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Yeovil Town skipper Josh Staunton has said that the 2-0 win over Didcot Town represents a ‘job done’ for the Glovers.

“I thought first half we were pretty good, second half, we weren’t really firing, we had way too many turnovers, but I think in those games it’s just a case of getting the job done and, 2-0 – it probably could have been more if we’d have just been a bit more clinical in the final third.”

Yeovil Town captain Josh Staunton in action against Didcot Town,
Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

“But, we’re happy with that, job done, into the next round of the cup, (the) most important thing at 3 O’clock was being a name in the hat, which we are, happy with it.”

Both the Glovers’ goals came in the first half and to their credit, Didcot did make more of a match of it in the second 45, Staunton believes whilst their opponents do deserve a mention, they maybe could have done better themselves in possession.

“I think sometimes you just lose that fluidity, they obviously came out with a different (style), first half they sat eleven men behind the ball, which is always difficult to break down, with the wind we got caught forcing it a couple of times, we just needed to be patient and wait for the holes to come.

Any team who come and stick eleven men behind the ball, it’s difficult and second half when they played a different way and attacked and stepped on us, it was probably a bit more challenging.”

“it’s a win and in a cup competition, that’s all that matters”

“I don’t think it was an intention to take the foot off the pedal because we wanted more goals, kill the game off, simple as that, but when things aren’t quite falling for you, we just kept turning the ball over needlessly.

We didnt really have any good spells of possession in good areas of the pitch, when you do that teams are always going to grow into the game, especially when they’ve got nothing to lose. “

Staunton, and the defence in behind him, recorded their first clean sheet since beating Tonbridge Angels in late August, which was something which pleased the captain;

“You respect the opposition, you respect the game and I think the clean sheet was important to us, off the back of not having one for a while, we kept a clean sheet and that’s a positive to take out of today.

It’s ticked another box, it’s a building block, when we’re not quite at our best we didn’t capitulate and concede a soft goal we just kept going and like I say it’s a win and in a cup competition that’s all that matters”

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Yeovil Town and Bath City will have to rearrange their league fixture originally scheduled for 14th October.

The Glovers and the Romans both progressed into the 4th Qualifying Round of the FA Cup following wins over Didcot and W*ymouth respectively.

As we told you when tickets went on sale; “the home side do point out that in the event of a postponement, tickets would be valid for the rearranged date… or you can opt for a refund.”

Once a new date has been set in stone for our trip to Twerton Park, you’ll be able to decide if you can make the new date and if you need a refund.

Both sides will find out their 4th Qual Round opposition on Monday 2nd of October – in theory, we could draw Bath City away… which would be interesting!

 

 

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Let’s have a little whip round the Glovers’ loanees shall we?

We start at Dorchester who continued their decent patch of form with a third win in four games, they beat Didcot Town (?) 3-1 with Ollie Haste playing the full 90. Benjani Jr was brought on late in the second half for one of the Magpies’ goal scorers – former Glover – Jordan Barnett.

A strange one for Charlie Bateson, he was named in the starting line up for Shepton Mallet, but was replaced after a slight injury in the warm up, so took no part.

Mallet lost 2-1 to Barnstaple but did have to play over half the game with an outfielder player in goal… and with only ten men. 

Lewis Williams was in goal for Tiverton as they lost 4-2 against Hendon – there’s little to suggest he could have done much about any of the Hendon goals. 

 

 

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The Football Association’s Discipline portal updated in the early hours of Sunday morning to confirm the one-match bans for both Jake Hyde and Matt Worthington. (clearly the official likes to get his paperwork done, promptly)

Both are listed as needing to serve a one match suspension on Saturday 30th of September – the date of the FA Cup tie against Didcot Town.

We’ve included a screen shot, below, but this does slightly go against what was suggested post-match with Mark Cooper telling the BBC that the ban would be “Competition Specific”.

This suggests otherwise.

It’s also worth noting that Cooper has said he intends to appeal the straight red card given to Worthington for Handball on the line. That will obviously happen over the coming few days.

Other points of note – Rhys Murphy is now on four yellow cards – one away from a one match ban, whilst Jordan Thomas of Hampton & Richmond has been given a two-match ban for his red card after the final whistle on Saturday afternoon.

