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Tickets are now on sale to Yeovil fans for our game against Altrincham on Saturday 7th February – 3pm kick off

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS

Altrincham have not increased their prices from last year, which makes this bit nice and easy for us, we can just copy and paste last year’s details.

Adults – £20,
Concessions – £15,
12-18 Year Olds – £9
5-11 Year Olds – £4
Under 5s – £1

The good people at Atrincham have confirmed to the Gloverscast, a concession is anyone 65 years old and over, as well as members of the Emergency Services, Armed Forces and NUS members – ID may be required.

Disabled Access includes entry via Gate 4 on Moss Lane and a carer goes free with a full paying ticket.

There is unreserved seating available to the Glovers fans next to the standing away terrace.

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Boxing Day’s fixture with Truro City will be officiated by Ross Martin, the proud participant of one of our favourite images (below, hat tip to Gary Brown).

It’s the first time we’ve seen Mr Martin this season, he’s been chopping and changing between EFL and National League bookings, he has refereed one Truro match though, a 1-0 over Fulham U21s in the definitely serious and totally not silly National League Cup.

15 matches across all competitions have seen 58 yellows, 3 reds and 2 penalties awarded.

As for the Glovers, we have a great record when Martin takes charge, six games, five wins and a draw (2-2 vs Eastleigh on Boxing Day last year!)

He’s actually officiated our last two games on Boxing Day, the 4-1 home win against Taunton, then that Eastleigh draw.

At this point, we should have a card for him, he comes to see us on Boxing Day more often than some relatives!

Adam Wilson and James Hooper have festive flags, whilst Steven [seven] Swan[s – a – swmming] is handing out the mince pies in the dug outs.

Referee Ross Martin sent off by Jolly Green pre match, a bit harsh, maybe.
Pic Gary Brown

Truro City FC (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)
National League – Premier
Referee: Martin, Ross
Assistant Referee: Wilson, Adam
Assistant Referee: Hooper, James
Fourth Official: Swan, Steven

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UPDATE – 4.45pm – 23/12/25 – It appears all the AWAY standing and seated tickets for this fixture have SOLD OUT. The option on the ticket portal will no longer allow you to purchase tickets for the away supporters’ area.

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Yeovil Town’s Boxing Day visit to Truro City has been designated an all-ticket affair with just 250 tickets available for the fixture.

The Cornish side announced on 23rd December that all seated tickets had sold out for the game and there were now just 250 tickets available in the entire stadium. You will need to buy a ticket for attending the fixture.

For full details on how to buy tickets for the day, visit our article – HERE.

For all other details relating to the Boxing Day match, check our Huish Hugh Ciderspace Away Travel Guide to Truro – HERE.

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Defender Kyle Ferguson did not feel Yeovil Town showed enough of themselves in their 2-0 home defeat to Forest Green Rovers on Saturday night.

The 26-year-old, who was named the sponsors’ Man of the Match on a rain-soaked night at Huish Park, agreed with his manager Billy Rowley that the Glovers were not brave enough to take on the visitors who played the final 25 minutes with ten men.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Jack Killah after the game, Ferguson said: “I don’t think we gave a good showing of ourselves and what we can do especially when you compare it with the last three games, but that is something that is going to happen, there is going to be bumps in the road. It is still a relatively new team, still teething really, but now we just need to bounce back in the next game.

“I think we could keep the ball a bit better, me included, be a bit more calm, be braver. The conditions were not great, but I don’t want to use that as an excuse because it is the same for both teams. Sometimes this happens and as players we just need to have to make sure it does not happen again next week.”

Yeovil fell behind after they were cut apart by Forest Green’s wide players and striker Temi Babalola slotted the opener after just quarter-of-an-hour, before an unfortunate own goal for goalkeeper Jed Ward on the hour mark sealed Rowley’s first defeat in charge.

The visitors had midfielder Harry Bunker dismissed for a second yellow card five minutes after extending their lead, but comfortably saw out the final minutes.

