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Yeovil Town defender/midfielder (or quite frankly whatever/wherever you need him to be), Finn Cousin-Dawson says that the key to maintaining the recent success is to take things one step at a time.

Speaking to BBC Radio Somerset’s Jack Killah he said the team is feeling good following a busy spell;

“Obviously it’s really tough week or so with three games in I don’t know how many days, but yeah, recovered well. So, yeah, feeling good.”

“I think [the manager change] brought us really together as a group and I think you can see that in the results and the way we’re playing. You know, we’re  fighting for each other, we’re running for each other and yeah, morale’s been good.
I just think work rate. I think if you go in every game working as hard as you can, working hard in the team, then you give yourself a good chance to win a game, and with the quality we’ve got in  the the forwards of the team, then we’re always going to score goals.

[It has] just given the front lads a bit of freedom. I think, not that there wasn’t before. I think we’ve kind of I think we’ve just maybe clicked a bit more.”

With Boreham Wood visiting on Saturday, FC-D said that it’s important that Huish Park is loud to make it a tough place for any side to visit.

“They’ve obviously come up and uh done well this year, but it’s like every other team in this league. There’s no easy game. Nobody’s going to let you have three points. So it’s just like every other game going with a mindset of we’re going to win the game.

I think when the when the crowd come and they’re loud, then it’s a really hard place to come for away team.

Yeah, definitely. But for me, it’s just we just got to look at Saturday, you know, look at the next game, try to win that. If not, you go again the week after. But you just got to take it game by game.”

On his own role in the side, he said that adapting to midfield responsibilities hasn’t been easy, but that so long as he’s in the side, he’ll give everything for the cause.

“I just enjoy playing, probably more comfortable as a centre half, you know, I’m still learning obviously, I’m learning on a job in midfield, but wherever I’m asked to play, I’m going to give 100%. So, it doesn’t change that.
[I’ve played in midfield] maybe a couple times, maybe two, three times. Yeah, that’s it. Obviously started last season um just kind of in there to break a lot of play up and try to keep it simple.
Obviously this year being a bit in and out, probably found it a bit harder at the start, but no, I enjoy both. 

I’d probably say we’re all quite different in a way. Obviously Macca, Brett, Coops, whoever’s been in there, all really good players, so yeah, it’s good. It’s good healthy competition. So I think whoever’s in there have done a good job this season and we’re all working hard for each other. “

Andrew Oluwabori has been named your Gloverscast Player of the Month for September.

Despite only being in the voting from the Tamworth game, he picked up eight points and two individual Man of the Match awards (vs Aldershot and Altrincham)

Which means, despite being on the same number of points as Jed Ward, he gets the nod on MOTM Countback.

As a reminder, All MOTM winners are awarded 3 points towards a monthly total, second gets two, third gets one with any ties settled by the number of individual first places they get.

Ward, who won the August title finishes second with eight points and one MOTM, whilst Josh Sims finishes third despite he and Luke McCormick getting seven points each – Sims was MOTM twice. 

Josh Sims has been declared the Gloverscast Man of the Match vote winner for the 2-1 win away at Sutton United in midweek.

The former Southampton man picked up a whopping 74% of the vote, by some distance the largest majority a MOTM has claimed this season.

Andrew Oluwabori was 2nd, Jed Ward was 3rd.

Andrew Oluwabori has been named in the National League team of the midweek after his match defining performance against Sutton on Tuesday.

His opening goal gave the Glovers a first half advantage and the first step towards a third straight win.

Yeovil Town’s Interim Manager Richard Dryden has been nominated for the league’s September Manager of the Month award.

The official website says the following:

Richard Dryden (Yeovil Town)

Penny for the thoughts of Yeovil Town fans last month after Danny Webb was appointed, and resigned after just a few days. But Richard Dryden provided the calm amid the chaos. He won his game as a caretaker before Webb’s arrival and was handed the job full-time the moment he left.Three brilliant wins suggest things happen for a reason.

W 1-0 Woking
W 4-1 Aldershot Town
W 1-0 Altrincham
W 2-1 Sutton United

It’s worth noting that he was also in charge for the 1-0 away win at Solihull Moors also and that performance deserves a nod of appreciation.

Dryden has been nominated along side Robert Savage (FGR) Luke Garrard (Boreham Wood) and Jimmy McNulty (Rochdale).

It is our opinion that the National League should take into consideration the context that has surrounded the club and award the final trophy to Richard Dryden.

Great stuff, Richard!

Not many teams keep Altrincham at bay this season, but the Glovers did.

