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What’s better than one friendly to look forward to? That’s right. Two!

Yeovil Town will kick off their pre-season campaign away at Exmouth Town of the Southern League Division One South.

The Glovers will head to Southern Road on Saturday July 5th – for a 3:00pm kick off.

Exmouth are managed by former Torquay United player Kevin Hill, who played over 150 times for the Gulls where he was a regular team mate of Chris Todd and Chris Hargreaves. 

Ticket details are yet to be confirmed.

This is in addition to a Wednesday night match against Sherborne Town a few days later.

Cover image c/o The Groundhog Match Day Blog – https://thegroundhog.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/exmouth-town/

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No sooner does one season end, another cranks into gear.

Yeovil Town will take in a midweek trip to the GMS Windows Arena to face Sherborne Town during pre-season.

The game takes place on Wednesday 9th July with kick off at 7:30pm

The two sides have worked closely over recent seasons with plenty of young Glovers, including Corey Koerner, given plenty of exposure to senior, Men’s football.

Tickets for the game are just a fiver for adults, concessions can get access for £2, under 16s are admitted for free.

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Yeovil Town legend Marcus Stewart has left his role as Head of Player Development.

Stewart has been in the role since the summer of 2022, rejoining the club for a second spell having also been an integral part of the 2007 Play Off Final Squad under Russell Slade.

Stewart, departs the club as one of the the most fondly remembered people to ever don the Green and White.

Marcus, with the club’s support, has continued in his role whilst balancing his immense fund raising efforts for Motor Neuron Disease charities following his own diagnosis a number of years ago.

Here at the Gloverscast, we’d like to place on record our sincerest thanks to Marcus, for the goals, the memories and for taking time to join us on one of the most brilliant episodes of the GloversPast. 

 

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THE GLOVIES 24/25 – THE WINNERS

The voting lines are now closed, the votes have been counted and verified by our independent(ish) adjudicator, and it’s time to reveal the winners of the 2024/25 Glovies.

Player Of The Season

Open to All Players who made 15 or more appearances during the season.
Previous Winners; 20/21 – Tom Knowles, 21/22 – Morgan Williams, 22/23 – Josh Staunton, 23/24 – Jake Wannell

🥇 Brett McGavin – 117 Votes – 30.2%
🥈 Charlie Cooper – 97 Votes – 25.1%
🥉 Alex Whittle – 50 Votes – 12.9%

Shooter McGavin lets fly
Pic Gary Brown

Young Player Of The Season

Open to all players ages 23 or younger on the final day of the season who made 10 or more appearances
Previous Winners; 20/21 – Tom Knowles, 21/22 – Morgan Williams, 22/23 – Owen Bevan, 23/24 – Sonny Blu Lo Everton

🥇 Sonny Blu Lo Everton – 147 Votes – 38%
🥈 Finn Cousin Dawson – 95 Votes – 24.5%
🥉 Ciaran McGuckin – 59 Votes – 15.2%

Sonny Blu Lo-Everton. Picture courtesy of Gary Brown.

Goal Of The Season

Open to all goals.
Previous Winners; 20/21 – Tom Knowles (vs Hartlepool), 21/22 – Jordan Barnett (vs Torquay) , 22/23 – Malachi Linton (vs Wrexham), 23/24 – Jordan Stevens (vs. H&RBFC)

🥇 Sean McGurk (vs Ebbsfleet Away) – 103 Votes – 26.6%
🥈 Alex Whittle (vs Solihull Away) – 78 Votes – 20.2%
🥉 Brett McGavin (vs Woking Away) 75 Votes – 19.4%

Image Of The Season

As Voted For By Our Instagram Followers
With a huge thanks to Gloverscast Photographer, Gary Brown for letting us use his match day images across the Gloverscast website throughout the season.

Harvey Greenslade celebrates his late, late winner in front of the Thatcher’s Stand. Picture courtesy of Gary Brown.