We’ll keep you updated on the success (or failure) of the appeal on Matt Worthington’s red card.

FA Portal Screenshot – Correct as of 01:00am on Sunday 24th September

As a reminder, Red Cards are treated slightly differently at this level, here’s a handy explainer.

 

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Yeovil Town Manager Mark Cooper spoke to the BBC reporter Ian Randall at the end of the 2-1 win over Hampton and Richmond, you can hear the whole interview at the bottom of the article.

In a rollercoaster game, Mark Cooper spoke of how proud he was of the away win, how frustrated he was with the officiating (Gloverscast Rule 1 has been well and truly thrown out the window this week!) and how he wanted his side to have put the game to bed earlier.

“Some things in football are uncontrollable and they’re variable, and that’s nothing to do with my players, my staff, our supporters.

That’s an external source that we can’t affect that tried to affect our performance today because it was a totally dominant performance and I’m convinced we’d have gone to win it by a really good score.” Cooper said of the man in the middle today.”

Speaking about the two yellow cards for Jake Hyde, Cooper explains that the front man was harshly done by, with the second yellow in particular.

“So there’s an incident, he gets booked for kicking the ball away and I’ve just seen it, he is probably two and a half, three yards on side right in front of the linesman.

He gets given off side, kicks the ball away – wrong – and then he miss miss controls one makes a bit of a block and the referee sends him off for that. If that had been another 10 minutes, I reckon he could possibly have booked 22 players if he’d have carried on”

The words got a bit stronger to describe the red card given to his captain on the day, Matt Worthington.

“Laughable. Matt Worthington is defending the goal deflection off their players’ knee, it kicks up and hits Worthy.

He’s got his hand right by his side it hits him on the arm, can’t do anything about it. It’s not a penalty, and it’s a joke of a red card.

So there’ll be some explaining to do this week, I think for for the officials and the assessors and luckily, luckily, it didn’t affect the result, but it should have been so, so much more comfortable.”

Asked if he’ll appeal the red card, Cooper simply stated… 

“Yeah, 100%. There’s no chance you can get suspended for that. It’s just a joke.”

Just going to pop this unrelated picture in here.

Right, onto the performance and Cooper was very happy at the solid nature of his side, whilst also wishing the game was done and dusted in slighty more convincing fashion – on the score line at least.

“(We were) Very good. I think you could see that we’ve done an awful lot of work as a defensive unit this week to try and make us more miserly as a group and we look really solid as a team, I couldn’t really see them scoring, It was going to be a long ball that we didn’t cover around on.

My only little gripe is that we didn’t score four or five, we had two great chances in the second half.

Youngy, he’s come inside he usually buries them, but it’s just about the three points, massive three points and it’s two points a game again, and that’s where we need to be.”

“…it’s just about the three points, massive three points…”

Jordan Stevens scored the opener with a long range rocket, something Cooper was expecting to come sooner or later.

“If you look back at his goals, there’s three or four in there that are like that, he’s got that in him, but he’s also got in him where he can smash them over all over the place, so today was the one that he nailed, really, really sweet.

It was a cracking goal, but you see his pace, him and him and Young cause problems because they’re so quick and sharp.”

…and as for Rhys Murphy’s fourth goal in two games… 

“It was a good play, we had some play ball down the side and Murph sat about, sat about three defenders down and rolled it in a corner like he does.”

The gaffer wasn’t done with the ref though, Eugene Robinson is firmly off the Christmas Card list…

“But my thing is imagine how we would be feeling now or how we would be approaching this if we hadn’t won that game, but nothing to do with us, nothing to do with our performance or mistakes to do with an outside or an external source, it has to be better than that, Marks Ives at the National League, they need to look at this and things like this can’t continue to happen.

Otherwise, you’re going to have hundreds of players suspended before the end of September”

“Alex Whittle, felt his groin a little bit, so (his substitution was) just precautionary, but the team today were I thought they looked really professional, really robust, aggressive and played some great football.”

You Can Listen To The Full Interview from BBC Somerset’s Ian Randall Here

You can watch Mark Cooper’s conversation with the club’s official YouTube below, covering many of the same topics.

