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Yeovil Town Manager Darren Sarll has been speaking to the media following the Glovers’ 1-0 win over FC Halifax Town live on BT Sport on Saturday evening.

Yeovil Town manager Darren Sarll.
Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

both the BT Sport team and BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins, Sarll praised the ‘character’ and ‘robustness’ of his side, who, despite the one-goal margin of victory looked fairly comfortable for large parts.

Speaking to BT Straight after the final whistle he said: “I thought tactically we were excellent, even in periods of the second half when we were defending deeper, our shape was good and I can’t remember too many moments when (Grant Smith) had to make too many big saves.
“That was testament to the two full backs (Dan Moss and Jordan Barnett) in particular.”

Something he reiterated to the the BBC shortly after with some added praise for Max Hunt; “I thought we dealt with most things well, in the second half we had to defend a bit deeper and I thought even then the shape was very strong.

“I thought the two young full backs (Dan Moss and Jordan Barnett) were absolutely fantastic and that is probably Max Hunt’s best game for the club.”

The only goal of the game came from the penalty spot, Joe Quigley smashing the ball home after Tom Knowles was brought down in the box.

Joe Quigley hammers home the opener.
Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

But, it’s not just the in-form striker’s goals that are impressing the gaffer:

“He was okay, I thought defensively he was very good, he contributes a hell of a lot and he is getting better, but he has a home now, Yeovil is his home and we do not throw people away and it is important that people feel that comfort and that we have got their backs when they come to work.”

“He is in good form and he’s a real big plus for us and if he stays fit we might have half a chance”

Overall, Sarll was pleased with how he side coped with the second half onslaught from Halifax who tried to get back into the game late on, but a resolute performance from the defence and central midfield duo in particular were enough to see the game out.

“I thought we were better in possession than Halifax, I thought we were better out of possession, our shape was very good, the players’ attitude was magnificent.
“I thought we were comfortable and deserved (the win), the only disappointment was the couple of chances (for substitute Adi Yussuf) which we should have taken to make the game a bit easier.

Sarll confirmed to the BBC he wouldn’t be thinking about next Saturday’s trip to Stockport County until Monday, suggesting he, the players and the fans have all got a night or two to enjoy a fantastic Glovers win.

 

 

 

 

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Venue: Huish Park
Saturday September 4 2021, 5.30pm kick-off.

Conditions: Dry and bright
Ground: Perfect

Scorers: Quigley pen 14 (1-0)

Attendance: 1,899 (54 away)

Referee: Thomas Parsons

Bookings:
Yeovil: Gorman 52, Staunton 52
Boreham Wood: Slew 70, Warburton 84

Yeovil Town : (4-4-1-1)
Grant Smith
Dan Moss, Max Hunt, Luke Wilkinson, Jordan Barnett
Charlie Wakefield, Dale Gorman, Josh Staunton, Tom Knowles
Sonny Blu Lo-Everton
Joe Quigley

Subs: Adi Yussuf (for Lo-Everton, 84), Alex Bradley (for Knowles, 90), Max Evans (not used), Morgan Williams (not used), Toby Stephens (not used).

FC Halifax Town: Johnson, Debrah, Bradbury, Maher, Benn, Warren (for Gilmour, 67), Woods, Summerfield  (for Green, 64), Warburton, Waters (for Allen, 83), Slew.
Substitutes: Spence, Swaby-Neavin.

SUMMARY

We broke the hoodoo, we got the monkey off our back, put it however you like but for the first time since Wembley 2013, Yeovil Town won a match on the telly.

The BT Sport cameras have not been kind to the Glovers since our return to non-League and it took a penalty smashed down the middle from Joe Quigley (who else?) to earn three points under the spotlight.

It came after 14 minutes when Tom Knowles was caught with a high kick from Halifax captain Niall Maher and referee Thomas Parsons had no hesitation but to point to the spot.

Here’s how David Coates saw it watching on the telly…..

FIRST HALF

On the day when breaking hoodoos was the order of the day, Yeovil Town boss Darren Sarll will have been pleased to name an unchanged starting XI to the one which had won at Aldershot Town on Bank Holiday Monday.

The boss’ only change was a fifth substitute on the bench in the form of Alex Bradley who returned after illness.

The game started with the move which led to the home side taking the lead. Sonny Blu Lo-Everton‘s ball in from the left could not find Quigley and rebounded as far as Tom Knowles who was caught by visiting captain Niall Maher.

Tom Knowles is caught by FC Halifax Town captain Niall Maher inside the box.
Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.
Referee Thomas Parsons had no hesitation in pointing to the spot and Quigley stepped up to put it down the middle.
Knowles had a claim for a second spot kick five minutes later after a coming together with Maher but (again) he referee got it right and waved away any appeals.
That led to the game slowing down as Yeovil frustrated the visitors who were second best in the tactical battle, and it was not until the closing stages of the half that either side carved out any opportunities.
In the 45th minute, Charlie Wakefield‘s ball in from the right was heading towards Quigley at the back post, but was well defended by Tyrrell Warren, and a minute later a free kick from Dale Gorman was headed over by Luke Wilkinson, who was flagged offside. The television replay, however, suggested otherwise.
The lead was nothing less than Yeovil deserved having looked comfortable against a Halifax side who had picked up wins in their previous two matches.
Half time: Yeovil Town 1 (Quigley, pen) FC Halifax Town 0

SECOND HALF

With Halifax boss Pete Wild hopping around on the touchline for much of the first half (more on that later), the expectation was that the visitors would come out with a spring in their step or a flea in their ear after the interval.
If they did it was not immediately obvious Yeovil again starting the brighter with Gorman’s lofted ball in to the box finding Quigley, who could only manage a tame header.
The Shaymen did start to find their way back in to it and had their best chance of the game on 54 minutes when a free-kick from Matt Warburton, who probably the visitors’ only real attacking threat in the first half, was pushed away by Grant Smith.
His clearance only went as far as striker Jordan Slew whose shot from the far post rattled off the post and away.
From there the game started to get stretched with neither side able to find any fluidity. Wilkinson had a shot deflected over and Slew fired a ball in to the box which flashed past his strike partner Billy Waters, who had scored three in his first three matches for the visitors but was anonymous throughout.
It was not until the closing stages that either side managed to create a real opportunity. With  two minutes to go substitute Jamie Allen got away down the right and it was only thanks to an excellent interception from Max Hunt inside the area that he did not get his shot away.
Striker Adi Yussuf fires a shot in on goal.

Then, in the second minute of injury time, Glovers’ substitute Adi Yussuf broke away and rather than squaring the ball to either Quigley or Alex Bradley to his left, he tried to take on the shot which he put over.

That was too much for Wild who finally combusted and it did not take a lip reader to work out what he said to the officials to earn himself a red card. Ironically, in the build up to the game, Wild had spoken about how he expected Yeovil to bully his side and said he would be advising his players to keep cool heads.

His judgement presumably impaired by the loss of his temper, he later told the BT Sport cameras his side had “dominated the second half from start to finish.” If you say so, Pete.

Full time: Yeovil Town 1 (Quigley, pen) FC Halifax Town 0

 

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Yeovil Town  name an unchanged starting XI from the Bank Holiday win over Aldershot Town as they face FC Halifax Town in today’s televised home game (5.15pm kick-off)

The only change comes on the substitutes’ bench where Alex Bradley returns after missing the first two games through injury.

Former Glovers Matt Warburton and Tom Bradbury and Martin Woods, who had a brief loan spell at the club in 2008, all line up for the visitors.

Yeovil Town: Smith, Barnett, Wilkinson, Hunt,  Moss, Staunton, Gorman, Wakefield, Knowles, Lo-Everton, Quigley.  Subs: Evans, Bradley, Williams, Stephens, Yussuf.

FC Halifax Town: Johnson, Debrah, Bradbury, Maher, Benn, Warren, Woods, Summerfield, Warburton, Waters, Slew. Subs: Gilmour, Allen, Green, Spence, Swaby-Neavin.

 

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Tickets are on sale for Yeovil Town‘s away fixture at Boreham Wood on Saturday, September 5 (3pm kick-off).

The tickets are priced at:

Adults: £20
65 years and over: £18
Under-16s: £12
Under-12s: £6

You can buy tickets from the Boreham Wood website, click – here 

Visiting supporters get the South and South East Terraces (which are uncovered); and a section of the covered seating in the West Stand with 359 seats.

This is all a single area which one can move around in freely – hence the flat rate ticket prices. Access to the away area is through Turnstile 6 and 7.

Tickets will be sold on the day – in case you can’t make your mind up whether to enjoy the delights of Boreham Wood before then!

If you are planning on making the trip, check out our Ciderspace Away Guide to Meadow Park – here.

 

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Not unlike their hosts this weekend, FC Halifax Town (kick-off 5,15pm) are starting the new season with a very different looking squad to the one which finished the last campaign.

The West Yorkshire side have lost a number of players not least top scorer Jake Hyde, who has joined the Wrexham Hollywood revolution, Player of the Season full-back Jeff King who has joined fellow big-spenders Chesterfield, and midfielder Jack Ering who made the move in to the Football League at Walsall.

But, on early season form, manager Pete Wild has done a good job of searching out replacements with ex-Cheltenham Town and Torquay United frontman Billy Waters in menacing form with three goals in his first three fixtures, and ex-Glover Matt Warburton in decent form heading in to the weekend.

After a disappointing opening day defeat at the hands of Maidenhead United, the Shaymen have picked up a 3-2 win on the road at Woking followed by a 2-0 home win over Altrincham over the Bank Holiday weekend and will arrive in South Somerset in confident mood.

FROM THE MANAGER

FC Halifax Town manager Pete Wild has said he expects his side to come up against a “big, strong, aggressive” opponent in Yeovil Town  when they face them on BT Sport on Saturday evening.

Speaking to the Halifax Courier about the Glovers, he said: “You know what you’re getting, you know what’s coming, they’re going to be big, strong, aggressive, they’re going to try and bully us, they’ll think they can bully us.

“Don’t get me wrong, they’ve got some really good footballers as well, but I’m sure their aim will be to bully us on Saturday.”

When asked how his side can counteract that, Wild added: “Just more of the same, we don’t have to get into a fight, we ain’t got a team to fight, we’ve got a team to play football, and that’s what we’ll be looking to do.

“One of our core values is tactical awareness, which is about our style of play, not the opposition’s.

“You’re always working on style of play, there’s always areas you need to be better in your style of play.

“Sometimes we need to be better defensively, sometimes we need to be better offensively, you’ve just got to keep working away at it. If you think you’ve cracked it you’re knackered.”

 

TEAM NEWS

Having lost some big earners in last season’s top scorer Jake Hyde and Player of the Season Jeff King, the visitors to Huish Park this weekend have invested in deepening their squad.

This meant boss Pete Wild had the luxury of not having striker Gerry McDonagh and defender Javid Swaby-Neavin involved over the Bank Holiday weekend when they picked up a win on the road at Woking and a home win over Altrincham.

Winger Dom Tear will miss the fixture with an ankle injury, but otherwise the Shaymen arrive with a clean bill of health.

 

A FOOT IN BOTH CAMPS

There are likely to be three players  who start the televised fixture who have experience in the other camp in the form of the visitors’ Matt Warburton and Tom Bradbury and Josh Staunton, who seems likely to line up in midfield for Yeovil.

Warburton arrived in West Yorkshire in August following his release from Northampton Town having played 19 times for the Glovers last season during a loan spell when we probably did not see the best of him.

An undoubtedly classy footballer, the 29-year-old has struck up a good relationship with forward Billy Waters and, according to our conversation with the Halifax Courier’s Tom Scargill on the latest edition of the podcast, has been unlucky not to get on the scoresheet already.

Central defender Bradbury has started in  the opening three matches this term having made 35 appearances for the Shaymen last season and is a permanent fixture in the visitors’ backline.

Meanwhile, Staunton, who sat out most of last season through injury, will be a familiar face to the travelling fans having spent two seasons at the club.

He was part of the Halifax side which reached the National League play-off semi-finals in the 2019-20 campaign.

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The addition of a sports scientist to the coaching staff is helping Yeovil Town’s players be more “robust“, according to manager Darren Sarll.

Scott Wickens joined the set-up at Huish Park during pre-season after a horrendous run of injuries saw the Glovers without key players for large periods of last season.

The manager said: “(Scott) has been excellent, a really good addition. His work on the grass and in the gym, which is where we wanted him because we wanted the players to be a bit more robust has been excellent.

“He is a nice lad, a young man with ambition and I’m sure he’ll go on to have a good career because he has that self-belief.

However, the boss was taking the credit for the players’ recovery following the 2-1 defeat at home to King’s Lynn Town last Saturday.

He sent them to Lyme Regis for a paddle in the “therapeutic waters” off the Dorset coast ahead of the trip to Aldershot Town on Monday, where they ran out 2-1 winners.

Sarll said: “I knew after Saturday that physically on Monday we would be better.

“I said to Scott after the game, we looked less fit Saturday than we did in that first friendly at Stratford.

“I knew we would be better and we were on Sunday when we trained and get the mistakes of the day before out of our system.“

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Yeovil Town manager Darren Sarll has said the club’s finances are left to Chairman Scott Priestnall.

The boss was asked by the Gloverscast reporter Ben Barrett about the club’s announcement of a new £112,000 loan from Sport England at his weekly press conference ahead of the weekend’s fixture against FC Halifax Town.

He said: “There are people at the club like Scott (Priestnall) and James Hillier (the stadium manager) to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’. That is the dynamic.

Chairman Scott Priestnall, left, with manager Darren Sarll on a previous occasion.

“I have no idea about the economic state of the organisation, that is their job to worry about those types of things.

“My job is to source the best players as cheaply as we can and get as much out of them as we can, win with him, maybe sell them as we have done in recent years.

“If I start crossing over to that other side, that is quite dangerous for a manager.”

As we reported earlier in the week, the club confirmed it has increased the amount it owes to Sport England to  £801,538.

In a statement, the club said the additional finance will will cover “lost revenue from last season’s lockdown period” enabling it to pay “costs and creditors from last season.”

The statement was published after the new charge was made public through a Companies House filing made by Yeovil Town Holdings Limited, signed by Chairman Scott Priestnall and Director Glenn Collis.

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Alex Bradley could be back in contention for this weekend’s televised fixture against FC Halifax Town at Huish Park.

The versatile player has missed the opening two matches of the season through injury and manager Darren Sarll said he is hopeful he will be available for selection at the weekend.

Speaking ahead of the game, the boss said: “I would like to think that Alex Bradley will be back in contention on Saturday after injury, it depends how late we can get him back in to training.

“I am not prepared to take a risk on someone like Alex just to get that fifth substitute on the bench.”

Alex Bradley is sent off at Aldershot Town last season – it’s the only picture we had of him!

However, he added that there were no new injuries picked up in the 2-1 win at Aldershot Town on Monday with many players who played twice over the Bank Holiday weekend being given two days off training this week.

Sarll said he was still looking to bring “another couple” of players in to the squad.

He added: “We were close on one yesterday (Wednesday) but something turned for the worse and we were not able to get it done.”

Left-back Jack Robinson, who signed from Championship Middlesbrough ahead of the opening game defeat to King’s Lynn last weekend, will not be fit for Saturday.

The managers said: “We don’t know when he will be available, he rolled his ankle in his second session and it didn’t reduce in swelling and he did not recover so we are being precautionary with him.

“I don’t know when he’ll be back, I would like to say next Saturday away at Stockport.

“He will be a big player for us when he is because he is a wonderful passer of the ball and maybe allows us to play (Jordan) Barnett a bit further forward.”

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Tickets for Yeovil Town‘s trip to Stockport County on Saturday, September 11 have gone on sale.

Travelling supporters will be housed in the end block of the Together Stand which runs along the side of the pitch.

Prices for the match at Edgeley Park are priced at:

Adults (18+): £18
Students: £12
Age 65+: £12
Disabled: £12
6-17 years: £12
5 years and under: FREE

To buy tickets buy calling the Box Office on 0161 266 2700 or via the Stockport County website – here 

Away supporters wishing to purchase wheelchair disabled and carer tickets, please contact the ticket office directly to arrange this purchase, on 0161 266 2700

The Green & White Supporters’ Club is running travel to the fixture, for full details visit – here.

Read our Ciderspace Away Travel Guide to Edgeley Park – here.

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The Green & White Supporters’ Club is running travel to Yeovil Town’s upcoming National League fixture at Stockport County.

The club will run coaches on Saturday, September 11 leaving Huish Park at 7.30am for a 3pm kick-off in Cheshire.

Prices for travel are as follows:

G&WSC Members

Adult: £31
Concession: £29

Non-Members

Adult: £33
Concession: £31

To book, call Paul Hadlow on 07736 044570 or email him on paulhadlow@outlook.com.

If you are getting in touch by email, please make it clear which match you are booking for and that you give your full name, the names of people that are travelling and a contact telephone number.

You may be asked to pay a £5 deposit to reserve your seat.

If you are making the trip to Edgeley Park, make sure you check out our Ciderspace Away Travel Guide to Stockport – here.