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THOUGHTS FROM THE DUGOUT


       Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the South West Interiors Stadium at Lodge Road for this
       very special occasion. The day has come and we offer a warm welcome to Yeovil Town who are our
       opposition for this Emirates FA Cup First Round tie. It’s the second time in the club’s history that
       we’ve reached this round but the first time in all our history that we have hosted an FA Cup tie
       beyond the qualifiers. A big welcome on behalf of all the players and staff to all our supporters for
       today! Whether you are a stalwart who supports us game in, game out, whether you’re a casual
       observer who helped us through the Dover tie or if you’re here for the very first time to support us,
       thank you for your support it is invaluable to our team. Yeovil are a prestigious club with FA Cup
       pedigree, a fantastic fan base & ambitions to return to the football league. Darren Sarll has put
       together a talented, young and hungry side that plays at such a high intensity, the likes of which
       Lodge Road may not have yet witnessed in a competitive match so we all know the challenge facing
       our teachers, HGV drivers, accountants, Will writers, recruitment consultants and personal trainers
       today.
       I’d like to wish a warm welcome to Darren, the Yeovil staff, players, Directors & supporters, I hope
       you have a safe journey to and from Yate today whilst enjoying the hospitality of our club.
       Our  performance  on  Tuesday  evening  was  excellent,  it’s  been
       great to see the reaction to our performance from supporters who
       I think could really see the sheer effort and desire that the players
       showed on Tuesday supported by no lack of quality. The whole
       squad put in some performance and it wouldn’t be fair to pick
       anyone  out  individually  on  the  back  of  such  an  enjoyable
       collective performance.
       We are prepared to run harder than we have all season today,
       we know we will need to and are ready to do it. We know we’ll
       need to deal with an arial bombardment of long throws, corners
       whipped  under  our  crossbar  and  play  around  a  press  more
       intense than we’ve yet encountered if we are to even stay in
       the game today. We’ve done our work in advance as best
       we could in the background since the Dover game but
       since we played Tuesday we’ve had 1 session that
       consisted  of  45  minutes  of  video  &  meeting
       followed by 1 hour training at Chipping Sodbury
       school. Yeovil have had a full week to prepare
       the  game  today,  if  it  were  a  boxing  match
       you’d expect the knockout in the first round.
       In team news at the time of writing there’s no
       Nick  Rhodes  (hamstring)  while  Ollie  Mehew
       (hamstring)  &  Andy  Lewis  (groin)  are  huge
       doubts. Everyone else is good to go.
       One thing I can assure the supporters today is
       that  the  staff  and  I  have  worked  as  hard  as
       possible  to  prepare  the  team  and  deliver  the
       detail in the time that we have had & I know the
       players will give you and us everything they have
       today. If we go out, we’ll go out with no regrets,
       but who knows, get behind us from the off today,
       give  us  your  backing  and  you  never  know,  there
       might yet be a little more FA Cup magic left in Yate
       Town this season.
       C’mon the bluebells!
       Paul
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