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Yeovil Town manager Darren Sarll said he was disappointed with the body language shown by his players in the first half of today’s 2-0 home defeat against Chesterfield.

But, the boss said he was not ready to write off his team any more than he was ready to crown them champions after last weekend’s 3-0 win away at Stockport County.

Speaking to BBC Radio Somerset’s Sheridan Robins after the match, Sarll said the second goal scored by ex-Glovers’ loanee Kabongo Tshimanga after 36 minutes was “a horror show.”

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Yeovil Town manager Darren Sarll.
Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz,.

He said: “(Both goals) are down to lapses of concentration and we have paid for that, but I don’t think it is time we start rolling out the shotguns and blowing people’s heads off.

“We as a team did that and we as a team did what we did last week (beating Stockport County 3-0), and we as a team will take what we did this week.

“My biggest disappointment in the first half was the body language of some of the players, I don’t think they showed enough. Body language is always a reflection of what someone is thinking, so if they are thinking positively it reflects.

“Too many of our players looked uninterested and that is something for me to think about and that is the worst part of the day for me.”

Midfielder Josh Staunton added that the first half performance was “not acceptable” adding that the second goal was out of character for a defence which has kept clean sheets in its last two matches.

He said: “We can’t allow (mistakes like that) to creep in because one straight ball over the top should not be causing us problems like that.

“We came out in the second half much better in terms of intensity, shape and patience off the ball and they stopped playing through us.”

But, Staunton was also not willing to lose his head over a defeat any more than he was after last weekend’s victory.

He said: “Even with three (wins) on the bounce (in our previous three games) we have achieved nothing.

“One win does not make us the best in the league, and one loss does not make us the worst in the league, so it is important we find some middle ground.”

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Midfielder Josh Staunton was disappointed at the decision to disallow what would have been his first Yeovil Town goal today.

He thought he has put the Glovers ahead after 15 minutes of the 2-0 defeat to Chesterfield only for the goal to be disallowed for a foul on visiting keeper Scott Loach.

The decision came just moments before the Spireites broke down the other end and opened the scoring through an own goal by hosts’ stopper Grant Smith.

Josh Staunton.
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Speaking after the match, Staunton said: “I thought the goalie just dropped it, to be fair, but they were saying he got hit from behind.

“Goalkeepers are often quite well protected and then they went up the other end and scored with an attack where it has hit the post and come of Granty (Smith) and gone in.

“So that swung the momentum massively in their favour and it just carried on that way in the first half.”

Asked about the decision, Yeovil manager Darren Sarll said the foul was “a bit soft.”

He said: “It is really difficult in real time, but I did not see arms (raised) I just saw Max Hunt trying to head the ball. It looked a bit soft but goalkeepers get looked after quite a lot these days.”

However, neither Sarll and Staunton had any complaints about the result and praised Chesterfield for their performance in both boxes.

The manager said: “Teams that win leagues have quality in the boxes and I thought Chesterfield were very good in the boxes today.

“I don’t know the numbers of chances compared to ours, but their defending at set plays was very strong and they have that strength of character and physique.”

Staunton added: “You win and lose games inside the boxes and today (Chesterfield) were better than us in both boxes.”

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Following Yeovil Town’s opening day defeat to King’s Lynn, Glovers midfielder Josh Staunton admitted that the loss was ‘frustrating’ and that two lapses in concentration were all that separated the hosts from their visitors.

Josh Staunton in the thick of it against King’s Lynn Town.

The Glovers were reduced to 10-men in the first half when Matt Worthington was given his marching orders, something which Staunton admits didn’t help, but maybe wasn’t the definitive moment in the match.

“We are disappointed… It (the red card) was early on, we were slow finding our feet, but it killed our momentum after the goal, our structure looked good, they were struggling to break us down, which makes it all the more disappointing to concede two late on.”

“We probably switched off on two occasions – we’d headed away ball  after ball all afternoon – and then twice when it mattered, we were found wanting a bit”

Yeovil had actually got off to a positive start with Joe Quigley opening the scoring, but despite the early lead, the change in momentum gave the Linnets much more of the ball throughout the game.