A single Morgan Williams goal was all that separated the two sides at Huish Park and for the second game in a row, Andrew Oluwabori was declared the Gloverscast Man of the Match.

Morgan Williams’ goal lands him a place on the podium of votes too, with Jed Ward keeping up his fine record of getting your votes.

Yeovil Town penalty hero Aaron Jarvis has said that the squad is “buzzing” after picking up a third straight win on Tuesday.

Speaking to BBC Radio Somerset’s Josh Perkins he said;

“We’re going on a great run now, it was a bit of an end to end game, especially in the first half, each goal was getting a lot of action, but we managed to do what we had to do today and that’s get another win on the board.”

The front man put home a second half penalty to land his first goal of the campaign and said it’s been a fair bit of time coming.

“I’ve been waiting a long time for that penalty, I haven’t actually been on the pitch when we’ve had one, it’s a sign, so, yeah, I was going to put my hands on that and put it down on the spot, I knew where I was going the whole time, and I’m glad to get off the mark.

I think I kind of deserve one with the amount of fouls that I don’t get, but like I said, happy to help the team get the three points today

It’s been a bit stop-start, especially this season, whether that’s not being selected or picking up a little knock here or there, but I’m there when needed and hopefully I’ll get a few more opportunities.”

After a run of form which has seen the Glovers get within touching distance of the play-offs he said the squad is in a good place. 

“We’ve had three games in the last six days and a bit of travelling as well, so credit to the boys and the whole squad, we need to use the numbers especially off the bench as well, it’s not easy for the boys, but three wins from three, we are absolutely buzzing.”

Yeovil Town’s interim manager Richard Dryden says that the dressing room has real belief after notching up a third consecutive win.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Josh Perkins after the Tuesday night win over Sutton, he said that the whole club was in a good place after a busy few days;

“It’s been a good week, it’s been even less than a week, because it’s Wednesday-Saturday-Tuesday, it’s been a good week for the club, a good week for the players and for the fans.

Great support tonight, on a Tuesday night coming all the way up to London, it’s great support and it’s very much appreciated.”

Andrew Oluwabori got his first goal of his second loan spell with the club in the first half with an Aaron Jarvis winner proving to be the decisive moment of the second half; speaking of the loanee Dryden said;

“I just don’t know how he keeps the ball sometimes, I don’t know how he keeps the ball, but he does something, he looked a little bit tired first half, we had a bit of a chat at half time about doing a bit more of the horrible stuff – which he did – but his attitude towards being attacking and being positive is fantastic.”

“[The half time message] was do much the same, we had to be a little bit wary because of the number of minutes that the lads have had, I’m big on if you’re fit from winning a game, then go out and play again.

Tav did brilliantly, but I just thought he looked a little bit tired as the half went on and he’s done a lot of minutes on a short pre-season, but he’s been fantastic, and when you’ve got someone like Jarv to come on, it’s a big bonus.

We’re heavy up front with good players and players who can run as well.”

Yeovil have a thin squad, naming the same starting XI for the third game in a row and there was plenty of praise for how the side saw the game out too.

“The keeper made a great save first half, the back three, the wing backs – Simsy, is just a great right wing back when he should be playing as a ten, but how can you get him out of that position with what he’s done today? there are a lot of positives again.

I haven’t looked at the [Sutton] goal, I know it was a bit of a scramble, but it was a great finish, 

It was a great finish, nice to see it go by Jarv, but there’s that little bit of belief, when you get pegged back a little bit and there’s always a chance.

We had to sit back a little bit today, but on the counter we looked strong, whoever was up front.”

The manager took time to give his squad their dues after a crazy few weeks, with the Glovers sitting outside the play-off spots by a fine margin.,

“I’ve been here since pre-season, with a good manager in Mark [Cooper], he’s been there, seen it and done it and got the club promoted from the league below, the roots were there, you could see it, that little bit of belief and we’ve got a good squad, we’ve got a little bit of experience, but we’ve got players who haven’t played in this league; Macca has come and just blossomed as the season has gone on. There’s a belief in there that we can win games and these are the games where you come and win and they’re great wins.

Now, we’ve got a lot of good teams coming up who are in the half where we are at the moment.

But I’m confident, if we set up right, we can win more games.

Let’s just keep picking up the points, there’s some real, real top class teams in this league, you can almost mark up the top eight with five or six teams already, so, we just keep plugging away and picking up points, we can’t get excited yet because we’ve got a long, long way to go, we’re a quarter of the way through the season, there’s a lots of ups and downs to come.”