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What happens when you captain your side to yet another home win, whilst playing out of position and score a vital goal?

You guessed it, team of the week recognition comes calling.

Cracking work, Skipper!

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Yeovil Town Skipper Matt Worthington has said he’s going to feel it in his legs for a few days after filling in at Right Back in the Glovers 3-1 win over Slough.

Speaking to the Perkins Twins after the game, Worthy said how he was pleased to get his goal early in the second half in a game that took some winning.

“It was a tough game, they set up to stop us playing and almost went man-for-man in the first half, but we had quite a few chances (that) again we didn’t take, so we came in at half time a little frustrated that we didn’t take the chances. 
We stuck to the game plan and knew that with the quality we’ve got in the team that we’d score eventually.”

Matt Worthington celebrates his opening goal.

Worthy’s goal opened the scoring for the Glovers, latching onto a sumptuous pass from Charlie Cooper, a chance the Skipper was happy to take.

“I made a couple of runs in the first half and couldn’t quite get it, but I knew as soon as he (Charlie Cooper) got it, he was going to look for the back post and I made a run and luckily I got a touch on it.”

The game was poised at 0-0 at the break, and a strong start to the second half gave the Glovers a foot in the game, it was a case of trusting the process as the game wore on.

“The Gaffer just said (at half time) that we needed to be more clinical and ruthless, which the last game as well, we didn’t take our chances, but he said stick to the game plan and like I said, we’ve got players who can finish and we got the result in the end.”

Worthy, sitting in for Michael Smith on the right side of the back four said he was going to be feeling the burn for a couple of days after smashing turf down the right flank for 90 minutes.

“It was tough, physically it was very tough, mentally as well you have to be more switched on with defensive duties, it was tough and I think my legs will be feeling it for the next few days, but it was a good experience and I got a goal!”

“Smudge (Michael Smith) is a very good player at right back, I hope he’ll be back very soon, that’ll be good.”

“It was difficult, because there was times I was pushing forward and thinking ‘oh god, don’t lose it, I’ve got to get back in’, we always stick to the way we play, the gaffer as got full faith in us and said he’d take responsibility if we end up losing the ball and I think that’s what we’ve done well all season, playing it out from the back, up the pitch and then fed the players that are going to score us goals, we stick to the game plan”

The win took Yeovil 13 points clear at the top of the NLS, with fellow promotion hopefuls Maidstone on Saturday to come, another tough away day says Worthy,

“It’ll be a difficult game, they’re up there as well, we just have to keep pushing on, concentrate on ourselves, keep picking up points, we’ll look to go there and get all three points.”

You can listen to the entire interview with Josh and Ian Perkins (no relation) below

 

 

 

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Yeovil Town have announced the signing of Olly Thomas on loan from Bristol City until the end of the season.

That’s not de ja vu, you’re feeling, back in July, Thomas joined the Glovers on a temporary deal until January, but was then recalled to be part of of a Bristol City – Newport County – Yeovil, ‘loanee triangle’.

A deal which saw Thomas head to Wales and a replacement for an injured Seb Palmer-Houlden, but the Glovers gain Joe Day.

All of that comes full circle with Yeovil now having both Thomas and Day! 

Thomas played six times for the Glovers in his first stint scoring goals against Havant and a strike to turn the tide against Truro City at Huish Park.

The 18-year-old rejoins as the Glovers are without Rhys Murphy and Jake Hyde for the “forseeable future” as per the gaffer, Thomas comes back to add some strength in depth.

Welcome back to Yeovil, Olly… your number 40 shirt is waiting to go!

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Another week goes by, for some of our Glovers loanees it was a double match week, let’s wrap things up.

We start, as ever in the National League where Barnet played on both Tuesday and Saturday and lost them both.

Jordan Maguire-Drew started in the 2-0 loss to Oldham and was introduced into the game after 70 minutes of their 2-1 defeat to Gateshead on Saturday.

Alex Fisher had two games for Oxford and played even less time, he started in Oxford’s 2-1 defeat to York City, but was taken off at half time, he was introduced from the bench in the 89th minute as his side recorded a much needed win over Ebbsfleet on Saturday.

Into the National League South and Malachi Linton started both of W*ymouth’s two games this week, completing 81 minutes against Taunton, which they won 2-0 and the full 90 in their 1-0 win over lowly Dartford too. 

