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Yeovil Town have spent just £2210 on fees paid to agents and intermediaries from Feb 1st 2022 through until January 31st 2023.

This is down significantly on the £27,000 that was forked out during the 12 months prior.

This time period includes the end of one season which saw Charlie Lee (and Josh Staunton) see the season out as manager and the start of the Chris Hargreaves era through the summer and also the initial deals done by Mark Cooper

According to FA Documents, the Glovers officially had made payments to the agents of;

Jamie Reckord, Malachi Linton, Jake Scrimshaw, Jordan Young and Jordan Maguire-Drew whilst also making a payment to the agent of Josh Staunton on his contract renewal with the club.

It’ll come as no great surprise that Wrexham topped £160k for the year and topped the spending list for the National League set up.

The full list can be found below.

Club (£)  – Net total paid to Agents/Intermediaries
AFC FYLDE –  22,771
BARNET – 14,000
BATH CITY – 1,500
BOREHAM WOOD – 14,546
BOSTON UNITED – 4,730
BROMLEY – 10,868
CARLTON TOWN – 260
CHESTERFIELD – 77,194
DAGENHAM & REDBRIDGE – 32,500
DARLINGTON – 1,500
DOVER ATHLETIC – 988
EASTLEIGH – 9,925
EBBSFLEET UNITED – 5,120
GUISELEY AFC – 1,000
HALIFAX TOWN – 16,677
HEREFORD – 1,770
KIDDERMINSTER HARRIERS – 10,238
KINGS LYNN TOWN – 2,000
MAIDENHEAD UNITED – 5,380
MATLOCK TOWN – 360
NOTTS COUNTY – 68,379
OLDHAM – 80,747
SCUNTHORPE UNITED – 4,275
SOLIHULL MOORS – 26,959
SOUTH SHIELDS – 3,640
SOUTHEND – 16,889
TORQUAY UNITED – 16,583
WOKING – 18,554
WREXHAM – 163,737
YEOVIL TOWN – 2,210
YORK CITY – 27,937
TOTAL – 663,237

Full documents for 2023 can be found on the FA Website HERE

Yeovil Town History of Agents Fees

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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Whilst the scenes at Huish Park didn’t give Glovers fans much to get excited about, could any of the on loan cohort make things any better, let’s find out.

In the National League, Woking came from behind to beat bottom side Maidstone United with an injury time winner, Charlie Wakefield came on in the 82nd minute.

Scunthorpe were on the wrong end of a 4-0 thrashing from Notts County, defender Ben Richards-Everton credited with an 11th minute own goal.

All in all, two good results for Yeovil.

In to the lower leagues, Oxford City took a point from their clash with Dulwich Hamlet, Will Dawes was introduced as a 74th minute substitute.

Leamington lost 2-0 in front of a bumper crowd as Boston United were in town, Ollie Hulbert started, but was taken off after 70 minutes.

Jake Graziano made his Dorchester debut from the bench but his side went down 2-0 to Merthyr Town (dual-registration watch doesn’t have quite the same ring to it)

Down at Sherborne, the result might have gone against the Zebras, but Yeovil Under-18s striker Benjani Juniot was back on the scoresheet (are you watching, Mark Cooper?).

He got his side’s first in a 4-2 defeat at Millbrook AFC, taking him to three goals from his loan spell. The Sherborne line-up also included Under-18s’ midfielder Mason Hunter too, who appears to have also joined our friends at Sherborne for a short stint – go well, Mason.

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Gillingham Town, were big winners, Rob Hollard has returned to the Glovers following his loan spell, so he wasn’t involved, and I couldn’t any team news to see if Sam Hodges had been involved.

Truro’s (Ollie Haste) game was postponed, as was the game between Toby Stephens‘ Plymouth Parkway and Charlie Bateson’s Tiverton Town. This allowed Bateson to turn out for the Under-18s in their 2-1 defeat at Bridgwater United.

Plenty more of these sides are playing midweek, more Loan Watch updates to come!

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The Football Association’s disciplinary portal has updated to confirm Matt Worthington’s two match ban.

