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There was a Crittenden and a Skiverton in the Yeovil Town Under-19s’ starting XI for their 2-1 friendly defeat to Taunton Town at Huish Park on Wednesday night.

Ollie Crittenden, son of former Glovers’ winger, Nick, and Louis Skiverton, the son of legendary, captain, Terry, lined up in the first home match played under new boss Roy O’Brien, who was a team-mate of both their fathers.

The friendly was a warm-up for the upcoming National League Under 19s Alliance League season which gets underway at the end of September.

The Under-19s fielded much-changed XIs in each half and took the lead through Ollie Crittenden after 25 minutes before being pegged back on the stroke of half-time. Following a number of changes of personnel at the break, Taunton added a second in the 76th minute.

The friendly was also a first outing for the new floodlights at Huish Park. Now with new EFL-standard bulbs, there was a positive reaction to the new illumination from those at the match – which included proud father, Terry Skiverton, who was pictured with a number of supporters.

Terry Skiverton pictured with owner Prabhu Srinivasan and director Sahil Prabhu.

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Yeovil Town gave Gateshead a bit of a thrashing last weekend, but two-goal hero Luke McCormick has NOT been named your Man of the Match.

Ryan Jones‘ sparkling performance down the flank was too good to ignore for a third of you, who have him voted over both McCormick and full back Archie Davies who was third in your vote.

Ten different players got votes in total, with Zain Westbrooke and Charlie Lennon both knocking on the door of the podium spots.

 

DATEOPPONENTRESPONSES1ST
(Votes / Percent)		2ND
(Votes / Percent)		3RD
(Votes / Percent)
AUGUST
08.08.26Scunthorpe130 JORDAN NORVILLE-WILLIAMS
(91 / 70%)		Mason Obeng
(16 / 12.3%)		Jos Barker
(12 / 9.2%)
15.08.26Carlisle United152JOS BARKER
(71 / 46.7%)		Jordan Norville-Williams
(34 / 22.4%)		Zain Westbrooke
(14 / 9.2%)
22.08.26Gateshead168RYAN JONES
(57 / 33.9%)		Luke McCormick
(42 / 25%)		Archie Davies
(24 / 14.3%)
28.08.26Barrow
31.08.26Tamworth
SEPTEMBER
05.09.26Southend United
12.09.26AFC Fylde
15.09.26Aldershot
18.09.26Solihull Moors
26.09.26Kidderminster Harriers
29.09.26Worthing
OCTOBER
03.10.26Boston Utd
10.10.26Wealdstone
24.10.26Altrincham
27.10.26Hornchurch
31.10.26FC Halifax Town
NOVEMBER
14.11.26Boreham Wood
21.11.26Forest Green Rovers
24.11.26Eastleigh
28.11.26Harrogate Town
DECEMBER
05.12.26Hartlepool United
09.12.26Wealdstone
19.12.26Boston United
26.12.26Sutton United
28.12.26Woking
JANUARY
02.01.27Altrincham
09.01.27Hornchurch
16.01.27
23.01.27Carlisle United
26.01.27Eastleigh
30.01.27Scunthorpe United
FEBRUARY
06.02.27Forest Green Rovers
13.02.27Kidderminster Harriers
17.02.27Worthing
20.02.27Solihull Moors
23.02.27Aldershot
27.02.27Gateshead
MARCH
06.03.27Barrow
09.03.27Tamworth
13.03.27Southend United
20.03.27AFC Fylde
26.03.27Woking
29.03.27Sutton United
APRIL
03.04.27FC Halifax Town
10.04.27Boreham Wood
17.04.27Hartlepool United
24.04.27Harrogate Town

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Referee Ross Martin takes charge of the Glovers when they head to Barrow on Friday night.

The middle man is more used to taking charge in the EFL these days, but has been a regular in Yeovil games over recent seasons.

This season, he has taken charge of two league games – both ended in away wins… just saying – in League One as well as an EFL Cup tie between Crewe and Accrington where he awarded the hosts a 7th minute penalty.

He has taken charge of six Yeovil Town league games in his career, the green and whites have won five and drawn one (a 2-2 vs Eastleigh in the 24/25 season, if you’re wondering)

The most recent occasion was a 1-0 home win over AFC Fylde in March 2025, Harvey Greenslade’s late winner the story of that one.

As far as I can tell, he’s only been in charge of one Barrow game, a 0-0 draw against Shrewsbury in October 2025, he cautioned two of the home side’s players that day.

