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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”

“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.

 

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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.

“I thought the team did ever so well to deal with what they had and see the game through.”

“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.

 

 

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Yeovil Skipper Josh Staunton has spoken to the BBC ahead of the trip to Hampton and Richmond this weekend and has said he is enjoying the challenges this season has thrown up… including a positive kind of pressure. 

“It (This season) been a bit more unpredictable in terms of style of play, I’d say I think when you’re in the league above, it’s probably easier to do analysis on teams you’re playing against and teams are a bit more consistent in terms of players and style of play.

You kind of know what to get and obviously you’re going to games completely different, there’s a difference going to Chesterfield where you come away and think a point is a result, where we’re in a position this year where we want to try and win every game, so it’s enjoyable. 

They serve up the different challenges and sometimes going to games a bit more blind than you’d like to be it gives you a real chance of focus on yourself and not worry about about the opposition.”

“It gives you a real chance of focus on yourself and not worry about about the opposition.”

“I think pressure is relative to the position you’re in isn’t? I think it’s about learning to deal with pressure and making pressure bring out the best in you really, I know much rather have the pressure of being at the top of the table and winning than the pressure of scrapping around for points.
It’s a much more enjoyable situation and although there’s pressure, it allows you to be more free.
There’s pressure in football in every game, no matter where you’re playing, or who you’re playing for, there is pressure and as I say it’s a different kind of pressure, it’s one we need to learn to relish and and the team really needs to learn to make that pressure ‘positive pressure’.

 

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When asked about the changing room environment, it’ll come of no great surprise to hear the skipper talk about the current situation as if it’s night and day compared to last year.

“Obviously there’s a wealth of experience in there this year and it makes life easier in terms of delegation around the dressing room and around the club things kind of look after themselves a bit more and obviously winning is a much easier environment than losing but it serves up his own challenges, keeping boys level headed – just because you win one game doesn’t mean you wouldn’t win the league – and it’s about that striving to be better every day – just because you won on Saturday doesn’t mean you’ve cracked it for this weekend – it’s it’s building building and trying to progress to where we want to be and it is it’s a much there’s no I think people should say it was a bet they were worse environment it’s a better environment when you win against a football and towards a writing at the table but it’s not coming complacent and it’s working every down there’s raining ground like you want to be a champion come the season and that’s the that’s the environment you have to try and build day to day in the dressing room.”

Focusing on this weekend’s game, Staunton says the homework has been done, but they’re ready for whatever is thrown at them.

“We know their shape in the last few games, but as I say the teams still searching at this time of season to find their perfect formula, I think we’re by no means the finished perfect form of ourselves so, we’ll go into it with an idea of what they’re going to produce, players might change they could throw different shape out and especially when you’re one of the bigger teams in the league you find a lot of teams adapt for you so you do kind of go into a game thinking they’ve done this the last two weeks but then they’re playing a bigger team they might change up completely so, its still a lesson still learning curve for us but we’ll go there focusing on us and believing if we do it right we’ll we’ll be able to get the job done.”

“We’ll go there focusing on us and believing if we do it right we’ll we’ll be able to get the job done.”

“I’ve grown up playing in and around London myself so I’m kind of adapt to that there’s always a physicality which comes with London teams there isn’t it from sick under 16’s onwards they used to be built like blokes at 15 – I don’t know what they put in the water around the Central London area.

The away day experience is learning to adapt to the environment, it’s eleven players playing against you every single week and it’s how you find the solution to beat them.

The away day experience is not letting the environment be an excuse for you, we could say ‘it’s hard to go to London’, but they’re going to come here and it’s the same group of players, so we can’t use that as an excuse.”

“At this moment in time the pitches are all to a relative standard, but we dont know where that’ll be in January, when the pitches are a bit more beaten up, but we’re not looking to make excuses, we’ll go to London with our chests out hoping to bring three points back.

With plenty of players performing well and the goals starting to flow, Staunton was pleased with how the team – including backroom staff. – had worked hard to make sure as many players were available and fighting for a spot and that depth could well become key as the season rolls on.

“Firstly, we’ve had a real onus this year – Joe the physio has done really well, we’ve brought in Weston who’s been excellent, to add to that department and oversee the football, it’s been about getting players on the pitch and making players available to be on the pitch. There were times last year we were down to the bare bones,

“There’s been a real hard work in that department, to try and make sure we are managing loads during training and managing minutes for some people, and that adds to the squad depth.

