Loan midfielder Sean McGurk said he had no hesitation in agreeing to remain at Yeovil Town for the rest of the season following a successful initial one-month loan.

The Swindon Town player extended his stay at Huish Park having scored twice in his first five matches having joined on Christmas Eve although his parent club do have a recall clause in his deal.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Jack Killah ahead of this weekend’s trip to Rochdale, the 21-year-old said: “From the minute I came in I have enjoyed every second of it and there was no reason why I did not want to stay and continue my form and hopefully help the team as much as I can and see where we can go as a group.

“This is a very good team, the football we play I was shocked at how good a team we were when I came in because there are good players everywhere. They were together, everyone gets on and that makes everything on the pitch easier. The ability in that changing rooms if we can tweak a few things that have gone wrong in recent weeks, I think we are so close and it is going to be just one moment where it is going to click and we are going to go on a little run.

Among his goals were a Goal of the Season contender in the 1-1 draw at Ebbsfleet United earlier this month, and said he is keen to score more. He said: “The turn and the nutmeg is just my game, I enjoy doing it and I have probably hit a hundred of those shots which have gone over the stadium, but if I had taken a chance I had later in that same game we would have won the game. Like I say, it is those little things that if we can turn them around and that chance goes in, we win. It was a good goal, but I want more.

Swindon boss Ian Holloway has spoken to the media about the move and said he has told McGurk that he has not earned his trust enough to be a regular in the League Two side’s starting line-up and challenged the player to go and prove him wrong in the National League.

The County Ground is the Liverpool-born player’s third footballing home having previously been in the youth set ups at Wigan Athletic and then Leeds United before making the move south to Swindon. He has made one start for The Robins in League Two and a number in the Vertu EFL Trophy this season along with a number of other appearances off the substitutes’ bench.

Speaking about not playing, McGurk said: “Every footballer wants to play football and at Swindon I was not playing football and when you are three-and-a-half hours away from home on your own, I was on my own most of the time. When football goes wrong, it is tough and people do not see that side of it. When I came here I needed a fresh headspace and just start enjoying it again and a goal on my debut helped and when football is going well when you are living away, life is going well. That’s all I care about at this moment and I will just keep going.”

McGurk will be among the Yeovil players looking to pick up their first win in six matches as they travel to Rochdale, who sit eighth in the National League Premier Division, on Saturday.

On returning to his native North West, the player said: “From playing nothing to three games in six days was tough, but I needed it and it is going to be a good game this Saturday. Every game in this league is tough, so we do not go in to any game thinking it is going tough. We just have to prepare, we will get shown how they play and we will go there and be ourselves as we have with every other game and hopefully we can fix the little things that have gone wrong in recent weeks. It’s been a good week’s training and hopefully we can go and get the three points.”


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