You know how it works by now… if you score worldies from 25 yards… you make the Official Vanarama Team of the Week.
Jordan Stevens joins Rhys Murphy, Frank Nouble and Jordan Maguire-Drew to have landed a spot in a Team of the Week this season. – He was also named in the Non League Paper’s team too, because… of course he was!
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After two weeks apart, Ian, Ben and Dave are back to chat about yesterday’s 2-1 win at Hampton and Richmond Borough. Rule #1 got obliterated.
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And… breathe. Following a hard-fought win for Mark Cooper’s men yesterday in south-west London, let’s dive straight into the scores from the other games today, and how it impacts the league standings.
We start in Kent, where one of many shocks for top sides went down – Maidstone took down 10-man Worthing, with a double from Levi Amantchi contributing to a good day for the home side. Another shock took place at the site of our opening day hosts, where Hemel Hempstead got the better of Torquay United in a frantic end to the game, with 3 goals in 3 minutes causing chaos for scorekeepers! A final shock took place closer to home, where Bath City came back from 2 goals down to recover a point against a struggling Dover Athletic.
There were two more 2-2 draws, with Eastbourne Borough recovering a point at home to Welling United, while Farnborough were twice pegged back by a stubborn Slough Town. A former Glover had a great day out at Chelmsford City, as Shaun Jeffers grabbed a double in a rare start for St Albans City, handing the visitors a 2-0 win.
Our next league match is at home to Aveley, who were held to a 1-1 draw by 10-man Braintree Town, and in another 1-1 draw, 10-man W*ymouth earned a point at home to Chippenham Town, who are now without a win in their last 5 games in all competitions.
Dartford put a stop to their 4 game losing run (including the FA Cup) by edging past Tonbridge Angels by a scoreline of 1-0, while back down south, Truro City went down to 10 men with Ryan Law being sent off, before Kieran Thomas scored the winner for a visiting Weston-super-mare in a 1-0 result. And staying south, we finish up with a 0-0 draw between Taunton and Havant & Waterlooville, where the only action was a 92nd minute red card for the visitors.
National League South results – in full
Aveley 1-1 Braintree Town
Bath City 2-2 Dover Athletic
Chelmsford City 0-2 St Albans City
Dartford 1-0 Tonbridge Angels
Eastbourne Borough 2-2 Welling United
Farnborough Town 2-2 Slough Town
Hemel Hempstead Town 3-2 Torquay United
Maidstone United 4-0 Worthing
Taunton Town 0-0 Havant & Waterlooville
Truro City 0-1 Weston-super-mare
W*ymouth 1-1 Chippenham Town
National League South table
We’re now in to double figures for the National League South season and it was a third (fourth in all competitions) win in a row for Yeovil Town.
Dave was on the terraces of The Beveree Stadium yesterday and here are his conclusions on what he saw…..
All we want is a decent referee: I have praised referees on the podcast (well, one referee!) and therefore make no apologies for starting with the conclusion that referee Eugene Robinson did everything he could to ruin yesterday’s game.
His decisions to stick to the letter of the law and book players for what he interpreted to be time-wasting and not book others (on both sides, I hasten to add) for blatant fouls is beyond me. Jordan Young was dumped on the ground and left to lie there whilst Mr Robinson played on, Morgan Williams got a two-handed shove in the back and nothing, yet Jake Hyde contests an offside which, as someone who was in line with that play, I can confirm he was completely right to contest, and he’s booked.
Mr Robinson made yesterday all about him and when both sets of supporters are complaining about an official – you know it’s a stinker.
away support outstanding again today as you’ve been all away games this season ???
“We’re in London aren’t we” pic.twitter.com/kbh6tWN2wA
— Frank nouble…..NIZ (@FrankNouble) September 23, 2023
Jordan Stevens is the difference: From the off it was clear that Jordan Stevens was an outlet and what an outlet he was.It was my first sighting of him (not via a stream) this season and he’s got the pace and the trickery to beat anyone at this level and add to that he’s not afraid to do the dirty work as well. For those crying out for wide players, he almost literally hugged the touchline all match and, when we went down to ten, he chased everything down until the very end. Take a bow!
