Ben Barrett (Page 25)

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We’re taking a trip down memory lane for this one to commemorate one whole year since we were on the pitch at Gloucester after beating Truro to win the National League South (in the North!)

Ben and Dave are joined by Elliot Watts to talk all about it as well as chatting about the Oldham clash this weekend.

Oh, and Happy Birthday to Charlotte, a long time Gloverscast listener!

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“…and as for the officials, with Rule One rattling around my head, probably up there with one of the worst performances I’ve seen from the officials ever, at times they were literally guessing. Just pointing flags in random directions and I know Mr Stephen Copeland was a late sub for the game as the man in the middle, but it’s not all about you mate, control the game, protect the players. “

Well, this one could get awkward.

I sure hope Mr Copeland didn’t read that, or at the very least take it to heart. 

Stephen Copeland will be the man in the middle for Yeovil Town’s home game against Oldham this weekend.

The above quote comes from Gloverscast Ben’s Five Conclusions from the 0-0 draw with Tamworth, where, if you recall, he sent off Morgan Williams for an ‘Orange card’ offence.

His performance for rest of the game clearly rubbed Ben up the wrong way. 

It was the fourth time we’d had Mr Copeland as a ref, the other three without much incident, including a 3-0 home win over Wrexham.

He’s also reffed Oldham four times, but not this season.

He’s been used across various competitions this campaign and as such only has ten National League games to his name.

But in those 10 games, he dished out 52 Yellow cards, five reds and NINE penalties. 

Not one to get on the wrong side of.

Mr Copeland will be assisted by Stuart Kane and Andrew Ellis, Phillip Eddie will be keeping tabs on the dugouts and getting in both ears from the gaffers.

Best behavior, lads.

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Late heartbreak for the Glovers on Saturday, but it didn’t go well for our loan watch sides in the National League South either.

Will Buse was not able to save his W*ymouth side from being officially relegated out of the National League South. The ‘keeper has been on the bench in recent games and their 4-1 defeat to Eastbourne means they’ll be in the Southern League next year.

Jordan Thomas was a late substitute for Torquay, but their title challenge took a dent when they conceded twice in the second half to lose at home to Chesham.

The result leaves them fifth in the table, but incredibly, still just three points off the top
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Into the regional divisions, and Sherborne’s game against Cowes Sports was called off because of Ferry crossing problems, the perils of playing sides from the Isle of Wight! 

But Wellington did play, they drew 1-1 with Saltash and Jacob Shore backed up a solid midweek 90 minutes with a Man of the Match performance on Saturday.

No game for Bridport, so they, like Sherborne will have to wait for another day. 

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Yeovil Town boss Mark Cooper has said that his team needed to find a bit more energy to see the game out against Altrincham.

Speaking to BBC Radio Somerset’s Josh Perkins he said that the dressing room was disappointed in the result, but there wasn’t much in a stop-start game.

“Yeah, disappointing, there was not a lot in the game, we ran out of a bit of energy at the end, because we had to make so many subs early in the game, I think that cost us towards the end, we couldn’t put enough energy on the pitch towards the end, we’d made four subs pretty early.

We’ve got players that are not quite up to speed yet and I think that showed in the last ten minutes.”

The Glovers were forced into two first half changes with both Charlie Cooper and Alex Whittle forced off, Cooper with a flare up of tendonitis whilst Whittle was on the receiving end of a nasty challenge.

“I think, we make a sub, we put a young lad on, who doesn’t track his man in the box and he scores, 1-0 up, that’s poor, not quite up to the speed of the game.

I will say, the challenge on Alex Whittle is a really dangerous one, I could see from here, that the guy, doesn’t look at the ball, doesn’t one minute look at the ball and he leads with his – let’s give him the benefit of the doubt – leads with his arm, Alex Whittle looks like Harry Potter, he’s got an unbelievable scar on his forehead. I end up getting booked for asking the fourth official, ‘have you seen the cut on his forehead?’ and I get booked.

So our captain has to come off, which then disrupts our rhythm.”

“[Charlie Cooper] has been struggling with tendonitis, in his achilles, and his calf and he’s needed a rest for a while.

Kitey wasn’t quite ready for 90 minutes, he did well, but the last 20-minutes his legs had gone, so yeah, those two subs took off a lot of energy for us, second half we couldn’t quite get to the ball quickly enough.”

The game did see the return of Jake Wannell after injury, he was introduced at half time, but he was powerless to stop the hosts finding a late winner.

“[Jake Wannell] didn’t have lots to do, it was like, the pitch levels it up, it makes it difficult, you see the ball bouncing all over the place at times, the goal comes from the ball bouncing over Harry Kite’s leg and goes straight to their centre half who is not marked in the box.

In the first ten-minutes, we had three long throws where the ball bounced on their six yard box and nobody forced it in, so we have to be a little more ruthless there, after that, the ball bounced, and Frankie managed to finish one off.”

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Yeovil Town loan defender Frankie Terry told BBC Radio Somerset’s Josh Perkins, that he and his teammates were disappointed to not come away with a point after a last gasp Altrincham winner.

Following two wins and two clean sheets, Terry said that it was frustrating to let slip a game which he helped the Glovers get back into.

“Over the past two weeks, we’ve done so well, getting two wins, getting back on track, how we want to be, so, to concede late today is very disappointing.

I think first half, we were good, we were on top, we managed to get ourselves back in the game, we obviously had two subs early, which isn’t ideal, but the boys that came on did well.

Second half was a different game, to be fair, they were better than us second half, we just needed to be better in the second half to see the game out.”

Terry scored his first goal in green and white after Altrincham had gone ahead, probably against the run of play, but a lapse of concentration at the end, and a unfortunate bobble of the ball, allowed Lewis Baines to fire home a late winner.

“The main thing is that you have to be concentrating until the final whistle, the pitch – not an excuse – but the pitch, it [the winning goal] has taken a bad bounce, but we just have to stay concentrated, 

I’m buzzing [with the goal], obviously it would have been better with a win, but personally, I’m happy to score.

I’m really enjoying it at the moment, it’s a really good club, really good group of lads, I’m hoping to get as many games as I can and as many wins as I can.  “