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Matt Worthington returns to the Yeovil Town midfield for the visit to promotion-chasing Wrexham, replacing Jimmy Smith who drops out of the squad entirely.

Top-scorer Rhys Murphy returns on the substitutes’ bench after missing the past two games through injury. Alex Bradley is also missing having come off the bench in the past two games.

Carl Dickinson is making his 100th appearance for the Glovers.

Yeovil Town: 1. Adam Smith; 3. Carl Dickinson, 18. Albi Skendi, 35. Billy Sass-Davies, 14. Michael Kelly;  7. Matt Worthington, 21. Tom Knowles, 24. Josh Neufville, 34. Chris Dagnall; 19. Joe Quigley, 33. Reuben Reid.

Subs: 31. Max Evans (GK), 26. Max Hunt, 36. Toby Stephens,  25. Emmanuel Sonupe, 9. Rhys Murphy.

For the hosts, former Yeovil Town striker Gold Omotayo was in the starting line-up, but there’s no place for Keanu Marsh-Brown.

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Yeovil Town Under-18s’ striker Alfie Lloyd was not in the QPR Under-23s side for their fixture against Nottingham Forest Under-23s on Friday night.

The youngster, who has been in fine goal-scoring form for the young Glovers this season, had appeared for the Rs in their last match, but did not feature in the team listed on the Forest website for the 1-1 draw.

He was reportedly on trial with the West London club.

In his pre-match press conference, Yeovil assistant manager Terry Skiverton did hint as some of the club’s younger players featuring in today’s National League fixture at Wrexham, so perhaps we’ll see Lloyd there…..

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Yeovil Town fell agonisingly short of the Playoffs in their first ever season in the Football League despite a last day win over Lincoln City by three goals to two.

An 8th place finish was confirmed as, despite beating Lincoln in 7th, other results failed to go the Glovers’ way, finishing outside of the top seven, on goal difference alone.

Yeovil finished 13 goals to the good, but Lincoln, who also finished on 74 points had a goal difference of +21.

On the day, it was Adam Stansfield who came off the bench to give the away side the lead, Jake Edwards would double that lead only to see the Imps peg the Glovers back to 2-2.

But Super Gavin Williams found a winner, which secured the points, but not the 7th place finish Gary Johnson was hoping for.

Yeovil XI-   Collis, Lindegaard, Lockwood, Hugo Rodrigues, Skiverton, Gall, Way, Johnson, Williams, Weatherstone, Terry.
Subs: Northmore, Stansfield, Crittenden, Reed, Edwards.

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A vote of no confidence against the National League Board and Chairman Brian Barwick will take place on Wednesday, May 26.

The vote will be held during an Extraordinary General Meeting called by National League South sides Dorking Wanderers and Maidstone United and is understood to be back by 17 other member clubs.

Alongside the vote of no confidence, they have asked for a working party to consider reforms to the League’s governance, such as immediately rescinding fines for not fulfilling fixtures.

Non-League football journalist Ollie Bayliss reported that the clubs were seeking legal advice over how the meeting will be run.

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The history of The Glovers v The Red Dragons is very short indeed. We managed to miss each other in the EFL, with Wrexham relegated from League One to League Two just as we were promoted the other way.

The Welsh club then fell out of the Football League in 2008 after a continual EFL presence since becoming one of the founder members of Third Division North back in 1921.

This was the culmination of off the field problems that had seen open civil war between chairman/owner Alex Hamilton and the fanbase, with Hamilton attempting to evict the club from the Racecourse Ground to build on the site.

His mismanagement saw Wrexham AFC plunge into administration in December 2004 with debts of £2.6 million including £800,000 in unpaid taxes owed to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

Legal battles continued in the courts throughout 2005 and into 2006, with Hamilton’s acquisition of the Racecourse Ground freehold eventually ruled to have been improper.

The club finally emerged from administration at the end of May 2006 as Wrexham Football Club (2006) Ltd with four days to spare before it would have been expelled from the EFL.

After the massive efforts needed to save its very existence fans were optimistic a corner had been turned, but the damage in the fight had been severe and the club was soon relegated out of the EFL after an 87 year stay.

By 2011 it was facing a winding up order over £200,000 in unpaid taxes owed to HMRC as the Wrexham Supporters’ Trust (WST) and several other bidders battled for control of the club.

WST and one of those bidders, Stephanie Booth, eventually reached an accommodation and became the new owners.

Meanwhile on the field Wrexham were knocked out in the play-offs three seasons in a row between 2010-11 and 2012-13, after which they became a very mid-table National League side for the following five campaigns before failing once again in the 2018-19 play-offs.

Last season, truncated and settled by points per pame, saw their lowest ever National League finish, 19th.

This season has been dominated, at least as far as the media has been concerned, by a rather slow motion takeover of the club by trans-Atlantic actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney that took some months to complete.

On the pitch the team appears to have ignored such distractions and Wrexham have consistently been there or there about in the play-off picture.