Strength in depth is a dream: Last season, Josh Staunton played on literally held together with sticky tape, but yesterday we were able to rest him – until six minutes from the end. The reason? Michael Smith. Quality, leadership and experience, he brought it all yesterday. Then to be able to introduce Josh Owers and Jake Hyde (albeit briefly!) off the bench again shows the quality is there. Jordan Maguire-Drew must be wondering what he has to do to get a game, albeit I don’t think the second half was one for him.
We have to be more clinical: The two goals were everything you want to see from your team – a stunning first and an ice cold second – but we had so many chances to make it more. Jordan Young needs to strike from open play the way he does from free kicks (admittedly not yesterday’s free-kicks), Frank Nouble needs to give one a proper welly-ing and set pieces didn’t do anything for us at Hampton. When you have a liability in charge of the game (yes, you Mr Robinson!), you can’t leave anything to chance and, if the ref had given another penalty with the final kick, this would have been the story of the match.
Ten (league) games gone and September’s ending: So, whether you used to ten game rule or the Green Day Clause, we can comfortably make an assessment on Yeovil Town’s season so far.
In all competitions the results are, P11, W7, D2, L2, second in the National League South table and progressed in the only cup competition we’ve played in. It is difficult to find too much to dislike about it.
The patient/slow/controlled/dull (pick you description) way that Mark Cooper has us playing is not to everyone’s taste, but we are improving every time I see us play.
This isn’t Jose Mourinho-esque dull but winning football, there’s more than enough there to enjoy and it’s hard (impossible?) to argue with those results.
Let’s have a little whip round the Glovers’ loanees shall we?
We start at Dorchester who continued their decent patch of form with a third win in four games, they beat Didcot Town (?) 3-1 with Ollie Haste playing the full 90. Benjani Jr was brought on late in the second half for one of the Magpies’ goal scorers – former Glover – Jordan Barnett.
A strange one for Charlie Bateson, he was named in the starting line up for Shepton Mallet, but was replaced after a slight injury in the warm up, so took no part.
Mallet lost 2-1 to Barnstaple but did have to play over half the game with an outfielder player in goal… and with only ten men.
Lewis Williams was in goal for Tiverton as they lost 4-2 against Hendon – there’s little to suggest he could have done much about any of the Hendon goals.
@MatsuzakaDan heads @HendonFC back in front vs @tivertontownfc pic.twitter.com/s2e9ejcvf5
— DBeechPhotography (@DBeechPhoto___y) September 23, 2023
The Football Association’s Discipline portal updated in the early hours of Sunday morning to confirm the one-match bans for both Jake Hyde and Matt Worthington. (clearly the official likes to get his paperwork done, promptly)
Both are listed as needing to serve a one match suspension on Saturday 30th of September – the date of the FA Cup tie against Didcot Town.
We’ve included a screen shot, below, but this does slightly go against what was suggested post-match with Mark Cooper telling the BBC that the ban would be “Competition Specific”.
This suggests otherwise.
It’s also worth noting that Cooper has said he intends to appeal the straight red card given to Worthington for Handball on the line. That will obviously happen over the coming few days.
Other points of note – Rhys Murphy is now on four yellow cards – one away from a one match ban, whilst Jordan Thomas of Hampton & Richmond has been given a two-match ban for his red card after the final whistle on Saturday afternoon.
We’ll keep you updated on the success (or failure) of the appeal on Matt Worthington’s red card.
FA Portal Screenshot – Correct as of 01:00am on Sunday 24th September
As a reminder, Red Cards are treated slightly differently at this level, here’s a handy explainer.
Yeovil Town Manager Mark Cooper spoke to the BBC reporter Ian Randall at the end of the 2-1 win over Hampton and Richmond, you can hear the whole interview at the bottom of the article.
