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Qualfying began, and ended, for Yeovil on Saturday, as they fell to a surprising 1-0 defeat away at NLS side Chesham United. Let’s see how the rest of the National League participants got on.

We begin in Greater Manchester, where Oldham Athletic booked their spot in the first round with a convincing 4-2 win over fellow National League side FC Halifax Town. The Latics went into half time with a 4-1 lead, easing their way through what could’ve been a tricky tie for the Latics. In a score line of the same measure, Tamworth ensured they made their way into the hat with a home win over 7th tier Macclesfield, although it wasn’t as easy as the score suggests for the Lambs. Another 6 goal game came at another 7th tier side in Leiston, as they hosted Dagenham & Redbridge; they gave it their best efforts, but 4 goals in the last 15 minutes ensured this tie was out of reach, and the visitors stepped into the hat for Round 1.

Another all-National League affair ended in favour of the visiting Rochdale, who ensured that life for AFC Fylde under Kevin Phillips would be a tough one, in a 4-1 victory, Kairo Mitchell bagging a hat-trick in the process. More goals came down south as Wealdstone secured their first round spot with a 4-1 win over 7th tier Gosport Borough, debutant Alex Reid scored a hat-trick in the process, while National League leaders Barnet defeated Chelmsford City in a 4-0 drubbing.

The first replay of the afternoon was booked, as Boston United were spared their blushes thanks to Pemi Aderoju, the Peterborough loanee scored a 98th minute equaliser against the 10 men of 7th tier Gainsborough Trinity to set up the reverse leg at Boston in the coming weeks. Two more National League sides secured their spot in the first round with 3-1 wins away to lower-league opposition, with Sutton United and York City getting the better of Chertsey Town and Biggleswade respectively.

Last season’s media darlings Maidstone caused the first “cupset” of the day, as the NLS outfit handily defeated bottom side Ebbsfleet United in a 3-0 defeat. In reversed fortunes, two National League sides narrowly defeated NLS sides, as 10-man Aldershot Town needed a 98th minute winner from Maxwell Mullins to squeeze past Bath City, who had Alex Fisher to thank for their equaliser, while a Harry Beautyman double helped Woking come from behind against high flying Slough Town.

It wasn’t all doom and gloom for Glovers fans, as those pesky seagull botherers were defeated away at Forest Green Rovers in a 2-0 defeat, while one of the biggest results of the day took place in front of BBC cameras, as 8th tier Hednesford Town took Gateshead to a replay in a 1-1 draw. There were three more 1-1 draws to mention, as Maidenhead United were pegged back by Taunton Town, Hartlepool United scored a late equaliser at home against Brackley Town, and Altrincham and Solihull Moors finishing level.

There were two final 1-0 wins to mention, as an all-National League tie ended in favour of Southend United, defeating Eastleigh with a 93rd minute winner from Aribim Pepple, who I maintain has one of the best names in football, while an early Inih Effiong goal helped Braintree Town past 7th tier Bishop’s Stortford.

 

FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round results (NL teams in bold)

AFC Fylde 1-4 Rochdale
Aldershot Town 2-1 Bath City
Altrincham 1-1 Solihull Moors
Barnet 4-0 Chelmsford City
Biggleswade 1-3 York City
Braintree Town 1-0 Bishop’s Stortford
Chertsey Town 1-3 Sutton United
Chesham United 1-0 Yeovil Town
Eastleigh 0-1 Southend United
Forest Green Rovers 2-0 W*ymouth
Gainsborough Trinity 2-2 Boston United
Hartlepool United 1-1 Brackley Town
Leiston 1-5 Dagenham & Redbridge
Maidstone United 3-0 Ebbsfleet United
Oldham Athletic 4-2 FC Halifax Town
Tamworth 4-2 Macclesfield
Taunton 1-1 Maidenhead United
Wealdstone 4-1 Gosport Borough
Woking 2-1 Slough Town
Hednesford Town 1-1 Gateshead

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Tickets for the Glovers trip to Tamworth on Tuesday 22nd October are now on sale.

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS

Yeovil Town head to the home of the National League North Champions for a midweek clash and any Glovers fans making the trip can plan ahead.

There are a choice of Terrace or Main Stand tickets for Yeovil fans with seating tickets £2 more than those who prefer to stand.

Ticket Prices (Seating Prices in Brackets)

Adult – £18 (£20)
Concession – £14 (£16)
16/17 year olds -£8 (£10)
11-15 year olds – £6 (£8)

Please note that all tickets purchased in advance are subject to a 95p service fee, because… of course.

It’s not entirely clear, but the general consensus is that a “Concession” ticket is required for those aged 66 or over and we cannot find any mention as to how go about purchasing a Wheelchair space – or if a carer is admitted free of charge. We at the Gloverscast have sent an email asking for clarification.

