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On loan striker Reo Griffiths has been sent to Yeovil Town to get game time, according to Doncaster Rovers manager Danny Schofield.

The boss, who had a spell as a player at Huish Park in 2008-09, said the former Tottenham Hotspur youngster had struggled to get minutes either on the training pitch or during matches.

Griffiths made his first appearance for the Glovers as a 64th minute substitute in the midweek defeat at Barnet, his first appearance since a 17-minute cameo at the end of Donny’s Boxing Day defeat at Tranmere Rovers.

Speaking of the striker to the Doncaster Free Press, Schofield said: “He’s suffered lots of injuries and little setbacks since I have been in the building and he’s not been able to get a run of training sessions, never mind games.

“In order for him to develop that physical aspect of his game we felt he was more likely to get more minutes elsewhere.

“Yeovil showed an interest and I think it’s a good opportunity for Reo to go and play games and help them in their season.”

Griffiths arrived in South Yorkshire in January 2022 having spent the previous four years playing for the reserve side of French giants Lyon after starting his career in the Tottenham Hotspur academy, where he was prolific.

He has appeared five times for Donny, starting just twice, and is yet to score. He scored twice in 16 appearances last season.

On Griffiths’ future, the boss added: “It will be reassessed in the summer. He’s still under contract, so he will be back in the summer.

“As the season comes to an end we will reassess all players.”

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Yeovil Town are continuing to monitor the fitness of striker Jordan Young as they prepare for a trip to FC Halifax Town at the weekend.

The former Chippenham Town striker missed the midweek defeat at Barnet with a hamstring injury and manager Mark Cooper is hoping to have him back in time for the trip to West Yorkshire.

The Shaymen sit five points above the Glovers in the National League table and are buoyed by a FA Trophy quarter final win last weekend and a blank midweek after their home match was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.

Speaking ahead of the game, Cooper reiterated that he did not think there was much opportunity to bring in any new players ahead of the weekend with the deadline to register players closing next Thursday.

He said: “We are that late in the day now that to get anything of the quality that can help us is difficult. The one thing I know about the boys we have got is that they will have a right go at it, I think from where we were we are in a decent position, we are (four) points clear (of the relegation zone)  with good games to play. We are calm and we know what to do.”

Midfielder Jordan Stevens was due to have a scan on a hamstring injury on Thursday night, but the manager said he expected to be missing the recent signing for up to four weeks after he limped off in the first half at Barnet.

He also revealed defender Morgan Williams, who suffered a knee injury in the 1-0 home win over Eastleigh, was likely to be missing for “between four and six weeks” with defender Max Hunt back doing some “light jogging“.

Midfielder Scott Pollock, who has not featured since signing ten days ago, had “just started training on grass” and Charlie Wakefield was still missing with “a sore back.”

Hunt is doing some light jogging, it’ll be a while before he gets back on the grass. Charlie Wakefield still has a sore back, Scott Pollock just started training on the grass. Morgan Williams’ scan was not great so he is going to be 4-6 weeks.

 

Cooper said he was looking forward to back-to-back blank midweeks following the trip to Halifax with two home fixtures coming up against tenth-placed Bromley and then ninth-placed Southend United on March 25th and April 1st respectively.

Following that they face a run of four crucial games against sides around them at the wrong end of the National League table which starts with a trip to Gateshead, who presently occupy 21st place, the first spot below the dotted line, on Tuesday 4th April. They then travel to Aldershot Town (presently in 17th place) on Good Friday, and then host Dorking Wanderers who sit a place below them on Easter Monday.

Cooper said: “We know what we have to do, we have ten games and we have to cobble together enough fit players to try and keep putting a competitive team out.

“The ones we are playing are fighting for their lives so it could equally be tougher. It is important that we take each game on its merit, the hardest thing is to win a game of football, there’s another 11 players trying to stop your 11 players. You have to respect the opposition.

“I am looking forward to the rest of the season, there’s ten games, we have our destiny in our own hands. We have four points (between us and the relegation zone) plus our goal difference, if you had said that to me when I came in I would have taken it.

“We have some really good characters in the changing room that have been here a while who understand what it means and is about, and I mean.”

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Paul Fairclough, England C manager, has named his final 16 for the England C game against their Welsh counterparts next Tuesday and unfortunately, Matt Worthington hasn’t made the cut.

