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It’s back by popular demand – well some of you seemed to like it – the Gloverscast fans’ quiz is back for its second edition.

We’ve cooked up another set of Yeovil Town brain-teasers with the hopefully more familiar three categories – Golden Oldies, Facts and Stats, some more recent trivia in The Day Today, and this month’s Fans’ Favourite is about the one and only Super Gavin Williams.

Whether you’re a Thatchers’ Stand veteran, an exile or just here for the trivia, here’s a few questions to get your green-and-white neurons firing.

Only one supporter got 100% in the first edition, so good luck to all trying for a perfect score this time – up the Gloves!

Gloverscast Fans' Quiz #2

Back by popular demand (well, we enjoyed writing it), the Gloverscast Fans' Quiz returns for its second installment. Whether you're a Thatchers' End veteran, an exile or just here for the nostalgia, there's something to get your green-and-white neurons firing.

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Which season was Yeovil Town's first at National League level, then known as the Alliance Premier League?

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Which international team did Gary Johnson manage before he joined Yeovil Town in 2001?

3 / 12

On 10th January 2016, Yeovil Town played Carlisle United in an FA Cup third round tie. Due to severe flooding in Cumbria, the game was switched to which ground?

4 / 12

How many players made at least one Football League appearance for Yeovil Town?

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In our season in the Championship in 2013/14, which was the only club we beat in both home and away meetings?

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Who scored more Football League goals for Yeovil Town than anyone else?

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Morgan Williams initially came to Huish Park on loan in 2019, but which club did he join from?

Morgan Williams with a cast on his right hand.

8 / 12

In 2020/21, Yeovil Town forfeited their place in the FA Trophy due to following COVID-19 protocols. Who were they due to play?

9 / 12

Which club knocked Yeovil Town out of the Somerset Men's Premier Cup in the 2024/25 season?

10 / 12

From which club did Gavin Williams join Yeovil Town in May 2002?

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How many first-team appearances did Gavin Williams make for Yeovil Town across all competitions?

12 / 12

In 2013 League One play-off final at Wembley, Gavin Williams was an unused substitute, but still got a booking. What did he do to find himself in the referee's notebook?

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Harvey Greenslade celebrates a goal.

Yeovil Town goal-scorer Harvey Greenslade said his team-mates know they need to defend better after losing from a winning position for the second consecutive game.

The Glovers led 2-1 with an hour gone at FC Halifax Town but ended up on the end of a 3-2 defeat just five days after being 3-0 up at home to Gateshead and coming away with nothing, a result which spelt the end of Mark Cooper’s time as manager.

Greenslade put the visitors ahead in West Yorkshire with a superb near post header from Josh Sims’ cross just before the hour mark at The Shay, but defensive errors cost them again as they conceded two goals to squander three points.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Josh Perkins after the game, the former Bristol Rovers man said: “We have gone from not scoring at the start of the season to scoring quite a few goals. We should not have lost that game and we should not have lost the Gateshead game, so we need to be better as a group, it is not just the defenders, we need to be better defending the goal for the whole 90 minutes. It was too good a performance to chuck it away.”

Greenslade had some great opportunities to put Yeovil ahead before Halifax midfielder scored the first of his brace a minute in to first half injury time and he admitted he should have done better with the chances.

He added: “There were a couple in the first half when the ball was bouncing a bit and I felt like I could have had one or two goals, so that is annoying. It is nice for me and that is obviously two goals in two games for me now, but it is not about personal pride for me it is about helping the team. The team has helped me when I have been out of the team and now I have to repay them.”

Yeovil Town's players jump on striker Harvey Greenslade after his 58th minute goal.
Yeovil Town celebrate Harvey Greenslade’s goal.

Asked about the current managerial situation with interim boss Richard Dryden, who was brought on to the coaching staff by Cooper in the summer, whilst the club look for a permanent replacement, Greenslade added: “It is strange. Speaking for myself, I have never worked for the Gaffer (Richard Dryden) before, I really liked working with Mark (Cooper) and now having to go under new management is a bit of a change, but the lads are approaching it professionally and we have just got to get on with it.”

Yeovil have an opportunity to put right the mistakes of the past two matches when they travel to a Solihull Moors side sat bottom of the National League Premier Division table after six matches on Tuesday night.

