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On today’s Gloverscast, Ian, Dave and Ben welcome the new owner and chairman of Yeovil Town Football Club, Martin Hellier. 

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Few players have seen as much as Lawson D’Ath has at Huish Park. In the last three years he’s been at the heart of the club through a return to the National League, covid, off-the-pitch turmoil and everything in between. (Yes, we talked referees!)

We were delighted to welcome Lawson on to the Glovers Past for this honest interview about his time in Green and White.



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Yeovil Town have confirmed the full line up this summer’s pre-season schedule today.A short trip to Dorchester on Tuesday 18th July and a visit to Huish Park from League Two Newport County AFC a week later on Tuesday 25th July has been added to already announced games.

See the full summer schedule below. We’ll do our best to get on #spotthetriallist once again.

25.02.26Sutton UtdH19:45
28.02.26Southport (FAT QF)A15:00
03.03.26TamworthH19:45
07.03.26Scunthorpe UnitedH15:00
14.03.26Boston UnitedA15:00

On today’s Gloverscast, Ian, Dave and Ben are back to talk through recent events at Huish Park as it’s been a while! We talk through the retained & released list and take your GCQs.

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Andy Welsh is a Yeovil Town centurion. Between 2008 and 2011 you could find Andy bombing down the wing, scoring goals and assisting his teammates. On this episode of the Glovers Past, we caught up with Andy – now the manager of Bury AFC – about his time at Huish Park.

We covered:

  • Working under Russell Slade
  • Terry Skiverton taking over following Slade’s departure
  • What it was like working under Skivo and Nathan Jones
  • Yeovil’s Premier League loanees – Steven Caulker, Andros Townsend, Ryan Mason, Asmir Begovic and the rest..
  • Becoming a manager and life at Bury AFC.
Pictures Courtesy of Mike Kunz


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  • On today’s episode of the Gloverscast, Ian and Dave welcome Seb White and Hugh Gleave to discuss what National League South will look like for Yeovil Town come August. We talk beer, some of the new grounds we’ll visit, the quality of the football, what it will take to get out of the division an everything in between.

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Chairman Martin Hellier has revealed that barrister Rhys Rosser and commercial manager Mark Robinson will join the Yeovil Town board.

In an early morning post on his Twitter account on Thursday, the owner said the appointments followed the support of his barrister in his acquisition of a majority shareholding in the club from former owner Scott Priestnall earlier this month.

He also praised the commitment of Robinson who has been at the club since he joined from Dorchester Town in December 2019.

In the post, the chairman said: “Just a bit of late night news that WILL follow through on official channels. I appoint Rhys Rosser, my barrister, as fellow director and a consummate professional. For all my ambitions, thank Rhys, he got it over the line and he will sit next to me as my brother. He made it happen.

Mark Robinson, who worked seven days a week, from selling sponsorship to cooking chickens for corporate events only to keep our club going, is also, now a Director, and thank them, for making it happen.

Rhys Rosser is an experienced barrister working at The Chambers of Brian Altman QC and Jim Sturman QC, and was also a contestant in the Junior Apprentice as a 17-year-old back in 2010.

Mark Robinson is a more familiar face to Glovers’ fans having replaced the long-serving Dave Linney at Huish Park more than three years ago. Prior to his arrival, he was General Manager at Dorchester Town having previously worked as an engineer for brewing giant, Carlsberg.

The pair will join the new owner and Stuart Robins, who owns a 20% stake in the club’s trading business, Yeovil Football & Athletic Club Limited, as directors of the club.

We await for the Companies House records for the business to be updated. They presently still show former owner Priestnall as a director. There has been no update on the future of either Robins or Chief Executive Martyn Starnes, although neither feature on the ‘Who’s Who?’ page of the club’s official website which Starnes was previously shown on.

Perhaps when the appointments hit the official channels, there will be more.

If you haven’t done already, make sure you complete our YeoGov End of Season Survey giving us your thoughts on the 2022/23 season….

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Yeovil Town Women FC are holding two open trial sessions in June, on Friday 2nd and Friday 9th between 7pm and 9pm.

The sessions will take place at Huish Park on the 3G pitch and you can register for the sessions here.

Last month the club confirmed Paul Knight was appointed the First Team Manager and Matt Bennett as Reserve Team Manager following the launch of the club on New Years Day.

 

Yeovil will travel to Devon on Saturday 8th July for a friendly against Buckland Athletic.

Tickets will only be available on the day and will cost £8 for adults, £6 for concessions and £2 for under-12s.

Based in Newton Abbot, Buckland Athletic ply their trade in the Western League Premier Division.

 

 

Earlier this week the club confirmed a friendly with Tiverton Town was scheduled for the 16th July.

Well, the season has ended with the ultimate disappointment on the pitch but in the aftermath there is a new dawn at Huish Park. Under new ownership, the cloud of Pr*estnall has gone. Like we did last season, we’ve done another End of Season Survey for the readers of Gloverscast to take part in. Last year 499 (argh!) of you responded. Can you help us get to 500 this time round?

The survey is on Google Forms and is a mix of multiple choice and linear scale (1-7 of course) questions about issues on the pitch, off the pitch and the future. There is also an optional section about the Gloverscast that we’d be very grateful if you’d complete it.

The survey will be open for four weeks and will close on Wednesday 14th June. We’ll go through the responses and share them on the website like we did for last year’s survey.

CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY