Latest Yeovil Town News (Page 62)

Yeovil Town striker Frank Nouble has been speaking ahead of the game against Aveley this weekend as has kept his call simple…. Keep Winning Games.

The front man has six (not four) goals so far this season and just wants to extend the Glovers winning streak;

“The main thing is we’re winning football matches, playing good football as well I think, there’s all coming along really nicely, I think everyone knows their roles and responsibilities compared to first game of the season as to where we are now, we’re more accomplished in what we want to do as a team, it’s quite a new team compared to last season.
So, the manager’s been working tirelessly every day around the training ground to get it working,  the way we want it to work, not how someone else might want it to work or, you know, or maybe supporter who want things to be a much quicker process, football doesn’t work like that, so where we are now we’re happy but at the same time we know it’s got a long way to go.”

“We’re happy with how things have gone, we just want to keep progressing, keep winning games of football”

“I think we’re on – I don’t know maybe four or five games in a row we’ve won – so we want to keep going, it’s a good game to play on Saturday against Aveley, they’re doing quite well in the league as well so just another game for us really to hopefully showcase what we can do but keep winning the most important for us.

They’re doing well, regardless of the name or the league position, you’ve got to respect them and that’s as far as it goes, after that it’s all about us.

We just need to win the game and perform well, I think if we perform well – which I think we perform in the main quite well –  we’ve won (the) game so I think if we do that then we’ve got nothing to worry about”

Asked about what he’s looking for this season as a whole, the former West Ham and Torquay striker just reiterated his mantra… Keep Winning Games.

“Success is winning games of football and I’ve said that quite a few times now but you know we’ve got great support all around the club with the Manager, Chairman and everyone surrounding the club everyone that works here tirelessly every day that people don’t see, if we’re winning games it makes everyone feel about better and we’ve got a great backing, we feel the love every day and we don’t need anyone else outside, (or to be) listening to whatever might be said out there or, you know, someone who might think that we need to be doing even better than what we are doing main thing for us is that we’re progressing well.

We know that we’ve got good players, a good group, the squad depth is quite good, we can play some players you might be playing for teams in Division above so for us it was only keep doing that and focusing on ourselves we’ll do well”

Frank Nouble’s goal graphic

With six goals already (not four), Nouble not only thinks that number will grow, but expects it too.

“I think, if I play well I like to think that my team will win, I like to think that other attacking players think the same, so that pushes all of us to do well, I don’t think I scored in the first three or four games, it might seem as pressure, but for us it was more case of if I am not scoring hopefully Murphy is scoring or Hydey’s scoring or you know Young or whoever you might like to see play on a weekend, so long as we are all putting our in our best foot forward and the team will do well, but me personally a good form, so I expect that myself anyway.”

Keep winning games, sounds just lovely to us, Frank!

The full interview can be found here, scroll to the very end for his thoughts on Jurgen Klopp and VARgate. 

 

Yeovil Town boss Mark Cooper says his squad has “a few bumps and bruises” going in to this weekend’s home game with the National League South’s surprise package of the season so far, Aveley.

The Millers, who won the Isthmian League Premier Division play-offs last season, arrive at Huish Park just a point and a place behind the third-placed Glovers having won six of their opening ten fixtures.

Speaking on Thursday ahead of the game, the Yeovil manager declined to reveal which players he may be missing for the match having been without defender Jamie Sendles-White (Achilles) and midfielder Jordan Stevens through injury for last weekend’s FA Cup win over Didcot Town.

However, he confirmed that midfielder Matt Worthington will return after missing the Cup match despite not being suspended – albeit the Glovers were only informed of the decision by the FA 24 hours before the game.

Cooper said: “I could be really pragmatic and say we have a good squad, but that’s not really the point. If you appeal, you are not expecting to hear 24 hours before the game.

I’ve not really had an explanation for that, I think it probably got lost in a big pile of disciplinary issues, but that’s gone.

We did what we had to do and Matty’s had a rest and he should be really fresh, I’m expecting a top performance from him on Saturday.

Matt Worthington is expected to return for Yeovil Town this weekend.
Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

Striker Jake Hyde, who did miss the Didcot game through suspension after his sending off in the win at Hampton & Richmond, is also expected to be back in contention.

Cooper revealed he had spoken with the FA following its shambolic handling of the Worthington suspension and received an apology for the performance of officials this season.

He said: “I spoke to a young guy at the FA who was very apologetic and, as I said before, it is not us castigating officials, we want to help them to be better.

It’s just how they get to that appointment and what experiences they have to get to that level. That is the key issue, but he understood our frustrations and some of the decisions that were made.

We’ve served the suspensions and we just hope the appointments (of referees) are better.


Aveley won a midweek FA Cup third qualifying round replay after extra time at local rivals Hornchurch on Tuesday night and Cooper expects them to be a tough opponent. 

Speaking on Thursday ahead of the game, the Yeovil manager said: “They have had a great start, be pay full respect, we are expecting them to be on the front foot and rightly so.

They had a good win in the week in extra time to get through and they play Barnet in the next round, so they will be looking forward to that.