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Yeovil Town Women have announced that First Team Manger, Paul Knight has left the club by mutual consent.

The women played their final game of the season on Sunday and led the side to third place in the South West Regional Womens Football League Division One South, following their promotion campaign in 2023/24.

The Women’s side had a record of 11 wins, six defeats and just one draw in the 18 games this season, with a highlight of the campaign being leading the side a 7-1 win at Huish Park against local rivals W*ymouth.

In a statement, the club said that they were still fully committed to investing in the next chapter of the women’s team and thanked Paul for his work over the past two seasons.

Yeovil Womens manager Paul Knight
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It’s that time of the year again. 

The end of the season means it’s time to hand out the gongs. 

We want your vote for Player of the Season, Young Player of the Season and Goal of the season.

Voting ends on Friday 9th May – Winners will be announced on Monday 12th May.

A reminder of the previous winners.

Player of the Season
20/21 – Tom Knowles
21/22 – Morgan Williams
22/23 – Josh Staunton
23/24 – Jake Wannell

Young Player of the Season
20/21 – Tom Knowles
21/22 – Morgan Williams
22/23 – Owen Bevan
23/24 – Sonny Blu Lo Everton

—- VOTING IS NOW CLOSED —–

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Ref, Referee, Match Official

45 down, one to go.

Yeovil Town head to Aldershot Town on Monday for the final game of the season, and the referee for the occasion is Mr Niall Smith.

Smith has been the man in the middle just 13 times across the National League divisions this season, but has also been regularly holding subs boards up in the EFL too.

He’s dished out 55 yellows and just one red card this season, he’s also been fairly lenient on the spot kicks too, awarding just three – two of which came in the same game.

Yeovil have already had the pleasure of his company once last season, he marshalled the 1-0 away win over Taunton Town in the National League South, a single Frank Nouble goal the difference.

Jordan Young, Jake Wannell and Michael Smith all had their names taken, but he doesn’t even get a mention in our match report – which is usually, a good thing.

Niall Smith has Steven Plane flying down one side (geddit?) with Adam Wilson down the other. Charles Martland is the fourth official.

Niall Smith (left) leads out the teams as Taunton face Yeovil

Aldershot Town (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)
National League – Premier    
Referee: Smith, Niall
Assistant Referee: Plane, Steven
Assistant Referee: Wilson, Adam
Fourth Official: Martland, Charles

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A short, sharp loan watch this weekend as most of the regional football came to a conclusion last week.

We start with Will Buse who sat on the bench as W*ymouth concluded their season with a 6-1 defeat to Chelmsford, Mal Linton actually gave the hosts the lead, but the game soon turned around.

Buse played 35 games for the Claret and Blues conceding 53 goals and keeping four clean sheets.

He also played eight games for Weston-super-Mare at the start of the campaign.

According to Transfermarkt, his contract at Huish Park is up this summer, we would be stunned if he wasn’t announced as being on the Glovers’ released list.

In total, he has played just eight times for Yeovil, across a loan and permanent spell.

Yeovil keeper Will Buse does well to save at the feet of Hemel striker Joe Iaciofano.
Picture courtesy of Dan Finill.

Right, then, to Torquay.

The Gulls finished off the regular National League South season in style, a 4-1 win over Hemel Hempstead, it wasn’t enough to topple Truro for the title though.

A small margin of a two-goal goal difference all that separates the sides after 46 games. 

Jordan Thomas started the game, but was replaced shortly after the hour as the Gulls searched for goals.

A second placed finish means a home play-off semi final against either Dorking Wanderers or Boreham Wood who meet in midweek.

All the best for the play-offs Jordan.

So far, this season, Thomas has 26 Torquay appearances – one goal in there – eight games for Salisbury – and another goal in there too – on top of his five games for the Glovers, starting just once, the 3-1 away defeat to Gateshead.

Jordan Thomas. Picture courtesy of Iain Morland.