Worthy picked up his 10th yellow card in the (very) latter stages of Saturday’s game against Halifax, a game which represented the ‘cut off’ for such bans.

As it stands he will miss both home games against Bromley (Sat 25th March) and the TV game against Southend on 1st April, his next appearance will likely be the crunch clash away at Gateshead the following Tuesday.

For what it’s worth, now that the 10 yellow card cut off has passed, the next significant booking-based milestone surrounds Jamie Reckord who sits on 12, three more between now and the end of the season would lead to a three-match ban.

 

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In what might have been one of the worst footballing spectacles the National League has ever seen, FC Halifax Town and Yeovil Town played out a 1-1 draw at The Shay on Saturday.

Gloverscast Ben was on co-commentary duty for BBC Somerset in the press box and explores the reasons for this, of which plenty were out of Yeovil’s (or anyone’s) control for that matter.

A point on the road should be taken as a good thing on the whole.

I’ll get to the game itself in a moment, but I think it’s worth noting that we are at the stage of the season where we can’t really worry too much about style of play, or level of performance, but it’s now about getting as close to 50 points as possible.

As mentioned on previous podcasts, ten 1-1 draws between now and the end of the season might be enough. Although you’d rather get it wrapped up far sooner.

After the game Yeovil manager Mark Cooper told of his pride in the squad for coming back from 1-0 down and for putting their bodies on the line.

I’ve slept on it (Rule 2) and with some of the teams below us in the table dropping points – Torquay and Gateshead drawing and Dorking losing – it goes down as a ‘good away point’.

Now to the match… well, actually no, to the pitch now.

Manager Mark Cooper leads the applause for the away supporters at the end of the game.

The Shay stadium pitch was an utter disgrace.

Yes, I know it was the same for both teams, but I have to include something on the sandy surface.

I got the chance to stand on a little bit after the game, it was exactly like running across the beach when the tide had just gone out.

It was tough to get any grip if moving at speed, but in tight areas it was sticky and sludgy enough to get your foot stuck in it.

It was basically like playing on a non-Newtonian liquid. (Ask your science teachers, kids).

There’s no doubt in my mind it prevented any kind of a football match from breaking out and could well have contributed to one – or maybe both – of the serious injuries suffered by Lawson D’Ath and Edwin Agbaje.

Lawson D’Ath is lifted to his feet after suffering a hamstring strain.

Speaking of which, I’ve heard rumours that if you win the Golden Gamble next week, the prize has been changed from cash to a place on the bench for the second half. Bring your boots if you’re coming to the game on Saturday.

Edwin Agbaje looks set to be out for a considerable amount of time, Lawson D’Ath broke our hearts again by pulling up chasing to correct an error by Ryan Law, and Matt Worthington is out for two games after a tenth yellow card of the season after ‘taking one for the team’.

Goal-scorer Malachi Linton looked more like Malachi LIMPton as he came out of the tunnel to chat after and Charlie Cooper and Josh Staunton are bandaged up enough to represent an ancient Egyptian artefact.

Alex Fisher and Jordan Maguire-Dre both looked to be nursing something or other as well.

It’s a big week in the physio room as we patch a few bodies up and get them ready.

If Agbaje is out for a while, it would make sense to try and replace that loan spot, but my word do we need some bodies.

I still haven’t mentioned the football have I?

Let’s talk playing out from the back.

Grant Smith. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

I love the commitment to the cause, it’s clearly something Mark Cooper wants to see and maybe the personnel we have doesn’t suit long goal kicks, but oooof does it make me nervous.

The best keeper in the league, two centre backs in Josh Staunton and Owen Bevan you’d hang your hat on more often than not, but with the margins so fine and meaning so much, the risk-reward balance is right on the line and at times it was inviting more pressure than it drew on us.

Finally then. What happens now? A week off, but only for the players. 

Well, the assumption is that we need to bolster the ranks (see Matt Uggla’s tweets from Saturday night – here), which is far easier said than done, we’re already oversubscribed on loans but may need to roll that particular dice again.

We appear to have already earmarked targets for the summer (what is this forward thinking… and why do I like it?) but the suggestion is we might be in a position to move a bit earlier for those, which would be helpful.

