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Yeovil Town have confirmed that the BT Sport cameras will be paying a visit on Saturday, September 4 for the visit of FC Halifax Town to Huish Park

The kick off time has been pushed back to 5:15pm.

BT have announced their first couple of month’s worth of televised games, the Glovers will only be featured once with Solihull Moors the only side covered more than once between the season’s start and the end of October.

We don’t have a great record in live TV games, drawing 2-2 with King’s Lynn at the start of last season with the world, well a small percentage of it, watching on.

The full BT Sport National League schedule can be found below:

Saturday August 21 – Bromley v Grimsby Town (5.20pm)

Saturday August 28 – Southend United v Stockport County (5.20pm)

Monday August 30 – Wrexham v Notts County (7.30pm)

Saturday September 4 – Yeovil Town v FC Halifax Town (5.15pm)

Saturday September 11 – King’s Lynn Town v Dagenham & Redbridge (5.20pm)

Saturday September 18 – Weymouth v Dover Athletic (5.20pm)

Saturday September 25 – Chesterfield v Torquay United (5.20pm)

Saturday October 2 – Eastleigh v Boreham Wood (5.20pm)

Tuesday October 5 – Wealdstone v Solihull Moors (7.45pm)

Saturday October 23 – Maidenhead United v Woking (5.20pm)

Tuesday October 26 – Altrincham v Solihull Moors (7.45pm)

Saturday October 30 – Barnet v Aldershot Town (5.20pm)

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Former Yeovil Town midfielder Alex John is reportedly on trial at SPL side Dundee FC

According to “Not The Old Firm”, the 20-year-old is heading north of the border after leaving Huish Park at the end of the 2020/21 season.

John had attracted interest from Hull City, signing a loan deal in January 2020 before returning at the end of that season.

Injury prevented John from being a part of the squad throughout the following season.

The Wales Under 19 international failed to make any competitive appearances for the Glovers but was a regular in match-day squads and played in multiple friendlies.

All the best at Dundee, Alex.

 

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New Glovers’ ‘keeper Grant Smith

Chesterfield Manager, James Rowe has been explaining his decision to let goalkeeper Grant Smith move to Yeovil Town.

In an interview with the Derbyshire Times, Rowe explains that he couldn’t offer Smith guaranteed football after the arrival of former Barnet (and Yeovil) ‘keeper Scott Loach.

“He wanted guaranteed first-team football and I was not prepared to give him that,” Rowe said. “For me, Grant started well but some mistakes crept in that cost us crucial goals and he came out of the team. He represented himself well in the team the first few months. For him to be guaranteed first-team football down at Yeovil, on a better wage than what he was currently on, we did not want to stand in his way.”

Smith has replaced his name sake Adam Smith as the Glovers’ first choice glove man this season after signing a one-year-deal in June.

Well, if you don’t want a keeper who kept 10 clean sheets in 18 games for you, we will more than happily take him off your hands!

 

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Tom Whelan celebrates with Myles Hippolyte

Former Yeovil Town midfielder Tom Whelan has left Chesterfield by ‘mutal consent’ in something of a surprise move.

Whelan who played little over half a dozen games for the Glovers in 2019/20 moved onto W*ymouth before earning a move to big spending Chesterfield in December of 2020.

He scored the all important 2nd goal of a 3-0 win by Chesterfield over Yeovil when the sides met in March and was expected to be a key part of the Spireites promotion push this campaign.

Whelan took to social media to thank his former employers, it’ll be interesting to see where he ends up for this coming season.

Chesterfield boss, James Rowe has said how he couldnt guarantee Whelan enough games and that he would be better off finding more opportunities elsewhere.

Rowe told the Derbyshire Times: “Tom did well when he first came in but with the emergence of (another former Glover) Jack Clarke at the end of last season, we obviously can’t have three ‘number 10s’ in the building for one position, or potentially two if we play with two 10s, so Tom’s game time was going to be limited”

 

 

 

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Yeovil Town manager Darren Sarll.
Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

The2021/22 is just around the corner and Yeovil Town’s schedule for the upcoming season has been revealed.
We will – unlike the previous two campaigns – play every side twice;once home, once away.!

You can find the full fixture list HERE, but let’s talk about the headlines.

First Five

We kick start our campaign with a trip to Hollywood!!! – sorry, no Wrexham for a tricky looking trip on August 21st.

Following that with games agsint King’s Lynn (H) and Aldershot (A) before welcoming Halifax Town to Huish Park on September 4th

WREXHAM (AWAY) – SATURDAY AUGUST 21ST
KING’S LYNN (HOME) – SATURDAY AUGUST 28TH
ALDERSHOT TOWN (AWAY) MONDAY AUGUST 30TH
HALIFAX TOWN (HOME) SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 4TH
STOCKPORT COUNTY (AWAY) SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH

Final Five

The final day of the season falls on the weekend of and the Glovers last game of the regular season will be against ALTRINCHAM (A) on Saturday May 15th 2022.

