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Former Yeovil Town manager Paul Sturrock (the less said about his spell the better) has taken up a new role in management and starting a club south-east Cornwall called Menheniot Pilgrims.

Playing in tangerine and green, he plans to build a team of 16 to 21-year-olds with a view to developing them to play higher up in the pyramid.

Sturrock told Plymouth Live: “I like taking training and coaching. I miss it, so I have decided to start this amateur team of under-21s. I can work with people individually and the aim is to get them to play at a higher standard. I’m not averse to having a couple of boys over 21. I might need one or two stalwarts to help us through and get us on our feet, but it really is for 16 to 21s. We will start at the bottom and hopefully over the next two or three years we will get better and better.”

“I haven’t got a date yet but I’m getting Lux Park for a trial game around the middle of July. The essence is that we get enough players to have a trial game and then I decide what ones I’m going to sign. They could come from Plymouth, Liskeard, Callington. Anything like that.”

Nicknamed Argyle after the club where he enjoyed plenty of management success, this club definitely feels like an lockdown-inspired project for the Scot.

He said: “There is a pitch in place, there are goals in place. It’s a wee bit slopey but, again, it’s amateur football. It will do for the first couple of years and we can see what we do as we go along. The village is kind of crying out for something like this. There are a lot of older people and they don’t have that much to do in the village. So they can come along and watch a game on a Saturday afternoon. It’s something to do, and they don’t have far to walk.”

Sturrock added: “I’m going to get forms sent to me about joining the Duchy League. I don’t know what league they are going to put us in. I would imagine the bottom one to start off with. And I have got to get the parish council to give us the nod that we can use the pitch regularly. They have had a wee meeting about it and they are looking forward to it. Over the next couple of days I will join up with two or three of them and we will make sure we get it all sorted.”

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Former Yeovil Town forward and long time friend of Lee Collins, Marc Richards, has spoken to BBC Northampton about his friendship with Lee and his disbelief at receiving the news of Lee’s passing.

Speaking To Annabel Amos, Richards said; “I got a phone call from the Yeovil Town manager Darren Sarll, it’s a little bit of a haze, I can’t remember what he said, but I certainly remember how I felt. I was taken back, I didn’t want to believe it, it was really tough, it felt like I was in a bit of a daydream.”

Richards, and Collins played together at Huish Park during the 2019/20 season, but their relationship goes back further, something which Richards said makes the situation harder to come to terms with.

“I knew he had been struggling on and off. I know quite a lot of his history, I know what he’s been through, he’d been in positions before where, not so much that he was close to doing that sort of thing, but he had spoken to me about it previously. I was gutted he hadn’t reached out and felt like he could speak to me about what was going through his mind at the time.”

The Northampton Town coach spoke of how’d he’d been in contact with Lee just a few days before his tragic passing.

“I only spoke to him on the Saturday prior, everything seemed OK, I just wish I had probed more, because in that moment, you don’t because it seems fine.”

Collins passed away on 31 March and Richards admitted that he’s still coming to terms with the news.

“It really took me back, I don’t think I’ve really had time to process it to be honest. I’ve certainly not done the grieving I need to do. I know the lives that Lee touched throughout his career and throughout his life. Everyone that has ever met Lee, come across Lee as a player, as a person can say the same thing about him. No matter what football club he played for, he touched so many people’s hearts as well.”

Yeovil Town are leading the way with a Crowdfunder to support Lee’s family and the mental health charity Young Minds.

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Yeovil Town chairman Scott Priestnall has valued the club and its assets at £4.285 million in CV Leisure Ltd’s accounts for the 12-month period from September 1, 2019.

CV Leisure is the company owned by the chairman and former Yeovil Town FC director Errol Pope, which has the majority shareholding in the  football club. The company lists its tangible assets as increasing from £0 to £4.285m in the 12-month period from September 1, 2019.

The accounts also show the company secured a loan facility of £1.35m from MSP Capital, a property finance firm based in Poole, Dorset, which will expire on December 17 this year.

In paperwork filed in September 2019, it was shown that these charges were secured against land at Huish Park, meaning MSP Capital would have the right to take control of the land should the club fail to repay any of the money it owes.

Speaking to Somerset Live at the time the charges were confirmed, Mr Priestnall said: “It was basically put in place as a facility to help us move forward with the land. When you take over something, you have an idea as to how much it’s going to cost and we’ve had to take on some of the debts and losses from last year.”

