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Chris Hargreaves talks to the club’s YouTube channel.

Yeovil Town manager Chris Hargreaves has said he’s been pleased with the side’s pre-season preparation after signing off the friendly schedule with a 1-0 win over Weston Supert Mare. Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins after the game, he spoke of how he was happy with the tests the side had come up against.

“A lot of the teams we’ve played, we’ve done it on purpose because we wanted them to be a test. We played Sherborne and scored a fair few goals in that game, and the games we’ve had have been League One, teams that have been promoted and teams that have recruited a lot of good players”

“That’s what we wanted, we wanted a decent test as a last game and it was. We came out relatively unscathed, a few little injury worries but we’ve worked them hard this last week and I wanted that”

“In the main, application spot on”

Hargreaves spoke of his delight at Alex Fisher getting on the scoresheet his second ‘first’ goal in Green and White after signing on for another spell at Huish Park

“He’s a fantastic lad,really good for the changing room, I’m pleased he’s got on scoresheet so that’s a positive”

There was still an admittance that there’s a bit more to do, with goals at a premium during pre-season, a desire for his side to me more ruthless still exists.

“During that first 15-20 minutes, when we are having a lot of the ball, you have got to score again and it dampens the spirit of the opposition and we didn’t do that, so that’s something to focus on, when you’re in the ascendency, you’ve gotta take your chances.”

“We’ve had chances, don’t get me wrong and as a striker you want to score, but… save it to the first game”

That first game comes up against Scunthorpe, live on BT Sport (and BBC Somerset *ahem*) on Saturday 6th August (5:20pm)

Hargreaves was hoping that a couple more bodies will be availble sooner rather than later.

“I am hoping, I am. Just to add more quality to the group, that’s all we’re trying to do… so are all the other manager’s in the league. We are close, we just need a couple more.”

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Toby Stephens claps the Yeovil fans

Yeovil Town midfielder Toby Stephens represented Truro City as a trialist on Saturday ahead of a potential loan move.

Stephens, who was not named among the Glovers’ substitutes for the 1-0 win at Weston-super-Mare, was listed as ‘Trialist C’ for Truro in their warm up match against Gary Johnson’s Torquay United.

The young midfielder signed a contract extension at Huish Park this summer and after a couple of loan spells away last season could be in line for another temporary switch.

A picture showing Stephens in the white shirt of Truro appeared on Torquay’s Twitter feed at the final whistle.

There are obviously restrictions for us sharing imagery from PPA, who photographed the match, but if you want to see for yourself… click HERE

Truro are managed by former Yeovil Town midfielder Paul Wotton.

There have been a couple reports that he and Ollie Haste could be heading out on loan deals and this would suggest things are starting to happen in that regard.

No deals have been announced, so details like length of contract are still very much to be confirmed, but we wish Toby all the best at Truro for however long he’s there.

If a deal is confirmed, keep an eye out for Loan Watch articles here on the Gloverscast.

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Sam Pearson in action for Wales – FAW

Chris Hargreaves has made a couple of changes for the final pre-season game ahead of the new campaign.

New signings Ben Richards-Everton and Sam Pearson are both named in the squad.

The former starts in the backline alongside Morgan Williams and Max Hunt with the welsh midfielder having to wait to make his impact from the bench.

Skipper Josh Staunton returns to midfield alongside Matt Worthington. Lawson D’ath misses out altogether presumably with more ‘minute managing’ on the cards for the midfielder.

There are three trialists listed – if we figure out who they might be, we will let you know.

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Reuben Reid scores
Pic: Mike Kunz.

Yeovil Town’s pre-season campaign comes to a conclusion with a game against Weston Super Mare. A match dubbed “El Ruebenico” by absolutley no-one other than Gloverscast Ben as Reuben Reid makes his first appearance against the Glovers since leaving at the end of last season.

The Glovers’ will head to the seaside with a near full strength side to choose from and not one, but TWO new signings to get some all important minutes into.

