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Non League Day across the lower leagues up and down the land has been the end to a busy week for the Yeovil Town loanees.

… that is apart from Jordan Thomas, who had a watching brief from the bench as Torquay secured a 1-0 win over Bath City in front of over 5,000 people at Plainmoor.

Will Buse couldn’t do anything about a single Chippenham penalty as his W*ymouth side lost 1-0, the Terras sit 13 points adrift of safety in 23rd. 

 

No Corey Koerner for Sherborne, he was busy making his Senior Men’s Professional Debut (not a bad Saturday!), but The Zebras have still been more than accommodating recently,

In midweek, a young Zebras side including FIVE young YTFC Players (including Blake Watts and Koerner) got a 3-0 win over Fareham Town, on Saturday, Jaydon Biss, Joe Crisp and Morgan Alexander were all in the mix again, 

Morgan Alexander scored from the bench scoring in a thrilling 3-3 draw against Millbrook.

Jacob Shore picked up 90 minutes twice this week for AFC Wellington, in a 1-1 draw in midweek and a 1-0 defeat on Saturday.

Jacob Shore – Pic C/O AroundWelly & AFC Wellington

Both George Geraghty and Sol Padmore were in the squad for Bridport as they won 3-2 over Stoke Gabriel and Torbay Police FC (catchy name, that)

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Otis Khan makes his second debut for the Glovers this afternoon replacing outgoing Frank Nouble in the starting line up.

Brett McGavin also misses out, with Finn Cousin-Dawson nudging into midfield leaving loan duo Frankie Terry and Kyle Ferguson make up the heart of the defence.

Alex Whittle skippers the side, Kyrell Wilson is the unlucky 6th loanee.

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Yeovil Town have announced the signing of Otis Khan on loan from Oldham Athletic until May 5th.

The Pakistan international returns to the Glovers for a second stint having previously represented the club between 2016 and 2018.

Otis Khan. Pic by Mike Kunz

He played 87 times, scoring 18 goals under Darren Way.

Khan tips the number of loanees at the club beyond the five allowed in the match day squad, so one of: Frankie Terry, Kyle Ferguson, Kyrell Wilson, Ciaran McGuckin and Ryan McLean will have to sit in the stands – potentially two should Sean McGurk return to the club from injury.

Welcome back to Somerset, Otis.

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It’s been a quiet week at Yeovil Town FC – and maybe that’s no bad thing.

Ian is away ill, so Ben and Dave are back with Chris Fox to chat about Solihull Moors away this Saturday afternoon and plenty more besides including your #GCQs

We’ve had a lot of love come our way these past few days and weeks and there’s never a bad time to say ‘Thank You’ to all our support for both the podcast and website, we mean it, we’re incredibly grateful.

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Yeovil Town Defender Dom Bernard has said that performances like we saw against York City will bring about results.

The Glovers wen’t down 1-0 to the Minstermen, but put in a good enough display to convince the former Forest Green man that the points will pick up sooner rather than later.

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

“Football is results based isn’t it? You feel that there’s games where you might play really bad, and you pick a 1-0 and take it all day, so in the end it’s the results that count, 

But, we’ve had a hard schedule with Halifax, York and Barnet, hard running Saturday-Tuesday-Saturday-Tuesday, so you’ve got to take that into account, 

But there’s no blame on it, at the end of the day you’re out there giving it your all, that performance against York, if we implement that against any opposition, you’re bound to take something out of the game. 

We were actually really unfortunate in the end, some of the chances we had, sometime it comes down to a penalty, and those things happen. 

But there’s no excuse on our behalf, we obviously want to win as many games and we think we can go against the top teams.”

 

This weekend, the Glovers head to Solihull, who sit just a point above the Glovers and a couple of places above in mid table and Bernard is expecting a tough fixture.

“[Solihull] have got Matty Taylor as manager now, he’s gone there to try and implement his ideas, when he was manager at Wealdstone, they played good football, and they’re probably in a stage where they’re trying to mix it up, they can do that, they can mix it up both ways, 

I think at this stage of the season any game is going to be tough because different teams are playing for different reasons and I’m sure they probably look at us and think it’s going to be tough game as well and we’ve got what we want to play for, but they’re a well drilled side and hopefully we bring our performance like we did against York.

Obviously, we were unfortunante not to get a result there, but if we perform like that we’ll be alright.”