There was a cleano and 90 minutes more for Ollie Haste as Dorchester drew 0-0 with Plymouth Parkway.

Melksham lost 5-1 to Larkhall, but that one strike did come from Glovers loanee Benjani Jr 

 Sherborne beat Cowes Sports FC 4-2, Aidan Skiverton was named on the bench, no evidence as to if he came off the bench though… there is evidence though that Charlie Bateson did.

He came on in the 66th minute against Nailsea and Tickenham. The Mallet won 3-1, Bateson nearly added a fourth in the dying stages.

Welton Rovers put out a rather young side against Falmouth and were beaten resoundingly 6-0. Max Dyer, Mason Alden and Jacob Shore all started.

Gillingham won 1-0 against Chedder too, Harrison Foster started with Jack Bareham, Harry Lock and Josh Haskett all named on the bench… I assume at least one of them got on to the pitch, but the Social Media coverage of the game is somewhat lacking. 

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The National League have announced a number of changes to their National League TV offerings.

In a statement, they said.

“Sadly, the demand for streaming this season for National League North and South matches has not been enough to warrant the continuation of the streaming provision in its current guise.

The changes outlined below will allow the League to provide less games but apply more focus on those selected games and ensure a high-quality stream is provided.

What is changing?
From the beginning of February, the number of National League North and South games will be significantly reduced – however, selected fixtures will continue to be streamed and will be selected on a round-by-round basis. These will be communicated to fans in advance of the fixture and these fixtures will still be available both domestically and internationally.

When will games be streamed?
On ‘full’ matchdays – fixtures will be selected from each division. Remaining ‘full’ matchdays are on the following dates:

• Tuesday 20 February
• Tuesday 9 March
• Saturday 23 March (International Break)
• Friday 29 March (Good Friday)
• Monday 1 April (Easter Monday)

Fixtures not on these dates that have been rearranged will be reviewed to assess their viability for streaming.”

We’ll do our best to keep you informed which games this applies to from a YTFC point of view.

Furthermore, back on December 31st, Gloverscast Ben asked the following questions of both the National League and Stream AMG, no response from either has been offered.

1) Can you confirm how many streams have been purchased in total for the calendar year of 2023?
 
2) How many supporters are signed up to the programme and have declared themselves as Yeovil Town fans during the sign up process.
 
3) How much, in terms of revenue has been paid out, in total to ALL National League & National League North and South as a direct result of revenue from purchased streams?
 
4) How much has Yeovil Town specifically received during the calendar year of 2023 from the purchases of NLTV Streams.
 
5) Does National League TV still employ the same breakdown percentages as it did when it launched with regards how profits are distributed? If not, when did that change, and what does the new breakdown look like?
 
6) How many refunds have been processed so far across all three divisions?
 
7) Why were monthly passes removed in early November 2023 and will the options of Monthly passes resume in 2024?
 
8) Will entire season tickets be available for the 2024/25 season?
 
9) How will feedback on the service be collated from fans and clubs on how the service is run and what potential improvements could be made.
 
10) Is the National League and its board happy with the first full year of hosting a streaming service and are you confident of it going from strength to strength?
 

 

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The Best YTFC Re-Debut of all time? Maybe!

Sam Pearson’s double goal bonanza has earned him a place in the official Vanarama Team of the Week.

As a note, he was also in the Non League Paper Team of the Day too!

Two goals, two Teams of the Week… lovely stuff!

 

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It’ll come of no great surprise that thr weather was the real winner this weekend.

In fact, only two Glovers loanees got any game time this weekend.

At Dorchester, defender Ollie Haste played the full 90 minutes in a 3-2 win over Merthyr Town.

The Magpies were 1-0 down at the break and their manager Tom Killick saw red at half time.

The only other YTFC connection to get on the pitch was young striker Charlie Bateson.

He was used as a second half sub with Shepton Mallett losing 2-0 to Helston.

… and that was it.

Barnet, Oxford City, W*ymouth, Sherborne Town, Melksham Town, Welton Rovers and Gillingham Town all fell foul to the weather.

 

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Courtney Senior has returned to parent club Barnet.

The winger joined the Glovers at the same time that Jordan Maguire-Drew went in the other direction but after a single month, the deal has expired and Senior heads back to the Hive.

With the addition of Sam Pearson, Senior was expected to drop down the pecking order.

Senior made four appearances for the Glovers.