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Yeovil Town’s on loan youngster Ollie Haste was named ‘Man of the Match’ for Truro as his helped the White Tigers maintain their brilliant start to the season with a 1-0 away win over Hartley Wintney.

Haste played the full 90 minutes once again and topped out 39% of the vote in a Man of the Match poll after the game.

Nice work, Ollie.

Toby Stephens was not named in the match day squad.

Gloucester City were in FA Cup action, and much like in the last round, Ollie Hulbert was not given permission to play in case the Glovers need him at some stage in the competition.

As a side note, Gloucester this week changed their manager with Lee Mansell relieved of his duties before Stephen King was announced as their new head coach.

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Yeovil Town’s Under-18s have been drawn away at Eastleigh in the Third Qualifying Round of the FA Youth Cup.

The young Glovers are through to this round after a 7 (seven) – 0 win over the Bovey Tracey Under-18s on Thursday evening. You can read more on the young Glovers’ win – here.

Eastleigh progressed with a 3-0 victory over AFC Totton.

Ties in this round are due to take place week commencing 10th of October.

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Yeovil Town Under-18s striker Charlie Bateson. Picture courtesy of Matt Partridge.

Yeovil Town’s Under-18s progressed to the next qualifying round of the FA Youth Cup Cup on Thursday evening with a comprehensive 7-0 award victory at Bovey Tracey.

Matt Percival’s side were in complete control throughout and we’re already looking comfortable when the hosts were reduced to ten men in the second half.

A hat-trick from striker Charlie Bateson, a brace from Aiden ‘son of‘ Skiverton and goals from Josh Sutton and Jacob Shore wrapped up the win.

Nice work lads!

We’ll let you know details of the next round fixture when they become available.

 

 

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Ollie Haste at Truro ? Truro City YouTube

It’s an extra special, midweek Brucey bonus edition of the Loan Watch with some added international pizzazz to throw in too.

Let’s start at Truro where Ollie Haste continues to rack up the minutes for the White Tigers.

Another 90 for him on Tuesday with his side grabbing a late, late winner against Yate Town.

Haste also had a great chance to score his first goal for his adopted side shortly before half time, but saw his header go wide

Toby Stephens was not named in the match day squad.

Off to Gloucester we go, and Olivier Hulbert, our (not in any way) French winger was a second half subtitute for the Tigers in a 1-1 draw away at Banbury Utd in the National League North.

Hulbert came on in the 63rd minute with his side equalising in the 65th!

On loan Bournemouth defender Owen Bevan was in Vienna, Austria with the Wales Under 21 side on Tuesday evening.

Sadly, Matty Jones’ side lost 2-0 in the friendly fixture with Bevan coming on in the 82nd minute for his international debut.

Get back to Somerset, sharpish Owen, we’ll need you at Southend!

 

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Yeovil Town’s loan contingent were back in action this weekend, with Truro City and Gloucester City having very different results.

Firstly, Gloucester City were on the wrong end of a 3-0 defeat at Chorley.

Glovers’ striker Olivier Hulbert started the game in Lancashire  and completed an hour before being taken off. It was his first match back having missed out on the Tigers’ two FA Cup games having been denied permission to play by Yeovil.

Down in Truro, things went a lot better for Ollie Haste, a regular now in the White Tigers’ back line. He played 90 minutes as Paul Wootton’s side picked up a big 1-0 win over Gosport Borough courtesy of a late penalty.

Haste was also the Programme cover star too, which is nice.

Fellow Glover, midfielder Toby Stephens was an unused substitute.

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Alex Fisher. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

Yeovil Town’s scorer Alex Fisher spoke to BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins following the Glovers’ 1-1 draw with Boreham Wood and the whole game came down to one word – frustrating. (Editors Note: anyone else sick of that word?)

The striker opened the scoring after 39 minutes with his first goal of his second spell at Huish Park, but just six minutes later visiting midfielder Jack Payne equalised.

Fisher said: “It’s nice to get on the scoresheet, but I’d trade that in quite quickly for three points. I thought we played really well today as a team, it seems to be a common theme, it was a bit of a clouded emotion.

“It was frustrating to not see it through until half-time. The right things were said at half-time with regards to both ends of the pitch and it felt like we had really strong territory in the second half. But it falls on the responsibility of us all, but especially (the players) up top, to get that second goal that we needed so much.

“Ultimately you train all week to put the ball in the back of the net, you can curse your luck about a goalkeeper having a good game, but we can look at ourselves and say we should have put it out of his reach.”

The conversation remained positive and Fisher was adamant that the side was not far off turning draws into wins.

He added: “It’s so frustrating for the players, I imagine it’s the same from the fans – great support again, loyal support – we don’t want these games to fall away from us. It’s something we’ve had a very stern chat about in the changing room, we know what we need to do and I can only thank the fans for their continued support. We are working as hard as we can, we know what we need to do. We are just fine margins away from achieving something very special here.

“We need to be ruthless in both boxes and that falls on us in the front line to score more goals and put more chances away. Today is a frustrating day, but there are positives to take out of it.”

 

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Yeovil Town manager Chris Hargreaves has said he isn’t feeling the pressure after the Glovers recorded a sixth draw from their opening ten games of the National League season.