Jordan Brooks and Mark Cunliffe will be his assistants and Jacob Veira is the fourth official.

Referee Ross Martin leads out the players
Pic Gary Brown

Barrow AFC (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)
National League – Premier
Referee: Martin, Ross
Assistant Referee: Brooks, Jordan
Assistant Referee: Cunliffe, Mark
Fourth Official: Viera, Jacob

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It’s not the sort of thing we keep data on, but between the Non League Paper and the official Enterprise Team of the Week, Yeovil Town have had a representative in all bar one of the six possible XIs this season – possibly some sort of record?

Skipper ‘Super’ Luke McCormick and his two goals of course make the cut in both this week following on from Jos Barker in weeks one and two.

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Well that was excellent wasn’t it?

Ian, Dave and Ben wax lyrical about a wonderful afternoon at Huish Park where the Glovers turned it on to triumph over Gateshead. We talk an unbelievable first half, a controlled second, Luke McCormick, Ste Walker and the rest.

Many thanks to this week’s plebstensions: Don Gibson, Tim Hubble, Chris ‘Jaegerbomb’ Fox, Dan Franklyn and Michael Stone & Andrew Foot.

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Dan Ellison and his Salisbury side blotted their perfect defensive record with a 2-1 defeat at home to Hemel Hempstead.

The hosts actually went ahead in the 17th minute before an 83rd and 92nd minute double whammy took the points and the clean sheet away from Ellison and Co.

Local scout Callum Hallett was at the game and reported that the loanee was strong in the duels, and aerial clearances were top notch, and didn’t deserve to be on the losing team

Elsewhere, Liam Nardiello who has been seen in the new Under19s set up during their pre-season came on for, and scored a second goal in Sherborne’s 2-0 win on Saturday.

Nardiello was one of three young Glovers who regularly featured in match day squads last season and got a few minutes of National League action.

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Ian was at a resplendent Huish Park for the lunchtime kickoff as the Glovers carved through Gateshead again and again. Here are his Five Conclusions…

The first half was as complete a performance as I can remember. The Glovers were scintillating from the off. Breaking forward at pace, perpetual motion from the forward players and it took just 2 minutes for Ste Walker to bag his second goal in green and white. In truth, it should have been four by half time. Ryan Jones hit the bar, Walker couldn’t get his feet untangled, Charlie Lennon caused all sorts of problems and the Glovers had 8 shots on target in the first half. It was probably the first time since Gateshead at home last season that we’d seen such a performance…

Who gets a feeling we’re going to see a lot of Ste Walker doing this in front of the Thatcher’s? Picture courtesy of Indy Pitman/Indy’s Visuals.

The midfield duo are finding their feet. Brett McGavin, who Gateshead clearly hadn’t watched, was given the license to dictate all afternoon. When McGavin is given the sort of time he was afforded he will control the tempo and pick out pass after pass after pass. But, he has had the perfect partner in Zain Westbrooke. Westbrooke is the ever-willing runner who quietly goes about his business. He’s one of those that may go unnoticed during a game, but lose him and it’ll leave an almighty hole.

We’ve got fantastic depth. It’s a testament to the recruitment and the ownership group that we’ve got the most depth I can recall us having in National League, if not further back. The be able bring on Loick Ayina, Mason Obeng, Hayden Muller, Slavi Spasov and Johl Powell and have the levels not drop shows how far we’ve come. They’d be starters in previous seasons and there’s still the likes of Jack Kingdon, Joe Gubbins, James Daly and Joe Haigh that weren’t available or didn’t get on the pitch.

Luke McCormick
Picture courtesy of Indy Pitman/Indy’s Visuals.

Super Luke McCormick. It’s only taken three matches but the skipper looks to be back to his mercurial best. His goals yesterday were calmness personified, in those moments he was the coolest head in Huish Park we needed that to finally put a game to bed this season. We saw that sort of performance so many times before his injury last season and to see it this soon is promising. Chants of ‘Super Luke McCormick’ rang out of the Thatchers yesterday, the chant solly reserved for Super Gav has been passed on.

What is this feeling? Is it confidence? Is it comfort? Have you ever seen such a one-sided highlight package in our favour? There was a moment yesterday where we had Gateshead chasing shadows and it reminded me of us, and how teams come to Huish Park and give us the run around. Yesterday, we were the dominant team and we have set a benchmark now for what we are capable of. Next weekend will be another challenge with two fixtures so close together but for the first time in years, I’ve got confidence in the Glovers.