Ferguson added: “Everyone knew at half-time that we had not been good enough, the Gaffer came in and had words with us and that lit a fire under us, and we came out wanting to prove a point. Then they get the second goal and it is a lot harder, once they got a man sent off, I think we could have pushed a bit harder and kept the ball a bit better, but it was just one of those days, we could have played for ages and still struggled to score.”

Kyle Ferguson | Photo by Gary Brown

The Scotsman has been an ever present since Rowley came in as manager having missed the previous two matches after an apparent fall out with the previous manager.

Asked about his return to the side, he said: “When the new Gaffer came in it was a clean slate for everybody which I was happy about because I had missed out previously, but that is football. I just kept my head down and kept working hard and then gone straight back to work to show what I can do and with a few games on the bounce now I am enjoying my football again.”

Yeovil now travel to bottom side Truro City, who had a long trip for a 4-0 defeat at York City on Saturday, before back-to-back league home games against Eastleigh on 30th December and Braintree Town on 3rd January.

Ferguson added: “It is a great chance to bounce back, we are lucky that the games at so close together because everybody just wants to play football when you have just lost. It is a quick turnaround because we can get back in and put things right.“

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Yeovil Town manager Billy Rowley said it was “tough to watch” his side fail to put their mark on the game as they went down 2-0 at home to Forest Green Rovers on Saturday night.

The Glovers went down to a first half strike from visitors’ striker Temi Babalola and then goalkeeper Jed Ward scored an unfortunate own goal with an hour gone to hand three points to the visitors, who were reduced to ten men when Harvey Bunker got a second yellow card on 65 minutes.

But, despite playing 25 minutes with a one-man advantage, Yeovil never threatened to reduce the deficit and Rowley admitted their attacking play needs work.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Jack Killah after the evening kick-off, he said: “It was a tough watch for a lot of it. I was obviously respectful of Forest Green coming in to the game and we focused on us trying to imprint our style on to the game, but I didn’t think we did that. I thought we were poor on the ball, I don’t think we were brave enough in certain moments.

“We value Aaron Jarvis a lot here, he’s tremendous in the air and I think at certain moments it is really important that we do use that strength, but I think at times we over-use that and there are too many bodies around him and it becomes a bit predictable and easy to defend against. Aaron gets three men against him and he battles and gives away fouls and it kills momentum, it kills the rhythm of the game. That is something we are going to have to learn so we use that at certain times. It was a tough game tonight but one I felt we should have played better in.”

Aaron Jarvis | Picture courtesy of Gary Brown

The defeat ended a run of three wins for Rowley since taking over at Huish Park and he identified the lack of attacking threat carried by his side as a weakness – but insists that the answer does not lie in the transfer market.

He said: “I don’t think we can ever doubt the passion and desire of this group of players, they wear their heart on their sleeve and they give everything and you can see that. It is now Darren (Simpson, assistant manager) and my job to try and provide them with the training, ideas and clarity to help them score more goals because that is obviously something we are lacking.

“It would be obvious for people to say ‘sign a centre forward’ but I do not think that is the problem, I think we need to create better chances and use the ball better in certain moments and understand what we are trying to do. I think that is just a bit muddy at the moment, I am not sure we have a lot of clarity in the final third or the opposition’s half and that is something we are going to have to work hard on.”

The Glovers travel to bottom club Truro City on Boxing Day followed by a home match with Eastleigh four days later and then a visit from Braintree Town on 3rd January.

Rowley said he would not allow the defeat to trouble him too much over the festive period, and focus on the upcoming opportunities to pick up points.

