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As quickly as he was here, he’s gone again! Yeovil Town defender Dan Ellison has resumed his spell on loan at National League South side Weston-super-Mare for a further month.

The former Bristol Rovers player, who joined from the Memorial Stadium last October signed by former manager Richard Dryden, came on as a second half substitute in the Glovers’ penalty shoot-out exit from the FA Trophy at Southport last weekend.

He was recalled with now-boss Billy Rowley struggling for numbers due to a number of first-team regulars being cup-tied in the competition with Weston, who he initially joined last December, being without a game.

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Defender Dan Ellison has joined National League South promotion hopefuls Weston-super-Mare on loan until the end of February.

The 20-year-old has made just two substitute appearances since joining from Bristol Rovers at the end of October, totaling less than an hour of football in a green-and-white shirt.

He could make his debut for the Seagulls against Salisbury on Tuesday night.

Dan Ellison seen here in a Bristol Rovers shirt during a pre-season friendly because there’s not been many opportunities to photograph him in a Yeovil Town one. Picture courtesy of Gary Brown.

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Yeovil Town manager Mark Cooper has said he expects to bring more “ammunition” in to bolster his shot-shy frontline with just seven days to go until the start of the new season.

The Glovers went down 1-0 at National League South side Weston-super-Mare in their final friendly of the pre-season campaign with little offered in front of goal from the visitors.

Cooper pointed to the delay in starting his recruitment whilst new owner Prabhu Srinivasan completed his takeover of the club at the end of May, but said that attacking players were among his top targets.

Speaking to the club’s social media, the manager said: “We always said we were going to be late in our recruitment, we were not able to start recruiting until the middle of June (following the takeover). We have recruited a few (in Tahvon Campbell, James Daly and Kyle Ferguson) and hopefully next week we will have some more ammunition coming in and some players at the top of the pitch which can really effect the goal.”

Birmingham City striker Ben Wodskou being interviewed by the Blues' social media team.
Birmingham City Under-21s striker Ben Wodskou appeared in the second half at Weston.

Yeovil started with forward players Aaron Jarvis, James Daly and Josh Sims supported by trialist Luke McCormick and throughout the match trialists Jevani Brown and Birmingham City youngster Ben Wodskou and frontmen Harvey Greenslade and Campbell were all brought on to find a spark. 

Cooper said: “It is just about ruthlessness. If we can get the players in to the opposition’s six-yard box as many as times as we did in the first half, the last little bit is about ice cold ruthlessness in front of goal. That is the bit (the players) have to that ownership of, they have to go and finish the edges, they are clear cut chances. If I had been stood here 3-0 up at half-time, nobody would have complained and the game is totally different, but it focuses our minds on the week ahead even more on where we have to tune. You can see where we need to tune, it is in front of goal.

“I said to the players after the game, when you find yourself in those positions, you have to be a killer. Whether it is By(ron Pendleton), Simsy (Sims), Luke McCormick (presumably pronounced ‘unnamed trialist’), Jarv (Jarvis), whoever it is, you have to kill. That is what you get paid for and, if we get that bit right, the rest of it is fine.”

Wodskou was a new face to the trialists who have featured in the pre-season campaign with both McCormick and Brown featuring in the majority of friendlies so far. The 18-year-old is a team-mate of full-back Pendleton in the Under-21s set-up at St Andrews and showed some flashes of his physicality during his appearance. Outside of youth football, he had a spell on loan at Northern League side Rushall Olympic last season.

Despite the defeat, Cooper insisted he was pleased with the first hour his side put in against a Weston side which included full-back Michael Smith and midfielders Sam Pearson and Will Dawes, who were all part of Yeovil’s National League South title-winning side of 2023-24.

The manager said: “The first 60 minutes were really good, we should have been two or three goals up at half-time, we missed some brilliant chances. In the first half we got in behind them numerous times, Byron (Pendleton), Simsy, Luke McCormick (Trialist A) should be scoring and we don’t and that is the name of the game, we have to be better in both boxes. Our general play was pretty good, it is just the last little bit.