Central defender Ben Richards-Everton and young loanee Sam Pearson are in the mix, as is Matt Worthington – he was sent off in the pre-season game against Exeter and YTFC.net is reporting that he has served his sole one-match ban.

The game kicks off at 3pm

Team News

Weston have added Max Harris in on loan from Cheltenham, the goalkeeper will spent his second spell on loan.

Their most recent friendly saw them fall 2-1 at Slimbridge, a match in which a certain Reuben Reid hit the post…

Their squad is largely based of players with plenty of local experience at the likes of Plymouth Argyle, Exeter and Bristol City, they are lead by former Bournemouth and Forest Green Rovers coach Scott Bartlett.

From the manager

Here’s a strange one – I couldn’t find anything at all, from anyone at WSM about the game… so…. urm…. let’s pretend he said it would be good for the side to test themselves against National League opposition and that he’s sure Reuben Reid will be desperate to play well in the game, but only for himself and his new side rather than anything else…

That do? Why not.

Tickets

Gates will open on the day at 1:30pm. Tickets will be available to purchase on the turnstiles.

Ticket prices:

Adult – £9.00
Concession – £6.00
Under 16 – £2.50
Family (2x Adult & up to 2x U16) – £17.00
Under 8 – FREE

To purchase your tickets, click HERE.

Match Day Programme

Match Day Programmes will be available on the day – costing just £1 and can also be purchased online HERE

Directions

Weston super Mare AFC
The Optima Stadium
Winterstoke Road
Weston-super-Mare
Somerset
BS24 9AA

By Car:
Leave the M5 at Junction 21 and take the A370 towards Weston town centre. Continue across three roundabouts and at the 4th (where there is a McDonalds) turn left into Winterstoke Road. Go straight across the mini roundabout, over a railway bridge and you will see the ground on your right hand side. There is a fair sized car park at the stadium.

Please note:
CAR PARK:

Our supporters’ car park charges £2.00 to park on a match day.

Unfortunately, we are unable to accept card payment for this. Please ensure you have £2.00 available to pay on arrival.

By Train:
Weston-super-Mare Railway Station is situated around a mile and a half away from the stadium, which is a 25-30 minute walk away.

As you come out of the station entrance turn right and then follow the station approach road around to the left. At the bottom of this road you will reach a T-junction where you turn left. You will then reach another T-junction with the A370 dual carriageway, where you turn right. Continue along the A370 passing by two roundabouts and an Asda store on your left. At the third roundabout that you reach (with a McDonalds outlet on one side) take the third exit onto Winterstoke Road (signposted Weston Industrial Estate). The stadium is further down this road on the right.

 

We will do our best to bring you team news, goal updates and any post-match analysis here at the Gloverscast – if you’re going to the game and have any thoughts, opinions or whatnot, reach out to us on Twitter @gloverscast or via email gloverscast@gmail.com

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Richards-Everton in action for Walsall

Yeovil Town are delighted to announce the signing of Ben Richards-Everton on a one-year deal following his departure from Barnet.

The 30 year old had been on trial at Walsall during pre season but now joins the Glovers to bolster the defensive options.

He brings a wealth of experience with spells in Scotland supplementing vast array of EFL games on his CV.

Speaking to YTFC.net after his contract was signed, Ben said; “I’m delighted to get the deal over the line and have it sorted. I’m really looking forward to the season.

“It’s been amazing (so far), the gaffer’s assembled a good team here. We’ve got a good group of lads who I’m really looking forward to working with.”

Commenting on Ben’s arrival, Hargreaves said; “Ben arrives with a vast amount of League and National League experience. He has been part of promotion winning sides and wanted to join the club.

“He is a real physical presence and becomes another valuable asset within our changing room.

“He’s been working hard to keep fit all summer and will be amongst the squad tomorrow afternoon.”

Welcome to Huish Park, Ben.

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Glovers’ boss Chris Hargreaves

Yeovil Town manager Chris Hargreaves has called for more belief in front of goal as the Glovers played out a 0-0 draw with Dorchester Town.