Following what the boss described the 1-1 draw at home to Boreham Wood as a “dominant” performance, he expressed his frustration that his side wasn’t making it count in the “areas that mattered“.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins, he said: “It was (a dominant performance) but it doesn’t get us the three points, which is hard to take, I’ve got to admit. It’s a case of being very, very good with the ball, but in that final third not being ruthless enough.

“(The players are) absolutely giving me everything and it was a dominant, confident performance, but where it matters, is that 18-yard box and there’s enough chances in the second half to score five.”

Hargreaves promised it would be another hard week training in the lead up to next weekend’s trip to Southend United.

For the seventh time this season, Yeovil took the lead through a 39th minute goal from Alex Fisher, his first since returning to the club in the summer, but – as happened in five out of the previous six occasions- they were unable to hold the lead.

The equaliser from visiting midfielder Jack Payne on the stroke of half-time took them in level at the break.

The manager said afterwards: “(It’s) just bad decision making, thats all it is, there’s no trait or pattern that we see that we don’t talk about, we talk about it a lot. It’s just a case of staying on your feet, the basics of football, keeping your units tight and seeing danger when someone is running toward your goal.

“That’s a real dissapointment again, but what they didn’t do against a very good side who have done well over the years is wilt, they went at it and went for the throat second half.”

Alex Fisher. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

There was plenty of praise for both the Boreham Wood goalkeeper Nathan Ashmore who (again) played well against Yeovil, and Fisher who scored his second, first goal in the green and white of Yeovil Town.

Hargreaves said: “You come back here and you want to prove yourself again, there has to be some real anger, if you haven’t got the anger, you won’t be able to do it. (Alex) showed that in his goal, that he followed up and wanted to put himself in those areas, he had a couple of chances second half that I’d expect him to score… but great for him to get his first goal.”

Finally, with six draws from ten, there was the promise of effort and that the side was giving everthing, but, ahead of two tough away games in a row, Hargreaves was asked if he felt the pressure to get some results, the answer was rapid and emphatic.

“No.”

“No, I don’t feel pressure, I put pressure on myself anyway and so do the players. That’s why I’ve been in football for 35 years because I put pressure on myself, if the lads feel pressure, good, that’s good, they should want to get in the team and stay in the team.”

For what it’s worth, Boreham Wood manager Luke Garrard was gushing with praise for the Glovers’ side, he told his media team post match.

He said: “I think Yeovil will be gutted, I have to say they were deserved of all three points, they had chances to win three games, let alone one, I thought they were excellent this afternoon… they stifled us, we were fortunate to take a point this afternoon.

“We were below par… Yeovil didn’t allow us to get our game going, I thought Gime Toure was fantastic today, I thought (Sam) Pearson‘s runs in behind were fantastic, I have to give full credit to Chris and his team as, like I say, they were very deserved of three points.”

Thanks for the kind words, Luke, but leave that ‘keeper at home, next time, yeah?

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The Thatcher’s Gold Stand at Huish Park. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

The UK Government have released details of the total number of banning orders across the top five divisons.

Three Yeovil Town fans received Football Banning Orders (FBOs) during the 2021-22 season taking the total number of active orders to five.

In total, sides in the National League saw 25 new FBOs issued with Wrexham (9), Grimsby (7) and Chesterfield (4) the only sides to see more new FBOs issued than the Glovers.

The Government website reports on the overall picture across the leagues;

“Football banning orders
As at 28 July 2022, 1,308 football banning orders were in force. In the 2021 to 2022 football season, 516 new banning orders were issued, which is around 94% of the 2018 to 2019 football season (pre COVID-19) level.

Reported incidents at football matches
Incidents were reported at 1,609 football matches in the 2021 to 2022 football season (53% of matches). The number of matches with reported incidents increased by 60% (+602 matches) compared with 1,007 matches in the 2018 to 2019 season.

The most reported types of incidents were pyrotechnics (729 matches where incidents were reported), throwing missiles (561) and public order or anti-social behaviour incidents involving youth supporters (444).”

Yeovil Town’s three new FBO’s in a single season represents the worst single season figure listed on the current table which dates back to the 2014-15 season.

The statutory duration of a football banning order is a minimum period of 3 years and no more than 5 years (unless a custodial sentence is issued).

In total, five Yeovil supporters are currently subject to a FBO, all of these are categorised as being Males between 18-34 years old.

Furthermore, there were 108 ‘football related’ arrests across the entire National League during the 2021/22 season, with ‘Public Disorder’ (29), ‘Pitch Incursion’ (20) and ‘Throwing Missiles’ (13) the most common reason for arrest.

New Banning Orders for Yeovil Town supporters by season since the start of the 2018/19 season.

2018/19 – League Two – 1

2020/21 – National League – 2

2021/22 – National League – 3

The full report can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/football-related-arrests-and-banning-orders-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022-season/football-related-arrests-and-banning-orders-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022-season

 

 

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Gime Toure fires in a shot. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

What happens when you score the opening goal against the unbeaten table toppers?

You get in the team of the week, result.

That’s what’s happened to our very own French Maverick Striker, Gime Toure.

Congratulations, Gime!

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Josh Staunton celebrates his equaliser in the 2-2 draw against Chesterfield. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

Goalscoring Skipper Josh Staunton has been named in the Non League Paper’s team of the day following the Glovers’ 2-2 draw with Chesterfield on Saturday.

He’s been named in a midfield three rather than as part of the back line, but I’m sure Mr Versatile won’t mind.

Congratulations, Josh

The team in full: