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The Kop terrace at the Racecourse Ground, they don’t let anyone on it these days.

For the first time since March 2020, The Green and White Supporters Club are running travel for an away Yeovil Town fixture.

If you’d like to travel to the season opener at the Hollywood-owned Racecourse Ground in Wrexham you can book your spot now.

The prices are as follow:

GWSC Members
Adult: £30
Concession: £28

Non Members:
Adult: £32
Concession: £30

The coaches will leave Huish Park at 7:45am on Saturday 21st August.

Message or call Paul Hadlow on 07736044570 to book and get more information.

Who knows, you might meet Deadpool? Or the other one.

Read the recently updated Ciderspace Away Travel guide here.

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Sarll and Skiverton
Terry Skiverton, right, alongside Yeovil Town manager Darren Sarll.
Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

Darren Sarll is enjoying the organisation and fitness levels of his Yeovil team so far this pre-season, although he admits having to fight his nature.

Tom Knowles scored a late winner for the Glovers in the tough test at Taunton on Tuesday, but the manager said he was happy with his side’s display.

“I really enjoy coming here. Last year we were useless when we came here, absolutely useless and it set the tone. We’re starting to see a little bit more of a pattern of our play now. I thought the offensive play was better than it has been the last two games.

“We’re trying to evolve and were trying to look at our mistakes. We look strong in our shape so far. The nice comparable is we looked strong in our shape against Forest Green and we looked strong in our shape tonight and we need to keep developing that.”

Sarll added that he’s having to adjust to this new mentality and fight his natural urge to push his team to attack. He said: “My natural character is ‘come on let’s go’, ‘let’s go and attack’, ‘let’s go and score another goal’. I have to fight really hard on the side line to curb that intent. We need to be very strong in our shape. This group can’t afford to be expansive. It has to be compact, because it’s athletic, so that we can access different parts of the pitch a little bit differently than last year,” Sarll said.

While Sarll is happy with the defensive shape, he’s asked for patience when it comes to the attacking style of his new look team.

“People need to give us time on the offensive stuff because until I’m absolutely 100% confident that were not going to be a bunch of wet lettuces, then we need to keep nailing off this defensive organisation. It was good tonight. We were very strong in our shape and so far there’s not those hairy moments that I saw every half last year,” said Sarll.

“The big thing for us is to always apply our strategy as much as we can and have that consistently to our approach to it mentally. We need to try and keep evolving our attacking play because its still not quite right. I think that wont come until early September. I don’t think we’ll have that fluidity in our performance until early September. People are still trying to find how to get Charlie Wakefield in and where we roll Reuben [Reid] in differently to Joe [Quigley]. The midfield two is not quite right yet – the balance in their attacking play. So there’s loads of little things we need to iron out. If I’m doing it on the training pitch it becomes very manufactured, if we can learn in game it becomes very real. I think they’re important things that we need to patient with.”

Read Ian’s thoughts on the match at Taunton here.

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

Yeovil boss Darren Sarll has urged for patience as he prepares the Glovers for the National League season.

Yeovil had only fourteen first team members available for Tuesday’s 1-0 win against Taunton and speaking after the match, Sarll said: “I’m sure the group will grow as the pre season carries on and as we get into the season. We’re going to have to be patient though as we are looking for real value. Both financially and something that going to come into the starting eleven and make a real impact.”

Conspicuous by their absence on Tuesday were the cohort of trialists we’ve seen at previous friendlies, with one new face, Zeli Ismael appearing. Sarll cited the newness of this current squad as the reason for not bringing in too many trialists.

“Because 50% of the group are new, I don’t want to flood it with other new people like trialists and dilute the cohesion that we might miss out on if we do that. The benefit of keeping everything nice and small and tight is that they’re obviously getting to know each other a lot quicker because they’re having to play more minutes with each other a lot earlier.  

“I am liking the fact that they’ve got to be together. There’s not many trialists, the trialists were trying to bring in have got to have some sort of CV or credibility and value to the group. Hopefully what that does is just accelerates the way the players can interact and hopefully we’ll get wins,” he said.

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Kevin Betsy, who played six times for Yeovil during a loan spell in 2007, has taken over from Steve Bould as the head coach of Arsenal U23s.

The former midfielder had spent five years coaching across the the England youth set up and was most recently appointed manager of the England U18s.

The 43-year-old follows a similar career trajectory of another ex-Glover, Justin Cochrane, who was recently appointed the Head of Player Development and Coaching at Manchester United.

Send some our way please Kevin.

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I’ve adhered to Gloverscast Rule #2 and ‘slept on it.’
 
A late Tom Knowles (or was it Charlie Wakefield?) goal saw us pick up a 1-0 friendly win at the Cygnet Healthcare Stadium against Taunton Town last night.
 
I don’t think we learned much more than we did on Saturday against Forest Green Rovers. We defended resolutely and weathered a storm at the start of the second half. There was a clear focus on us maintaining a narrow shape without the ball and sticking to a tight defensive unit. With Josh Staunton in front of the back four, we look like we’ll be difficult to break down. Staunton got 90 minutes under his belt for the first time in a long time last night, and Monday’s Gloverscast guest is really looking the part already.
 
