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Yeovil Town manager Chris Hargreaves has had “a little bit of success” in his search to bring new players to the club ahead of Saturday’s visit from title favourites Wrexham.

Chris Hargreaves.

The Glovers’ boss said he was keen to add to his squad after the opening game defeat at Scunthorpe United last weekend and said he was “still hopeful” of being able to add to the squad.

Asked whether he thought he could bolster his options by the weekend, Hargreaves said: “Maybe. We are still in discussions, we have a couple of players in the building at the moment that we are having a look at.

“We are still hopeful of (bringing new players in) but regardless of that situation we have got enough to focus on the game.”

He added it was a “a challenge  logistically and financially” to bring players to the club, suggesting that budget constraints and the club’s geography was working against his attempts to bring in fresh blood.

He said: “We have had a little bit of success this week with some players we have spoken to and I have a couple of players in the building that have done well, so the situation could change.

“But if it doesn’t, the players we have are more than capable of getting a result and creating chances, which is what they showed most of the second half on Saturday.”

The description of “having a look” at a few players would suggest that those he was talking about are either free agents or players looking for a loan move.

Yeovil presently have four of the five loan spots they can field in a matchday squad in the form of goalkeeper Will Buse, midfielders Sam Perry and Sam Pearson and striker Matt Grivosti.

 

Tom Knowles in action for Yeovil Town.
Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

The manager admitted that the exit of star player Tom Knowles just 48 hours before the trip to recently-relegated Scunthorpe did lead to him having to redraw his tactics.

The forward left for League Two Walsall in a move announced on the Thursday evening ahead of the trip to North Lincolnshire.

The boss said: “It is disappointing on a Thursday when you have to change a game plan and personnel in a limited about of time and it was a challenge for me, I don’t deny it.

“The player showed his intentions to go, we offered him as much as we could at this time and the club accepted the money we were offered.

“He goes with our best wishes, but I can’t think about that any more. We quickly have to find another Tom Knowles – either create one, loan one or sign one from somewhere.

“It’s a big challenge because he was a good player and those players are hard to replace.”

It seems likely the Glovers will be without a fully fit squad for the visit of Wrexham with “a couple” of players still being monitored.

Hargreaves said: “There’s still a couple that we are monitoring. We had a good number training this morning (Thursday) but we are still looking at a couple of players.

“There’s probably a decision to make today on whether one or two players train today with a view to (playing) at the weekend, but there’s still enough chomping at the bit to be in the team.”

Playmaker Lawson D’Ath did not make the squad last weekend whilst defender Chiori Johnson remained on the bench

 

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Yeovil Town’s stadium announcer, Ian Welch, has put out the plea for song requests to add to the pre-match playlist. 

You can read all the details below.

Thank you to everyone who submitted song suggestions for last season. It’s that time of the year again… I’d like you to choose the playlists so please do write your song suggestions below and I’ll get them onto playlists throughout the season.

Also, If anyone has any suggestions of a song that can be played after the game that would be awesome! If you have any birthdays/general announcements you’d like me to read at half time do email info@ytfc.net or ian.welch15@btinternet.com and I will get them read out.

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Yeovil Town’s loan duo of Max Evans and Ollie Haste made competitive debuts for their new sides on Saturday.

Max Evans makes his Larkhall Debut
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Haste played the full 90 minutes for Truro City in a 3-1 win at London-based Hanwell Town in Southern League Premier South, playing with number 6 on his back.

There was no place in the squad for fellow Glovers’ loanee Toby Stephens.

Goalkeeper Evans got his first taste of action at Larkhall Athletic who got their FA Cup campaign underway with a 4-1 home win over Folland Sports in the extra preliminary round tie.

The Southern League Division One South side found themselves a goal behind after 20 minutes to what their Twitter feed described as “a rather soft penalty.”

They came back to lead 2-1 at half-time before adding to the score in the second half.

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The National League season kicked off yesterday and there were some eye-catching results!

Dale Gorman made his debut for Barnet in a 2-0 win at the Hive against FC Halifax Town. A 90th minute equaliser from Junior Morias salvaged a point for Dagenham & Redbridge as they came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 against League new boys Gateshead.

Chesterfield had two players sent off in their 2-2 draw at Dorking, and Boreham Wood won 1-0 on the road at Southend and had two players sent off too. Ten-man Maidstone earned a 1-1 draw against Altrincham. Torquay and relegated Oldham drew 0-0 at Plainmoor.

Two Yeovil old boys were on the scoresheet for Wealdstone in their 3-2 win against Bromley. Olufela Olomola and Rhys Browne both scored for the Stones. Omar Sowumni also scored for Bromley.

Darren Sarll got off to a losing start with Woking as the Cardinals fell 2-0 away at York.

Wrexham showed title-winning credentials coming back from 1-0 to earn an opening day 2-1 win at home to Eastleigh. 