Do we need to think about recalling some loans? We have two players in Will Dawes and Ollie Hulbert playing reasonably well in the division below, we have Ollie Haste, who is incredibly highly thought of, who can play as a back up to the left side.

But more than that, we have two home games in a row, the first of which falling on Non League Day. Is there time to try and do something to entice Bristol City fans, Southampton fans… any fans of Premier League/Championship clubs to spend their international break at Huish Park?

I’ve seen some clubs offer any season ticket holder of a Premier League or EFL side a £10 ticket, or similar, but having a bouncing Huish Park will only help the lads get through 90 more minutes against a very good team.

Nine more cup finals to go…

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Another Saturday of football means it’s time once again to see how the Glovers loanees are getting on… some of them might be playing for a place on the bench at Huish Park before the season is out.

Starting in the National League where defender Ben Richards-Everton played the full 90 minutes for Scunthorpe United as they picked up a huge win at the bottom of the table, beating Wealdstone 4-1.

Oxford City were 1-0 winners in the National League South, Will Dawes was initially credited with the only goal, but an internal dubious goals panel took it off him in the game against Cheshunt.

Truro City were comfortable 3-0 winners against Bracknall Town, Ollie Haste was brought on in the 90th minute.

Striker Ollie Hulbert played the full 90 for Leamington, but they lost 3-0 away to Peterborough Sports.

Gillingham Town drew 0-0 with Bristol Telephones, team news hasn’t been made available, Rob Hollard and Sam Hodges may have been involved.

One person who definitely didn’t play was midfielder Toby Stephens who was absent from the Plymouth Parkway side.

Down at Tiverton, striker Charlie Bateson was brought on for the final few moments of their 3-3 draw with Marine.

… and finally, how about a man of the match performance from Jake Graziano? He was a stand-out performer for Sherborne Town as the Zebras drew 0-0 with Bridgwater United, fellow Glover Benjani Junior was on the bench.

Here’s a picture of Jake with a bottle of MOTM bubbly, we’re not sure he’s actually old enough to drink yet.

 

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Paul Fairclough, England C manager, has named his final 16 for the England C game against their Welsh counterparts next Tuesday and unfortunately, Matt Worthington hasn’t made the cut.

Initially named in the squad last week, Worthy was hoping to make his International debut next week at Altrincham, but with the squad now trimmed to just 11 starting players and the five subs, he will instead have a well earned rest next midweek.

Sorry, Worthy, we still think you’re our Ginger Pirlo…

Full Squad Below
Pic: Non League Paper

 

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Only one of the Gloverscast trio got eyes on the 2-1 defeat to Barnet.

Gloverscast Ben watched on the stream as Yeovil lost at the Hive and had to do so in silence as to not wake the youngest mini Barrett, here’s how he saw (but not heard) the game… he’s off to source some headphones.

Physically, it was a game too far.

The previous two results against Eastleigh and Chesterfield have been positive, four points from play-off contenders, who have gone on to put in good performances since.

Let’s not underestimate how good those outcomes were, but this one felt like we’d spent a lot of energy and had very little left.

The team news suggested as much, the slow nature of our counter attacks confirmed it.

We’re clearly nursing a few players through some games.

I’m not going to fault effort, but you are left wondering if we’re paying the price for having no physio for as long as we did.

That being said, we did have moments, but…

If you’re going to only get a few chances, you simply have to take them.

It’s perfectly acceptable to soak up pressure away at good sides, it’s fine to try and get a stereotypically away performance and try and scrap a 1-0 win and call it a day.

But, we did make chances, and I’d argue we could have made more of them.

Ryan Law had a first half header, we had moments on the edge of the box where shots were snatched at rather than placed or forcefully put into the far corner, we made some silly decisions at times which were counter productive in the final third and we had more than one cross or melee in the box crying out for someone to take the moment by the scruff of the neck.

Let’s starting chucking our bodies in the line of crosses, be a bit ugly in attack, be forceful… be a bit nasty up top.

Malachi Linton fires in a shot. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

If in doubt… keep it simple.

I’ve really enjoyed the freedom Mark Cooper has brought to this side, we’ve added play makers, we’ve given midfielders licences to play and try and get involved.