Initially named in the squad last week, Worthy was hoping to make his International debut next week at Altrincham, but with the squad now trimmed to just 11 starting players and the five subs, he will instead have a well earned rest next midweek.

Sorry, Worthy, we still think you’re our Ginger Pirlo…

Full Squad Below
Pic: Non League Paper

 

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Yeovil Town ’chief steward’ Matt Uggla has said he believes the club’s current squad is capable of surviving in the National League.
The director of SU Glovers, the company which is in the final stages of completing a takeover of the club from chairman Scott Priestnall, took to Twitter after being contacted by a number of supporters following last night’s 2-1 defeat at Barnet.
He and Paul Sackey, the former England rugby union player who is involved in the group, were in the away end at The Hive last night.

In a post on Wednesday, Uggla said: “Tough one last night. Been getting a lot of messages to go out and overhaul the squad and sign this guy and that guy. 

“We are all for improving the squad which we do believe is more than capable of staying up as they proved against Eastleigh and Chesterfield. 
“We have to keep calm and bring in the right players and also on the right terms. 
“There are people we are looking at and if we can get it done then that’s great as it will be part of our long term project for next year. This squad is more than capable. Rome wasn’t built in three weeks.”

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Only one of the Gloverscast trio got eyes on the 2-1 defeat to Barnet.

Gloverscast Ben watched on the stream as Yeovil lost at the Hive and had to do so in silence as to not wake the youngest mini Barrett, here’s how he saw (but not heard) the game… he’s off to source some headphones.

Physically, it was a game too far.

The previous two results against Eastleigh and Chesterfield have been positive, four points from play-off contenders, who have gone on to put in good performances since.

Let’s not underestimate how good those outcomes were, but this one felt like we’d spent a lot of energy and had very little left.

The team news suggested as much, the slow nature of our counter attacks confirmed it.

We’re clearly nursing a few players through some games.

I’m not going to fault effort, but you are left wondering if we’re paying the price for having no physio for as long as we did.

That being said, we did have moments, but…

If you’re going to only get a few chances, you simply have to take them.

It’s perfectly acceptable to soak up pressure away at good sides, it’s fine to try and get a stereotypically away performance and try and scrap a 1-0 win and call it a day.

But, we did make chances, and I’d argue we could have made more of them.

Ryan Law had a first half header, we had moments on the edge of the box where shots were snatched at rather than placed or forcefully put into the far corner, we made some silly decisions at times which were counter productive in the final third and we had more than one cross or melee in the box crying out for someone to take the moment by the scruff of the neck.

Let’s starting chucking our bodies in the line of crosses, be a bit ugly in attack, be forceful… be a bit nasty up top.

Malachi Linton fires in a shot. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

If in doubt… keep it simple.

I’ve really enjoyed the freedom Mark Cooper has brought to this side, we’ve added play makers, we’ve given midfielders licences to play and try and get involved.

We’ve got a defence, who for the most part, have been solid and want to get involved, but sometimes, we need to keep things a bit simple in tight, important games.

Ryan Law lost the ball twice trying a little pirouette in midfield, we played ourselves into trouble at the back when a pass to or from the keeper got a bit close for comfort and finally, the second goal came from Owen Bevan trying to morph into peak Rio Ferdinand and take the ball out from the back.

Owen, you’re good, very good and I think you’re destined for the top, but just launch that one please.

Maybe, we’re not just feeling the effects physically (see point 1) but also, mentally.

It’s a fine balance and quite how Mark Cooper finds that level of releasing the handbrake, but also keeping things simple is how he’ll earn his corn over these final 10 or so games.

The game changed with the addition of Nicke Kabamba, I mean, of course it did.

He got his 18th league goal of the season when pouncing on Bevan’s mistake and it goes to show exactly what we have been missing.

That depth in quality just hasn’t been there, bringing on Reo Griffiths was a nice little addition, but how Mark Cooper would have liked to have turned around to see a Charlie Wakefield or Scottt Pollock to try something a little different or add a little star quality.

Matt Worthington ran himself into the ground (again), there’s no way he can be fully fit all the time – he’s only one yellow card from a two match ban, with an England call up to squeeze in next midweek too, you can see why M Cooper wanted to keep C Cooper out of the firing line for as a long as possible. This side is going to be squeezed for every sinue before the season is up.

Charlie Wakefield. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

and finally, The season may hang on those all important games against Gateshead and Dorking.