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We’re starting to think Distant Glover has a bit of a crush on Bonnie Tyler… or Luke McCormick… or both!

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Following Yeovil Town’s 3-0 home win over Gateshead on Saturday, BBC Radio Somerset’s Jack Killah spoke with Yeovil chairman and owner Prabhu Srinivasan about the Glovers’ start to the new National League season.

Here is the Q&A in full:

Jack Killah: Prabhu, three points, a 3-0 home win, an undefeated start to the season. This has been a good, positive first few weeks for the club.

Prabhu Srinivasan: Exactly what we wanted to see. I would say the 90 minutes on the pitch is exactly what we wanted to see away and at home. All the hard work we did in the summer to get the team right with Billy, and Sahil you’ll get to see him sometime, my son. They do a lot of recruitment together. Exactly what we wanted.”

JK: It feels like, and I said this to Billy pre-season, with the length of contracts being given and the players you’re going after, there’s a vision now for where you and he see the club, and a real trust between you and Billy.

PS: Absolutely. The good thing about Billy is we have open and honest conversations with him and we might have a difference of opinion, but it’s okay, we just sit down and talk it through. Last season things were a little odds and ends, but this season we got a proper spine of the team. The spine was very important to build in the summer. Now we know we have contracts with people who truly believe.

Prabhu Srinivasan. Picture courtesy of Gary Brown

JK: And on the pitch you can see a noticeable difference. From your side of things, when you came in, it was a squad made up of a lot of players from several different managers over last season, now can you see with Billy’s vision the type of football you’re hopefully going to get at Huish Park?

“He’s got a perfect orchestra. That’s what I liked about Billy when I saw him first.”

PS: He’s got a perfect orchestra. That’s what I liked about Billy from when I saw him first, he knows what he wants to do with the team, and he plays forward, front-foot football. That’s all there is to the game.

JK: From a Huish Park perspective, you’ve had two home crowds now, both sounding in good, full voice. You’d obviously love a few more people through through the turnstiles, but are you hopeful that if the football continues to be good, then actually the attendances naturally pick up anyway?

PS: Like I tell all the fans, we’re just custodians of the club. When I talk to the fans, the amount of positive vibes they give us is very heartwarming.

JK: On the Huish Park front, we’ve got the the pitch looks amazing, considering the drought we’ve had here in the UK this summer, it looks incredible. You obviously discussed the future of the stadium multiple times. Are you still optimistic that the stadium will come back under under your umbrella in the near future?

PS: Like I’ve always said, that’s the hope. We have to just prioritise what we need to do right now. First thing we had to do is get the team right. That’s hopefully out of the way. We need to focus on what we need to do for owning the club.

JK: So it’s basically the priority at the moment is on-pitch and then off-pitch?

PS: Fully on the pitch until December.

JK: And then and then hopefully, when you’re top of the league after December, that’ll be a good turn to switch your attention?

​PS: Why not? That’s the hope we all live in.

JK: Behind the scenes, what are the big things that you feel the club are really working on at the moment?

​PS: The one big thing we’ve done is, from an education perspective, we’ve worked with now tied up with Yeovil Town College. We want to make sure the education, both in Somerset and international, comes to the fore.

JK: You’re trying to grow the women’s side of the game and the academy side of it. How key is it from your future vision of where you want this club to be in two, three years that the academy grows and pulls in the best talent from this region?

PS: Very important for us and this is what I’ve done all my life, set up youth academies. Find a pathway for these people to get to the first team is very important for us, and the girls team coming on board is very important for us, too.

Yeovil Town Women celebrate winning the South West Regional Division One South title last season.

JK: I was going to say for the future of women’s football in this neck of the woods, to have a successful Yeovil team like they did a few years ago would be brilliant.

PS: That’s the hope. We have got a really good team now for the girls team. Again, we’re doing what we need to do for that team as well.

​JK: What would make a happy Prabhu come the end of the season?

PS: End of the season, obviously go up to League Two. That’s the hope. But I like to see what I saw today as often as I could.

​JK: Are you enjoying football ownership a bit more now than you were at the start?

PS: Absolutely, because we know we’re now in full control of what’s going on. Llast year was about learning and cleaning up the skeletons in the cupboard, which we’ve done. This is exactly what we wanted to do.

​JK: It feels a long time ago that that loss to Gateshead last August Bank Holiday Monday, doesn’t it?

