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Top scorer Rhys Murphy could be back in contention for the Bank Holiday Monday visit of FC Halifax Town to Huish Park.

The 13-goal frontman missed the 2-0 win at Wealdstone at the weekend with a groin strain.

Speaking to BBC Radio Somerset after the match, manager Darren Sarll said: “I’d like the physio to ring me on Sunday and say we have no new injuries, that would be nice. We lost Rhys (Murphy) in the week and Matthew (Worthington) yesterday, but Lawson (D’Ath) is inching ever so slowly back and hopefully he’ll get out for the last couple of games. Murphy tweaked his groin, he might be okay for Monday (against FC Halifax Town) but that will be touch and go. We have a tough game, Halifax is always a tough game for us, they are very tactical and strategic in how they play and we’ll have to be good again. But, we’ve seen that one of training session can lead to two or three injuries and we’re left a little bit short.”

Central defender Luke Wilkinson seems unlikely to feature after going off in the 5-1 defeat at Solihull Moors last month, but Alex Bradley could feature after a cameo appearance at the end of the match at Wealdstone.

D’Ath seems unlikely to be involved and former Halifax man Josh Staunton is out until the end of the season with a knee injury.

Matt Warburton and Gabriel Rogers seem unlikely to feature having not made an appearance since mid-March and late November respectively.

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Congratulations to Joe Quigley and Josh Neufville, who were (belatedly) named in the NL.Hub Instagram account’s Team of the Week for Tuesday’s round of fixtures. Quigley, of course, scored his first ever Yeovil hat trick in perfect fashion, and Neufville is just, well, Neufville.

Ex-Glovers Jack Clarke (Furlough Chesterfield) and Calvin Brooks of W*ymouth also made the grade. See the full team below.

 

 

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It was a Paddy Madden goal from which cost FC Halifax Town three points in their last outing.

The former Glovers’ hero got his sixth goal for $tockport County just before half-time at The Shay on Saturday to dent the West Yorkshire side’s hopes of a top three finish.

However, the Shaymen still arrive at Huish Park on Bank Holiday Monday in fifth place with three wins in their last five matches.

Their position owes much to their form over the past couple of months with nine wins from 15 matches since the start of March.

That run includes wins on the road at play-off rivals Chesterfield and Notts County.

FROM THE MANAGER

FC Halifax manager Pete Wild has promised to carry on rotating his team when they arrive at Huish Park.

He made three changes for the 1-0 defeat against $tockport County at the weekend and is planning more for a game he is expecting to be a hard-fought one.

Speaking to the Halifax Courier, Wild said: “I expected Yeovil to win at Wealdstone on Saturday, I expect an aggressive, front-foot, in your face Yeovil, ready to have a go at us.

“You know what Darren Sarll’s teams are like. We, first and foremost, have to match our levels from Saturday, and make sure we do out stuff right so we don’t get undone.”

He added that his side needed to “get a positive result, a draw or a win” to keep pace with a competitive top seven.

TEAM NEWS

Former Yeovil Town loanee Tahvon Campbell, who is on loan at The Shay from Cheltenham Town, sat out the defeat to $tockport with a knee injury.

Shaymen boss Pete Wild told the Halifax Courier a scan on the winger/striker’s injury had shown “just bruising”, but added he did not expect him to return until next weekend.

Another ex-Glover, defender Tom Bradbury, was an unused substitute at the weekend as Wild went for a 4-5-1 formation rather than a 5-3-2 with wing backs.

According to Halifax supporters, Bradbury is one of four quality central defenders fighting for three starting spots  when they play five at the back and therefore could return on Monday.

Jeff King is expected to return at right wing-back after missing the past two games through suspension.

Wild said after that $tockport defeat that midfielder Jack Earing would miss out with a hamstring injury and added the trip to Somerset may come too soon for frontman Darren Stephenson, on loan from National League North side Curzon Ashton.

Striker Micah Obiero, who is on loan from Championship side Huddersfield Town, could be available after suffering a hip injury.

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Yeovil Town midfielder Tom Knowles has been given a place in the Non-League Paper’s team of the day following his goal against Wealdstone on Saturday.

The Glovers recorded a 2-0 win against the strugglers with Knowles scoring the opener in the first half. Joe Quigley doubled the lead with his 11th goal of the season on 23 minutes.

Other notable inclusions include former Glovers striker Paddy Madden after the Irishman scored the only goal in Stockport’s win over Halifax as well as the Halifax ‘keeper Sam Johnson who Yeovil will come up against on Bank Holiday Monday.