It’s a lot easier when you’re not relying on the same eleven players to play 44 games, you can take someone out for one and it stops them missing four games, that squad depth is key and it’s probably a strength we have over other teams because of the calibre of players we have in every position.”

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Yeovil’s hat-trick hero Rhys Murphy says he is ‘desperate to play’ but knows you have wait for your chance with the quality of Mark Cooper’s squad.

Murphy scored three in the second half of Yeovil’s 7-1 win against AFC Stoneham yesterday, completing his hattrick in stoppage time.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Tom Seymour following the rout, Murphy said: “Every player wants to play. I’m no different, [I’m] desperate to play. The manager knows that, but we’ve got a good squad so you have to earn the right every week. We’ve got lots of good players here so whoever’s on the pitch at the start of the game is a good player, so you wait for you chance and hopefully today I took mine.”

Murphy credited Jordan Stevens for his cross for the first, was thankful of the gift from Stoneham’s defender and praised Jordan Maguire-Drew for the assist for his third, but said advancing through the cup was the priority.

“We’re through to the next round, that’s the most important thing.”

“All the boys that scored today, everybody played their part, [I’m] disappointed to concede a goal but a thoroughly convincing win at home in front of the fans again, which was good. And we’re through to the next round, that’s the most important thing.”

With a return to National League South action next weekend and just three points from the top, Yeovil will want to keep the pressure and Murphy is relishing the trip to Hampton & Richmond.

“We hope from our point of view that we can take that form into the next game, we’re not on a bad run ourselves. I know its a cliché but you want to win every game you play so this was no different and the next game is no different – so bring on next weekend.”

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Two-goal hero Frank Nouble admitted his Yeovil Town team-mates had to win “ugly” to get three points from an impressive Eastbourne Borough side at Huish Park today.

The big frontman took his tally to four for the season after heading a 13th minute opener from a corner before a quickfire brace from the visitors’ Jack Paxman saw them take a deserved lead which silenced a previously boisterous home crowd.

But, with the half-time break getting closer, Nouble took advantage of a rush of blood to the head from keeper Ben Dudzinski to lob the keeper from long range and take the game in level at the interval.

He told BBC Somerset’s Tom Seymour: “I scored on similar to that last season during a loan spell at our bitter rivals [he’s talking about Torquay United] down the road. It was just instinctive, the keeper came out and I saw the goal there and the most important thing was hitting the ball as well as I could.

“Looking back on it now, it was really important. At the time I was very frustrated because they were playing well and they scored two quickfire goals.For us it was just about staying in the game and going in at half-time level.

“A few harsh words were said at half-time and then we regroup and go again because we have to win the game.

“You can’t win every game pretty, I think we have won more ugly games than pretty games, but we have won and that is the most important thing.”

He added: “We want to make sure we want to keep at a level of about two points a game and we are just behind that at the moment.

“As long as we keep close to that we will be nearer the top and that is where we should be at this level. It is a harder league that people think, teams are coming here and playing very freely.

“We have got to be better and I am just happy we can win whilst we are improving.”

The 31-year-old, who arrived in the summer having been released by Torquay at the end of last season, said he was pleased to score the opener from a Jordan Young corner, admitting the team had been working on set-pieces in the days leading up to the match.

He said: “We work hard on set pieces in training and I am just trying to be in the right areas. I think earlier in the season we had quite a few corners coming in and we were not getting the first contact in there.

“I think we are quite a big side and you have to want to head the ball, it was in a good connection and so close to goal the keeper couldn’t do anything about it.”

The striker also had praise for fellow scorer midfielder Josh Owers whose 69th-minute strike earned all three points. The former Bristol City player was starting his second successive match having not featured in the National League South season up until this point.

Nouble said: “He is one of the boys in the changing room who people want to do well. He’s such a great kid and he’s really humble. He works really hard as well and the Gaffer gave him the chance to play today and he’s taken it really well.
It’s a great finish and he’s scored the winning goal, so I am buzzing for him.”

As is the case this season, Nouble was also interviewed by club press officer Dan Howell after the match and you can also watch that interview on the club’s official YouTube channel.

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Yeovil Town goal scorer Jordan Young spoke to the Glovers’ YouTube channel following the 3-2 win over Weston super Mare on Tuesday.

“I’m definitely happy, it was a good start to the game, happy with the result, we made hard work of it, but we got there in the end.”

Young also claims an assist and a pre-assist (if that’s even a thing) as it was his set pieces which saw the other two Glovers goals, he was delighted to contribute.

“Coops wasn’t playing today so, I had to take them from both side which was fine, we got off to a flying start, wen’t 2-0 up and we probably should have done better to see the game out easier than we did – if we don’t concede in the first half, we go in 2-0 and it’s comfortable”

“I want to play every game that I can, it’s been a bit tough, but I’ve got there in the end.”

There was credit for Weston’s approach, the newly promoted side gave a good fight in the search for a way back into the game.

“They’re a good team, started really well, when we went 2-0 up and they scored, they had a lot of pressure towards the end of the first half especiialy, but we came out, got the goal and then it was comfortable, we probably should have made it 4-1.

“It’s tough, we don’t want to end games like that, we want to end games in control and better than we did, but we got there in the end.”

The final, and main word was (again) for the fans, 850 additional players making sure the Glovers recorded their first away win in 220 days.

“Every game we’ve played, especially at home, but obviously away too, we had a good 800 (850, Jordan actually ?) here, it’s massive, it get’s us over the line at the end.”

 

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Yeovil Town skipper Josh Staunton spoke to BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins following the Glovers’ 3-2 win over Weston super-Mare, you can hear the full audio at the bottom of the article.

Staunton spoke about feeling the relief of a first away win for 220 days, abut also, a performance that seemed to click earlier than we have been.

“It feels really good, to do it in front of a massive crowd, from our following. We started like a house on fire, didn’t we? Started exactly how we wanted to start in a derby, two goals in front of our fans, the noise – which was electric – we kind of lost our way a little bit, but when you come away from home, especially when you haven’t won away from home for a long time, the most important thing is three points.

I think the 12 games for us, is about how many points can we accumulate and we’ve amassed another three points on to our total now and that’s a real springboard for us for the rest of the season.”

…that’s a real springboard for us for the rest of the season.

With the game at 2-0 to the Glovers, the Seagulls fought back, scoring a long range deflected strike and playing their way back into the game, which wasn’t a surprise to the Captain.

“When you go two goals down, you’re kind of free aren’t you? You’ve got nothing else to lose, you can commit another man forward and kind of play a bit more cat and mouse, especially when you’re at home, you’ve got nothing to lose. They did that, they went forward well, I thought they played well, we knew they were going to have a good passage with the ball, it was important we kept our shape and we did that.”

Changes were made, goal scorer Jamie Sendles-White made way for Zac Bell at half time, and the skipper had credit for all of the subs and the way the manager rotates the group.

“Credit to the gaffer really, we’ve got a squad of a lot of characters and the hardest thing about characters is that they all want to play every game, the gaffer has used his man management skills excellently and keeping everyone chomping at the bit. 

It’s clear to see, the rotation between the front boys is clear to see and will pay dividends, I think that’s testament to the way the manager is dealing with big characters, it’s easy for Belly to come and sulk today after not playing, but he came in second half excellent. 

Sends (Jamie Sendles-White) first half, out of position at right back, did excellent, it’s a long season, it’s important we manage characters and so far, so good.

I’m really pleased tonight, I thought the boys that came on made a difference; Belly opening up down the right hand side, Stevo is looking sharper and sharper. It’s just another step in the right direction, if we continue to trust the process, I think we’ll be ticking teams off.”

…if we continue to trust the process, I think we’ll be ticking teams off.

The Glovers got the win, thanks to three goals, all from set pieces. the Points, performance and the set piece prowess all pleasing the Glovers’ number 32.

“The most important thing for us was three points, as a squad, we are strong, the gaffer is dealing with everyone, keeping everyone driven and it’s a really good place to be at the moment.

Last year, we scored one or two (goals from set pieces) and (now) look really dangerous from set plays, Youngy’s free kick outstanding, the second one is a great header from Sends and the third one we’ve worked well, we worked the extra man round the back across goal.

I think if you’re going to be successful and you want to win a league, set pieces are massive, if you can keep them out at one end – which we need to get better at, we’ve been a bit unlucky, every deflection seems to go in the top corner at the moment, – if we can score more set pieces than we concede, we’ll be a very, very dangerous force.