After a little wobble around Easter when they lost three matches in a row Wrexham’s form has returned, with three wins and two draws since.

With Yeovil Town’s record against clubs in the top ten an awful W2 D2 L14, and little to shout about on the road generally, the Glovers will be doing well come back with anything from the Racecourse on Saturday, kick-off 3.00 p.m.

Streaming can be signed up for here MATCH CENTRE | Wrexham v Yeovil Town | Wrexham AFC at a cost of £10. The usual matchday radio commentaries can be found on BBC Radio Somerset and Three Valleys Radio.

For team news and the thoughts of Wrexham manager Dean Keates ahead of our game – see our matchday preview here.

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Yeovil Town have confirmed fans will be allowed back in Huish Park for the final two home fixtures of the season.

In a statement on the official site, the club confirms that the games against Maidenhead United on Tuesday, May 18 and the final game of the season against $tockport County on Saturday, May 29.

Both games will be subject to “government  guidelines and necessary permissions”, according to the club statement.

All “active season ticket holders”, which are those who either received a partial refund, a streaming pass, or donated funds to the club, will have physical tickets sent to their home address, it added.

No details have yet been released around the other fixture which falls in the same period, the away trip to Altrincham on Saturday, May 22.

However, it seems unlikely away fans will be admitted to any fixtures for the remainder of the campaign.

Read the full statement on the club’s website – here.

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Future National League sides Grimsby and Southend are lodging a proposal against their relegation from the EFL saying it’s “unfair” to be relegated into a league where there was no relegation.

Speaking to the Southend Echo, Southend Chairman, Ron Martin has said that the proposal will be discussed at the EFL.

Martin claimed the proposal had been submitted by Grimsby, with input from Southend, and the Mariners are yet to comment.

Let’s see how that goes, eh?

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Grimsby Town will be opponents of Yeovil’s next season after relegation from League Two. Yesterday, the club confirmed that the majority shareholder John Fenty had sold his shares to the newly formed 1878 company owned by Jason Stockwood and Andrew Pettit.

There’s a Yeovil Town FC link at the heart of the new Grimsby operation, a certain Mark Palmer. Palmer would be assisting them in the assessment of and options for the football operations. Palmer has aided the consortium through the takeover process in his role as managing director of Insight 63, a UK-based advisory firm working in football.

There’s an interview with Francios Zoko following Yeovil’s relegation in 2019, which provides some insight into Palmer’s contribution at Huish Park.

Zoko told the paper that he was aware of Palmer’s involvement back at the club during November 2018, and said that the Football Advisor was directly engaging with the club’s first team players, even to the point of entering the dressing room. He felt that was crossing a line that ‘office’ people should never do: “I felt it from the start. When we were speaking to someone who wanted to take over at the club, as soon as they stepped in and crossed the line the club got worse and worse. From November, Mark Palmer was there and they ruined the club. That’s it. You have an office and dressing room. When someone from the office, like Palmer, crosses the line and comes into the dressing room speaking to players, promising things, you’re killing it.” READ MORE HERE…

Stockwood, the new Mariners chairman said: “Grimsby Town belongs to the fans and the community; we are truly honoured to now be the custodians of the club, running it on their behalf. To that end, involving the fans is essential for us. We will listen carefully to them and will want their help in running the club properly and setting an ambitious, progressive, and crucially, sustainable vision for progress.

“We’re fully aware we’ve inherited a club in a challenging situation and we commit to be open and transparent about what we can and can’t do – and to be realistic about the job in hand. We wish to give special thanks to Paul Hurst for all the hard work and commitment he and his team have been putting in to build the squad from a tough position. We look forward to continuing to work with Paul and the team into next season and beyond. Andrew and I are working as close partners on all decisions. We are passionate about Grimsby Town and I am deeply honoured and privileged to take on the role of Chair and have the opportunity to try and help the club improve over the next few years.”

As well as changes to the club’s board, the new owners also announced that

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Yeovil Town club captain Francois Zoko has blamed the uncertainty of the club’s takeover situation as being at the heart of the club’s fall out of the Football League. The outgoing striker has expanded on views he gave earlier this month in an interview with the Western Daily Press, where he feels the playing squad were much too exposed to the takeover issues surrrounding American businessman Rob Couhig‘s failed plans to assume control at Huish Park.

In particular, Zoko was highly critical of Yeovil Town’s Football Advisor Mark Palmer – a man initially recruited by current owner Norman Hayward to advise him on the future of the football club. Palmer initially came in during the latter part of 2017, and into early 2018, when club Director Andy Rossiter was attempting his own takeover – something that appeared to dissolve after the club gained an unexpected cash windfall in the form of an FA Cup Fourth Round tie against Manchester United.

Palmer was understood to have left the building during the latter part of the 2017-18 season, but was spotted back at Huish Park on December 8th 2018 for the home match against Forest Green Rovers. On this occasion, the lines seemed to be rather more blurred. Whilst initially he was returning as Hayward’s Football Advisor, it also transpired by February 2019, that Palmer was to become Couhig’s Chief Executive under the new organisation – an appointment that was never realised when the takeover plans collapsed earlier this month.