Their tails will be up, but it’s our back garden and we want to be right at it and give our fans another performance to cheer about.

Asked if the extra minutes in midweek would be draining for the visitors, he added: “I don’t think so, they would have been training anyway. When they turn up here, see the stadium, the pitch and the crowd that will give them that lift anyway.


Cooper was asked about the FA Cup fourth qualifying round draw at home to Southend United and said he expected the Shrimpers to be tough opponent.

The Essex outfit announced this week that their owner R** M***** has agreed to sell the club to a consortium fronted by Australian businessman Justin Rees in a deal expected to be completed by November 1.

On the tie, Cooper said: “It is a tough draw because it looks as though they are being rescued, they will have a massive bounce now because the fans will be fervent, they will get behind the new ownership, as our fans have.

So that makes it an even tougher game for us, but we are at home, unbeaten at home so far and we have to make the most of that.

Being really honest, I would rather have one of the smaller clubs at home. That is a tough draw for us because if they had not had ten points deducted they would be in the top six, there were easier draws. Once we get Aveley out of the way, we will focus on Southend.

Yeovil Town supporters who have bought tickets for the National League South fixture away at Worthing on Saturday 21st October should be receiving an e-mail informing that you will need to repurchase.

If you haven’t (and you have bought a ticket), check your spam filter.

As Huish Hugh queried at the time, with the host club simply selling undifferentiated tickets to both sets of supporters, what are they going to do if it belatedly dawns on them to segregate? Well, this is the answer.

The e-mail states refunds for the initial tickets purchased should appear in accounts in the next 10 days. If nothing has
appeared by then contact the club via info@worthingfc.com.

The portal from which to buy again can be found – here.

If you were wondering the latest on the other ticketing shambles, we’re yet to hear anything back from Taunton Town about what is happening with the tickets they have sold Yeovil fans for the New Year’s Eve fixture at Wordsworth Drive.

When they start communicating what they’ve been communicating with Yeovil, we’ll let you know. In the meantime, this is all we have – here.


On this episode of the Gloverspast we welcome a member of the YTFC 100 club – Ryan Dickson.

Ryan speaks about his time at Huish Park under Paul Sturrock and then Darren Way.


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Yeovil Town have been drawn against Southend at home in the Fourth Qualifying Round of the FA Cup.

The Glovers are one tie away from the first round proper, this tie will be played on the weekend of 14th October.

The winners of this tie will pick up £9,375, whilst those who drop out of the competition will also pocket £3,125

The hosts will have both Rhys Murphy and Jake Hyde in the squad for the game, both signed from Southend in the summer, whilst the visitors’ captain is one of the Glovers 2013 Play Off Winning Squad – Nathan Ralph.

Ticket details will be announced in due course.

The Full Draw

 

Tom Bailey was at Huish Park on Saturday for Three Valleys Radio and he joined Ian and Ben to chat about the 2-0 victory over Didcot Town which saw Yeovil go undefeated in September.


Thank you for your continued support of the Gloverscast. Remember to add Gloverscast.co.uk to your favourites and check the website daily for the latest news and views from Huish Park.

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Leave us a review and share the pod with a pal.

We’d love to welcome some local businesses into the Gloverscast family through advertising. If you’re a business that would like to speak to a dedicated audience of more than 1000 monthly listeners, please get in touch. Find out more about advertising with us here.

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The scores are going up! 

Last month, 207 gave your score on the first month of the season. Mark Cooper was given 3.91 out of 7 and the players were given 4.32. The new ownership/board score increased by 3.91 and the communicated jumped by 4 pts to 5.22. Lastly the matchday experience was improved by 3.16 to 5.5. Good work all round at Huish Park then. Let us know what you thought of September!

Aug 22Sep 22Oct 22Nov 22Dec 22Jan 23Feb 23Mar 23Apr 23Aug 23Sep 23Oct 23Nov 23
What would you score the ownership/board this month?2.131.881.652.352.11.892.133.252.583.915.56.365.08
How has the manager performed this month?3.372.91.935.545.165.094.292.82.494.325.646.345.16
What would you score the communication from the club this month?2.322.191.942.472.21.842.543.51.365.275.385.885.21
What would you score the match day experience this month?2.762.62.13.243.122.93.163.61.225.225.285.435.2
How have the players performed this month?3.603.472.325.344.784.753.293.252.345.55.315.65.35
Responses2191301401481419437401292071507680

Here’s a reminder of our unbeaten September!

Yeovil Town 1 – 1 Chelmsford
Weston-super-Mare 2 – 3 Yeovil Town
Yeovil Town 3 – 2 Eastbourne Borough
Yeovil Town 7 – 1 AFC Stoneham
Yeovil Town 2 – Hampton & Richmond 1 – 2 Yeovil Town
Yeovil Town 2 – 0 Didcot Town 

 

Another weekend, another FA Cup tie… the 3rd Qualifying Round of the FA Cup kicked off this weekend, and there were certainly some “cupsets” to mention for our fellow National League South opponents. Here’s a rundown of what went down in this weekend’s action.