It gives teams something else to worry about especially when shooting towards our fans, it was sucking the ball in the goal. It was a really good atmosphere tonight, it was a fun one to play in. “

850 Glovers fans sold out the away end at Weston and the skipper has been proud of the group’s ability to react to a loud, passionate and positive supporter base that continues to grow and grow.

“You can see everyone, the togetherness when we win, everyone is there, the noise is really, really, good behind the goal – I think Martin (Hellier) has purchased a drum, a massive drum for home games.

It’s just another string to our bow of togetherness, let’s enjoy the run, let’s go on a bit of a run, it’s easy to get clouded by negativity, we’re in a good position, we’re trusting the process.

As a club we’re trying to build long term success, not a knee jerk reaction and I’m really, really encouraged by what we’re doing.”

The game did go beyond 100 minutes (not for the first time this season) and Staunton was adamant that his side were up for the fight regardless of how long they were on the pitch for.

“The extra time is really, really hard to get your head round all the time, it’s almost like playing Extra Time, especially after playing Saturday-Tuesday, in the blazing heat.

It was clear for both teams, from 85 minutes onwards, the tempo really dropped, it’s just relentless.”

Soon though… it was back to the fans…

“I think we want to be together, when we concede a goal, we all concede a goal, when we score a goal, we all score a goal and that runs right from the top, right to the bottom and we want the fans to be part of that.

It’s fantastic having this sort of following, it’s really making a big difference, when you come out to the noise and you score a goal, it makes the hair on the back of my next stand up.

It’s another positive step for us as a football club, and when you look at the bigger picture it’s about learning to deal with playing in front of big crowds, big away following with big expectation and today will be a good step in the right direction for us as a Football Club.  “

 

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Yeovil Town defender Morgan Williams has said that the Glovers have put the Monday madness behind them and the focus has fully switched to Chelmsford on Saturday.

Speaking to the club’s YouTube channel, the former Glovies player of the year said;

“The gaffer gave us a couple of days off just to forget about Monday and rest and recover our bodies as it was a busy weekend playing on Saturday and Monday, obviously that’s difficult to do.

So we had a couple of days off to rest and recover and get our minds away from Monday, we touched on it a bit in training yesterday (Thursday) and watched a few clips, we know where we went wrong, we didn’t turn up to the game, we were poor for the whole 90 minutes.

We’re all in a good head space at the moment, feeling positive about the Chelmsford game, and we’ve got to take it from there.”

We’re all in a good head space at the moment, feeling positive about the Chelmsford game

The team had a meeting on Thursday to go over the previous weekend’s action, but quickly turned toward preparations for Saturday and a tough game against high flying Chelmsford.

“Thursday morning, we ironed everything out, what we did wrong, where we could have improved and why we didn’t win the game. 

After that, you have that meeting, you forget about it, move on, we’ve got 40-odd games left, we can’t dwell on bad performances, we have to build and build and build.”

Williams was, for a short time in the second half, named as the Glovers’ captain, with no Josh Staunton or Matt Worthington on the pitch, he donned the armband;

“It was just in the moment, Worthy has gone down, I’m next to him and he’d just said, ‘you have the armband’ – that was a nice little privilege to hold that.”

Next to tick off the list for Williams is goals… after coming close on a couple of occasions, he’s desperate to make the score sheet, sooner rather than later.

“Last season, I wasn’t good enough getting in the box and I didn’t get a goal, this year I’ve got a target for what I want to get and hopefully I hit that.”

Looking ahed, he agreed that the game would be tough, but with another big crowd behind them, they can keep Huish Park as the fortress it is becoming.

“No, we know that every team on their day can be a good team, we’ve just got to be at our best and hopefully get the three points. 

We’ve built a fortress here, I think we need to do that, if we can be consistent at home and then try and build on our performances away that’s really going to help us this season, the fans have been class both away and at home.”

 

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Yeovil Town defender Alex Whittle admitted his team-mates were “not good enough” in the 4-3 defeat at Havant & Waterlooville on Bank Holiday Monday.

 
The full-back was part of the defeat which shipped two goals in just 13 first half minutes as Muhammada Faal and Callum Kealey gave the hosts a dream start.
 
Having got the game back to 2-2 with goals from Jake Wannell and a penalty from Jordan Maguire-Drew, the Glovers gave away a sloppy penalty with Faal converted at half-time.
 