In a rollercoaster game, Mark Cooper spoke of how proud he was of the away win, how frustrated he was with the officiating (Gloverscast Rule 1 has been well and truly thrown out the window this week!) and how he wanted his side to have put the game to bed earlier.
“Some things in football are uncontrollable and they’re variable, and that’s nothing to do with my players, my staff, our supporters.
That’s an external source that we can’t affect that tried to affect our performance today because it was a totally dominant performance and I’m convinced we’d have gone to win it by a really good score.” Cooper said of the man in the middle today.”
Speaking about the two yellow cards for Jake Hyde, Cooper explains that the front man was harshly done by, with the second yellow in particular.
“So there’s an incident, he gets booked for kicking the ball away and I’ve just seen it, he is probably two and a half, three yards on side right in front of the linesman.
He gets given off side, kicks the ball away – wrong – and then he miss miss controls one makes a bit of a block and the referee sends him off for that. If that had been another 10 minutes, I reckon he could possibly have booked 22 players if he’d have carried on”
The words got a bit stronger to describe the red card given to his captain on the day, Matt Worthington.
“Laughable. Matt Worthington is defending the goal deflection off their players’ knee, it kicks up and hits Worthy.
He’s got his hand right by his side it hits him on the arm, can’t do anything about it. It’s not a penalty, and it’s a joke of a red card.
So there’ll be some explaining to do this week, I think for for the officials and the assessors and luckily, luckily, it didn’t affect the result, but it should have been so, so much more comfortable.”
Asked if he’ll appeal the red card, Cooper simply stated…
“Yeah, 100%. There’s no chance you can get suspended for that. It’s just a joke.”
Right, onto the performance and Cooper was very happy at the solid nature of his side, whilst also wishing the game was done and dusted in slighty more convincing fashion – on the score line at least.
“(We were) Very good. I think you could see that we’ve done an awful lot of work as a defensive unit this week to try and make us more miserly as a group and we look really solid as a team, I couldn’t really see them scoring, It was going to be a long ball that we didn’t cover around on.
My only little gripe is that we didn’t score four or five, we had two great chances in the second half.
Youngy, he’s come inside he usually buries them, but it’s just about the three points, massive three points and it’s two points a game again, and that’s where we need to be.”
Jordan Stevens scored the opener with a long range rocket, something Cooper was expecting to come sooner or later.
“If you look back at his goals, there’s three or four in there that are like that, he’s got that in him, but he’s also got in him where he can smash them over all over the place, so today was the one that he nailed, really, really sweet.
It was a cracking goal, but you see his pace, him and him and Young cause problems because they’re so quick and sharp.”
…and as for Rhys Murphy’s fourth goal in two games…
“It was a good play, we had some play ball down the side and Murph sat about, sat about three defenders down and rolled it in a corner like he does.”
The gaffer wasn’t done with the ref though, Eugene Robinson is firmly off the Christmas Card list…
“But my thing is imagine how we would be feeling now or how we would be approaching this if we hadn’t won that game, but nothing to do with us, nothing to do with our performance or mistakes to do with an outside or an external source, it has to be better than that, Marks Ives at the National League, they need to look at this and things like this can’t continue to happen.
Otherwise, you’re going to have hundreds of players suspended before the end of September”
“Alex Whittle, felt his groin a little bit, so (his substitution was) just precautionary, but the team today were I thought they looked really professional, really robust, aggressive and played some great football.”
You Can Listen To The Full Interview from BBC Somerset’s Ian Randall Here
You can watch Mark Cooper’s conversation with the club’s official YouTube below, covering many of the same topics.
Super Joe Day in goal, was up for Media duties following the Glovers’ 2-1 win over Hampton and Richmond, he was happy to get the win, even if his clean sheet was taken away from him late on in the game.
“First and foremost, it’s a good win on the road, any win in this league is going to be tough and I just thought that – second half especially – we held in there and saw the game off.