Zoko told the paper that he was aware of Palmer’s involvement back at the club during November 2018, and said that the Football Advisor was directly engaging with the club’s first team players, even to the point of entering the dressing room. He felt that was crossing a line that ‘office’ people should never do:

“I felt it from the start. When we were speaking to someone who wanted to take over at the club, as soon as they stepped in and crossed the line the club got worse and worse. From November, Mark Palmer was there and they ruined the club. That’s it. You have an office and dressing room. When someone from the office, like Palmer, crosses the line and comes into the dressing room speaking to players, promising things, you’re kiling it.”

Zoko felt that the levels of uncertainty at the club got into the dressing room. He said his concern was that the situation was still unresolved – both at management and ownership level – and had barbed words for the way that Palmer had sowed those seeds:

“I think the mistake was that they (Mark Palmer) don’t know the professional world of football and how it works. They stepped in and did exactly what you shouldn’t do. This is my own opinion on the situation. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think so. Uncertainty is the worst thing that can happen at a football club. Yeovil have had that for many long months and uncertainty is killing the club. They’re still in it. Todsay we are still talking about the same things we were talking about a few months ago. This is what is shocking me. It scares me for next year.”

Zoko said he remained neutral on the subject of sacking first team manager Darren Way – a decision made by the current Yeovil Town Board at the end of March 2019, following a defeat against Milton Keynes Dons. However, he added that he felt the Caretaker Manager appointment of Neale Marmon was the wrong choice, saying that the nature of it, and Marmon’s plans to move ‘upstairs’ at the end of that season into a Sporting Director role under the new ownership extended the levels of uncertainty at the club. He felt the club needed to make a bigger decision than that in order to stay up:

“If you sack Darren, you sack him – it’s the club’s decision. The players respect that. You like it; you don’t like it – football is not personal. You have a job to do. We needed to win games to stay in the League. Neale (Marmon) is a very kind and nice man but we’re talking about one of the hardest and most ruthless leagues in English football. It’s not his fault. At that moment we needed certainty. You can’t build anything on uncertainty and that was the case this year.”

Although he has now officially been released from the club, Zoko revealed that his original intention had been to remain at the club as a coach, gradually moving from his position as a player into an off-the-field role within the club. The 35 year old has recently taken two coaching badges and has gained an FA Youth Award as well as an FA Level 3 (UEFA B) in Coaching Football. At present it would appear that he will have to look elsewhere to put that into practice, although doesn’t plan on retiring from the playing side at this stage.

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Yeovil Town face another of the National League’s promotion-chasing sides as they travel to a Wrexham team in ominously good form on Saturday.

The Dragons are unbeaten in their last five with 11 points for a possible 15 and sit in sixth place heading in the weekend.

Unfortunately for the Glovers, there is no room for their hosts to make an error this weekend with Bromley, Notts County and Chesterfield breathing down their necks.

The Wrexham players have an additional incentive courtesy of their new owners, Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, who have created a £250,000 bonus pot for the players.

Each player will receive £200 for each win and £50 for a draw – but only as long as they remain in the play-offs.

FROM THE MANAGER

Wrexham manager Dean Keates has set his side a target of matching their recent form and is looking for three wins and two draws in their final five games, starting this weekend.

Speaking to the Wrexham Leader, he said: “We have picked up 11 points from the last five games and we have got to look to replicate that over the next five games.
“If we can do that, it will give us a massive shout of getting into the play-off places. We want to get maximum points every single game but you have to be realistic.”

The Dragons came from 2-0 down to earn a 2-2 draw at Maidenhead United on Bank Holiday Monday.

TEAM NEWS

Striker Kwame Thomas, who scored for Wrexham in the reverse fixture at Huish Park in October, is the only first-team squad member missing for boss Dean Keates this weekend.

The joint top-scorer is out for the season having ruptured an Achilles.

The home side have been boosted by the return of captain Shaun Pearson who returned over the Easter period after a long lay-off following treatment on a foot injury.

Such is the strength in depth of the Dragons’ squad that Keates was able to make four changes between their 2-1 win over Solihull Moors last weekend and the 2-2 draw at Maidenhead United on Bank Holiday Monday.

The boss told the Wrexham Leader: “We are in a good place with strength in depth, the only injury that we are carrying at the moment is Kwame who is a long-term one. Everybody is ready and contributing. It is a full group so we are happy with it.”

Former Glover Gold Omotayo has started the last six games since joining the Dragons on a short-term deal until the end of the season, scoring once in a 4-0 win at Woking last month.

Keanu Marsh-Brown did not even make the squad for the draw at Maidenhead in the last outing and has featured only twice since joining a month ago.

 

For the lowdown on Wrexham, including more on the recent takeover, listen to the chat with Tim Edwards of Wrexham fanzine Fearless in Devotion on the latest edition of the Gloverscast.