There was a point last night where we were one goal away from being in 17th, leaping above York and Aldershot and putting seven(!) points between ourselves and the drop zone, we are instead wondering about Gateshead’s games in hand and if they’ll start catching us up.

Fine margins don’t just decide games, they decide entire campaigns.

Scunthorpe and York both came unstuck on Tuesday night, it’s impossible not to look at other results as we play, but after a run against three play off contenders we face the teams currently in 16th, 17th, 20th and 21st before the season is out… they will define our season.

 

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Mark Cooper has said he expects midfielder Jordan Stevens to be missing for up to four weeks after picking up a hamstring injury in the 2-1 defeat at Barnet.

The recent signing went off two minutes before half-time, replaced by Charlie Cooper, and the manager admitted the physical data on his squad showed a number of players were at risk of picking up an injury.

He was without striker Jordan Young through injury with striker Malachi Linton, who has not featured in the previous two matchday squads, getting a rare 90 minutes.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins after the game, the manager said: “We had too many not at it in the first half which is probably down to the amount of games we have had, we are trying to rest some players that are key and we’ve lost Jordan Stevens tonight who we needed to rest.

“We’ve got players who we cannot play at the minute so it is a tough one because we have lost another really good player (in Stevens).”

Jordan Stevens. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

The boss confirmed that Bristol City youngsters midfielder Josh Owers and striker Seb Palmer-Houlden had both been recalled by their parent club with only five of the nine (now seven) players on loan at Huish Park able to feature.

Against Barnet, defenders Owen Bevan and Edwin Agbaje, Plymouth Argyle man Ryan Law, and forwards Reo Griffiths and Andrew Oluwabori were the chosen five, with goalkeeper Will Buse not involved and Jack Clarke still at Chesterfield recovering from injury.

Cooper said that midfielder Charlie Cooper “got through it” in the second half despite starting on the bench hoping for a rest, whilst striker Alex Fisher was recovered enough from illness to come on in the 74th minute. Matt Worthington, who missed last weekend’s 1-1 draw at Chesterfield through illness, returned and played the full 90 minutes at The Hive.

The manager added: “With the amount of players I needed to rest with the data showing they were at risk physically and it’s been proven right with Jordan Stevens, so we have to recover a few and make sure we are fresh for (the trip to FC Halifax Town on) Saturday.”

On his side’s performance, he admitted: “We got what we deserved today which was nothing.

“We started the game really well, the first couple of minutes we had a couple of chances, and other than that I think we conceded about 150 corners in ten minutes which we defended really well. You have to do that when you come to Barnet and the bonus was getting to half-time at 0-0.”

Jamie Reckord. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

In the second half, Finley Potter headed his second in as many matches to give the Bees a 70th minute lead before a mistake by Bevan allowed Nicke Kabamba to break through and double the advantage. Jamie Reckord pulled a goal back on 76 minutes with a header, but it proved to be a consolation.

Cooper said: “We huffed and puffed in the second half, but the two goals we conceded were really soft. The first one was a free header and the second one Bevs makes a schoolboy error, but he’s been brilliant.

“Then we get back in to it with Recks (Jamie Reckord) and we have a chance at the end which I think was a good chance, it’s not to be but I thought Barnet deserved to win.“

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Venue: The Hive
Tuesday, 14th March, 7.45pm kick-off

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Conditions: 
Attendance: 1,704 (211 away supporters)

Scorers: Finley Potter 70 (0-1), Nicke Kabamba 73 (0-2), Jamie Reckord (1-2)

Bookings: 

Yeovil Town: Jordan Maguire-Drew 23, Chiori Johnson 45+2, Jamie Reckord 83
Barnet: Finley Potter 61

Referee: Lloyd Wood

Yeovil Town (4-3-3)

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Mark Cooper confirmed following Tuesday’s game against Barnet that on loan duo Josh Owers and Seb Palmer-Houlden had been recalled by parent club Bristol City.

The pair joined on loan, initially on a deal until the end of the season, just before the Glovers trip to York, but, with playing minutes at a premium duo to the number of loanees allowed in a match day squad, they have returned to Ashton Gate.

At the time of their signing Cooper noted that Bristol City were helping out financially with the arrangement.

Owers made two appearances for the Glovers, Palmer-Houlden three.

It brings the number of loanees at the club down to just (!) seven.