“We changed the shape to put two up front to try and get some minutes in to people which took away our fluency and (the game) gets a bit stretched then, but, if you take the result out of it, we dominated the game and played some good stuff. The disappointing bit is that we give away a penalty and lose the game, but there were some good bits.“

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A second half penalty saw Yeovil Town go down to defeat in their final pre-season friendly of the campaign in a feisty all-Somerset affair at Weston-super-Mare.

Seagulls’ midfielder Luke Coulson sent new loan goalkeeper Jed Ward the wrong way from the spot in the 67th minute after Jake Wannell fouled former Glovers’ striker Louis Britton inside the box.

In a game marked by a few feisty challenges by both sides, there was the worrying sight of full-back Alex Whittle going off in what appeared to be a precautionary move with a groin injury early in the first half and little else to write home about for the visitors.

Yeovil were largely nullified by the National League South side who took their opportunity from the spot when it came. Not a great way to sign off pre-season.

First half

Early chance for Yeovil saw Finn Cousin-Dawson plant a header straight in to the midriff of Weston keeper Max Harris after three minutes, and the keeper did well to punch clear after Charlie Cooper’s good free-kick in to the box.

The next action was more worrying for the visitors with Alex Whittle going down with an injury after 15 minutes. The left-back received treatment but played on for further five minutes before he was replaced by Brett McGavin. One assumes the substitution was precautionary just seven days before the opening National League fixture and Whittle appeared to be moving okay as he departed for the dressing room, albeit clutching an ice pack. Tight groin, apparently.

On the pitch, Wannell moved to the left side of defence with Cousin-Dawson shifting back in to defence from a deep lying midfield role which was filled by McGavin. On 22 minutes, James Daly had the ball in the net with a beautiful curling shot only denied by an offside flag before a great flick on from Aaron Jarvis  landed to the feet of trialist Luke McCormick who took his shot early but pulled it wide.

Picture courtesy of Rob Manley.

On the trialist front, former Bristol Rovers’ striker Jevani Brown was named on the bench continuing his seemingly endless role as a trialist, but there was a new face in the form of Birmingham Under-21s striker, Ben Wodskou. The St Andrews’ team-mate of signed loanee Byron Pendleton came through the Blues’ academy and had a spell on loan at Northern Premier League side Rushall Athletic last season. The 18-year-old signed his first professional contract, a two-year deal, in the summer of 2024.

New goalkeeper Jed Ward, signed on a season-long loan from Bristol Rovers during the week, was called in to his first action in a Yeovil shirt to collect a header from James Dodd before two former Glovers, Sam Pearson and Louis Britton (remember him?), combined with the former crossing for the latter to head over the bar.

There was another slightly worrying moment when Morgan Williams ran in to a barrier at the side of the pitch, he seems okay to continue. Pearson’s deflected effort, tipped over the bar by Ward, in the 43rd minute was the final action of the half.

Half-time:  Weston-super-Mare 0 Yeovil Town 0

 

Second half

The half-time break saw a change for Yeovil with Kyle Ferguson replacing Charlie Cooper and six minutes after the restart a McGavin corner was headed away by Wood with a number of green-and-white shirts queuing up to turn home the looping ball.

With an hour gone and Yeovil seemingly out of ideas, strikers Tahvon Campbell and trialist Wodskou replaced Josh Sims and Aaron Jarvis before Ward had to be quick off his line to prevent Britton getting on the end of a good ball from Pearson.

On 67 minutes, Weston were awarded a penalty for a foul on Britton on the edge of the area. Luke COULSON stepped up and sent Ward the wrong way. The goal sparked a further Yeovil change with Harvey Greenslade coming on for trialist McCormick. There were four changes for the home side including another former Glover, Will Dawes, replacing Britton.

Trialist Jevani Brown replaced Byron Pendleton after 77 minutes before Tahvon Campbell got involved in an off-the-ball fracas after a shirt pull from Weston’s Emlyn Lewis. The majority of the on-the-field personnel from both sides got involved in the ‘afters’. Still not sure we can call this a ‘derby’, an all-Somerset match at best, but that was definitely not friendly.

Players from Yeovil Town and Weston-super-Mare get involved in a major fracas.
The not so friendly friendly. Picture courtesy of Michael Stone.

There were a few other snaps by both sides between that major melee and the final whistle but, with just seven days remaining until Hartlepool United visit Huish Park for the opening National League fixture, it ended with a poor performance and poor result.

