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Oldham Away Tickets On Sale
2024-08-28
Yeovil Town head to Boundary Park on Saturday September 21st to face Oldham Athletic and Tickets are now available to purchase online for away supporters.
CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS FOR OLDHAM v YEOVIL
Prices rise on matchday by up to £5 (!!!) so we do advise buying in advance wherever possible.
Tickets are costed as follows: Pre-Match Day prices first with match-day prices in brackets.
Adult – £20 (£25 on matchday)
Concession [65+/18-21] – £15 (£19)
Youth [14-17] – £7 (£10)
Junior [7-13 – accompanied by adult] £6 (£8)
Child [0-6 – accompanied by adult] £3(£3)
Yeovil fans will be in the Chadderton Road end of the ground and it does appear that information on additional measures – like if carers are admitted free, for example – are thin on the ground, if you have any questions or quieries ahead of our trip to Lancashire, we suggest getting in touch with Oldham directly.
Please email us at supporter.services@oldhamathletic.co.uk, and/or call on 0161 785 5150 or 0161 624 4972.
Those in age-banded categories may be asked for ID and no-one under the age of 14 can attend without a full paying adult, those paying on the day (note the above price hikes) card transactions must go through the Ticket Office whilst there should be a cash-accepting turnstile available too.
At time of writing, other AWAY TICKETS for Yeovil fans to purchase are:
Match Officials: Boston (A)
2024-08-28
Yeovil Town are back in National League action on Saturday with a trip to Boston United.
The referee for this game is Mr Neil Hair.
Helping Mr Hair to … comb… through the decisions will be his assistants Abbas Khan and Tim Walker.
Josh Crofts will be tasked with keeping Mark Cooper in his technical area.
As far we can tell, Mr Hair has only officiated two Yeovil games and they were both the early stages of the 2018/19 season.
A 3-1 loss away at Crawley and a 2-2 draw at Huish Park when Mansfield were in town.
On both occasions, he only booked one Yeovil Town player.
In order to find his Boston-related game history you have to receed even further, back to their stint in the National League North in the 2015/16 campaign.
He’s reffed five Boston games, they’ve won four.
Something I couldn’t brush past is that on two of those occasions he made the bald… sorry, bold, decision to award both the home and away teams penalty kicks.
If there’s a big decision to make om Saturday, I do hope he takes time to mullet over.
Cooper: We need to bring some experience in
2024-08-26
Manager Mark Cooper is looking to bring some experience in to his Yeovil Town side after they were beaten by an injury time goal from Rochdale on Bank Holiday Monday.
A strike from winger Connor McBride in the first minute of second half stoppage time meant the Glovers finished the long weekend with no points from their two National League Premier Division fixtures.
They travel to Boston United this weekend with the Lincolnshire outfit buoyed by an impressive win away at big-spending York City, a result which has left Cooper convinced that it will be “an open league” this season.
Speaking after the game, he said: “We need to do a bit of work in the transfer market. I have had a good luck at things now and we need to bring a couple in with a little bit of experience and we need to move a couple along, the lads who have not been playing much. We need to bring some real characters in.”
The Glovers, who were already without left-back Alex Whittle, saw defenders Morgan Williams and Michael Smith both go off in the second half on Monday.
Cooper said Williams had “a sore face after a whack off the ball“, but said Smith “just ran out of steam” when he was replaced after 69 minutes having played 72 minutes up at Gateshead just 48 hours earlier.
Asked whether the punishing schedule had contributed to the performance, the boss said: “The EFL and Premier League spend so much money on sports science and focus on recovery and the boys who do not have so much access to that get asked to play twice in 48 hours. It seems crazy to me, but that is the National League.”
Overall, Cooper said he felt his side made a contest of the match for the first hour and did not deserve to finish the match empty handed – but they were undone by an individual error.
He said: “For 60 minutes we played really well, controlled the opposition and we should have been comfortably ahead, but when you do not do that you have to be completely faultless in your defending.
“We did that except for one action when one of our lads has run out of a great position and their lad gets a free shot from 20 yards out and we get punished for it. No way did we deserve to lose.”
Man of the Match Voting: Rochdale (H)
2024-08-26
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2024-08-26
Yeovil Town have made four changes for the Bank Holiday Monday match with Rochdale at Huish Park today (3pm kick-off).
On-loan Bristol City defender Raphael Araoye, midfielder Charlie Cooper and forwards Jordan Young and Frank Nouble are all named in the starting XI having missed the 3-1 defeat at Gateshead on Saturday. Captain Matt Worthington, Sam Pearson and Harvey Greenslade all drop to the bench, whilst there is no place for Jordan Thomas.
The visitors also make four changes including bringing in former Yeovil loanee Courtney Senior to their starting XI. The winger arrived in Greater Manchester in the summer following his release by Barnet.