“Yeah, it was a hell of a strike by Quigz (Joe Quigley)” Staunton told BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins,

“But it’s not an ideal team to go down to 10-men against, they play it around nicely with the wing backs pushing high, it penned us in

“For the majority of the game, I felt personally quite comfortable, they were never really penetrating us too badly, it was two sloppy goals, it wasn’t like they carved us open, we will look back at them and know theyre avoidable”

Attention soon turned to the future, with the Glovers back in action in less than 48 hours time against Aldershot.

“I know there’s a lot more to come from the group and hopefully we can get games where we can get a foothold in the game and can build and build and build.”

“I think it (the Aldershot game) is a perfect chance, early on in the season.. there’s no dwelling on it from us, we’ve got to get ourselve’ right tomrrow and get to Aldershot and get a result we need”

 

 

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Yeovil Town midfielder Josh Staunton spoke candidly about his topsy turvy time at Huish Park when appearing on the latest Gloverscast, despite chatting about how ankle and knee injuries nearly ended his career let alone his season, the former Halifax Town man was still positive and upbeat about the Glovers chances this season as well as his own personal ambitions.

“We were all massively disappointed with last season and it is now time to put it right.”

“We have fresh group of players and at times, especially after seasons like we had last year, you need a refresh, you need new characters around the dressing room who have no association with the club.”

Staunton managed just a handful of games in his first season with the club, but having played plenty of football at National League level remains one of the more experienced members of the side, something which he believes he can use to his advantage following the the departure of Charlie Lee, Carl Dickinson and Jimmy Smith

“They (Dickinson, Lee, Smith) are huge characters to replace and they embedded something in the club and it’s now time for other players to step up, fill those boots and be those senior voices.

“Even when I was 20, I was a leader in terms of what I did on the pitch and off it and I think it is a character trait you have.”

Whilst the Captains armband has been worn by new signing Mark Little for the first couple of preseason fixtures, a role Staunton admits he’d like, but wouldn’t define his performances.

“I would love to be captain one day, the way pre-season has gone Litts (Mark Little) will be captain, he is an unbelievable character and a great character in the dressing room, It would be a huge honour to be captain of Yeovil, but I will do exactly the same in the way I play whether I am wearing an armband or not.”

Whether skipper or not, Staunton has joined a number of other squad members in outlining their ambitions to get Yeovil out of the National League and back where it belongs, in the Football League.

“If we went in to the season and we were not saying (we can get promoted), a club of this stature should be worried…A few of the more senior boys have set ourselves targets and our targets are clear, we have not come here to be part of this league for a long time.”

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Josh Staunton has revealed that one specialist only gave him a 20% chance of playing again after a knee injury which kept him out for most of last season.

The Yeovil Town midfielder spoke to the Gloverscast in a podcast which will be available on Monday about the injury which ended his season after just seven matches last year.

He recalled how during the FA Cup defeat at Stockport County last November he suffered an injury where he felt like his knee “exploded” and could not move it when he got back on the bus.

But, he played in the home game with Eastleigh just two days later “loaded up with painkillers” with the Glovers suffering an injury crisis at the time.

The 25-year-old recalled: “I was as good as useless, I had half a leg to stand on and every time I got the ball I felt uncomfortable.

“In hindsight, I never should have played but I thought I could get through for the benefit of the team and went for a scan and it was about as bad as it could be.

“There was a period of time where specialists were saying I would never play again. One specialist gave me a 20% chance of running properly again, so there was a time where I thought that was me done.

“Then I saw a different specialist and there was a bit more optimism and that triggered something inside me and I thought to myself ‘this is a chance to come back better’ and I had something to push towards.”

In a new episode of the Gloverscast due out now, Josh spoke to Ben Barrett about the tragic loss of club captain Lee Collins, the frustrations of the disappointing National League campaign last season and his hopes for the coming campaign.

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Josh Staunton has challenged his Yeovil Town team-mates to “pick up the torch” handed to them by some of the Glovers’ departing senior players.

The versatile 25-year-old made just seven appearances after joining from FC Halifax Town in the summer, suffering a knee injury in the 3-1 home defeat to Eastleigh in December.

Posting on his Twitter account, Josh described this season as “my worst in football, but strangely also one of my proudest.”

In response, his former (*sob*) team-mate Carl Dickinson, now manager of Hanley Town, replied….