Notts County and Solihull Moors might have set the bar, though. County comfortable despatched Maidenhead 3-0 and the Moors demolished Aldershot 4-1.

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Well, we are off and running for the 2022/23 season and the outcome of the opening game wasn’t what any of us were hoping for.

Ben was there for BBC Somerset and has rattled his brain for some thoughts.

Having watched the game against Scunthorpe from the press box at Glanford Park I feel like I could have 10 conclusions and narrowing them down to five key ones isn’t going to be easy.

However, we will have a go.

Firstly. 3-5-2… simply didn’t work.

It’s a thoroughly boring subject to most people if you want to get deep into the nuances of tactics and their pros and cons, at its best, with plenty of the ball and a rock solid spine, 3-5-2 is lovely.

Wing backs flying forward, crosses galore and plenty of extra bodies in wide areas.

At its worst… well, it looked like that first 50-odd minutes.

Two huge holes of space where full backs would normally be gave Liam Feeney and others all the time in the world to create and attack.

It made players like Morgan Williams move out of position and kept Charlie Wakefield far too defensive.

It might be better at home when we have more possession, but it cannot be the go-to set up with that personnel.

However, credit where its due, the change to bring on Pearson and the switch to 442 sparked us into life.

This is something of a double header conclusion actually because I am really excited to see what Pearson brings to this side during his time with us.

Fearless, exciting, quick, direct, strong and powerful. More of that please, he has to start against Wrexham.

The ‘jekyll and hyde’ performance showed just how important the senior players will be.

Staunton probably didn’t have his best game in a midfield that was getting overrun with ease, especially in the first half.

But Smith made big saves, Reckord was outstanding on the left and Fisher was desperately trying to make something happen and grab a moment by the scruff of the neck.

There were shaky moments for Hunt and Richards-Everton, but with time I think they can be a formidable partnership in both boxes.

It was only when I looked at the team sheet and saw a very youthful bench did it really hit home how much we need some significant and senior players in the door

The match was crying out for Lawson D’Ath, how amazing would it have been to bring a senior front man on instead of a young lad who has goals at Warrington Town on his CV and not a lot more. I’m excited by the young lads; Grivosti, Perry, Pearson, Craske, Hulbert etc etc, but we cannot be asking them to save us or win us games.

I’ve got to end on a positive note haven’t I?

What I saw in the first half was a shell shocked, undercooked, rabbit-in-the-headlight side who didn’t know if they were coming or going. But, the last 20 minutes showed me enough that there’s something to build on, to learn from, to be excited about, to get behind.

We did look dangerous and if Alex Fisher’s studs were longer or their keeper doesn’t pull off a couple of good late saves, we would be talking about a point or maybe even three. It’s a big week coming up for a lot of people at Huish Park, that’s for sure.

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Tom Knowles wanted to leave Yeovil Town when League Two Walsall came in for him on the eve of the new season, according to Glovers’ boss Chris Hargreaves.

The forward scored ten times in 46 appearances for the Glovers last season and that form caught the eye of the Saddlers – perhaps when they came to check out their own loanee midfielder Sam Perry during pre-season.

Asked about the decision to sell one of his main assets just 48 hours before the opening day trip to Scunthorpe United, Hargreaves told BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins the situation was “not ideal.”

Chris Hargreaves talks to BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins ahead of the 2-1 defeat at Scunthorpe United.

He added: “I have only got good things to say about (Tom), he was brilliant with me and always gave it everything, I didn’t want to lose him and the football club didn’t but an amount of money was offered and the player wanted to go.

“You have to let it be about the player’s decision because you don’t want an unhappy player. I’m not saying he would have been but sometimes things are out of my hands and all I can focus on now is the players I have got.

“They are the ones who are working hard to get in to the team and now I have to work on finding that person who replaces Tom and can be our match-winner and talisman who can turn something in to nothing in the final third.”

Asked whether he had been made any assurances that the funds from the transfer would be available to strengthen the squad, the manager said chairman Scott Priestnall had “made it clear” he would be supported.

Hargreaves added: “The likelihood of Tom going at the end of the season was high, so a decision had to be made at some point. As manager I can only focus on what is in front of me, I didn’t want him to go but we have got to move on, we wish him all the best and we have to focus on what we have now.”

Following the departure of Knowles, Hargreaves brought in 19-year-old Matt Grivosti on a youth loan from Bolton Wanderers. The length of the loan was not disclosed.

Grivosti joins goalkeeper Will Buse (Bristol City), defender Finley Craske (Plymouth Argyle) and midfielders Sam Perry (Walsall) and Sam Pearson (Bristol City) who make up the other four loanees at Huish Park.

In terms of permanent arrivals, strikers Alex Fisher and Malachi Linton and full-back Jamie Reckord have joined in the summer having been released by Newport County, Wycombe Wanderers and Boreham Wood respectively.

