Yeovil Town’s topsy-turvy season continued on Saturday, as they defeated Morecambe at Huish Park in what had been billed as a six-pointer. Tom Bailey was there for Green and White Radio, here’s what he thought.
Well that was great fun… What an entertaining game of football! Entertainment value has often been criticised at Huish Park this season, with Cooper-ball and Copper-lite-ball under Richard Dryden leading to some turgid performances. If this is what we should expect under Billy Rowley next season, then sign me up! It was a game of high quality, but it didn’t disappoint in the entertainment department!
James. Daly. Boy am I glad we have James Daly in this team. A slow start to the season, followed by injury saw Daly’s stock fall as Christmas approached. But after finding fitness, and a regular run of games allowing him to build momentum, he’s come into his own, particularly following the absence of Luke McCormick.
His pressing and relentless energy makes him a joy to watch, and his goal was well taken today, taking his league tally to five for the season. Even his 99th minute press of the Morecambe ‘keeper was the perfect example of why we need to play to Daly’s strengths next season.
The players showed a bit of something today. I mentioned above that while entertaining, the quality of the game wasn’t necessarily great. Both teams were desperate to win this game, which was a stark contrast to the drab midweek defeat at Woking for the Glovers. Everyone put in a hell of a shift to earn those three points today, and even if they aren’t staying beyond the end of the season, that is a performance that Yeovil fans should be proud of.
Delano McCoy-Splatt, welcome to Yeovil! When McCoy-Splatt’s signing was announced midweek, there were mixed responses, with some relief that we had more midfield depth, but some concern over his age and lack of game time. Thankfully, he made a brilliant start to life in green and white, coming on as a substitution on the right hand side. His linkup play with Josh Sims and Finn Cousin-Dawson was excellent, and his vision for the pass to Terrell Works for Daly’s goal was awesome. More of that please and thank you!
Onto Wealdstone. Let’s take the positive feeling following a hard-earned victory and carry that momentum into the midweek game at Wealdstone. A lot of people earmarked these three fixtures (plus Gateshead next Saturday) as our three biggest games of the season, and with three points on the board already, let’s carry on this good work into Wednesday’s game.
Much much better than Boston, Woking and Scunthorpe. A lot of hard work and endeavour. Yesterday was the benchmark to exceed for the rest of the season. Special mention for JD – keep going lad…99 minutes of showing what non-stop does for a team!
I still think we’re going down, as we are woefully inconsistent and seem to produce two or three awful performances for every brilliant one. That sort of form will take us down. However, if this performance is the catalyst for improvement, then I’m all for it. But we have thought that many times this season only to see a crap performance in the next handful of matches. Let’s hope I’m proven wrong.
Relegation or not, I bleed green and white and always will.
using your logic we end up on 50 points. 4 of the 8 teams below us don’t get 50 points.
Believe.
I’m usually pretty pessimistic where Yeovil are concerned, but I can’t see us getting relegated now.
There’s no chance of the bottom three finishing above us & Brackley & Gateshead are 7 points adrift having played a game more & with worse goal differences.
Brackley are in freefall. They’ve gone downhill since their management team resigned & joined Shrewsbury Town in January. They’ve picked up one point in their last nine games. They’ve still got to travel to Forest Green Rovers, Scunthorpe United & Carlisle United.
…and it’s Brackley v Braintree on Tuesday night. They can’t both win, where a draw doesn’t hurt us too bad either. If we can get two more wins from eight, job done.
Gateshead v York as well should have a reasonable chance of going in our favour.
It was a pressure game against Morecambe and thankfully we came out with 3 precious points.
After travelling up to Woking midweek with my lad the first half was a very hard watch , we improved 2nd half but our lack of goals this season proved our undoing.
Fast forward to Saturday and 2 decent goals and Jones’s 3rd was a peach.
Picking the bones out of the performance JD full of running and threat fantastic.
Josh not far behind JD in effort and running. Brett decent goal and has added a bit more fight to his game.
Works took a while to get into the game but then shifted up a couple of gears.
Delano made an extra impact exactly what we needed.
Perret needs to step up another level, I know he’s young but another 20% please .
And overall our defence dealt with most of the game comfortably, 1 point Joy dallied on the ball which led to thier penalty those mistakes have been getting punished, it happens but we most learn from them.
So the next 2 games some points are there if we want them bad enough.
Let’s go get them…….
More players up for it than not today. We do lack quality, lack leaders and some clearly only interested in picking up a wage. A few more stepped up than last few games. Of those out of contract only FCD and Sims should be offered a contract. Unless the others show intent on the run in. Daly has heart. Splatt shown quality and composure.
Funny chant from the kids… “I’m blind, I’m deaf, I want to be a ref…Can’t see…Can’t count, I’d make a ref no doubt”