At the final whistle, manager Mark Cooper gathered his players on the pitch for a ‘talking to’ and you have to wonder what was said by all those involved. Whatever it was, it needs to lift the level considerably in the next week.

Full time: Weston-super-Mare 1 Yeovil Town 0

Teams:

Yeovil Town: Jed Ward, Byron Pendleton (for Byron Pendleton, 77), Alex Whittle (for Brett McGavin, 20), Morgan Williams, Jake Wannell, Finn Cousin-Dawson, Charlie Cooper (for Kyle Ferguson, 46), Luke McCormick (Trialist) (for Harvey Greenslade, 69), Josh Sims (for Ben Wodskou, 60), James Daly, Aaron Jarvis (for Tahvon Campbell, 60).

Substitutes (not used): Matt Gould.

Weston-super-Mare: Max Harris, Michael Smith, Dylan Mitchell, Callum Wood, Sam Avery, Luke Coulson, James Dodd, Louis Britton, James Waite, Sam Pearson, Emlyn Lewis.

Substitutes: Jacob Jagger-Cane, Jakob Glover, Jason Pope, Jake Hicks, Josh Salmon, Oliver Jenkins, Daniel Martin.

Scorers: Luke Coulson 67 pen (0-1),

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Tickets for Yeovil Town’s pre-season friendly against Weston-super-Mare are now on sale.

The Glovers head to the Optima Stadium on Saturday 2nd August 2025 for a 3pm kick-off.

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Striker Harvey Greenslade has returned to Yeovil Town following the end of his loan at National League South side Weston-super-Mare.

The former Bristol Rovers frontman made the switch to north Somerset at the start of December and has appeared three times for the Seagulls without scoring.

He came off the substitutes’ bench in the 2-0 defeat at Tonbridge Angels at the weekend having sat out the New Year’s Day defeat to Chippenham Town through illness.

Greenslade is one of four players who have returned to their parent clubs from Weston with Bristol City trio defender Raph Araoye (formerly of this parish), midfielder Marley Rose and striker Brandon Bak also returning.

He bolsters the attacking ranks at Huish Park with former loanee Ciaran McGuckin expected to be announced as returning to Somerset at some point this week.

 

 

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A young Yeovil Town side bowed out of the Somerset Men’s Premier Cup with a 1-0 defeat at home to Weston-super-Mare in front of a crowd of 487 at a rainy Huish Park on Wednesday night.

A 28th minute penalty from Brandon Bak, the teenage striker on loan with the National League South side from Bristol City’s youth set-up, was the difference in the second round tie.

That means the Seagulls go on to face Taunton Town in the third round of the cup and Yeovil’s involvement in any cup competition comes to an end for this season.

Although this was a first-team fixture, the Glovers’ side was made up entirely of youngsters with the majority being from the Under-18s’ side and defender Jacob Shore, the defender who is presently on loan at Southern League Division One South side Tavistock, who captained the side.

The Seagulls made 11 changes from their 1-1 league draw with Enfield Town at the weekend meaning there was no involvement for ex-Glovers’ player Sam Pearson.

Yeovil Town: Louis Parker, Mason Alden, Blake Watts, Jacob Shore (for Alec Thomas, 69), Jaydon Biss, Solomon Padmore, Joe Crisp, Nansimir Nanev (for Denzil Gurung, 74), George Geraghty (for Oscar Foot, 80), Morgan Alexander (for Leyton Westlake, 60), Ollie Hughes (for Josh Haskett, 80). Substitutes (not used): Ryan Collins, Josh Ansell.

Weston-super-Mare: Kelland Absalom, Ash Ouza, Jordan Bastin (for Takunda Mutota, 70), Theo Lynden, Jack Harding, Louis Singfield, Harvey Akers (for Gabriel Garrett, 82), Dylan Kadji (for Josh Oliver, 46), Brandon Bak, Nick McCootie (for Leighton Green, 46), Zak Kempster (for Ted Milne, ). Substitutes (not used): Dan Pashley, Dylan Long.

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Yeovil Town have named a side made up entirely of their Under-18s squad for tonight’s Somerset Men’s Premier Cup second round at a rain-soaked Huish Park tonight (7.45pm kick-off).