Speaking after the final whistle, he told YTFC.NET he saw plenty of positives, but wanted to see more from his attackers.

“You’ve got to score when you’re on top, in any game, whether it’s National League, Football League or against Dorchester tonight. We didn’t quite have that killer instinct.”

“First half was positive, second half we made lots of changes, rested people and it become scrappy.”

“I’m not concerned about the second half as much, but if we take our chances in the first half it becomes a different game.”

Hargreaves said he was happy with the fitness levels and the return of Lawson D’Ath in the side returning under ‘managed minutes’ with the first game against Scunthorpe in mind.

However, he wanted to see more ‘belief’ going forward.

“Negatives are, just a bit more belief for our attacking players in that final third to be a bit more selfish, the boys are working their socks off”

The gaffer confirmed that he made changes to ‘protect’ a few of his smaller squad and that Tom Knowles and Chiori Johnson were missing with slight ‘tweaks’.

The gaffer said they’d be working on ‘polishing off in the final third’ with the final friendly at Weston-super-Mare on Saturday working towards players keeping their place for the first League game.

“You’ve got to believe it when you’re running near post, you’ve gotta believe it when you’ve left a man and strike across the keeper and if we had of done that it might have been a very different game”.

He also confirmed, with a wry smile, that he was trying to add to the group before the start of the season too.

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None of the Gloverscast trio were at the Avenue Stadium, Dorchester for the penultimate pre season friendly, but here’s a brief wrap up of the friendly  which ended 0-0, despite good chances falling the way of Max Hunt, Josh Staunton and Alex Fisher.

Magpies goalkeeper Harry Dillon was called into action on a couple further occasions but no one in pink and purple could find the back of the net in the absence of Tom Knowles, who was rested.

Matt Buse continued as a trialist starting the game but Chiori Johnson stepped out of the side with a ‘slight knock’. Lawson D’Ath made his first appearance of pre-season and Charlie Wakefield started his first game.

We will have further reaction on the game with Five Conclusions, but Chris Hargreaves will hope that the goals will start to flow sooner rather than later with just one pre season game between now and the start of the National League season.

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Yeovil Town have announced that Phil Osborn has joined Chris Hargreaves’ back room team as Goalkeeper coach.

As revealed by the Gloverscast, Osborn has been at the pre-season games working with Max Evans and Grant Smith.

But now that deal becomes official.

Speaking to YTFC.net he said “I’m over the moon and very excited to join the club.

“After talking to the management and already knowing the rich history of the club, it was an absolute no brainer to take the opportunity and be involved in the new chapter.”

Welcome to Huish Park, Phil!

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Striker Alex Fisher during his time at Yeovil Town.
Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

With the recent signing of Alex Fisher bringing back some memories of times gone by, it got Ben thinking… what ever happened to the side that slept walked out of the Football League?

…and because I know you have been thinking that too (right?) I thought I’d turn the clocks back to Saturday, 27th April 2019.

Avengers Endgame had been in cinemas less than 24 hours, Nick Krygios was celebrating his 24th birthday (by shouting at a line judge, probably) and the only people on the planet who were practicing ‘social distancing’ were the Glovers back four as Northampton turned around a 2-0 half time deficit to draw 2-2 and relegate Yeovil out of the EFL after a decade and a half.

This is how we lined up, and what they’re doing now.

(Oh and by the way, there were no fewer than four ex-YTFC players in the Cobblers’ starting line up that day, Dean Bowditch, Sam Hoskins, Andy Williams and Sam Foley… cheers lads)

12 Nathan Baxter

Water-bottle enthusiast Nathan Baxter has been enjoying loan spells from Chelsea ever since this stint with Yeovil.

He’s been at Accrington and Hull City twice. Very good goalkeeper

Matt Worthington in action vs Dover

8 Matt Worthington

Yeah, we had him at Right back that day.