“You have to make sure that you’re going into it with your eyes open, and when we’ve got an asset there and we want to move that asset forward, you have to make sure you’ve got the tools to move that forward quickly should we need to and I think that’s the key, it’s about being able to react.

“Those charges may well change. They may well come off over the next couple of months depending on what we decide to do, depending on how those conversations go with covenant holders, we may well use that facility for that purpose or there might be another deal that we can do that means we don’t have to have another facility on that at all.”

Earlier this week, the Gloverscast revealed the club has taken a loan of £689,000 from Sport England “to replace the lost revenue from this season.”

 

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National League side Dover Atheltic will start the 2021/22 season bottom of the table on -12 points, it has been confirmed by the FA.

Non-League journalist Ollie Bayliss tweeted confirmation, that nearly a dozen sides had lost appeals following charges of failing to fulfill fixtures during the season that has just come to a conclusion.

Ten of those sides originated from the National League North and South and have been handed fines and suspended points deductions, meanwhile Dover’s orginial punishment of 12 points and £40,000 fine has been solidified.

Dover haven’t kicked a ball in anger since losing 3-1 to Yeovil Town in January.

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Defender Morgan Williams has said he is looking to “put a mark” at Yeovil Town having joined the club permanently.

The 21-year-old, who had two loan spells at Huish Park whilst with Coventry City, became the club’s first signing of the summer having been announced on Monday.

Speaking to the club’s YouTube channel, he said: “It is a fresh start for me and I really want to put my mark on the club.
“I need to knuckle down in pre-season and get game time in and push on, but obviously the main aim is to get Yeovil to League Two and get promotion, that will be massive. It will be a great experience to be playing in front of (the fans) again, it has been a difficult time for the last year so I can’t wait to be back playing in front of fans again.”

Williams was released from Coventry at the end of last season and had dropped a hint that he was coming back to South Somerset with a post on his Instagram last week.

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Defender Morgan Williams has become Yeovil Town‘s first signing of the season.

As exclusively revealed (guessed at?) by the Gloverscast last week, the 21-year-old has returned to South Somerset following his release by Championship Coventry City at the end of last season.

His four appearances whilst on loan with the Glovers this season were the only football Williams saw this season, albeit during a bleak period at the end of October and the start of November.

The youngster played in home defeats against Chesterfield and Hartlepool United, who both went on to make the National League play-offs, and the 1-1 draw at Woking.

He was also part of the side which earned an FA Cup win at Bromley thanks to a last-gasp winner from Gabby Rogers.

The season before he made three appearances including an impressive debut in a 2-0 win at home to Halifax Town.

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Yeovil Town FC received a loan of £689,538 from Sport England after an agreement on 12 February 2021.

The loan was given to Yeovil Football & Athletic Club Ltd and was created as a legal charge on the club on 17 March 2021.

In Scott Priestnall’s most recent update to supporters 110 days ago, he confirmed the club had been offered a loan which would help them see the season through.

We asked YTFC the following:

Can the club confirm the accuracy of the figure?
What it has been used for?
How long it will take to repay it?
What is the plan to repay it?

In response to our questions, the club gave us this statement: “Similarly to football clubs across the National League, we have taken the SE (Sport England)  loan to replace the lost revenue from this season.”

This information was received after we put in a Freedom of Information request to Sport England last month.

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Yeovil Town midfielder Lawson D’ath has confirmed he is set for surgery on a knee injury sustained in the final game of the 2020/21 season.

Speaking to supporters on twitter, the former Reading play maker confirmed he was to go under the knife “next Thursday” (17th of June)

Despite being out of contract at the end of this season, it was noted in the recent player update that D’ath was going to be offered the chance to do his rehab with the team at Huish Park with hope that a contract can be offered once he’s back to full fitness.

D’ath has spent two spells with the Glovers during his career, an initial loan spell in 2012 before returning on a permanent basis in 2019.

It has been a frustrating couple seasons in the green and white for D’ath who only made his comeback from a long term injury in the final games of the season – something which Manager Darren Sarll noted was indicative of the midfielder’s character.

It goes without saying, but everyone at the Gloverscast wishes Lawson well, on his day, a fit and firing D’ath is as good as anyone at this level.

 

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We’re delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural Glovies!  An end of season awards like no other.

Thanks for voting in this season’s awards, you can see the winners below.

Listen to Episode #80 of the Gloverscast to hear us discuss the winners and the extra categories!


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