Also, if you plan on sitting at the game, the following suggests that you MUST purchase ahead of time as a travelling fan. The same applies to anyone aged 17 years or younger. You MUST plan ahead.

“All tickets for those aged 17 years and under MUST be purchased online in advance of the game (Tickets remain on sale online up to 3.00pm on a match day). There will be NO tickets for sale for any young person aged 17 and under in person from our Matchday Ticket Office at the ground on the day of the game, UNLESS the young person is accompanied by a paying adult/adult season ticket holder. This applies to both home and away supporters.

Main Stand tickets will be taken off sale at 6:00pm on match day and will then only available from the Ticket Office for Tamworth FC Supporters only.”

“Please note that there will be no cash transactions available at the turnstiles at games”

“Proof of age will be required to purchase concession or age-related match-day tickets”

They’re really not making it easy for us, are they?

As with many other sides this season, this process does include signing up to an account on the site. Not a lot we can do about that, sorry.

If you have any questions or need to speak to someone ahead of time, the Lambs’ offer two main methods of contact.

By email – General enquiries: office@thelambs.co.uk & By phone – Main Office: 01827 65798

At the time of writing tickets for the following away games are also on sale;

Wealdstone Away – Saturday 19th October – Click HERE

Hartlepool Away – Saturday 21st December – Click HERE

 

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Well, let’s take Saturday, wrap it up in newspaper, and put it out with the rubbish shall we?

It wasn’t great for the Glovers’ first team and a couple of the loanees didn’t have a great time either.

We start in the FA Cup where Will Buse could do nothing to prevent W*ymouth exiting at the hands of Forest Green Rovers. The Vegans ran out 2-0 winners.

Plymouth Parkway lost 4-0 to Worthing in the same competition, Corey Koerner was brought off the bench in the 77th minute, with the game already pretty much done, but a brilliant experience the talisman of the Under 18s. 

Back in National League South action and Jordan Thomas started for Salisbury before being replaced shortly before half time, he was taken off at 1-0 up in their game against Hornchurch.
A stoppage time goal broke their hearts (yep, same) though, the game ending 2-2. We hope Jordan is OK and won’t be out for long.

Dropping into the local divisions, it was a good week for Josh Haskett at Sherbourne; he started in their midweek League Cup clash against AFC Stoneham, a game the Zebras won on penalties, he was also involved from the bench on Saturday as Sherborne recorded a comfortable 5-1 win over Hythe and Dibden.
Joe Crisp – another one of the Under 18s – was also involved in that Midweek win.

Krystian Woods was used from the bench for Street FC who picked up another good win over Ivybridge Town.

Mason Alden was in Welton Rovers’ starting line up for their game against AFC St Austell, whilst Max Dyer was brought off the bench for Oldland Abbotonians.

 

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Frustrating was the word of the day in the Yeovil Town camp following FA Cup defeat at Chesham United. Captain on the day, Frank Nouble, echoed the thoughts of his manager as the Glovers drew a blank for the sixth time this season.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Chris Spittles, Nouble said: “I think it does epitomise how our season has gone so far. I think we’ve played relatively well with the ball and controlled large spells. I don’t think they created too much. That’s not about being arrogant, either, it’s just just the facts of the game. But, they took their chance when it came in last minute of the game, or whenever it was. It’s hugely frustrating for us, particularly for our supporters and our players in there. We’re all disappointed. A few things were said in there, and rightly so. But the beauty about football is always enough opportunity to go out there and reclaim some form or some sort of happiness and bring back some joy, back to our supporters.”

Frank Nouble on the charge.Pic Gary Brown

Nouble, who is yet to find the back of the net this season, is still taking the ‘small positive’ of the side playing ‘relatively well’ and that the team will keep working.

“We’re not creating gilt edged chances where someone’s one v one and they’re missing them. [It’s] a lot of half chances, but it’s from good play. And you know, last year,  you might say it’s a league below, but we we’re still taking them chances, even if they were half chances. So this year just got to keep working. You know, we’re not scored many goals in the league overall, but we still find ourselves, I don’t know, 10th or 11th in the league. So it shows that, if we do turn that form around, in terms of attacking, God knows where we could be? So it’s a small positive to take from today that we are playing relatively well, but need to take our chances.”

“I do a lot of things outside the box, but I also need to chip in and help out with the team”

Club Captain Matt Worthington has been on the sidelines in recent weeks, with Brett McGavin and Charlie Cooper the preferred midfield pairing. Nouble as a senior player in the team has taken the armband in his absence.