The first half was largely forgettable. We tried to keep the ball at points but we we’re lacklustre in the final third and didn’t really create much. There was a lot of passing around the back line before the fullbacks crossed to the Taunton keeper from deep. The trialist, who we are fairly sure is Zeli Ismael, showed glimpses but didn’t stand out.
 
We were set up differently than Saturday’s game, with Lewis Simper in behind Reuben Reid given a bit of license to roam. We looked like we were still trying to figure out this system and learning how to play together, which is normal when you’ve gone through a rebuild.
 
 
We looked better in the second half when Tom Knowles, Joe Quigley and Dale Gorman came on and we reverted to the 4-4-2 shape. We saw more of Jordan Barnett and  Alex Bradley trying to get forward and eventually our pressure and tired Taunton legs saw us get the winner.
 
My key takeaways from last night:
  • We didn’t create a lot
  • We didn’t allow Taunton to create a lot
  • Taunton had a very good left back and their Number 9 gave Luke Wilkinson a battle too
  • We look very fit
  • We’re taking the Sports Science stuff seriously
  • It was nice to be around humans at football again
  • Don’t fall in love with footballers
 

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On today’s episode of the Gloverscast, Ian, Ben and Dave have a brief chat about the Forest Green Rovers friendly.

And then, Ben chats to Yeovil Town midfielder Josh Staunton. Last summer’s marquee signing talks injury, Lee Collins and the forthcoming season in this plentiful chat.

Thanks to Josh for talking to Ben at 9am the morning after a game, top man!

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Yeovil’s first friendly at Huish Park ended in defeat at the hands of Forest Green Rovers this afternoon.

A 14th minute strike from Jamille Matt was enough for Forest Green although Yeovil put in a decent performance against the League Two side and had some good opportunities.

Forest Green Rovers kick off the EFL campaign next Saturday and will probably be a little disappointed with the performance against the Glovers, given it was only the second friendly of the Glovers season preparation.

First Half                                

The Glovers should have had the lead when Reuben Reid set Charlie Wakefield through on goal, but Yeovil’s new signing couldn’t get the ball under control as he was closed down by Rover’s keeper, Luke McGhee.

Reid had the ball in the net for Yeovil in the 11th minute, but it was disallowed after he pretty much caught the ball before finishing.

Jamille Matt gave Forest Green the lead in the 14th minute with a simple finish from a cross on the right hand side. Matt snuck in front of his marker to leave Grant Smith rooted to the spot.

Reid another effort ruled out in the 38th minute. A signature Tom Knowles strike drew a good save from McGhee and Reid was given offside after putting the rebound away.

Half Time: Yeovil Town 0 – 1 Forest Green Rovers

Second Half

Yeovil were forced into a 55th minute change as an injury to Mark Little saw him make way for Alex Bradley.

Reid should have equalised for Yeovil just after the hour. Luke Wilkinson’s pressure on McGhee saw the Forest Green keeper spill the ball to the feet or Reid who could only find the Thatchers stand.

Jordan Barnett very nearly lobbed his own keeper with a sensational effort in the 64th minute. Grant Smith saved his left back’s blushes, heading the ball wide.

Glovers’ boss Darren Sarll made 5 changes in the 70th minute with three trialists entering the fray. Two of the trialist Harlain Mbayo and Deshane Dalling also played against Stratford Town last weekend.

Yeovil did have a late opportunity to equalise after a good cross from Wakefield found Dalling in the box. He laid the ball off to Simper whose shot was charged down.

Full Time: Yeovil Town 0 Forest Green Rovers 1

 YTFC: Grant Smith, Mark Little (55, Alex Bradley), Luke Wilkinson (Trialist – Mbayo), Max Hunt, Jordan Barnett (Trialist), Josh Staunton (Lewis Simper), Charlie Wakefield, Dale Gorman (Matt Worthington), Tom Knowles, Joe Quigley, Reuben Reid (Trialist – Dalling)

Subs: Max Evans

Forest Green Rovers: Luke McGhee, Kane Wilson, Dominic Bernard, Ben Stevenson, Jack Aitchinson (Young), Allen (Sweeney), Jamille Matt (March), Jordan Moore-Taylor, Hendry, Udoka Godwin-Malife, Sadio Diallo (Stevens)

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Yeovil Town have their first home match of pre-season tomorrow against Forest Green Rovers.

The match will see the Glovers don their brand new kit for the first time, with the match kicking off a 3pm.

Tickets are available the below prices:

Adults: £8
Young Person (16-23 years), Senior (65+ years) and Armed Forces personnel: £4
Under-16s – FREE – tickets must be allocated via ticketing website – here.

The Club have informed us that the “tea bars will be open alongside the bar inside the ground, which anybody with a ticket can access.”

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Yeovil Town are set to unveil their new kit for the forthcoming season next week according the club’s official website.

The ‘finishing touches’ are being added  before the launch, in what will be a momentous day for kit enthusiasts across South Somerset.

On Saturday the Glovers will be attempting to ‘Achieve By Unit’ in a template Hummel kit at Stratford.