Cooper: I always felt we’d get back into it
Yeovil Town Manager Mark Cooper has challenged his players to turn Saturday’s draw against Dagenham into a ‘good point’ by beating Wealdstone on Saturday.
Speaking to BBC Radio Somerset’s Josh Perkins, the gaffer admitted there was a bit of low confidence within the group, but that the draw could be a base to build on for the coming weeks.
“I think when you have a little bit of low confidence it affects the group and you make decisions that you wouldn’t usually make, and we give fouls away, or we should play the ball forward and we don’t, or we don’t pick up the right men that throw-in for the goal.
So when you’re in that moment, it’s about small little building blocks and getting a point on the road. And then, that’s only a good point if we go and win our home game next Saturday. But players tried their socks off. Of course, we can play better but I’m pleased with the point to come out in the end for sure. Brilliant following again from the Yeovil [fans], from the Green Army again and they helped us hang on for that point at the end.”
Brett McGavin tapped in from close ranger after Nathan Harvey had saved the original spot kick to draw the Glovers level following Josh Rees’ opener.
“It was a clear penalty, wasn’t it? And Brett obviously took the responsibility, and it was heart in the mouth, wasn’t it? But luckily the ball bounced back for him and he put it away.”

The Glovers grew into the game after an opening few moments which left a bit to be desired.
“We spoke about the 1st 20 minutes playing everything forward. Because they’re not in good form at home and we wanted to make them defend early and face their own goal.
So, all we’d worked on in training, was to play everything forward and get them running towards their own goal and then one of our best performers of the season tries three drag backs, passes it backwards, we end up kicking out for a throw-in and we concede.”
“So, as much as you talk about it, it’s pressure, it makes you make poor decisions.
But, the players, again, have given everything and it was a rocky first few minutes, but I always felt we’d get back into it.”
The result means the Glovers are now eight without a win, but Cooper thinks that the result might be something to build on after a frustrating run.
“We haven’t lost that many. We should have beat Ebbsfleet, we should have beat Woking, we should have beat Gateshead, we should have beat Eastleigh so coulda, woulda, shoulda. But, as long as the players keep trying hard and we’ll be fine.
There was a final word for the supporters in the away end, 311 made the journey today – one of the best away followings in the league – who are we to argue?
“Fantastic, as always. We have one of the best away followings in the league, it was really good, in that least ten minutes, we’re trying to make subs, they cheered us on, we had to take [James] Planty off, he’s coming back from a hamstring [injury], we didn’t want that to go, Sean McGurk has been really ill, so we managed to get him on and get him a few minutes, so in the last 10 minutes we managed to see a bit of pressure off and come back with a point.”