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It was a night to forget at Huish Park as Yeovil’s old rivals came to town and knocked them out of the FA Trophy. Here are Ian’s Five Conclusions from a dreadful night under the lights.

It was not good enough. What more can you say? Early goals in each half from Brandon Goodship caught Yeovil off guard and left us chasing both halves but for a team that was looking to get back into the match in a fierce local rivalry, the quality in the final third was sorely lacking. At times it was ponderous and W*ymouth were able to prevent the Glovers playing through the lines. There were crosses a-plenty into the box in the second half but no one willing to take ownership and finish them.

We were found wanting in attack again. Ever since the Ciaran McGuckin returned to Rotherham, the attacking unit hasn’t clicked. Aaron Jarvis, Josh Sims, Frank Nouble, Kofi Shaw, Pedro Borges, James Plant, Sonny Blu Lo-Everton, Harvey Greenslade, Jordan Young and Sam Pearson have all had chances (albeit sparingly for some of those names) in the attacking end of the pitch this season and, for either through injury, suspension or lack of form, none of them have provided a consistent output in the form of goals and assists.

 

Picture courtesy of Tom Balch.

The derby feel off the pitch wasn’t matched on the pitch. Yeovil haven’t lost at home to W*ymouth since 1988. In that time we’ve moved to a new stadium, risen up the leagues and come back down find ourselves at the same level as our old rivals and last night the team that ended the night bottom of National League South were more up for it than Yeovil were. That’s a damning indicment on the players and the staff and a result they will have to live with. The celebrations at the end were painful to see but well-deserved. (He said begrudgingly.)

Our cup performances have been so disappointing. For a club that’s history is rooted in cup-exploits, it’s been a real frustration to see us whimper out of the FA Cup and FA Trophy at the first time of asking to clubs from the league below. We know better than anyone that you can’t take anything for granted in cup competitions but to miss out on a genuine chance of silverware (in the Trophy of course) leaves us hanging on to the hope of keeping pace with the play-off chasers and sneaking into that group come the end of the season.

We can expect more change. Speaking after the match, Mark Cooper said he needs to get ruthless and that means yet more changes on the pitch. Based on last night that could mean a number of players. But once again we’re looking the final third and wanting more from the attacking players. For all the combinations, the style and philosophy hasn’t altered so there’s an argument to make a change on that front in a bid to get the attack firing. Mark Cooper has already done his fair share of player trading and will know what’s out there to bring in, but moving players out to make room will be the challenge.

 

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Phil Jevons of Yeovil Town stretches for the ball

Not many strikers like Phil Jevons come around in your time supporting a football club. Luckily for Yeovil Town supporters, we had Phil, one of the purest goalscorers ever to pull on the shirt. He played 84 times for the Glovers and scored 42 goals, propelling us to League One and keeping us there too.

On this episode of the Glovers Past Ian and Dave spent a brilliant hour reminiscing with Phil about his time at Yeovil, the players he played with and his many goals. Settle in and enjoy this chat with a proper striker.

Phil Jevons of Yeovil Town shoots at goal

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Shooter McGavin lets fly. Pic Gary Brown

Brett McGavin scored as good a volley as you’ll ever see, as Yeovil ran out 2-0 winners at Woking. 

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Mark Stillman, The Shooter said his opening strike was ‘up there’ in the goal rankings.

He said: “It’s up there. Scoring goals is always a good feeling. But ones like that, yeah, you do have to take them in, because they’re special. I was saying on the last interview, I’ve just done, when it goes that high, you just have to concentrate on getting a good contact, and thankfully, it’s gone in the back of the net. There was a moment where I thought maybe that I can’t get there. But once I made the decision to go to the ball, there was only one thing on the mind. And like I said, just got concentrate on the strike. And thankfully, it went in.”

The midfielder echoed the thoughts of his manager, in that he felt the team could probably perform better. He said: “No matter how Woking are doing in the league it’s always a tough away fixture. We could probably perform better, but as soon as they went down to 10 men, we knew that we should come away with three points, and we done enough to get them today.

“We try to gain control as early as possible. And I think us gaining control then caused the red card because they were frustrated. So, yeah, gaining control was huge for us today.”

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Yeovil returned to winning ways this afternoon with a 2-0 win on the road at Woking. A thronker from Brett McGavin and a tap in from Finn Cousin-Dawson was enough against the ten-man Cardinals.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Mark Stillman after the match, Mark Cooper said his side needed the win.

“[I’m] Delighted with the result, not so much the performance, but I understand, because we’re a bit edgy. We lost three games in a week and put ourselves under a bit of pressure. And it was just about getting a win to get us off and running again, to restore a bit of confidence.

“We were competent today. We weren’t overly effective in the last third, but we had good chances as well to win the game. But, today was just about three points. There’s loads of things we did wrong, but we had a right go. We were really organised and never really looked in danger of losing the game.

“I thought we could have been quicker with the ball, but listen, it’s tough to play against 10 men. It’s just about winning the game and we managed to do that.”

Brett McGavin’s volley got the Glovers off the mark after Jack Stretton received a red card for an elbow on Cousin-Dawson and Cooper felt his team needed some magic: “We needed a bit of magic. Once they went to 10 men, they get bodies back and we needed just a bit of magic to get us going. Brett supplied us with that. He’s scored some cracking goals this year, and that was another.”

Matt Worthington returned off the bench after picking up an injury at Tamworth and Cooper was happy to see some squad depth return.

“Because of last week, it’s been a little bit frustrating for everyone with the sendings off, and it’s really rocked to us in terms of not being able to get balanced team out. So hopefully that gives us a bit of a G up now. We’re close to getting Wannell back, Dom back, Worthy, back on the pitch today. So we’re close to getting a bit of depth back to the squad.” 

Ed James was left out of the side after his debut on Wednesday, but the manager confirmed he’d be in contention for the FA Trophy clash with W*ymouth.