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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 striker Alex Fisher has said he’s aiming for a return to action in early 2024.

Speaking to the ‘My New Football Club‘ podcast, run by Exeter City fans Jon Beer and actor David Earl, he goes into incredible detail about his double leg break suffered live on BT Sport against Southend United in early April.

In a wide-ranging chat, he talks (in eye watering detail) about the moment it happened, how he had a three hour (!) wait in the Glovers’ physio room waiting for an ambulance and how his rehab is going.

Fisher remains under contract with the Glovers, but it might be the turn of the year before we see him at Huish Park scoring goals again.

On a possible return he said: “Given how bone grows and how it’s so different from person to person, the difference from when you could be back to when the worst case scenario is can be quite big, so, i’m budgeting for January.

“It’ll be October or September when I have the frame off, then it’ll be two more months to get – I can run, but because of the holes that are left from where the pins have been, I’ll be able to run, to do loads of stuff, but if I got hit on it, it wouldn’t have the same structural strength, because of where the pins have been.

“So I’ve got to wait for them to completely heal…”

The striker scored 5 goals in 38 games for the Glovers through the 2022/23 season.

Get well soon, Fish, see you in the new year!

The full Podcast is nearly two hours long, but is well worth your time…..

 

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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.

11.07.26Melksham Town (A)Friendly15:00
14.07.26Merthyr Town (A)Friendly19:30
18.07.26Cardiff City U21s (H)Friendly15:00
25.07.26Wycombe WanderersFriendlyBCD
28.07.26Farnham Town (A)Friendly19:45

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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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Yeovil Town has thanked long-serving Yeovil Town Community Sports Trust manager Sara Bradley after she departed her role.

In a statement issued on Friday morning, the club thanked her for her service to the club which began in 1993 when she started working in the club’s tea bars and ended this week.

She had also held roles including managing the hospitality facilities at Huish Park and a stint working as supporter liaison officer when the club was shortlisted for ‘EFL’s Family Club of the Year Award’ for the first and only.

The statement added: “Sara has been the constant at the Community Sports Trust since it’s inception and has been the cornerstone of its operation during this time. The work Sara has put into the Trust has enabled many young people to take part in sport and the wide range of activities delivered by the Trust. Sara has worked tirelessly in her role, often working long into her evenings, plus weekends on a regular basis, to fulfil her passion for the Trust.

“As part of her role Sara has been responsible for the successful application for many community projects, not least the Primary Stars project, where she successfully obtained funding alongside many larger clubs with greater resources available to them.

“Sara has always been passionate about those who work as part of her team and has always focused on their well-being, providing a supportive environment for them to work in.

“It is a testament to Sara’s commitment to her role that has seen large numbers of young people in the area given opportunities for life enhancing experiences by the Trust.

“We would like to take the opportunity to thank Sara and wish her all the best for future.”

The Trust’s football development programme now comes under the recently-launched Yeovil Town Performance Centre. This was been described as “reinvigorating our youth system at the football club” and is being led by Jamie Phillip, the former manager of Yeovil Town Ladies who is now Community and Youth Chief Executive.

His appointment announced last month went on to say the centre would create “a unified pathway for players as young as three years old in the Mini Talent Centres to the top of our youth system, the Elite Player Development Programme for Under-18s.”

However, from looking at the YTCST’s website, it appears such a pathway has always existed, indeed the likes of Under-18s captain Jake Graziano and midfielder Toby Stephens, who is contracted with the first team, have graduated from the Trust’s football development programme in recent years.

We at the Gloverscast are sure we echo the feelings of all Yeovil Town supporters in wishing Sara the best in her future and thank her for her decades of dedication to the club.

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Another day, another pre-season friendly in the books for Yeovil Town.

The Glovers will head to AFC Totton, who play in the Southern League Premier Division South, one tier below us, for a friendly on Saturday 22nd July with a 3pm kick off.

Full ticket details to follow, but this becomes the fifth friendly match scheduled with Tiverton Town, Buckland United, Plymouth Parkway and Wimborne Town already in diary.

The Glovers’ pre-season schedule to date is as follows:

Saturday July 8th – Buckland United (away)
Tuesday July 11th – Wimborne Town (away)
Friday July 14th – Tiverton Town (away)
Saturday July 22nd – AFC Totton (away)
Saturday July 29th – Plymouth Parkway (away)

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Yeovil Town winger Callum Harriott‘s short spell in Somerset has come to an end after the club announced his departure, with both parties agreeing to a mutual termination of his contract.

The news comes after the Gloverscast revealed he had been called up on international duty by Guyana for the upcoming CONCACAF Gold Cup preliminary rounds.