Speaking about that game, the striker said: “I want to say thanks to the fans for making the journey, Halifax is not that close to Yeovil! We have a really good fanbase and when things turn around, which they will, the place will be bouncing at Huish Park. Even today we could hear them all game and hopefully we will see them on Tuesday as well. It is a must win for us, we have to focus on getting those three points. We can’t keep losing when we have been winning, that is two games in a row now, I will do everything I can to help the team and I know the boys will do everything they can to bring the points back.“

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Interim manager Richard Dryden was planning to show his Yeovil Town players a video nasty on their long journey home from the 3-2 defeat at FC Halifax Town.

The Glovers threw away a 2-1 advantage in West Yorkshire, the second time in five days they have given away leads to lose a game, as they began life after former boss Mark Cooper with a defeat.

It was three defensive errors from balls in to their box which cost them all three goals and Dryden told BBC Somerset’s Josh Perkins that defending crosses in to the box would be the focus on training ahead of their next game at Solihull Moors on Tuesday night.

He said: “There are a lot of positives, a few negatives, but probably more positives. The big negative is we have not taken any points. We have had a conversation (in the dressing room) about stopping crosses and defending balls in to the box, but you cannot keep scoring two away from home and coming away with nothing. I said to them before the game that they are not going to be hammered if they give the ball away or do the right things but you will get hammered if you work hard and people will see that they worked hard today. We have got back with nothing but we have created chances and played some really good football.

“It is another ball across the box and we have to defend better. We have not got a lot of time, but you might have a rough idea what (we might be focusing on in training) on Monday morning. Sometimes you get camped in bit and sometimes  you do get overloaded and if that happens we have to be better in the box, not just the goalkeeper or the back three, it is everyone who is in there. Everybody has to work hard defensively.

“We will watch the bad bits on the way home massively and some good bits. We need to iron out the bad bits.”

After an even opening 45 minutes where they both threatened to find an opening and were threatened by Halifax, Yeovil fell a goal behind one minute in to first half injury time when Shaymen midfielder Oli Bray fired the home side ahead.

But, the visitors came out for the second half firing and levelled when midfielder Luke McCormick went down in the box to win a penalty which was confidently put away by striker Junior Morias for his second goal in as many games.

Six minutes later Harvey Greenslade headed a Josh Sims cross in to put the side ahead before a second goal from Bray and a winner ten minutes from time from substitute Will Harris sealed the defeat.

On his side’s goals, Dryden said: “Luke has done really well, got himself in to the box, he’s been brave because you know he is going to get hit there and it is a penalty. It is nice to see Junior put it in. The second goal is a really nice goal, we have worked it wide which we did a lot of in the first half and did not get anything out of it, it is a brilliant run by Simsy and is the centre forward is on the near post you have half a chance of scoring.”

There was a worrying moment when on loan Birmingham City wing-back Byron Pendleton went off after a heavy tackle in the 76th minute, but Dryden said he did not know the severity of the injury.

He confirmed that midfielder Charlie Cooper, who has now not featured in the last three matches with an Achilles injury, was still “a couple of weeks” from fitness. Dryden will lead the side in to the match at Solihull Moors where they will face a home side sitting bottom of the division after a 2-1 home defeat to Southend United on Saturday.

Dryden said: “It is another big test. You can’t brush over by saying ‘it was a great performance, but we got beat’, it was an alright performance going forward, but when balls come in to the box we have to be better.“

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Yeovil Town let a lead slip for the second consecutive game as they started life after Mark Cooper with a defeat at FC Halifax Town on Saturday.

The Glovers spurned opportunities to go ahead in the first half before conceding a goal to Owen Bray late in injury time, but a penalty from Junior Morias and a great header from Harvey Greenslade saw them lead with an hour gone.

But, having taken the lead, the visitors sat back at Halifax came roaring back and Bray pulled them level before substitute Will Harris struck the winner with ten minutes remaining.

Interim manager Richard Dryden was left to look back on the all too familiar story of missed opportunities and soft goals conceded as he prepares to pick the Glovers up ahead of Tuesday night’s visit to Solihull Moors.

First half

After ten minutes, a dangerous ball in to the box caused confusion inside the Yeovil area which led to a scramble before a clearance, it has been a shaky start for the visitors who seem to be still trying to figure things out.