The Fulll National League Paper Team of the Week

Sam Johnson – Halifax
Liam Hogan – Stockport County
Gary Liddle – Hartlepool
Louis John – Sutton United
Tom Knowles – Yeovil Town
Asa Hall – Torquay United
Jay Harris – Wrexham
Mauro Vilhete – Dagenham
Paddy Madden – Stockport County
Andrew Dallas – W*ymouth
Omar Bugiel – Sutton United

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It’s somewhere between game week 34 & 37 across the National League and Gary Johnson’s Torquay sit a point clear of Sutton at the top of the league, following the Gulls’ 3-1 win against Eastleigh at Plainmoor. Sutton, with a game in hand, also won 3-1 today at home to Aldershot.

In those key playoff positions, Hartlepool taught Furlough Chesterfield a lesson the other 3-1 score line today. Wrexham continue to dream of Hollywood in 6th, after two Luke Young penalties helped them to a 2-1 win against Solihull Moors. Halifax, the Glovers’ opponents on Bank Holiday Monday, fell to defeat at Stockport County with a certain Paddy Madden scoring the only goal of the game.

Notts County picked up a point away to 17th place Altrincham, while Kings Lynn and Maidenhead played out a scoreless draw.

No-hopers Barnet lost 0-2 to Dagenham & Redbridge at The Hive and the scummers won 4-2 away at Woking.

And, finally, the mighty Gloves won 2-0 away at Wealdstone with goals from Tom Knowles and Joe Quigley.

You can view the latest table here

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Chris Dagnall has said he is enjoying playing in the deeper role he has filled for the past couple of matches.

The 35-year-old, who has scored more than 100 Football League goals in a career as a striker, played in a deeper position in the 2-0 win at Wealdstone having starred there in midweek against Solihull Moors.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Tom Seymour, he said: “I think I have forced it on to the gaffer by doing it in training and he’s stuck me in there in the week and again today. I enjoy it in there, I like running about and kicking people, and we’ve had two wins so hopefully he keeps me there. I have always wanted to play deeper, I have done it a few times in the past when I have played at Crewe and Barnsley. It is not something I have purposely done due to age, I just play there because I enjoy it there. I can run around more, kick more people and get involved in the game more.”

Dagnall described the past week as “one of the toughest of my career” after the team attended the funeral of captain Lee Collins during the week.

He added: “It’s been really tough, so fair play to the lads for coming out here, especially the younger lads, we came out here and ran ourselves in to the ground. We wanted to come out here and get three points for Lee and try to move on. We are always there for each other and all the lads know if they never anyone to speak with one of us is there. We are all in this together, there’s no easy answers, we just have to keep working hard together.”

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Darren Sarll dedicated the Glovers’ 2-0 victory at Wealdstone to Lee Collins‘ daughter, Amelia. First half goals from Tom Knowles and Joe Quigley were enough for the Glovers, who climbed to 13th in the table.

Speaking to the BBC, Sarll said: “We had Lee’s funeral on Wednesday and his ten-year-old daughter, Amelia, had quite the effect on us all and her little pep talk on a bad day was quite inspiring really, and that was for little Amelia – a wonderful, wonderful little girl. She beat me in one touch against the wall in the rain and I wasn’t even trying to lose, that’s how good a little player she is, so that was for her.”

He also praised his players after what was, understandably, another difficult week for a club in mourning.

“The players were magnificent. A credit to their football club, a credit to their families, a credit to Lee. Very ambassadorial really, in a way. We had forty minutes [of] training yesterday. It was, kind of, only an hour [of] preparation because we were still fatigued from the day’s events. They’re incredibly draining as everyone would know. I had the privilege and honour of speaking and I felt completely wiped out come Thursday and Friday.“

On the performance, he added: “I thought we had quite a few of those types of performances last year. Grounded and humble in the performance, worked very hard. (Our) shape was good and we saw the game out very well. Their young goalkeeper’s had a brilliant day in fairness to him, otherwise I thought it should have been more, but yeah it was good. If you’re going to win leagues, twenty-five percent of your wins are like those games today. Last year I thought we had quite a few of those, we haven’t had nearly enough this year.”

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Another trip to the seaside is confirmed for Yeovil Town next season following the relegation of Southend United to the National League.

The Shrimpers’ fate was sealed despite winning 2-1 at Barrow today because they needed either Colchester United or Scunthorpe United to lose to stand a chance of staying up.

Our last visit to Roots Hall came at the start of our season in the Championship when a Kevin Dawson strike was the difference in Capital One Cup tie.

Before that you have to go back to April 2010 when a goalless draw in Essex in League One, with the fixture at Huish Park settled by a single Dean Bowditch strike in November 2009.

Those with slightly longer memories will recall Southend being where a late Phil Jevons’ strike all but clinched promotion from League Two with a 1-0 win back in 2005.

Last weekend, Grimsby Town were confirmed as the other side to drop out of the League – that will be a somewhat chillier stroll down the prom, I bet.