Here’s how the run in looks;

STOCKPORT COUNTY (HOME) – SATURDAY APRIL 23RD
HALIFAX (AWAY) – SATURDAY APRIL 30TH 
WEALDSTONE (HOME) – MONDAY MAY 2ND
BOREHAM WOOD (HOME) – SATURDAY MAY 7TH
ALTRINCHAM (AWAY) – SUNDAY MAY 15TH 

Festive Football

The eyes are nearly always drawn to the big games in and around Christmas and New Year, the schedule for these fixtures nearly always focus around some of our local rivals with attempts to reduce travelling and hotel stays factored into the plans.

This season is no different.
On Boxing Day, we travel to TORQUAY before playing W*YMOUTH on December 28th, before it’s time to renew the festivities with TORQUAY on January 2nd.

TORQUAY UNITED (AWAY) – SUNDAY DECEMBER 26TH (Boxing Day)
W*YMOUTH (HOME) – TUESDAY DECEMBER 28TH 
TORQUAY UNITED (HOME) – SUNDAY JANUARY 2ND

Our away day to the Claret and Blue lot on the beach comes much later on in the season, six games from the end.
W*YMOUTH (AWAY) – MONDAY APRIL 18TH

Of course, all dates, times, venues and even opponents are subject to change – ticketing details will also be released in due course for both individual sales and season tickets in the near future.

Other dates of note include our entry to the two cup competitions – the FA Cup and FA Trophy – details can be found HERE, whilst the full Pre-Season schedule can be found HERE

The National League Play-Offs will take place between Wednesday 25th May 2022 and Sunday 5th June 2022 (Dates subject to FA approval)

The dates are in the diary, the countdown is on, C’mon You GLOVERS!!

 

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Former Yeovil Town midfielder Charlie Lee has signed for National League South side Billericay Town.

The 34-year-old left Huish Park at the end of his contract last month having made 32 appearances in the National League last season scoring three times.

He links up with Blues’ boss Kevin Watson, who was assistant manager for part of Lee’s time at Stevenage, and defender Ronnie Henry who he played with at Stevenage.

Lee will also be reunited with former Glovers’ goalkeeper Harry Palmer who joined Billericay in January following a three-month spell at Yeovil where he failed to make an appearance.

Billericay  have been under the ownership of a consortium of local businessmen since October 2019 when a takeover was completed to buy the club from flamboyant multi-millionaire Glenn Tamplin.

 

 

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Brundle in action against Yeovil for Dagenham

National League side Barnet have continued a busy summer of activitiy with the signing of former Yeovil Town youngster, Mitch Brundle.

Brundle, who played for Dagenham during the 2020/21  season has signed for the Bees on a two-year deal.

Predominently a defender when in the youth system at Huish Park, the 26-year-old is now more known for his box-to-box play in midfield.

As far as we can tell, he never made a competitive appearance for the Glovers, but did take part in friendlies and was an unused substitute on a couple of occasions before his departure to Bristol City in 2013.

 

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South Somerset District Council has confirmed that talks “remain open” with the owners of Yeovil Town on a deal to buy Huish Park and lease it back to the club.

The Gloverscast asked the council the following questions:

  • Can SSDC confirm whether they have heard from the owners of Yeovil Town Football Club since the moratorium on the Asset of Community Value (ACV) expired on May 26?
  • Is the council aware of a loan taken from Sport England, which the Gloverscast believes prevents the owner from selling land and the stadium before he pays the loan back?

In response, the council said: “We can confirm that talks remain open but they have not reached any conclusions and our team will take any issues raised by interested parties in to consideration.”

This follows the expiry of a moratorium  which prevented the sale and leaseback of the stadium on May 26, when SSDC said the future of the deal rested with club chairman Scott Priestnall. See our article – here.

If anyone was wondering what an ACV was, you can read our attempt to explain it – here.

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Former Yeovil Town keeper Liam O’Brien wants to repay the faith Stratford Town chairman Jed/Ged/Gerard McCrory has shown in him since recovering from his injury nightmare.

The shot stopper joined Stratford in November last year, and speaking to the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, O’Brien said how he had contemplated quitting football after the reoccurrence of an injury in the 3-0 win against Wrexham in February 2020.

He said: “Before joining Stratford Town I nearly gave up football completely. When I was at Yeovil I pulled the quad off my bone and it required an operation. I had the operation and it took around four-and-a-half months to get back fit. I started training again, played two games and then got the same injury again. So I needed another operation and then another four-and-a-half months to get back fit. By that time Covid-19 hit, I was out of contract and ready to give it all up. From going from almost retiring to getting the love for football back, I cannot wait to get going. That phone call from Jed gave me a massive lift and playing for Stratford Town is something I’m really looking forward to. Even if I had offers from elsewhere, the answer is no because I want to repay the faith Jed has shown in me.”

O’Brien will come up against Yeovil Town when the Glovers head to Stratford on the 24th of July for a preseason friendly.

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Ex Yeovil Town forward Gold Omotayo has signed for National League side King’s Lynn Town after his time at Wrexham came to an end.

Omotayo was given the opportunity to earn a contract with TikTok’s newest partner but has instead signed a deal with the Norfolk side.

King’s Lynn director of football (what’s one of them?!) Rob Back told the club’s website: “It’s taken a few weeks to get this one over the line but we are really pleased Gold has decided to join us.”