Yeovil Town manager Billy Rowley has said that he has had ‘quarter of an eye’ on Tuesday’s game with Aldershot with regards to his team line up for Saturday’s clash with Brackley.
Speaking to BBC Radio Bristol’s Ian Randall he said;
“I think, with one eye or quarter of an eye on Aldershot on Tuesday, that plays a part into selection. Also coming to Brackley who are fighting, you know, relegation arguably. They don’t concede many goals here, they make life very difficult for people that come and try and play football here. So, yeah, the selection was difficult today, but like I said, I think the fact that we’ve got a game on Tuesday plays a part in sort of sharing minutes.
Only Jonathon Page gets the nod with a potential four more debutants on the bench and Rowley felt like throwing players in all at once might not be what this game requires.
“There was method to that madness, like I said, you know, I don’t feel like today’s game’s going be a roll your sleeves up, and let’s see what we’ve got character-wise, and I’ve got full faith in our lads to do that. They’ve obviously dealt with those sort of occasions before. This game reminds me a little bit of Hartlepool away a few weeks ago. So the boys are well-versed in what’s needed to get a result here today. And I felt, like I said, with a Tuesday game coming up quick and fast after this, it might be a good chance to introduce some of the lads into a home game.
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Ryan [Jones] trained with us on Thursday and Friday, and obviously Friday’s only really 45 minutes to an hour match prep, so not loads. So that’s another reason why I didn’t want to like throw him in. I think Aldershot defends slightly differently to we do naturally, they’re a bit more man-for-man and we’re gonna be a bit more of a block today and press in certain moments, so didn’t want to spring that on him. [Jonathon] Page I’ve obviously worked with for six months so he sort of understands what’s needed. And I thought Dak [Mafico] who got man of the match last Saturday was a no-brainer to start.
And I feel really, you know, sorry for Harvey Greenslade who had to be substituted off after 20 minutes because of the red card, cause we probably needed to get an extra midfielder on. And I felt up until the red card last Saturday, I felt we were looking good, albeit against, you know, a team two leagues below, but I felt like if that red card didn’t happen, you know, on another day we probably score three or four goals in that game. So I want to sort of like give a chance for those lads to recreate that first 20 into today’s game.”