There were certainly goals in the south-west, but this time for Torquay United, as they found themselves 5-0 at half time against Hungerford Town, and 5-0 was how it ended. Last weekend’s hosts, Hampton & Richmond found out the hard way that lower league opposition are no pushovers, as they crashed out at Lewes, losing 3-0. And in a second half goalfest, Braintree Town got the better of Brackley Town in an all-6th-tier affair, coming from 2-0 with 20 minutes to go to win 3-2.

There were a number of replays that will be played on Tuesday for NLS sides, with Aveley dropping a 2 goal lead to tie with Hornchurch, Chelmsford City twice being pegged back by Bromsgrove Sporting, and Welling United and Slough Town both being held away from home against Gosport Borough, and Salisbury respectively.

There were also two National League South fixtures played yesterday, with some of the early leavers from the FA Cup continuing their league campaigns. Taunton Town played host to Eastbourne Borough, winning 2-1 to temporarily take top spot off of Bath City (who beat W*ymouth in the FA Cup yesterday), while a Matt McClure double handed Chippenham Town a 2-0 win away to Truro City.

Replays, as mentioned above, will be played on Tuesday 3rd October, with the 4th Qualifying Round draw taking place on Monday 2nd October (not televised), where National League teams will enter the competition.

 

FA Cup 3rd Qualifying Round results (NLS teams in bold)

Aveley 2-2 Hornchurch
Billericay Town 1-0 St Albans City
Braintree Town 3-2 Brackley Town
Bromsgrove Sporting 2-2 Chelmsford City
Dover Athletic 2-1 Haringey Borough
Farnborough 0-1 Weston-super-mare
Gorleston 0-2 Hemel Hempstead Town
Gosport Borough 2-2 Welling United
Lewes 3-0 Hampton & Richmond Borough
Salisbury 0-0 Slough Town
Torquay United 5-0 Hungerford Town
W*ymouth 1-2 Bath City
Winchester City 0-2 Maidstone United
Worthing 2-1 Whitehawk

 

National League South results – in full

Taunton Town 2-1 Eastbourne Borough
Truro City 0-2 Chippenham Town

Another round of FA Cup Qualifying done and dusted then, and Yeovil got the job done against lower league opposition once again, this time in the form of Didcot Town.

Tom was perched in the Screwfix stand watching over proceedings, this is what he thought of yesterday’s match…

Menacing Murphy! This man doesn’t know how to stop scoring does he? A tidy penalty from the 32 year old took his tally to 8 for the season, and 5 in his last 3. Murphy’s on a roll, and he’s hitting the levels he showed from his first spell in green and white, reminding us of just what a talented striker we have on our hands. Wonderful movement, as well as keeping the Didcot keeper busy with plenty of shots made him my personal man of the match, among plenty of candidates.

Rhys Murphy slots home his penalty.
Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

Will Dawes is here! A topic of conversation among Yeovil fans (or at least the fans I’ve been around) has been the absence of Will Dawes. After coming down with glandular fever, following a good pre-season, the winger’s introduction to the first team picture has been delayed longer than most fans would’ve wanted (myself included). But in the 64th minute, we finally got our first competitive glimpse of Will Dawes, and he was… good! Sharp in possession, and busy off the ball, he slotted in seamlessly on the left hand side with Josh Owers for support. Perhaps we’ll be seeing more of him in the coming weeks, with some potential fixture congestion coming our way.

Jake Wannell’s getting better and better. Today I saw a defender who was confident in every decision he made, excelled in a good defensive line-up, contributed to our first clean sheet in a month and also made some good passes. That defender was Jake Wannell, and at risk of forgetting/missing a fixture or two, I don’t think I’ve personally seen a bad game from him in a Yeovil shirt. A ball over the top in the first half for Rhys Murphy was almost perfectly weighted, and absolutely would’ve been a goal if Leigh Bedwell hadn’t come to collect in the Didcot goal. Great defensive work as always from the number 6, and long may it continue!

 

Jake Wannell.
Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

Individual excellence got us over the line. There were some bright spots yesterday for Yeovil, with the aforementioned Jake Wannell and Rhys Murphy being two of them, but that seemed to be the tale of the tie, as I can’t say I was particularly inspired by the overall performance. Nothing really stood out to me (except for the individuals) as far as a team performance goes, it was professional, it did the job and that’s as much as I can say. Perhaps my expectations were too high following the Stoneham fixture, but at no point did it feel like ever reaching those levels, even if Yeovil did dominate the first half in its entirety.

Didcot are no pushoversAs much as I’ve gone on above about Yeovil not being great, we must also give credit to the visiting Didcot Town, who did well to hold off the possession-hungry hosts until a somewhat unfortunate penalty handed Yeovil the lead. They demonstrated courage, and tenacity to keep the score at 2-0, and in the second half, they really began to take the game to Yeovil, forcing Joe Day into action on multiple occasions. Didcot can go home with their heads held high, and credit to the 75 travelling supporters who made their way down from Oxfordshire to watch today. Good luck for the rest of the season to Didcot Town!