The 29-year-old originally arrived at Huish Park in March on “a short-term deal” with an option to extend for an extra year at the time SU Glovers, led by Matt Uggla, were attempting (ultimately unsuccessfully) to turn their “stewardship” of the club in to a takeover.

The ex-Colchester United and Charlton Athletic player man did make a small impact in the three games he he did play for the Glovers scoring one goal in the 1-1 draw with Aldershot Town on Good Friday.

All at Gloverscast wish Callum the best in the future.

 

 

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Another pres-season date for the diary.

Yeovil Town will face Southern League side Wimborne Town on Tuesday 11th July.

The Magpies will become the Glovers’ fourth scheduled pre-season game with Tiverton, Buckland Athletic and Plymouth Parkway.

Wimborne have recently installed a new 3G pitch, something which the Glovers will have to get used to a fair bit in the 23/24 season.

Wimborne will also face the Bermudan Under 23s national side, which sounds like a far more exciting fixture!

Full ticketing details to follow.

The Glovers’ pre-season schedule to date is as follows:

Saturday July 8th – Buckland United (away)
Tuesday July 11th – Wimborne Town (away)
Friday July 14th – Tiverton Town (away)
Saturday July 29th – Plymouth Parkway (away)

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Yeovil Town winger Callum Harriott is on international duty with the South American country of Guyana, new pictures of the team’s training sessions have shown.

The 29-year-old, who arrived at Huish Park in March on a “short-term deal” which nobody has advised has yet expired,appears to be involved in the team’s training cap in Kingston, Jamaica.

The camp is preparing for a Gold Cup preliminary match against Grenada in Miami, Florida on June 17th which, in Guyana are successful, will see them progress to face the winner of the match between Guadalupe and Trinidad and Tobago for a spot in the last 16 of the Gold Cup.

Callum Harriott at a Guyana national team training camp in Kingston, Jamaica.
Picture from Guyana Football Federation.

Joining Harriott in training with the national team, nicknamed the Golden Jaguars, is former Glovers’ winger Keanu Marsh-Brown, who had a spell at Huish Park in the 2012-13 season. That campaign obviously turned out not to be a bad one, albeit Marsh-Brown’s contract was cancelled in January 2013.

Harriott arrived in Somerset as one of a number of players brought in under the ‘stewardship’ of SU Glovers, the group owned by Matt Uggla which failed in its attempt to take over the club from Scott Priestnall.

The ex-Gillingham and Charlton Athletic player made just three appearances, scoring once in the 1-1 draw at Aldershot Town on Good Friday, and made his last appearance on Easter Monday, when he appeared as a 62nd minute substitute in the 1-0 home loss to Dorking Wanderers.

He picked up a thigh injury in that match and was never seen again with manager Mark Cooper saying he had not seen the player at training, although he was named among the players retained by the club at the end of the season.

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Documents filed on Companies House have confirmed that Scott Priestnall is no longer a director of Yeovil Town.

They also show new chairman and owner Martin Hellier as a director of both the club’s trading business, Yeovil Football & Athletic Club (YF&AC), and Yeovil Town Holdings Limited (YTFC Holdings), the company which holds the exclusive buy-back rights on land around Huish Park.

Hellier Trading Group, the chairman’s own business, is also registered as “a relevant legal entity” which holds “directly or indirectly, 75% or more of the shares in the company” whilst CV Leisure, the company set up by Priestnall when he bought the club in 2019, was also removed from the records of YTFC Holdings.

In summary, the filings which went live on Tuesday night confirm that everything we expected to see following confirmation of the takeover earlier this month.

On Wednesday morning, Priestnall was also removed as a director of the National League Trust, the league’s governing body, with his last act in this capacity appearing as a guest of the board at the play-off final at Wembley between Chesterfield and Notts County earlier this month.

Stuart Robins continues as a director of YF&AC and retains his 20% shareholding in that company. Therefore, it appears that Hellier holds a 72% stake in YF&AC alongside Robins and 8% held by an array of smaller shareholders, but in YTFC Holdings he appears to have acquired the 92% shareholding previously held by Priestnall.

Stuart Robins, centre, with Martyn Starnes, left, and Scott Priestnall at the match at Altrincham in August.

All of which means that Priestnall’s only remaining connection with anything to do with Yeovil Town is his role as a director of Yeovil Town Community Sports Trust, the charitable arm of the club/

He remains on the board alongside Robins, now (we assume although there’s been no official confirmation) former CEO Martyn Starnes, ex-commercial manager Dave Linney, and Johanna Harris, a teacher at Buckler’s Mead Academy.