the Gloverscast have been trying to salvage the best and most important part of the Ciderspace archive and we are proud to share with you the first full match page from the 2002/03 run in.

On April 5th 2003, the Glovers beat Telford 3-0 with goals from Michael McIndoe (x2) and Kirk Jackson.

Click on the link below for the Full Ciderspace Match Report from Noddy Elms, including the original team news graphics.

You’ll find the original Man of the Match results, a full match gallery including some familiar faces in the crowd shots as well as a snap of the Match Day Programme cover.

Finally, we’ve embedded the excellent footage from the YouTube Channel Green and White goals of the Kirk Jackson goal.

CLICK HERE

 

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The Footbal Association’s Disciplinary website has updated to show Miguel Freckleton’s one-match ban following the defenders red card against Southend.

Freckleton, on loan from Sheffield United, was show two yellow cards in the live TV game on Saturday evening, the second of which was certainly on the ‘soft’ side.

Nevertheless, the red card stands, as does the one match ban.

As such, he will be missing for the trip to Gateshead bur will be available for the Aldershot-Dorking Easter double header.

 

 

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In yet another highly passionate post-match chat, Yeovil Town captain Josh Staunton has promised that he’ll not give in as the Glovers stare relegation to the National League South in the face.

We at the Gloverscast would encourage anyone to listen to the full eight minutes from the skipper, we’ll post the full YouTube clip below.

On the match itself, Josh was clearly frustrated at conceding two and scoring none: “At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it’s two really soft goals at one end and not putting it in the goal at the other end, to be honest, there’s not really a lot I can say, it was the story of the game and the story of the season, it’s disappointing.”

On the horrible injury suffered by Alex Fisher, Staunton sent the striker his best: “At the end of the day, forget football, that’s not a nice thing to see regardless of whether you’re living your day to day life, when you go down and one of your players is in agony, his leg is clearly in a very, very bad way, it’s rocks you a bit psychologically, it wasn’t ideal as we had players around it, which leaves you in a curious position to try and focus on a game when you’ve just seen your mate and I don’t know if that puts a bit of fear in you. It was important we rallied the troops after and it gave us an extra incentive to try and go and do it. We send our well wishes to Fishy and we’ll be with him every step of the way.”

Now, here’s where Gloverscast Ben wants to use some editorial licence, listen to the skipper talk about the situation and the upcoming seven games, listen to his voice, listen to how every single word means something. Sorry for the long quotes below, but every word was worth reading, typing and understanding.

“Look, I don’t need to sit here and try and save myself for the club, but what can we do? We can either give everything we’ve got – the players that are available, and give everything we’ve got for seven games and see where it takes us and start finding excuses and pointing fingers at everyone else but ourselves, but that’s not what we need to do.”

“I’m not a silly man, this is Yeovil Football Club, we are a massive club at this level and the situation we are in in ludicrous really, it hurts, it hurts me every day, I wake up and come into this place it seems to be a glaring reflection of what we’ve put ourselves into and they (the fans) are well within their rights to (show their frustrations) the fall that this club has had, look I’m part of it, unfortunately, I’m a guilty party, but they turn up, they turn up and support us and when we actually look like we can attack they support us. 

“I think, as soon as the second one went in, I don’t blame them for their dejection and turning their back on us. It’s our job to try and get them onside, and I thought we had periods of the game where we played good.”

“To be honest, we don’t actually have to play well at the moment, it’s just that we have to try and find a way to do whatever we can to get a result.

In the last few games we just don’t look like we are capable of that.”

“But this isn’t me resigning to defeat, Jesus, I’ll go down swinging, I’ll take every punch someone has got to give me, there were times I thought we were going to get back in the game, we are just falling on the wrong side of lady luck at the moment, and we are definitely not helping ourselves with our decision making,” 

“I said to the boys in the week, as a footballer, regardless of what level you play at or what level you go to play at, you probably wont face a bigger week in your life as a footballer, in terms of, they can make or break your season, and they are pivotal.”

“It hurts me saying it, because we really shouldn’t be in this situation, it really does, I feel like a punchbag, I’ve been smashed to pieces today, to be honest, but we have got a big week, you can either sit there and cry about it, or you can get yourself up for Tuesday and give it everything you’ve got again and show yourself as a character and as a man”

“We’ve got to understand pressure, I said to the boys, two years ago we lost our captain nearly to the day and myself personally, I had a very close friend who we lost three years ago, and they’re real pressures in life, and it’s important that you can’t take the weight of the world onto the football pitch, there’s no need, and I’m trying to relay that message to the boys, you’ll face bigger pressures than this in life, so you have to stand up and show yourself in situations like this, it’s not a time to wilter, it’s a time stand up as a character, to feel the shirt with pride and display what Yeovil is about.”

“You should thrive under pressure, if you want to be a professional footballer, you want to strive to play at the best level you can, you need to learn to strive and to play under pressure – and it brings the best out of you, because if it doesn’t, we all know how that ends.

We can’t hide it forever, there is pressure, players are playing under pressure, it’s not proper pressure – there’s proper pressure in everyday life and you need to open your eyes and realise that.

I understand, but this is 90 minutes of your life where you can express yourself and you have to have the freedom, you have to have the,… urm… balls… to express yourself or the game will leave you behind and we have to find that for seven games, it’s my duty to the football club to find something and I’ll die trying,”

OUR. CAPTAIN.

 

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Look, we are all a bit miffed after the Southend game, let’s just rattle through this weekend’s loan watch.

Ben Richards-Everton played the full 90 minutes and was booked as Scunthorpe lost 1-0 in their relegation six pointer against Torquay in the National League.

Ollie Hulbert started and completed an hour for Leamington who lost 2-0 to Alfreton.

Benjani Jr was in the starting line up for Sherborne who lost 3-0 against Clevedon Town.

Jake Graziano was an unused sub for Dorchester in their 2-2 with Salisbury.

Ollie Haste was an unused sub for Truro who lost 3-2 away at Beaconsfield

Plymouth Parkway, Gillingham Town and Tiverton Town all had their games called off with waterlogged pitches – Sam Hodges and Charlie Bateson were in action for the Glovers’ Under 18s instead.

Woking didn’t play, so a free weekend for Charlie Wakefield.

That’s yer lot, rubbish Saturday all round, really…