We’ve got a defence, who for the most part, have been solid and want to get involved, but sometimes, we need to keep things a bit simple in tight, important games.

Ryan Law lost the ball twice trying a little pirouette in midfield, we played ourselves into trouble at the back when a pass to or from the keeper got a bit close for comfort and finally, the second goal came from Owen Bevan trying to morph into peak Rio Ferdinand and take the ball out from the back.

Owen, you’re good, very good and I think you’re destined for the top, but just launch that one please.

Maybe, we’re not just feeling the effects physically (see point 1) but also, mentally.

It’s a fine balance and quite how Mark Cooper finds that level of releasing the handbrake, but also keeping things simple is how he’ll earn his corn over these final 10 or so games.

The game changed with the addition of Nicke Kabamba, I mean, of course it did.

He got his 18th league goal of the season when pouncing on Bevan’s mistake and it goes to show exactly what we have been missing.

That depth in quality just hasn’t been there, bringing on Reo Griffiths was a nice little addition, but how Mark Cooper would have liked to have turned around to see a Charlie Wakefield or Scottt Pollock to try something a little different or add a little star quality.

Matt Worthington ran himself into the ground (again), there’s no way he can be fully fit all the time – he’s only one yellow card from a two match ban, with an England call up to squeeze in next midweek too, you can see why M Cooper wanted to keep C Cooper out of the firing line for as a long as possible. This side is going to be squeezed for every sinue before the season is up.

Charlie Wakefield. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

and finally, The season may hang on those all important games against Gateshead and Dorking.

There was a point last night where we were one goal away from being in 17th, leaping above York and Aldershot and putting seven(!) points between ourselves and the drop zone, we are instead wondering about Gateshead’s games in hand and if they’ll start catching us up.

Fine margins don’t just decide games, they decide entire campaigns.

Scunthorpe and York both came unstuck on Tuesday night, it’s impossible not to look at other results as we play, but after a run against three play off contenders we face the teams currently in 16th, 17th, 20th and 21st before the season is out… they will define our season.

 

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Mark Cooper confirmed following Tuesday’s game against Barnet that on loan duo Josh Owers and Seb Palmer-Houlden had been recalled by parent club Bristol City.

The pair joined on loan, initially on a deal until the end of the season, just before the Glovers trip to York, but, with playing minutes at a premium duo to the number of loanees allowed in a match day squad, they have returned to Ashton Gate.

At the time of their signing Cooper noted that Bristol City were helping out financially with the arrangement.

Owers made two appearances for the Glovers, Palmer-Houlden three.

It brings the number of loanees at the club down to just (!) seven.

 

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Another positive result for the Glovers and more representation for Yeovil in the Team of the Week.

In the Non-League Paper, Grant “Best keeper in the league” Smith was rewarded for his performance against Chesterfield, but it was the goal scorer on the day, Ryan Law who made the official Vanarama version.

Good work, lads.

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Another Saturday that was threatened by snow and cancellations, but actually, quite a few Glovers got some game time out on loan.

Scunthorpe United didn’t play, so Ben Richards-Everton wasn’t involved, but here’s how the rest got on.

Starting in Oxford, Will Dawes was credited with an assist and nominated for their social media man of the match as his Oxford City sidd thrashed Hemel Hempstead 3-0.

Down at Truro, the result didn’t go the White Tigers way as they lost away at Merthyr Town. Ollie Haste played nearly 80 minutes.

The other Ollie, Ollie Hulbert started for Leamington as they drew 0-0 with Chester to continue their recent upturn of results.

The YTFC academy was also well represented in the area, goalkeeper Rob Hollard and Sam Hodges were on the wrong end of a 4-1 defeat as part of the Gillingham Town squad.

At Sherborne, Benjani started and Jake Graziano was used from bench as they overcame Cadbury Heath 2-1.

And finally, as the headline suggests, our main point is a debut goal for Charlie Bateson at Tiverton Town.

He was introduced from the bench with ten minutes remaining, got a couple of shots off and was credited with the equaliser in a 2-2 against Hendon.

Great work, Charlie.