“Matthew Worthington is the club captain, when he’s not playing or he’s not been selected recently, I’ve stepped in. Results have been decent, and they will be decent when Worthy’s captain again. But, as a senior Pro, I do find it my duty to just voice the positive and constructive opinions, and particularly myself, I’ve got to lead by example, on the pitch as well. I’m an attacking player, I do a lot of things outside the box, but I also need to chip in and help out with the team.” 

Despite the defeat, Nouble was proud of his teammates and said that they’d be ready for the next challenge: “I’m really proud of all the players in there, and lucky to play with them as well. I think it’s a pleasure to play and work with them every week, and we’re gonna have down days. Today is a real down day for us. But the beauty of it is, the rebound, always a reaction. We can’t rest on our laurels. [We’ve] got another tough game coming up. I think Wealdstone away, and then Tamworth and stuff like that. So just got to keep working. The players in there are good enough, if they choose to go get other players to come and do it, we support them, and we’ll now be ready for the next challenge.”

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Mark Cooper’s frustration with his Yeovil Town side was clear in his post-match interview following this afternoon’s FA Cup defeat. The Glovers tripped at the first hurdle of this season’s competition, losing 1-0 to National League South side Chesham United.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Chris Spittles, Cooper bemoaned his side’s attacking play on the day and in previous weeks. It was another game of keep-ball from the Glovers, but no cutting-edge.

Cooper said: “Full credit Chesham, they hung in there, didn’t they? We had all the play – dominated the game. We had loads of play around the edge of their box, but we didn’t get opportunities to kill it off.  We were really sloppy at the top of the pitch today. We didn’t take care in and around the penalty area. We should be scoring at least two or three today.”

Expanding on his side’s woes in front of goal, he added: “We haven’t scored enough goals for our play. That’s another game where we haven’t [scored]. We scored one last week and we dominated the game, we had loads of chances – we scored one. We scored one the week before, scored none the week before that, we scored none today, you know. So we can only do so much.

“We get the ball safely from the our goalkeeper, and we play nice, and we get the ball to the edge of their box and it breaks down, or we pick the wrong option, or we miss the target, or we smash it straight at the keeper. I think there’s one great bit of play where Josh Sims has got an open goal from five yards, and he hits it straight at the goalie, just roll it in the corner with a bit of composure. So, really frustrating. 

“we are really nice to watch from tee to green, but once we get on the dance floor, not quite enough”

Yeovil started the day with Ciaran McGuckin, Josh Sims, Frank Nouble and Jordan Young as the attacking quartet, and were able to introduce Sonny Blu Lo-Everton and Sam Pearson in the second half, but still couldn’t find a way through. Expanding yet further on his side’s woes in front of goals, Cooper really mixed his metaphors…

“If you look at our forward line, we’ve got Josh, Sims, who played 20-odd games on the Premier League, got Frank [Nouble], who’s played in the Premier League. We’ve got Ciaran McGuckin, who’s a young lad, scored two in two for us, and got we’ve Jordan Young, who was player of the year last year. So, you know, we expect. It’s not just the forwards, because we have set pieces, we had free kicks, shots from the edge of the box, but the forward boys have got to start scoring.  I’ve said to them in there, I can’t keep defending you if we keep missing chances and keep taking the wrong shot or finding the goalkeeper. Your job in the team is to score great goals. And we are really nice to watch from tee to green, but once we get on the dance floor, not quite enough.”

The set piece winner came deep into stoppage time through Jack Cawley’s header after the Chesham man rose highest above Raphael Araoye to break Yeovil hearts.

“We give them a free header. Our centre-half young Raph [Araoye], he’s coming out of U21s football, you have to learn that you have to head that ball. You can’t let your man jump above you, because that one action means that we’re out the FA Cup and not going back to a replay. So it’s great for Raph, because he has to learn that that can’t happen. And I’m sure Bristol City will be delighted, because that’s part of his learning. But, it doesn’t help us at the moment.

“[I’ve got] no qualms about the overall performance. We looked comfortable, just not ruthless enough in front of goal, and that’s been the case all season,” he added.

When asked what the next steps are to find the goals and if he needs to find the ‘devilment’ in them, Cooper said: “We either do that, or we say to the chairman, right, we need to bring some more attacking players in, because the ones we’re not we’re not quite firing. But I’ve said to them, I’ll stick with them, we keep working with them and try and make them better. And that’s your job as a coach.”

On a positive, Cooper said he expected to have Aaron Jarvis back next weekend, but that he could have been back for today: “We missed out on the protocol by 12 hours. You know, [I’m] not sure we did everything properly. We should be having Jarv coming off the bench today and winning us the game, but we didn’t, and we’ll have to wait until next week.”

Cooper finished off by setting the bar for the next few games, and promised a hard week of training for his team.