On 13 minutes, the visitors’ first sight on goal fell to Harvey Greenslade who could not get any contact on an Alex Whittle cross from the left wing. 

Greenslade had the ball in the back of the net in the 17th  minute after he got slipped through on goal by Josh Sims and found the net, but could not beat the offside flag having made his run just too early.

Brett McGavin fires a free-kick in on goal.

A mistake from Halifax keeper Sam Johnston after 26 minutes saw him fail to claim Brett McGavin’s ball in to the box, Morgan Williams picked up the loose ball and laid it off to Junior Morias who twisted and turned on the edge of the box but his effort sailed harmlessly over the bar.

This game seems to go in five-minute spells of either side dominating possession; when we get going we look a real threat but we look really threatened when Halifax get their game going as well.

Keeper Jed Ward had to get behind a long range effort from Bray after Sean Tarima’s ball in to the box had evaded David Kawa inside the area and shortly after Ward was forced in to an acrobatic save to deny Jay Turner-Cooke who was the latest Halifax player to try his luck from distance.

Greenslade had a glorious chance to open the scoring with seven minutes of the first half remaining when he ran on to a long ball over the top from Williams, but the striker’s first touch betrayed him and Johnston was able to come and gather. 

As the game crept in to injury time there was the feeling that not taking our chances was going to cost us and a minute in that is what happened. Jamie Cooke whipped a ball in from the right, Williams’ attempt to intercept it cannoned off Ward and Kawa was there to pick up the pieces and find Owen BRAY who stroked it home. The Yeovil players were incensed feeling there was a push on McGavin in the build up.

Overall, an even first half with both sides having opportunities to get the opening, but it is the same old story of not taking our chances and then getting punished for doing so.

Half time: FC Halifax Town 1 Yeovil Town 0

Second half

The second half started with Yeovil on the attack with McGavin putting a free-kick just over the bar two minutes after the restart before Greenslade had an effort blocked shortly after. 

In the 52nd minute, Yeovil played the ball around well and found Luke McCormick breaking in to the box from the right side, he was felled by a thunderous tackle from Cody Johnson and the referee  awarded a penalty. With our record from the spot, it is fair to say there was some nerves in the away end but one man who showed no nerves was not was Junior MORIAS who smashed it low and hard past the reach of Johnston who guessed the right way.

The bright start continued with Yeovil playing some attractive passing football to retain possession and and led to a second goal after 58 minutes. I lost count of the number of passes which led to Josh Sims’ beautiful ball from the right side which was met by a superb near post header from Harvey GREENSLADE.

Yeovil Town celebrate Harvey Greenslade’s goal.

Remember how I said that for every spell we had, Halifax had one as well? The response to us going ahead was a couple of substitutions for the home side with striker Will Harris and winger Angelo Capello, the scorer of the only goal last time we visited The Shay, introduced on the hour mark.

Their arrival caused all kinds of problems for the Yeovil defence and a spell of sustained pressure we could not deal with and, you guessed it, a goal. With 65 minutes gone, Kawa was allowed to run in to the box and fired a ball across to Owen BRAY who was gifted the freedom of the penalty area to add his second goal of the game. The arrival of the substitutes has seen Kawa shifted over to the left side and he was causing problems.

We had sat back after going ahead and invited the home side to attack which they have been more than happy to do especially after the substitutions. Defensively we just do not look slow and completely unable to deal with balls going in to our box.

It was therefore no surprise that what turned out to be the winning goal came from a ball in to our own box. Josh Hmami played a ball to the back post this time from the right and our defence failed to deal with, Williams missed his header and the ball bounced inside the box where Will HARRIS was given time to smash a volley in to the roof of Jed Ward’s net. It had been coming since we went ahead.

Yeovil made substiutions of their own with former Halifax striker Tahvon Campbell and fellow frontman Aaron Jarvis replacing Sims and Greenslade whilst Finn Cousin-Dawson came on for Byron Pendleton, who was forced off with an injury after a heavy challenge.

As the board went up for nine additional minutes, James Plant got away down the right side and delivered a ball in to the back post but Jarvis’ header came back off the post.

Full time: FC Halifax Town 3 Yeovil Town 2

Match Details

Venue: The Shay
Date: Saturday 30th August, 3pm kick-off

Competition: National League Premier Division

Scorers: Owen Bray 45+1 (0-1), Junior Morias pen 52 (1-1), Harvey Greenslade 58 (2-1), Owen Bray 65 (2-2), Will Harris 79 (2-3)

Pitch: Surreal-ly green if you have ever visited The Shay before
Conditions: Overcast

Attendance: 1,280 (143 away supporters)

Bookings: 
Yeovil Town: Harvey Greenslade 62, Tahvon Campbell 73
FC Halifax Town: Cody Johnson 51, Jamie Cooke 53, Angelo Capello 90+8, James Turner-Cooke 90+8

Referee: Richard Aspinall

Yeovil Town (4-2-3-1)

Substitutes: Tahvon Campbell (for Josh Sims, 71), Finn Cousin-Dawson (for Byron Pendleton, 76), Aaron Jarvis (for Harvey Greenslade, 76), Kyle Ferguson (not used), Ben Wodskou (not used), Matt Gould (not used).

FC Halifax Town: Sam Johnson, Adam Adetoro, Will Hugill (for Jack Jenkins, 88), Josh Hmami, Jamie Cooke (for Will Harris, 60), Owen Bray (for Jake Griffin 90), David Kawa (for Tom Pugh 88), Jay Turner-Cooke, Sen Tarima, Cody Johnson, Thierry Latty-Fairweather (for Angelo Cappello 60).

Substitutes (not used):  Nathaniel Ford, Harvey Sutcliffe.

 

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Yeovil Town have named an unchanged starting XI for today’s trip to FC Halifax Town (3pm kick-off).

The first side selected by interim manager Richard Dryden looks as if it features the same defensive (back four?) which raced in to a 3-0 lead at home to Gateshead, a match which the Glovers lost 4-3.

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Yeovil Town interim manager Richard Dryden in conversation.

Yeovil Town interim manager Richard Dryden has said getting belief back in to the club’s players has been in the key following the impact of their Bank Holiday disaster and the sacking of former boss Mark Cooper.

The Glovers’ coach has been given responsibility for first team affairs following the dismissal of the man who brought him to Huish Park which followed a dramatic 4-3 home defeat to Gateshead, a match which Yeovil led 3-0 at half-time.

He and assistant manager Chris Todd will now be charged with guiding the side whilst the search for a new permanent boss continues and it begins with a trip to FC Halifax Town on Saturday.

Speaking to BBC Radio Somerset’s Josh Perkins on Thursday ahead of the trip to West Yorkshire, Dryden said: “Five games in to the season does not really reflect (the quality of the side) because if we had won on Monday (against Gateshead) we are in the top seven.

“Everyone wants to look at the top half of the table and see their name there, but it is early days and I am confident with the players we have got, we will be fine. There was nothing but positives for the first 45 minutes, but the second half was like chalk and cheese.

“Not many teams will play well for 90 minutes, but if we can try and turn that first 45 minutes in to 70 minutes we are going to cause a lot of teams a lot of problems. It is just a case of getting enough belief in the players to believe we can do it, that is the only problem we can try and solve.”

Yeovil Town interim manager Richard Dryden in conversation.
Richard Dryden speaks to the media ahead of the trip to FC Halifax Town.

He admitted it had been a busy few days since the exit of Cooper and paid tribute to the former boss who oversaw a relegation in to the National League South in the 2022-23 season, followed by an immediate return winning the division the following season. Dryden arrived at the club in the summer to reunite with Cooper who he had previously worked with at five clubs including Forest Green Rovers and Notts County.

The 53-year-old said: “It is never great when the manager leaves, my phone has not stopped and it has been meetings after meetings trying to sort things out and it is sad when a manager goes. You have to remember what Mark (Cooper) did not the club has been immense, you cannot forget he got the club promoted (out of the National League South) and stabilised the club in a very good league last year, that should not be forgotten. And there are other things he has done which people will never find out about, he has been a credit to a club.

“(Mark and I) have known each other since we were teenagers, he was at Bristol City and I was at Rovers, his dad (Terry Cooper) took me to Exeter, so it is a long relationship and that friendship will definitely stay.”

He confirmed that winger James Daly, who Cooper revealed on Monday will be missing for “six to eight weeks“ through injury, will not feature at Halifax, but said that midfielder Charlie Cooper, who has not featured in his father’s final two matches in charge, had returned to light training.