Among the XI is Ollie Hughes, the young striker who was named on the substitutes’ bench for the Glovers’ first-team fixture against Braintree Town on Saturday.

The Under-18s are playing this season in the Western Counties Floodlight Youth League, they currently sit in fifth place after five games.

The club has confirmed the game will be live streamed on its YouTube channel – here.

Yeovil Town: Louis Parker, Mason Alden, Blake Watts, Jacob Shore (captain), Jaydon Biss, Solomon Padmore, Joe Crisp, Nansimir Nanev, George Geraghty, Morgan Alexander, Ollie Hughes. Substitutes: Ryan Collins, Denzil Gurung, Oscar Foot, Joshua Ansell, Alec Thomas, Joshua Haskett, Leyton Westlake.

Weston-super-Mare: Kelland Absalom, Ash Ouza, Jordan Bastin, Theo Lynden, Jack Harding, Louis Singfield, Harvey Akers, Dylan Kadji, Brandon Bak, Nick McCootie, Zak Kempster. Substitutes: Takunda Mutota, Dan Pashley, Gabriel Garrett, Josh Oliver, Dylan Long, Ted Milne, Leighton Green.

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Yeovil Town attacker Harvey Greenslade has joined National League South sides Weston-super-Mare on loan.

The former Bristol Rovers man follows a similar path to Dylan Morgan, who had a spell by the seaside earlier on this season. 

Speaking on his new front-man Weston manager Scott Bartlett said;

“Harvey is a powerful runner and is a good addition, he has been a long-term target and will offer us a lot of options at the top end of the pitch.

“Thank you to Mark and Yeovil for their help in getting it done so quickly”.

All the best to Harvey for his month or so at Weston.

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It’s time for the return of everyones favourite competition,  The Somerset Cup, as Yeovil Town play hosts to in form Weston-super-Mare in midweek.

Form Guide…

The Glovers have been in superb form over the last month with three wins, a draw and a loss from their five games. The one loss was last time out as they fell to Halifax 0-1 at home. Aside from that loss Yeovil have had some good wins, defeating Southend and Maidenhead.

Florent Hoti’s effort flies past Ollie Wright to put FC Halifax Town in to a 1-0 lead. Picture courtesy of Gary Brown.

The Seagulls have also been in a purple patch in the National League South with four wins from five in the league. However, they have also been knocked out the FA Cup and the FA Trophy, to Bristol Rovers and those who shall not be named, respectively. The FA Cup result at the start of the month to the Gas was not as bad as the result shows, as WSM took the League One side to extra time.

Key Players…

Yeovil Town – Corey Koerner

Koerner is the obvious name that stands out for Glovers fans. The Under 18s captain was involved with the first team throughout pre-season. The defender also made the match day squad for the fixtures against Solihull and Fylde. Since then he has enjoyed fruitful loan spells at Plymouth Parkway and Sherborne.

He has been in fine form for the youth side scoring four goals in four league games for them, whilst also being somewhat of a set piece specialist.

Corey Koerner. Picture courtesy of Iain Morland.

Weston-super-Mare – Sam Pearson (potentially)

That’s right, the ex-Yeovil player has found some good form since leaving Huish Park last month. In his six games for the Seasiders, the winger has netted three goals.

During his time in South Somerset you could see the Welshman had quality about him but was unfortunately unable to show it all that often.

Sam Pearson can’t believe it
📸 Gary Brown

That’s what he said…

WSM gaffer, Scott Bartlett gave his thoughts on the his squad after Saturdays game. He said: “We have one or two that would benefit from a game but the rest will young ones, we’ve got to make sure we go into the following week with a fully fit squad.”

We’ve met before…

The two side have met six times since 2020 with four wins for the glovers and two draws. The last time the two sides met was in pre-season as Yeovil defeated the Seagulls 0-2 with goals from Aaron Jarvis and Sonny Blu Lo-Everton.

Don’t I Know you…

On Weston’s side of things there are a few ex-Glovers with the previously mentioned Sam Pearson alongside Ruben Reid.

Reuben Reid. Picture courtesy of Mike Kunz.

Reid played at Huish Park across two spells, the first time between 2012 and 2014 with 19 appearances and then again between 2021 and 2022 playing 49 games scoring 10 goals during both spells.

Who’s been naughty then…

No suspension to report.