Substitutes: Matt Gould, Finn Cousin-Dawson, Matt Worthington, Sonny Blu Lo-Everton, Sam Pearson, Dylan Morgan, Harvey Greenslade.
Match Officials – Rochdale (H)
2024-08-25
Bank Holiday Monday and Huish Park is the setting for the Glovers taking on Rochdale.
Do referee’s get time-and-a-half for working on Bank Holidays? I assume not, but if they do, here’s who is earning that coin.
Alan Dale will take charge of the game.
Dale has been a referee at this level for a number of years and has taken charge of five Glovers game in his time, two of which were at Huish Park.
Both of those games ended in Green and White wins, as did the last occasion where Mr Dale was in the middle – a 2-0 win over Dagenham & Redbridge in January 2023 (you know, before it all went to pot).
Goals from Jordan Maguire-Drew and Matt Worthington sealed the points.
Dagenham defender Harry Phipps was sent off for DOGSO in the incident that led up to JM-D’s goal, with Daryl McMahon saying after the game.
“The referee’s decision to send Phippsy off, I’ve seen it back during the game and at half-time, Phippsy was outside the box so it wasn’t a penalty and we had two players round covering as well, so to give a red card I think is a bad decision,”
In a slightly odd twist, Mr Dale also took charge of Dagenham v Yeovil in the 2020/21 season, where he also gave a red card, this time to Luke Wilkinson – also for DOSGO – when he dragged back a Daggers attacker on the break.
Both of Mr Dale’s assistants for Monday are called Oliver, with Ollie Spender and Ollie Taylor flagging about with David Nicholson standing by just in case,.
Loan Watch: Double Win Week for WSM
2024-08-25
Will Buse has back to back wins under his belt as Weston-super-Mare picked up six points across their Tuesday/Saturday double header.
In midweek, the Seagulls were 2-1 victors against Chesham away from home before picking up a very impressive 2-0 win over Chelmsford on Saturday.
Buse played the full 90 in both games and excelled in the Tuesday game in particular.
A solid display in between the sticks from Busey at Chesham 💪
📷 @mstainerphotog pic.twitter.com/RpAAwic9Yv
— Weston-super-Mare AFC (@WSM_AFCOfficial) August 21, 2024
Down at Plymouth Parkway, they had a Saturday to forget losing 3-0 to Winchester City.
All three goals came early on in the first half before Parkway managed to stop the flow.
Corey Koerner was on the bench but was brought on with less than ten minutes left on the clock.
Sherborne we’re in FA Vase action, they drew 1-1 in 90 minutes with the Zebras progressing on penalties.
Josh Haskett was named amongst the subs but didn’t make the pitch, which is a shame
Sherborne head into the 2nd Round of the FA Vase.
Pearson: We can bounce back on Monday
2024-08-24
Sam Pearson has said that he has full confidence that Yeovil will bounce back from defeat at Gateshead with a positive result on Monday.
The Glovers went down 3-1 at the Gateshead International Stadium and welcome Rochdale to Huish Park on the Bank Holiday.
Speaking after Saturday’s game, Pearson told Gloverscast Ben he thinks there’s plenty to take into Monday’s game.
“We learnt about the quality of us. I think we showed out there that we are a good team and a lot of people are going to underestimate us this season. But we know, deep down that we are a great side.
“You don’t do what we did last season and then bottle it. So we’ll go into Monday [vs Rochdale] thinking ‘we can win this’. We just have to bounce back now and go from there.
“I think [Monday] is a great game to bounce back and get a result and, I think, if we do get a result, we’ll show where we are again. We want to be in the top half of the table and pushing and pushing.”
The players headed south after the early kick off and the former Bristol City man said that the preparation and recovery starts straight away with a game kicking off in less than 48 hours.
“You have to do what’s best for you. We’ll get boys stretching in the bus, putting ice machines on, get some ice on, physios are on there so if anyone needs rubs, whatever your preference is.
“I’ll just relax, chill out and I’ll be ready on Monday.”
The winger was, maybe slightly nervously, waiting on a notification from Mark Cooper in the group chat as to if they have a Sunday training session, but did say, that there is no doubt the group will be ready to go again.
“I think the Gaffer will put in the group chat later [if we have a Sunday training session], I hope it’s a day off to chill out and relax, but if it’s not then that’s fine. After losing you kind of want to focus on the next game and get going again.”
The final word went to the 157 Yeovil fans, some who caught flights or travelled up from Huish Park in the early hours.
“Honestly, I don’t know what to say, it’s mind blowing how many there was there. I just want to say thank you. Without them, football is nothing, the boys know that in there. We went over to clap them, and I want them to know it really means a lot.
“I’m sure on Monday, they’ll be back again, and then the game after. Home or away, all last season and this season, just good things to say about them.”