Dom Bernard in action against York. Pic Gary Brown

With plenty of new faces joining the group in recent weeks, Bernard is quickly becoming one of the more experienced members of the group and has taken a senior role in making sure the new recruits are settling in.

“I know Marcel [Lavinier] from playing with him, I like to introduce myself early, get to the lads, I like to get along with everyone really, get in there, make them feel welcome, which I think all the lads do to be fair, and make the team cohesive and really bond.

Especially in this period of time, there’s only eight games left, so, short little run to the end and the more welcome they feel the more settled they’ll be.”

 

 

 

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Yeovil Town are off to the Midlands for their National League Premier Clash against Solihull Moors and Sebastian Stockbridge won’t be far behind.

This will be Mr Stockbridge’s first National League game of the season, with all of his previous commitments being in the EFL.

In 24 games across Leagues One and Two he’s dished out, 107 Yellow cards, two reds and pointed at the spot half a dozen times for good measure.

A vastly experienced official, you have to go all the way back to 2016 before you can find his last game in charge of the Glovers, a 4-1 defeat to Plymouth Argyle; Nathan Smith, Ryan Hedges and Kevin Dawson all saw yellow that day.

Now, you may remember that fantastic 4-3 win over Barnet, also in 2016… well, Seb was right in the middle of that one too!
That does mean he awarded the penalty to John Akinde, but Liam Walsh and Harry Cornick meant that it didn’t really matter.

As far as I can tell, he’s only taken charge of one Solihull Moors game – a second round clash between Hartlepool and Solihull in the FA Cup which went the way of Pools on penalties.

He will be assisted by Daniel Flynn and Thomas Staten, Wayne Gray (not that one) will be on fourth official duties. 

Solihull Moors FC (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)
National League – Premier    
Referee: Stockbridge, Sebastian
Assistant Referee: Flynn, Daniel
Assistant Referee: Staten, Thomas
Fourth Official: Gray, Wayne

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Another Saturday rolls around and another chance to catch up on how our loanees are getting on out and about.

We start, as we always do, in the National League South.

Will Buse was in goal for W*ymouth as they pulled off an almighty shock beating promotion-chasing Boreham Wood 2-1. The seagull botherers remaining 13 points adrift of safety from relegation, but credit where it’s due for that result.

Torquay United also won. They picked up huge three points in the promotion race with an 1-0 win away at promotion rivals Dorking Wanderers. Full-back Jordan Thomas played the final five or so minutes, replacing former Glover Jay Foulston.

 

Now to our headline game, Sherborne Town picked up a 2-0 win over United Sports Portsmouth FC in the Wessex League Premier Division.

Glovers’ defender Corey Koerner, who has featured on the substitutes’ bench for the first-team recently, scored the decisive second, but we should also mention the three other members of the young YTFC cohort also going well for the Zebras.

Jaydon Biss is a regular in their starting line up at the moment and is a first year Yeovil youngster, Joe Crisp was also used from the bench with Morgan Alexander also a familiar name on their substitutes bench.

 

Now, down at Shaftesbury, there’s a 16-year old by the name of Moss Jackson, who is currently attached to our youth set-up, he scored his first Southern League Division One South goal today in a 5-2 win over Westbury.

Bridport just keep on winning, George Geraghty was once again with them, Sol Padmore has been missing the last few games due to suspension.

Wellington lost 6-1 to high flying Portishead Town, Jacob Shore was on the bench and used towards the end with the game already long gone, he did play the full 90 in a 4-3 win midweek over Oldland Abbotonians, though. 

 

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Yeovil Town host York City at Huish Park this Saturday and it falls on Mr Aaron Farmer to keep the peace at match official.

It’ll be Mr Farmer’s Huish Park debut, but we have already seen him this season.

He had arguably the best seat in the house for Brett McGavin’s worldie strike against Woking, the first of two goals in a 2-0 win for the Glovers.

You may also remember that he sent off Woking’s Jack Stretton for violent conduct after he clashed with FC-D off the ball.

He’s also taken charge of a York City game this season, he was in the middle for their loss to Boston United in mid January.

In total, 12 National League games have rendered 50 yellow cards, two red ones and four penalties.

Mr Farmer will be assisted by Leigh Crowhurst, Chris Husband with Nick Blogg on fourth official duties. 

Aaron Farmer (Right) discusses just how much of a naughty boy Jack Stretton was for Woking