He said: “I am not someone who gets too down when we lose or massively up when we win. I have always said ‘when you lose you end up learning a lot about people’ and about styles of play we want to work on, so it gives me a lot of fuel about what this team needs and what we need to work on in training. We will take this one on the chin, we have a busy period coming up and we need to prepare for that, so we are not going to be too down about this result. (Forest Green) are a team which are second in the league, and 20 points ahead of us in the league so it was always going to be a tough test, but I am just disappointed we did not show our qualities.“

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Yeovil Town fell 2-0 to Robbie Savage’s Forest Green Rovers with a solitary goal in either half the difference between the sides.

Jed Ward could do nothing about the own goal attributed to him in the second half, and couldn’t do much more about Temi Babalola’s first half strike.

The result ends Billy Rowley’s 100% win record, the performance from the Glovers had it’s moments but lacked the final cutting edge.

First half

Yeovil Town started the brighter of the two sides, a couple of nice passages of play between Luke McCormick and Josh Tobin tried to break the defensive lines of their opponents, but it was Forest Green who had the first sight of goal.

Kyle McAllister was left with far too much space in the middle of the box, but following a cracking run from Jayden Clarke, his chance fell awkwardly and could only be skewed wide with 5 minutes on the clock.

The visitors were making their intentions clear, using the forward runs of Tom Knowles and Jili Buyabu to overload the wide areas and were getting a fair amount of success, even if clear cut opportunities were few and far between.

That was until the 15th minute, Clarke and Buyabu combined well down the left hand side, the latter’s cross fell perfectly to Temi BABALOLA who had too much room on the penalty spot, and he smashed past Jed Ward with minimal fuss. 0-1.

The pace of the game was really starting to crank up; Michee Efete ran pretty much the entire length of the pitch, but couldn’t produce a cross, that led to a chance at the other end with Nick Haughton firing towards goal, but a big block from Kyle Ferguson prevented any further damage.

There was a moment of utter calamity on 21 minutes, a mix up with Brett McGavin at the back, left Jed Ward stranded and only some dilly dallying from Clarke allowed defensive reinforcements to clear the danger off the line.

The Glovers had their first proper sight of goal on 26 minutes, Josh Tobin worked a ball wide to Daly who clipped a nice ball in, but it was just too high for Aaron Jarvis and Harvey Greenslade couldn’t keep the ball in play to salvage the move.

Harvey Bunker was the first man to go into the referee’s notebook, after a cynical foul on Brett McGavin, the resulting free kick was flicked on by a Glovers’ head, but trickled out harmlessly for another Forest Green goal kick.

Tom Knowles was causing all kinds of havoc down the right (pretends to be shocked), he latched onto a ball from Haughton and forced another cross which resulted in the third corner for the Vegans.

With 38 minutes gone, Yeovil had the ball in the back of the net, but a pesky flag from the assistant ruled the goal out, Aaron Jarvis’ flick fell into the path of Luke McCormick perfectly, he slotted home, but no sooner had McCormick pulled the trigger, the flag had risen.

The final ten minutes of the half had probably been the Glovers’ best spell of the game, but Harry Isted hadn’t had a proper save to make.

As the clock ticked beyond 45 minutes, two minutes were added.

And that’s how it stood at the break, the only meaningful shot on target was the difference between the sides.

Half time: Yeovil Town 0 Forest Green Rovers 1

Second half

No changes at the break for either side (other than the direction they’re attacking), and the early exchanges were once again in favour of the visitors, but some good work from Greenslade forced a free kick on the right hand side. It was taken quickly to Greenslade, but he couldn’t convert.

This woke the Thatchers Stand up and a second free kick a moment later provided Daly with a chance to whip the ball in, his cross didn’t beat the first man but McCormick would eventually flash a shot over.

With 52 minutes on the clock, Greenslade forced a corner with a charge down the left hand side, but, McGavin’s corner evaded everyone.

McGavin let fly from distance shortly after and to the surprise to most, his effort went high over the bar, 30-yards is normally tap-in territory for McGavin normally!?

Yeovil Town should have been 2-0 down just before the hour mark, Finn Cousin-Dawson slipped and handed the ball to a Rovers striker, the eventual effort somehow deflected over, hearts in mouths.