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Jamie Reckord has said he and his Yeovil Town team-mates will take a look at the video nasties of the two goals they conceded in the opening day defeat to Scunthorpe United.

The Glovers’ allowed Iron defender Andrew Boyce freedom inside the box to head home the opener after 26 minutes before Jacob Butterfield was allowed to bomb forward and smash home a second just after the hour mark.

Jamie Reckord speaks to YTFC YouTube.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins after the game, Reckord said: “Every goal you look at and feel you could have stopped it, but I feel like we could have stopped these ones, everyone could have done better in the build up to each goal.

“We are going to have to break it down, look at it and make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

The former Solihull Moors and Wrexham player and fellow wing-back Charlie Wakefield were given more licence to go forward in the second half as the visitors reverted from a five-man defence, and Reckord scored his first goal for his new club to set up a frenetic finish.

Of the change, Reckord said: “The gaffer has worked on us being able to change shape quite a bit and I felt like we were a lot more fluent (after the change of shape) and created more chances, unfortunately we couldn’t get the second even though we created a lot of chances.

“I like getting forward, when you play 4-3-3 against 4-3-3 like we did in the second half, it gives you licence to bomb on. I enjoy attacking, so that’s not a problem.”

He added: “The first half neither side really took control of the game, I didn’t feel there was much in it from either side but we gave a sloppy goal away and goals change games.

“We went in at half-time and regroup and created some chances, we probably should have done better and put more chances away and nicked a draw at least there.”

Next up for the Glovers is big-spending Wrexham, the club which Reckord played nearly 50 times for up until January this year when he departed for Boreham Wood where he finished last season.

The Welsh side came from 1-0 down to win 2-1 at home to Eastleigh on the opening day with Elliott Lee, who joined from Championship side Luton Town in the summer, getting both goals.

Reckord said: “I’m going to be up for (that game), that’s one game in the calendar that I looked for straight away. Everyone knows what Wrexham have been doing with the transformation of the club, so everyone is going to be up for it.

“You can’t be too high or low after the first game, everyone wants to win each game, but there’s plenty more to go and we will feel like we can win on Saturday.

“It’s still early in the season, we’ve lost this one and we’ve got to pick ourselves up and move on to the next one.”

 

 

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Chris Hargreaves’ first match as manager ended in defeat at Scunthorpe this evening and he was disappointed with the result but praised the bravery of his players – and reiterated the need for additions.

Speaking to the BBC’s Sheridan Robins, the manager said: “[I’m] disappointed, so are the lads, bitterly disappointed. I think we did enough. We changed the shape, maybe we were a little bit on the backfoot [in the] first half, just too protective. A lot of lads probably just on a fine line between being able to play or not. They did well to even be on the pitch a couple of them.”

The Glovers went 2-0 down before Jamie Reckord scored a consolation and they certainly created chances to find an equaliser. Hargreaves thought once his side were calmer, they improved.

“It was an okay performance, once we go the belief and once we were calmer on the ball and switched play and did what we’ve done in a lot of the pre season training sessions and games. We looked excellent, we looked a threat, we looked like we had width, we looked like we were going to score a second goal.

“I’m baffled as to why we couldn’t get on the end of one of the crosses, numerous corners, chances. It was front-foot football and I always reference the fans at the end of a game cos they usually tell you what they done and I have to thank them for their support today, they were absolutely brilliant.”

Jacob Butterfield’s second half strike was one that the defence will not want to watch back, and the manager admitted it was a poor goal to concede.

“I think the second goal was a killer, really, because of the backing off. We lost the ball when we probably think we’re in good possession. We’ve still got to react, we’ve still got to get back in numbers and some point someone’s got to transition to go and press and try and affect the ball and we didn’t, so that was really poor from us,” he said.

Following the departure of Tom Knowles on Thursday, there is a clear need for additions in the squad and Hargreaves is determined to add.

He said: “I’m still going to be on the phone all next week, because we want to add to what we’ve got, we’ve got to add to the quality we have, we just need a little bit more to be able to go into a full season with a squad of real depth.”

When asked by our very own Ben Barrett about if he was looking to add experience to his squad, Hargreaves said: “Experience costs a lot of money, in the main, and we have to cut our cloth to our own club and our own finances. And, I maintain that we cant be frivolous because you can’t exist as a football club because someone’s got to put the money in and it’s a lot of money to run a football club. I would love millions of pounds, everybody would. But, the reality is, we want to be competitive with what we have, and we were today.

“So we’ve got to get that recruitment right and try and get the players in. And I can assure you that 24/7 for the last six weeks I have tried to do that. Its fallen through a couple of times at the last minute which is disappointing, which happens, but lets hope it doesn’t fall through next week,” he added.

  • One notable absentee was Lawson D’Ath, who has had a reoccurrence of a previous injury. Hargreaves said he was hoping to get Lawson back training more intensely towards the end of next week.