Charlie Cooper runs with the ball.
Charlie Cooper, who has not featured in Yeovil’s previous two matches, is back in light training. Picture courtesy of Gary Brown.

Dryden said: “It is the first day of training (on Thursday) and we have had a couple of meetings, gone through a couple of sessions regarding Halifax and the good and the bad bits about Monday and there were a lot of good bits. You have got to remember that they are all in their 20s apart from one – I have t-shirts older than most of them! So, it is tough for them when you play so well for 45 minutes and then (you are beaten in the last minute) and it happens for reasons – we went low, they went high with nothing to lose and we have to counter that if it happens again. 

“Everybody who was involved on Monday has trained today. James (Daly) is going to be a bit longer, Charlie (Cooper) is going to do some light stuff (in training on Thursday) which is good because we have only got a small squad. (Midfielder Jacob) Maddox is hopefully coming out of his protective boot this week; I have not seen him even train let alone play, so it will be good to get him involved in the next few weeks.”

Asked for his message to Yeovil fans making the trip to Halifax, he said: “Just ‘keep the faith in the young players we have got’. We are trying to pull together as a group and the blame  when we do not score or we concede goals, so the blame goes on everybody – from the dug-out to the player who comes on in the 90th minute.“

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Yeovil Town manager Mark Cooper speaking to the media.

Yeovil Town manager Mark Cooper said he had to take calls for his sacking “on the chin” after watching his side capitulate to a 4-3 defeat at home to Gateshead on Bank Holiday Monday.

The Glovers raced in to a 3-0 half-time lead with a display which the boss described as “electric“, but they crumbled after the visitors scored a minute after the restart and the final indignity came when Heed substitute Kain Adom scored the winner deep in to injury time.

Throughout the second half and after the game, there were calls of “We want Cooper out” coming from the Huish Park stands and the manager was asked for his reaction to them after the game.

He told BBC Somerset’s Josh Perkins: “If you do not win games, that is what happens. I am a big boy and you have to take it on the chin. The biggest frustration is that we played so well (in the first half) and as a manager, a coach and as a staff, we set the team up to do what we did in the first half.

“That makes it even more frustrating what happened in the second half and you have to take it on the chin and move on to Saturday and make sure we put in a really good performance (at FC Halifax Town) on Saturday. If play like we did in the first half and we get to 60 minutes (playing like that) then I think we will get some big results and that is what we have to hold on to, the way we played in the first half.”

Having failed to convert any of their chances in the 1-0 defeat at Braintree Town just 48 hours earlier, Cooper had called on his side to be more ruthless in front of goal and in the first 45 minutes they responded in style. An opener from Josh Sims was followed by goals from forwards Junior Morias and Harvey Greenslade to leave the home crowd on their feet at half-time.

But, when Kyle Hurst pulled a goal back for Gateshead after 46 minutes, the visitors smelt blood and a double from substitute Adom and an inevitable strike from Glovers’ old boy Frank Nouble on his first return to his old stomping ground sealed the win.

On the first half performance, Cooper said: “We spoke after the game at Braintree and said we have to score (our chances) and I thought we were electric in the first half, scored three great goals, should have scored more, possibly should have had a penalty. The message at half-time was ‘let’s go again’, we needed to replicate the energy, the desire, the press and let’s go and score five or six.”

Josh Sims celebrates his goal at Huish Park.
Josh Sims celebrates putting Yeovil Town in front against Gateshead. Picture courtesy of Gary Brown.

On the second half performance, he added: “When you concede the first one by not being aggressive and sinking in with safety in numbers, it effects the players’ mindset, they want to drop and defend and that is not the way to do it. We have to be on the front foot, we can’t sit in and defend, we have to get at them and we didn’t. All the goals were individual mistakes, people not doing what they are supposed to do. It is a tough one to take, I do not think you will see two more contrasting halves of football anywhere in the country.

“The fall out will all be about the second half and rightly so because it is about professionalism and making sure we do our jobs professionally and diligently and second half it went out of the window. We did not do our job. We are going to talk about the second half, for sure.