Speaking to the club’s official YouTube channel after the game, Whittle said there were harsh words exchanged in the dressing room at half-time.
 
He said: “There was a lot of frustration from the lads and the gaffer, we have to do better. We have to be coming here and winning the game because they have not won (before today) so they were buzzing at the end. But we have to lot that right next week now.”
 
A 90th minute strike from substitute Rhys Murphy looked to have nicked a point for the Glovers before Callum Kealey sealed three points in the third minute of stoppage time.
 
Whittle added: “It is a team game, but defensively we have got to be better. There are some soft goals in there and you can’t come away from home, concede four goals and expect to win the games.
 
“When it goes 3-3, I think we are on the front foot and we can go and get the winner, then we concede another sloppy goal. It was a very disappointing and we have got to be better.

“When it goes 3-3, I think we are on the front foot and we can go and get the winner”

“It is not just the defence or the midfield, it is the whole team as a collective, we have got to be better. We have to stick together, we have got a good team and a good set of lads, but we have to be better.”
 
The former York City man, who has started every match this season, refused to use the excuse of two matches in 48 hours and said the team now had to put things right when Chelmsford City come to Huish Park on Saturday.
 
He added: “I know it is hard playing Saturday and then Monday but it is the same for them, so it has to be better.
 
“It was a great turnout from the fans again and they always come away with the numbers, but we have to put it right this weekend.”

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BBC Somerset reporter Sheridan Robins spoke to one of Yeovil Town’s goal scorers from the 4-3 loss to Havant and Waterlooville.

Rhys Murphy, who came off the bench to score what looked like a 90th minute equaliser, was honest in his assessment when chatting post match admitting there’s no hiding place, and that the team can, and will, learn from the defeat.

“I’m not going to stand here and point fingers as a team we were not good enough, we were not at the standards that this club demands and that we demand of ourselves.

“It’s all a bit raw at the moment, it’s quite as simple as that to be honest, too many of us, if not all of us, did not perform to the levels that are required and the result then is what happens.”

The Glovers were shocked when finding themselves 2-0 down inside 15 minutes, but fought back to 2-2 just before the break only to concede deep in injury time in both halves, something Murphy called “naive“.

He admitted: “It’s certainly naive, it’s unacceptable, to go 2-0 down, get it back before half time and then give away a penalty and then in the second half to pull it back and concede again, it’s just ridiculous.

“Look, we’ll assess straight after this, but it’s obvious for everyone to see that too many mistakes were made – it just simply wasn’t good enough – all of us, it wasn’t one of us, or two, it was the whole team, it’s bitterly disappointing.”

We should be walking out of here with a point.

In a game full of back and forths, it was a dissapointing end to an overall positive first month of the campaign, but Murphy feels it should have been better. 

“It was like a basketball match at times, when we were behind, they were obviously making it difficult, but we kept pressing, kept trying to ask questions, we get the goal back and then we throw it away – I think I’m going over things and just repeating myself, but yeah, just not good enough.

All game it felt like they were there for the taking – it was that kind of match, but at 2-2 and at 3-3 you see the half out as a minimum, if you can nick it, great, but as a minimum you do not concede again, you’re tight, you’re hard to beat and we weren’t that, we were the opposite.”

The focus moved onto the chance to put Monday’s result to bed and the Glovers welcome an unbeaten side that Rhys knows all too well next Saturday – Chelmsford City. Murphy wants his side to dust themselves down and learn from the game.

“Naïve, on our part, all of us, not good enough, that’s not pointing fingers at anybody, that’s us as a collective, and it’s something we need to learn from, it’s a big lesson today. 

“The manager has made his thoughts very clear, everything he said was spot on, after that point there’s not much more that needs to be said, it’s  a case of looking within. I don’t think any good comes from finger pointing right now, the whole group goes home and takes a right look at themselves and how we performed.”

“The fans have turned up in their numbers again, they don’t expect to see performances like that, the fans were brilliant with us again and we’ve let everyone down today.

We have a chance to put things right in a few days, we’ve got a long season to go, you know, it’s just a really, really, really(!) disappointing result, after a good run of results, at home, we had the chance to push on again today and we’ve let that opportunity slip.

Let’s learn, let’s grow as a team and let’s push on again.”

 

You can hear the full audio of the chat between Sheridan and Rhys, below.