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A clean sheet, two nicely-taken goals and a second half to forget is not a bad summary of Yeovil Town’s first trip to Wealdstone in many supporters’ memories.

But, given the background to the past few weeks at Huish Park with the passing of captain Lee Collins, many would agree that a fourth win from the last six is a great result for Darren Sarll’s men.

It moved the Glovers up to the top of the bottom half in 13th place in the National League and this is how it played out…..

FIRST HALF

The Glovers’ starting XI was unchanged from the 3-0 home win over Solihull Moors on Tuesday night, with the only changed coming on the bench where Alex Bradley returned from injury to replace Rhys Murphy, and young keeper Max Evans took the place of Matt Worthington.

It did not take long to figure out why Wealdstone have conceded six and seven in their previous two home games with Billy Sass-Davies heading just wide before Joe Quigley had good chance blocked.

In the 14th minute, a Charlie Lee cross found Chris Dagnall who laid it back to Tom KNOWLES who hammered home a crisp strike to open the scoring.

Quigley had a good chance six minutes later when a quick throw from Knowles found him in the box, he showed a good first touch but put the ball wide with his second.

The in-form striker made amends on 23 minutes when, after a number of shots rained in from the Glovers, the ball landed to QUIGLEY in the box and he coolly slotted in his fourth in two games.

One disappointing thing in the first half was a yellow card for Lee who talked himself in to the book after ex-Glovers’ loanee Connor Smith shoved Tom Knowles in the back.

We’ve spoken on the podcast about the frustration of players getting booked for dissent, and it could have cost Lee shortly after when he put in a feisty tackle. That said, Smith proved himself to be a bit of a plum – to put it politely.

One peculiar thing which those tuning in to the live stream will have noticed, was the number of people who appeared to be inside the ground; perhaps it was the camera angle but it certainly seemed busy on the near side.

When the half-time whistle blew, the biggest disappointment was that it was only 2-0 to the Glovers.

Half time: Wealdstone 0 Yeovil Town 2

SECOND HALF

The start of the second half belonged to Wealdstone’s teenage keeper Jake Askew who pulled off two great saves to deny Sass-Davies‘ header and Lee‘s shot from successive Dickinson corners.

Just before those saves, there were three penalty appeals – two for Yeovil and one for the Wealdstone – none of which given surprisingly considering the referee was not afraid to get his cards out with four bookings apiece.

Quigley had a shot cleared off the line shortly after but, despite their chances, there was not a huge amount of quality on show with the hosts seemingly bringing Yeovil down to their level.

Wealdstone’s finishing proved to be as poor as their defending with Charlie Hughes putting a free header over – albeit the linesman’s flag was up, not that he knew that.

That said, it was the hosts who had the better of possession but could not punish some shaky defending from Yeovil.

Sarll responded by bringing on Emmanuel Sonupe and Reuben Reid to try and push on for more goals in the closing stages.

Sonupe had a great run forward, only to run in to a blind alley, and Neufville had a moment of indecisiveness in the box which saw another opportunity peter out.

Possibly the highlight of the second half was seeing Alex Bradley come on for his first appearance since the middle of March, and in true Yeovil Town versatile fashion the full-back slotted in to midfield.

That said, a second successive clean sheet, a couple of decent goals, a hard-fought second half if lacking in quality will keep us all happy.

Full time: Wealdstone 0 Yeovil Town 2 (Knowles, Quigley)

WEALDSTONE: Askew, Phillips, Olowu, Okimo (c), Wishart, Charles, Smith, Dyer, Green, Mendy, Lewis.
Subs not used: Shelvey, Hughes, Parish, Lo-Everton, Gondoh.
Bookings: Smith, Charles, Phillips, Wishart.

YEOVIL TOWN: A. Smith, Dickinson (c), Kelly, Sass-Davies, Skendi, J.Smith, Lee, Knowles, Neufville, Quigley, Dagnall.
Subs not used: Evans, Sonupe, Hunt, Bradley, Reid.
Bookings: Lee, Quigley, Skendi, Kelly.

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Yeovil Town have named an unchanged side for this afternoon’s National League match at Wealdstone. Rhys Murphy is the only absentee with injury ruling him out. Alex Bradley is back on the bench alongside young keeper Max Evans.

1. Adam Smith; 3. Carl Dickinson, 35. Billy Sass-Davies, 18. Albi Skendi, 14. Michael Kelly; 10. Jimmy Smith, 22. Charlie Lee, 21. Tom Knowles, 24. Josh Neufville, 34. Chris Dagnall; 19. Joe Quigley

Subs: 27. Alex Bradley, 31. Max Evans (GK) 25. Emmanuel Sonupe, 26. Max Hunt, 33. Reuben Reid