“Now it’s going to be a tough week for the boys. They’ll be in all week, and we have three games now, Wealdstone, Tamworth and Maidenhead that I want to go and take a real big points haul to propel us up the table.”

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Yeovil Town were dumped out of the FA Cup by a late winner at lower league Chesham United on Saturday.

With the game seemingly drifting towards a replay at Huish Park, Jack Cawley’s header at the back post from a late corner gifted the National League South side a win and a place in the competition’s first round.

Here was how Dave saw it from the away end in Buckinghamshire…..

First half

A booking for loan striker Ciaran McGuckin was the only action of the opening 20 minutes with neither side able to do much more than try to thread a pass through a defence.

Then on 20 minutes, efforts from first Jordan Young, then Ciaran McGuckin and Brett McGavin were blocked before the ball went out for a corner. From the resulting flag-kick a Frank Nouble effort came back off the post and away from danger.

Five minutes later, McGuckin challenged with Chesham keeper Ben Goode on the edge of the area, the gloveman spilt the ball but his effort was blocked by one of the defenders back.

Without question the best chance of the half so far fell to the home side on 36 minutes. A misplaced pass in midfield saw them break away and Joe Grant’s effort forced a fine stop out of Ollie Wright.

The first half came to an end with the distinct feeling that you could have had an extra 45 minutes in bed instead. Not much of a Cup tie yet.


Half time: Chesham United 0 Yeovil Town 0

Second half

The second half started with a bit more impetus from the visitors with a good bit of quick passing leading to the ball breaking to Josh Sims inside the box with 48 minutes gone. His snap shot was well saved by Goode and two minutes later McGavin’s effort went just over the bar after being set up by McGuckin.

That same combination linked up nicely on 56 minutes to earn a corner from which McGavin had an effort over and then on the hour mark Young tried to jink in to the box but could not pull the trigger.

With 20 minutes remaining, Young, who everyone had been screaming at to ‘have a go’ rather than take another touch, unleashed one which cleared the crossbar….and the covered terrace behind the goal.

On 74 minutes, Sonny Blu Lo-Everton and Sam Pearson replaced Josh Sims and Ciaran McGuckin.

Five minutes later, Nouble got away and fired in a shot which pinballed around inside the Chesham area but there was no-one there to turn it home.

Three minutes from time, Young was on the wrong end of a crunching tackle in the middle of the pitch. He was replaced by Harvey Greenslade.

As the game ticked in to injury time, there was another bit of pinball inside the box with Lo-Everton among those with having an opportunity to shoot.

If like me you were at the opposite end of the ground to see what happened for the winner, the Chesham United tweet, below, will tell you what you need to know. A corner to the back post saw Jack CAWLEY out jump Araoye at the far post to head a famous winner.

If you play with the lack of tempo and urgency we had for the majority of the game, the risk of getting hit by a sucker punch is huge. That is exactly what happened and we honestly have no-one to blame but ourselves.

Full time: Chesham United 1 Yeovil Town 0

Match Details

Venue: The Meadow
Date: Saturday 12th October – 15:00 Kick Off

Competition: FA Cup, 4th Qualifying Round

Scorers: Jack Cawley 90+3

Pitch:  In surprisingly good nick considering it had been played on Tuesday
Conditions: After a pre-match cloud burst, a glorious autumn afternoon broke out 

Attendance: 1,321 (approx 250 away supporters)

Bookings:
Yeovil Town: Ciaran McGuckin 7
Chesham United: Jack Connors 52

Referee: Scott Tallis

Yeovil Town (4-2-3-1)

 

Substitutes:  Sonny Blu Lo-Everton (for Josh Sims, 74), Sam Pearson (for Ciaran McGuckin, 74), Fin Cousin-Dawson (not used), Matt Worthington (not used), Matt Gould (not used).

Chesham United: Ben Goode, Lewis Rolfe, Alex Lafleur (for Bradley Clayton, 81), Jack Cowley, Connor Stevens, T’Sharne Gallimore, Nathan Minhas (for Eoin Casey, 90+5), Mitchell Weiss (for Samson, Easan, 81), Jack Connors (for Ashley Lodge, 69), Joe Grant (for Omar Rowe, 69), Callum Adebiyi.

Substitutes (not used): Steve Brown, Avan Jones.

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Josh Sims returns to the starting line up for the Glovers as they get their FA Cup campaign underway.

There’s no place in the squad for; Alex Whittle, Michael Smith or James Plant.

The first two due to injury, we presume Plant has not been given permission to play by Port Vale.

Dylan Morgan is cup tied and misses out, there’s a place on the bench for Harvey Greenslade who is on the road to recovery after injury.

The Glovers only name six subs for the game away at Chesham Utd