 

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Super Joe Day in goal, was up for Media duties following the Glovers’ 2-1 win over Hampton and Richmond, he was happy to get the win, even if his clean sheet was taken away from him late on in the game.

“First and foremost, it’s a good win on the road, any win in this league is going to be tough and I just thought that – second half especially – we held in there and saw the game off.

Today, I thought for most parts of the game we were pretty solid… we’ve been unbeaten since I’ve come in which is nice, so hopefully we can keep that going.”

The visitors went 2-0 up in fairly comfortable circumstances, but the hosts did force their way back into the game in the second half, Day thinks that whilst things are going well, there’s still more to come.

“It’s a balance, the Manager plays a good brand of football, he wants to be dominant with the ball, but if we have too many transitions it can leave us vulnerable at the back, it’s getting a balance and getting an understanding between every department on the pitch and I feel like first half especially today we had that nailed on, maybe we could have been better second half with the ball, but I think we’re getting there, we’ll only keep improving”

“I think we’re getting there, we’ll only keep improving.”

The Glovers saw the game out despite losing both Jake Hyde and Matt Worthington to red cards, in the latter stages, it was important at that point just to get the game done and take the three points home

“I’ll be happier when we start keeping some clean sheets, but I’ll take a win over a clean sheet any day, that’s the main thing. We expected a bit of an onslaught in the second half, with us being dominant in the first half, but I’m proud of the boys today, we defended well in difficult circumstances, saw the game out and got the win.”

You Can Watch The Full Chat on the YTFC Youtube Channel and below.

 

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Yeovil Town match winner Rhys Murphy has been speaking to BBC Somerset’s Ian Randall after the Glovers’ 2-1 win over Hampton & Richmond. You can hear the entire interview at the bottom of the article.

Murphy, who’s first half goal proved to be the winning one, said that the team worked well as a whole to produce a near perfect away performance.

“It’s always a good time to score before half time, but I don’t think there’s ever a bad time to score, Jordan (Stevens) took his goal unbelievably well – what a great tackle that was -So, yeah, two nil at half time and I felt like we probably started a little bit slow, but we expected a reaction from them.

But I think we were just starting to hurt them on the counter attacks and I thought that if we had got that third goal it would have been game done.”

The second half saw Jake Hyde (two yellows) and Matt Worthington (straight red) receive their marching orders from the referee, Murphy just want to focus on how the team dealt with the changes and saw the game out.

“I thought the team did ever so well to deal with what they had and see the game through.”

“But obviously then sendings off have changed the course of the game slightly, but I thought the team did ever so well to deal with what they had and see the game through.

At the end of the day, I thought the team worked really well today, there was another chance they created for me just before that and I didn’t quite get the ball set back to Frank who was in a great position, so that was one that I frustrated with myself.

This team creates, whether it’s for me or for someone else, this team creates lots of chances every game, so it’s a good team to play in.”

The result moves the Glovers up to second in the table – for a short while going top of the league during the game, Murphy says that the group wont settle for anything less.

“We’re picking up points, which is pleasing, all season whether we’ve win, lost or draw, we want more, so that won’t stop all season, so we’re going to keep demanding off each other and I think today was a good away performance.

I thought everybody was tremendous today, down the middle of the pitch Morgs, Wans, Coops Worthy, unbelievable performances from them boys, especially when we go down to ten men.
They do so much work for the team and that’s not forgetting anybody else, but they probably do a lot of work that goes unnoticed.

So yeah, to keep the ball out of Joe’s box and stop him from making saves and Josh (Owers) came on, did terrific, so did the skipper. 

It’s hard coming on as a defender in those types of games, so everybody did really well. It’s a good win.“

Whilst the scoreline suggests a close run affair, the feeling is that the Glovers had their opponents in a comfortable place for large parts of the game and the front man is happy that the team can see games out in that style

“I’m not sure it was that tight of a game. I think – ask Joe – probably quite a comfortable game up until the sendings off, so I thought we had quite good control on it, even when we didn’t have the ball.

We weren’t getting hurt. So, again, I haven’t watched it back, obviously, but as away performances go, I think today was quite a good one, which is positive.

We can mix it up and if we need to win in the ugly ways or any way, then at the moment we’re doing that.”

You can listen to the entire interview below, including a few words about preparing for Didcot Town in the FA Cup next week.