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Yeovil Town host Sutton United this Saturday and the match represents a first National League appointment for our referee, Emily Heaslip.

That’s not to say she isn’t experienced, she’s vastly experienced and has refereed at the top level of the Women’s game in the WSL. She reffed the 2025 Women’s League Cup Final and led a trial of having referee’s wearing microphones in the WSL. 

She’s taken charge of 11 games in the National League regional divisions, all since the turn of the year. She’s dished out 24 yellow cards and two reds.

As you might have guessed this is the first time she’s officiated either Yeovil or Sutton. 

She will joined by Jack Clench and Daniel Flynn with Kevin Morris in charge of marshalling the dug outs. 

Yeovil Town FC (First Team) v Sutton United FC (First Team)
National League – Premier    
Referee: Heaslip, Emily
Assistant Referee: Clench, Jack
Assistant Referee: Flynn, Daniel
Fourth Official: Morris, Kevin

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It’s time for a bumper Easter edition of the Loan Watch, strap in, there’s lots to get through.

Let’s start in the National League South, where Torquay are one of SIX, yes, SIX teams who can still win the league with a single game to go, bonkers.,

Jordan Thomas started both of their Easter weekend games against high flying Truro and low lying W*ymouth, the Gulls won them both.

On the other hand, Will Buse had a less enjoyable time for The Terras.

Firstly, on Friday, our claret and blue friends gave up a 2-0 lead against Salisbury, before getting a pasting from Torquay on Monday. That said, Buse didn’t do much wrong.

Into the regional league now and as the headline suggests, Sherborne and Yeovil have continued their relationship with plenty of minutes for plenty of young Glovers across  plenty of games.

The Zebras played on, Sat 12th, Mon 14th, Weds 16th and Saturday 19th since the last update, a bonkers final week.

All of Joe Crisp, Ollie Hughes, Corey Koerner, Jaydon Biss & Blake Watts got time both from the start and the bench, plenty of moments to highlight, but I’ll pick out Blake Watts getting MOTM in one of the game, here’s a picture of the 17-year old being presented with a bottle of (Non alcoholic – honest, guv’) bubbly.,

After the final game of the season at the weekend, Sherborne Town 1st Team Manager Neil Waddleton told the Gloverscast:

“I truly value my relationship with Matt Percival at YTFC. Together we have created a pathway at Sherborne Town for young lads at YTFC to develop and gain valuable experiences within the game. The lads we have had this year have been fantastic. They have shown great aptitude and attitude. Their development is visible and they have been a great for us at Sherborne Town. We are looking forward to many of them returning to preseason and going again”.
Isn’t that nice!? There’s been a steady stream of young Glovers dipping in and out of the sides at Sherborne, including plenty getting time in their reserves, I’ve tried to cover as many as I can, and apologies if I’ve missed any but it’s been great to see the young YTFC players getting competitive game time.
 
We keep going, To Wellington, where Jacob Shore played twice over the Easter weekend, including in a 2-0 win on Monday to wrap up their season.
The defender has chipped in with a couple of goals this season.
 

Over at Bridport, Sol Padmore and George Geraghty were both in their first team squad for a 4-2 win over Axminster on Good Friday to wrap up their league campaign.

Padmore has been involved pretty much the entire season, whilst Geraghty’s goals for the U18s has seen his progression into the first team come as the campaign grew on.

Moss Jackson-Collis, just a 17-year old, was used from the bench as Shaftesbury and Larkhall played out a draw, which was enough to secure them both safety in that division.

And that’s just about it, there have been so many cool moments of young players getting out on deals and playing locally, many of the regional divisions are now finished with the National League South duo still with work to do.

I hope you’ve enjoyed reading these updates, they’re not always easy to put together, so I’d like to say thanks to the people that have helped along the way, including Daniel Shore, John Hallett and Sam Bowers who have sent information, and line ups and to those who have allowed us to use images of the lads in action.