And prior to Fisher’s return the only member of this squad still with us, well over a hundred games in green and white, a stalwart of our midfield, its safe to say we’ve got far more out of him since that season.

6 Omar Sowunmi

Club captain. His second half own goal started the second half crumble. He left that summer after a few choice words and disagreements with supporters on social media, went to Colchester, then Bromley and has signed a new deal with them.

5 Bevis Mugabi

Now a fully fledged international defender and SPL regular with Motherwell.

Left the club that summer for the top flight in Scotland and has gone from strength to strength ever since.

23 Tom James

Loved a free kick. Scored a couple of worldie, West Ham U23s and Notts County I seem to recall.

Also scored a magnificent Own Goal too.

Been around the block a bit, Hibs in Scotland, Wigan, Salford, Leyton Orient where he kept Dan Moss out the team in the second half of last season…

10 Jake Gray

I was never comfortable with him wearing the number 10, but after leaving us he went to Woking before moving to Hampton and Richmond where he still plays and runs the show there by all accounts.

20 Sessi D’Almeida

Not many players from Benin find their way to Yeovil do they?

He was alright, wasn’t he? Was he?

Hes played for Toneldo in Portugal and Valencienne and Pau FC in France since leaving Huish Park

17 Alex Pattison

Firstly, I was convinced he was called James. Apparently not.

Joined us on loan from Middlesbrough, looked lively at times. Do I recall some discontent after the now infamous ‘night out’ after the final day?

Now at Harrogate and has been linked to some Championship clubs this summer

Tristan Abrahams during his loan spell at Huish Park in 2019.

16 Tristan Abrahams

Scored a penalty in the game to get us all excited.

Newport, Leyton Orient, Carlisle all in the bag before helping Grimsby get promoted this season just gone.

Courtney Duffus in action for Yeovil Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

11 Courtney Duffus

A sore subject. Pushed out, pulled back in, part of the Non League reset with Rhys Murphy before departing to free up funds for *checks notes* Reuben Reid.

Bromley, then Morecambe, bit of time at Stockport too… shouldn’t have let him go should we?

25 Alex Dobre

Nope, me neither.

Turns out, he’s half decent. Went to Dijon in France for the best part of a Million quid from Bournemouth.

He has clearly cut the mustard (sorry) enough there to attract interest from Serie A sides… apparently

On the bench that day were…

Stuart Nelson

Stayed with the team for one season, left after play off defeat to Barnet, now at Dover.

Daniel Ojo.

Remember we released him mid season and were expecting him to show up at one of the London clubs… did that ever happen?

Gabby Rogers.

? We don’t talk about Gabby.

Francois Zoko.

Uncle Zokes, departed Huish Park that summer and called it a day from playing.

Yoann Arquin.

Scored that one worldie, then urm… didn’t do much else. Now plays for Le Havre in France.

Ryan Seager.

Scored 700 goals per game (give or take) in the Conference South and earned a move to Dorking this season.

…and Alex Fisher.

One of the few who actually seemed to give half a damn that we got relegated.

He’s back for the next two years at Huish Park after stints at Exeter and Newport and will be hoping those around him can ‘Feed the Fish’ a bit more this season.

What a story it would be if Alex Fisher, could right the wrongs of 2019 and take Yeovil back up to the EFL…

Alex Fisher. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

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Chiori Johnson

Yeovil Town have announced the signing of Chiori Johnson on a one-year deal.

The 24-year old has made starting appearances against both Taunton and Exeter during pre season as a trialist and now puts pen to paper on a contract which will keep the former Arsenal and Torquay man at Huish Park for the upcoming season.

Speaking to YTFC.net,Yeovil manager, Chris Hargreaves said; “Chiori has really stood out and impressed us during his time on trial.

“He boasts a strong background, having spent such a long period of time at an elite club like Arsenal, it has given him a great grounding.

“Having spent the last few weeks with the squad, he is ready to hit the ground running and I’m really pleased to have him on board.”

Welcome to Huish Park, Chiori!