Today, I thought for most parts of the game we were pretty solid… we’ve been unbeaten since I’ve come in which is nice, so hopefully we can keep that going.”
The visitors went 2-0 up in fairly comfortable circumstances, but the hosts did force their way back into the game in the second half, Day thinks that whilst things are going well, there’s still more to come.
“It’s a balance, the Manager plays a good brand of football, he wants to be dominant with the ball, but if we have too many transitions it can leave us vulnerable at the back, it’s getting a balance and getting an understanding between every department on the pitch and I feel like first half especially today we had that nailed on, maybe we could have been better second half with the ball, but I think we’re getting there, we’ll only keep improving”
The Glovers saw the game out despite losing both Jake Hyde and Matt Worthington to red cards, in the latter stages, it was important at that point just to get the game done and take the three points home
“I’ll be happier when we start keeping some clean sheets, but I’ll take a win over a clean sheet any day, that’s the main thing. We expected a bit of an onslaught in the second half, with us being dominant in the first half, but I’m proud of the boys today, we defended well in difficult circumstances, saw the game out and got the win.”
You Can Watch The Full Chat on the YTFC Youtube Channel and below.
Yeovil Town match winner Rhys Murphy has been speaking to BBC Somerset’s Ian Randall after the Glovers’ 2-1 win over Hampton & Richmond. You can hear the entire interview at the bottom of the article.
Murphy, who’s first half goal proved to be the winning one, said that the team worked well as a whole to produce a near perfect away performance.
“It’s always a good time to score before half time, but I don’t think there’s ever a bad time to score, Jordan (Stevens) took his goal unbelievably well – what a great tackle that was -So, yeah, two nil at half time and I felt like we probably started a little bit slow, but we expected a reaction from them.
But I think we were just starting to hurt them on the counter attacks and I thought that if we had got that third goal it would have been game done.”
The second half saw Jake Hyde (two yellows) and Matt Worthington (straight red) receive their marching orders from the referee, Murphy just want to focus on how the team dealt with the changes and saw the game out.
“But obviously then sendings off have changed the course of the game slightly, but I thought the team did ever so well to deal with what they had and see the game through.
At the end of the day, I thought the team worked really well today, there was another chance they created for me just before that and I didn’t quite get the ball set back to Frank who was in a great position, so that was one that I frustrated with myself.
This team creates, whether it’s for me or for someone else, this team creates lots of chances every game, so it’s a good team to play in.”
The result moves the Glovers up to second in the table – for a short while going top of the league during the game, Murphy says that the group wont settle for anything less.
“We’re picking up points, which is pleasing, all season whether we’ve win, lost or draw, we want more, so that won’t stop all season, so we’re going to keep demanding off each other and I think today was a good away performance.
I thought everybody was tremendous today, down the middle of the pitch Morgs, Wans, Coops Worthy, unbelievable performances from them boys, especially when we go down to ten men.
They do so much work for the team and that’s not forgetting anybody else, but they probably do a lot of work that goes unnoticed.
So yeah, to keep the ball out of Joe’s box and stop him from making saves and Josh (Owers) came on, did terrific, so did the skipper.
It’s hard coming on as a defender in those types of games, so everybody did really well. It’s a good win.“
Whilst the scoreline suggests a close run affair, the feeling is that the Glovers had their opponents in a comfortable place for large parts of the game and the front man is happy that the team can see games out in that style
“I’m not sure it was that tight of a game. I think – ask Joe – probably quite a comfortable game up until the sendings off, so I thought we had quite good control on it, even when we didn’t have the ball.
We weren’t getting hurt. So, again, I haven’t watched it back, obviously, but as away performances go, I think today was quite a good one, which is positive.
We can mix it up and if we need to win in the ugly ways or any way, then at the moment we’re doing that.”
You can listen to the entire interview below, including a few words about preparing for Didcot Town in the FA Cup next week.
Who was your Man of the Match in the Glovers game against Hampton & Richmond?
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