“Our message all season has been ‘let’s be aggressive and front foot’, we want to get up to the teams we are playing against and that was the message today. Players shrank in to their shells in the second half and we have to as a club, a squad and a staff, we have to feel that and make sure that never happens again.”

The manager disappeared down the tunnel at the final whistle and BBC Somerset were reporting he was “in a meeting upstairs” at Huish Park which presumably ended when he appeared in front of the microphone.

Yeovil’s first opportunity to respond to the defeat comes on Saturday when they travel to FC Halifax Town, who were held to a 1-1 draw at ten man Scunthorpe United in their Bank Holiday fixture.

Asked what he expects from that game, Cooper said: “They will see (the second half performance) and think if they put the ball in the box they will score. Again, we have to be on the front foot, we have to make sure we put it right on the pitch. If you are a professional footballer, you have to do your job. If that is heading the ball out of the six yard box, that is what you have to do, if that is staying with your man, you have to do it, but not just for 45 minutes.

“The atmosphere (inside the ground today) was electric in the first half and we gave them really good entertainment in the first 45 minutes, but we have to do that for longer, be braver and go and press and not hold on to what we have.“

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Junior Morias looks up for a pass.

Yeovil Town striker Junior Morias struggled to find the words to explain a second half capitulation which ended with a 4-3 defeat to Gateshead at Huish Park on Bank Holiday Monday.

The frontman laid on the assist for Yeovil’s opening goal scored by Josh Sims and added a second as a scintillating performance saw the Glovers race in to a 3-0 lead at half-time.

But, a second half horror show ended with substitute Kain Adom firing home the winner deep in to injury time as manager Mark Cooper disappeared down the tunnel.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Josh Perkins after the final whistle, Morias said: “I don’t even know where to start, I am just gutted, all of us as a team are gutted, I don’t even know what to tell you. I am a positive person and I always look for the positives even in a situation like today, if we can just fix those one or two things, it could have been different.”

Asked how the players can respond in the next match at FC Halifax Town on Saturday, he added: “On Saturday, it will be different because the boys are hurting and we want to fix that because we have embarrassed ourselves, embarrassed the manager, the coaching staff and we have embarrassed the fans. We want to make sure we fix that come Saturday.”

Speaking about his performance in the first half, Morias added: “It is bittersweet, I am grateful to score and assist. People will have said I should have shot with the first chance, but I am not that sort of player and Simsy was in a good position to score and he finished it well. We implement the Gaffer’s plan from minute one to 45, but we as players have to take accountability (for the second half).”

On his goal, he said: “When I am in the box, that is when I am happy. It is a dance floor and I always want to dance.“

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New signing James Daly is out for six to eight weeks after a scan on an injury sustained early in his Yeovil Town career, according to manager Mark Cooper.

The winger, who moved to Somerset following his release by Harrogate Town in the summer, has been missing for the past two games having played the second half in the 2-0 defeat at Forest Green Rovers.

Cooper has made four changes to the starting XI which lost 1-0 at Braintree Town on Saturday with a changed forward line featuring new recruit Junior Morias and Harvey Greenslade as the Glovers look to be more ruthless in front of goal.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Josh Perkins ahead of kick-off, the Glovers’ boss said: “It is very hot and we have two teams who have played not very long ago, so I think the weather is going to play a big part, we are expecting a tough game today.

“It is not just the forwards, central midfield players are allowed to score, defenders are allowed to score, so we have just got to be more ruthless. As a team we are creating a lot of chances and that is what fans want to see, chances and goalmouth incidents, and we created a lot of those on Saturday, so if we do the same again and we are ruthless then we should be alright. We want to be on the front foot, get after them and take the ball off them in and around their penalty area and create chances.”

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Yeovil Town have made four changes to their starting XI from the weekend’s defeat at Braintree Town as they take on Gateshead at Huish Park on Bank Holiday Monday (3pm kick-off).

Coming in to the side are Alex Whittle, Luke McCormick, Junior Morias and Harvey Greenslade with Kyle Ferguson, Finn Cousin-Dawson, Aaron Jarvis and Tahvon Campbell all dropping to the substitutes’ bench.

According to BBC Somerset reporter Josh Perkins has said that “it is a back four” – we will wait to see how that transpires when we get underway.

Former Glovers’ forward Frank Nouble starts the game for the visitors, making his first return to Huish Park since departing for the North East in March.