Plant wants to keep Growing

No, I won’t apologise for that headline… 

Yeovil Town’s on loan defender/midfielder/attacker/assister James Plant spoke to BBC Somerset’s Jack Killah after the 1-0 over Dagenham and Redbridge and said he was delighted to play his part in a goal… and a win.

“I only came in last week, but I could feel from the group, just how desperate they were to win, from what I spoke to them about, they were playing well, but just couldn’t get that result over the line.

Obviously, today we dug in, got the goal and it was brilliant from everyone to keep a clean sheet, because that’s what will win you points throughout the season,

I thought we could have had more goals, so as a team we’ll look at that because we want to keep getting better, it felt good today.”

“We want to keep getting better, it felt good today.”

It was Plant’s cross that was glanced in by fellow loanee Ciaran McGuckin for the only goal of the game and the Port Vale man said he was chuffed to provide an assist on his first start at Huish Park;

“I got near the byline and just thought, ‘I’m going to dig out what I can’ and it’s an unbelievable header from Ciaran, so yeah, I’m happy with it.  

I’m more happy with the overall performance, I feel like I’m getting back to where I need to be in terms of minutes, fitness and that kind of thing, I’m happy with how I’m going.”

The youngster.- who played in about four different positions throughout the 90 mintues – was happy with the way the whole squad dealt with the late pressure from the visitors and is looking forward to getting the FA Cup campaign underway next week.

“We dealt with their pressure really well, particularly towards the end, the back three – we went to a back four at the end – were just heading everything, getting the second balls and getting us back up the pitch, the big man Frank [Nouble] was dealing with absolute scraps and causing absolute mayhem for them, everyone played their part.”

“We’ve got to enjoy the win, but also, work next week on things we can improve on – we’ve got the FA Cup match next week, it’s always nice to have a cup run, so we’ll focus on that for now, and then build some momentum in the league after that would be ideal”