The game was getting a tad spicy, the referee had given some strange calls tackles were flying in and when it came to settle, the ball fell to the left hand side where Buyabu had acres of space, his cross-cum-shot was cleared off the line, but in the end FC-D’s clearance hit the leg of Jed Ward who could do nothing but see his goal breached. 0-2.

It was nearly 0-3 on a couple of occasions, Ward was called into action not once, but twice.

At the other end, Luke McCormick was still causing trouble and with 65 minutes gone, Harvey Bunker gave him a little push, second yellow, red. Things about to get interesting.

Free kick to the Glovers, but first, shenanigans and subs.

Referee Alan Dale – who had probably not had his finest evening – spent ages doing… nothing, saying… something. He might have booked Jake Wannell.

The free kick… came to nothing, a near post clearance out for a corner.

More shenanigans and more nothingness from the ref and more underwhelming set piece delivery from the Glovers’ number 14.

Yeovil though, with the extra man were certainly feeling upbeat, some neat footwork from Daly allowed McCormick to swing a cross in, but that, like the rest, was well blocked.

With 20 minutes remaining, Tobin, Efete, McGavin and Greenslade were taken off with Max Jolliffe, Josh Sims, James Plant and Tahvon Campbell coming on – the lesser spotted quadruple substitution. FGR had one of their own too. But by that time, I’d lost track.

Sims’ first action saw him take a couple players on, lose the ball and then when trying to track back, he took out his man and picked up a booking.

Yeovil were trying to make the extra man count, but some sloppy play and strong defensive work from the visitors were keeping the hosts at arm’s length.

Jolliffe was out to make an impact, his break up play allowed James Plant to make a charge down the left hand side, his cross was inch perfect to find Tahvon Campbell, his effort at goal excellently saved by Isted in goal.

The resulting corner also found itself to Campbell who couldn’t direct it goalwards as the ball squirmed to the side of the post.

Time was ticking away from the Glovers, there was huff and puff, but the away side wouldn’t have their house blown down,

Six additional minutes were shown, and to be fair to the hosts, there was still plenty of effort; McCormick was still getting kicked about and Daly was still trying to create chances. James Plant had a shot blocked when he chose to place an effort from the edge of the box rather than hit the spots off it.

There was just time for Aaron Jarvis to go into the book for a flap of the hand in the direction of a FGR player… might have been closer to an Orange Card that, Aaron…. careful!

That was all she wrote, see you on Boxing Day!

Full time: Yeovil Town 0 Forest Green Rovers 2

Match Details

Venue: Huish Park
Date: Saturday 20th December, 7:45pm kick-off

Competition: Enterprise National League

Scorers: Temi Babalola ’15 (0-1), Jed Ward (OG) ’61 (0-2)

Pitch: Holding up well

Conditions: Cool with light showers

Attendance: 3179 (256)

Bookings:
Yeovil Town: Jed Ward ’62, Jake Wannell ’64, Josh Sims ’74
Forest Green Rovers: Harvey Bunker ’33,

Sendings Off
Yeovil Town:
Forest Green Rovers: Harvey Bunker ’65

Referee: Alan Dale

Yeovil Town (3-5-2)

Substitutes: Max Jolliffe (for Tobin ’70), Tahvon Campbell (for Greenslade ’70), James Plant (for McGavin ’70), Josh Sims (for Efete ’70)

Unused: Matt Gould, Dan Ellison, Andrew Oluwabori

Forest Green Rovers: H, Istead (GK), T Knowles, L Mendy, A Kanu, J Buyabu (for A Dausch ’85), H Bunker, K McAllister, H Whitwell, N Haughton (for M Robson,’67), J Clarke (for T Pemberton ’74), T Babalola (for C Doidge ’85)

Substitutes (not used):  L McNicholas,, M Robson, Y Bamba, K Mitchell,