McGurk: I was pleased to get minutes

New signing Sean McGurk has pleased to get 70 minutes under his belt as he made a goal-scoring start to life as a Yeovil Town player.

The Swindon Town winger, who arrived at Huish Park on a one-month loan deal on Christmas Eve, opened the scoring with a close range finish after 49 minutes of the 2-2 draw with Eastleigh on Boxing Day.

He started alongside fellow loanee Kofi Shaw in behind lone striker Aaron Jarvis and impressed with some good touches before being replaced by substitute Frank Nouble on 71 minutes.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Mark Stillman after the game, he said: “The point of me coming here was to play games and get minutes under my belt. It has been a couple of weeks since I have had, but it was good to be out there. The result is not what we wanted and we should have come away with the win but personally to get minutes was good.

“I got told on Christmas Eve to come down and I trained and then played today, but you always have to be ready and today I hopefully showed I was ready.

“In the first half I thought I was sloppy on the ball which may be because I have not played for a few minutes. My quality on the ball is a lot better than that and I know that, but the goal showed what I know can bring to the team. Kofi played it across the box and I was just trying not to focus on the bobble too much and just passed it in.”

The action was the 21-year-old’s first action since he appeared as a 76th-minute substitute in Swindon’s Vertu Trophy win at Wycombe Wanderers on December 10th. He will be in contention as Yeovil travel to third-placed Forest Green Rovers on New Year’s Day.

He added: “I spoke to the manager  (Mark Cooper) and the fitness staff and told them I have not played much, so to come in and play 90 minutes would be unrealistic especially with the game on New Year’s Day.”