​PS: I know, it seems like a long time ago. That’s all in the past.

JK: Well, fingers crossed the next few weeks go go go brilliantly. You’re obviously in the UK now for a visit at the moment. What are your priorities while you’re here? What are you trying to to nail down?

PS: Fundamentally, get the performance centre going, the education programme going and be there for Billy on what he wants to do. Nothing else.

JK: Well, hopefully, by the time I see you in maybe a couple of months, we’ll be talking about a promotion push.

PS: That’s the hope we all live on.

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Yeovil Town boss Billy Rowley hailed captain Luke McCormick as the club’s equivalent to goal-scoring midfielder Frank Lampard after his two goals sealed a first win of the season at Huish Park.

The midfielder, who idolised the legendary Chelsea player when he was coming up in the Stamford Bridge academy, struck twice in the final ten minutes to seal a 3-0 win over Gateshead on Saturday.

The Glovers had taken an early lead through striker Ste Walker after just two minutes and could have added to their tally before the half-time break as they dominated the game.

Speaking about McCormick to BBC Somerset’s Jack Killah after the game, Rowley said: “That is what he does, he plays like a second striker for us. When we talk to opposition managers after games they single him out as being a real threat because of his movement. He is constantly looking to find gaps in the opposition back line and no matter what game you are planning, he has a real knack for it. I know his favourite player is Frank Lampard and he is Yeovil’s Frank Lampard, the way he breaks the lines and gets shots away. It was another really good performance for him.”

Luke McCormick celebrates at the final whistle. Picture courtesy of Indy Pitman/Indy’s Visuals.

Having seen late equalisers at Scunthorpe United on the opening day and in last weekend’s 1-1 draw with Carlisle United deny his side at the death, the boss admitted that he was still on the edge of his seat as the game pushed in to the closing stages.

He said: “Because of the events of the past couple of weeks, I was on edge just before we scored our second because I have seen it before in football. We’ve been really dominated, we should be scoring three or four goals but because you don’t, the opposition get one chance and score and your fans are sucking the wind out of you. Luckily it didn’t happen that way, we were really clinical and it finished 3-0 so I was over the moon with the lads. They trained so well during the week, it was something that Macca (captain Luke McCormick) said before the game, it was the best he has seen in training and I agree. The boys are hungry, playing well and deserved three goals.”

The boss added: “Everything was on point for us, in possession we were good, out of possession we were decent as well, set pieces we were really good and both sides of the transition we were decent. My only criticism of the boys at half-time was there are times when we feel games are slightly easy that edge comes out of us in the defensive transitions and two or three players think ‘we will be alright.’ I reminded them of that and we finished on our backs today, worked really hard and overall it was a really good performance all round.

“I am so pleased with all of them as a squad and a group of lads. Even though he is on the bench, Ste Walker was stood up on the bench towards the end there, screaming like a third coach for people to get back in and I love that, it shows a real togetherness and a passion for what we are trying to do.”

In defence, centre half Joe Gubbins was missing through suspension after his red card against Carlisle, with Joy Mukena coming back in to the starting line-up alongside loanee Ben Radcliffe, who has a spell on loan at Gateshead last season. Rowley said he was pleased with his defensive unit as they limited Gateshead to only a handful of opportunities throughout the 90 minutes.

The manager said: “Radders (Ben Radcliffe) has helped with a lot of communication, we missed Gubbs (the suspended Joe Gubbins) today. I would not say any of the guys back there are overly vocal, Joy (Mukena) is probably the best, but their understanding of football is really good. They are working in sync, they move together, so it does not look like they have only played a couple of times together, their personalities and what they have brought to this team has been exceptional.”

He confirmed that Radcliffe had “rolled his ankle” in the first half and needed to come off for Loick Ayina after 66 minutes.

The Glovers will assess the Crawley Town player’s fitness as they prepare for an August Bank Holiday weekend double header which sees them travel to Barrow next Friday followed by a home match with Tamworth just 72 hours later.

Rowley said: “It is going to be a really tricky game for us on Friday (at Barrow) and then we travel back here on Monday (to face Tamworth) which is going to be a quick turnaround. So Glen (Shephard, the Head of Sports Science) and the staff are going to have to be really on point with our recovery and team selection. We are going to have treat both games as one and have an eye on recovery times and that kind of thing. We feel a bit of relief having won a game after the last couple of weeks, so we will start planning for Barrow tomorrow and see how we go.“