In our second home game in four days, we welcome the players, officials and supporters of Tiverton Town to Tatnam. The win over Basingstoke on Saturday was a welcome return to form and took us up to third place in the table on 30 points. Tiverton are sitting at the foot of the table on 7 points with two wins so far this season from the 16 games played. They are on a run of four consecutive away fixtures, starting with a 6-0 defeat to Walton & Hersham followed by Hanwell on 8th November where they went down 2-0 and then on to Gosport Borough last Saturday, where despite being in front twice they went down 3-2 in a closely fought contest. Two goals in the 76th  and 77th minute proved to be decisive for the home side. From their first nine away matches they have just the one win, the 3-1 victory at Dorchester in August.

Tiverton Stats  (To Saturday 22nd November)

Position in league table 22^nd P16 W2 D1 L13 GF 14 GA 38 -24  7 Points

Position in form table    22^nd P6 W0 D0 L6   GF 4 GA 20  -16     0 Points

Last season finish         17^th P42 W12  D11 L19  GF 39  GA 71 -32  47 Points

Recent games  against them  7^th October 2025  Tiverton Town  1 Poole Town 2

                                              15th February 2025 Poole Town 0 Tiverton Town 1

                                              26^th October 2024 Tiverton Town 3  Poole Town 1

                                              15^th February 2025 Poole Town 0  Tiverton Town 1

The Yellows are managed by Asa Hall who signed for the club in June 2024 following his six season stint with Torquay United and would become a vital part of a struggling Tiverton Town side. Following the departure of Leigh Robinson and Ben Gerring, Asa would step up alongside Niall Thompson to briefly become interim manager while the club searched for someone to take the job full time. Hall would briefly return to his role as a player after the club signed Rob Dray however, with ten games left of the season, Dray decided to step away from the club and Hall once again took on the role with a view to see out the season as player manager with Steven Orchard stepping up as his assistant. In April 2024, following a good turnaround of results, Asa was offered the manager role at Tiverton permanently.

It has been great to see Charlie Davis returning to form. He was the man of the match at Farnham and regularly controls the midfield. The 29-year-old joined the Dolphins after an impressive season for Sholing where he racked up three goals and 13 assists. He is a cultured and versatile player who has gained the reputation of being a ‘free-kick specialist’ who has an eye for goal. Charlie started his career at AFC Bournemouth before moving to Poole as a talented teenager in 2013 and stayed at Tatnam for two years making 26 appearances.

After spells at Dorchester and Weymouth, Davis re-joined Poole to pursue more game time. In this spell, Davis made nine appearances for the Dolphins, scoring four times including a hattrick in the Dorset Senior Cup against Swanage Town & Herston.

However, during the 2018/19 season, Davis left Poole for Gosport Borough and went on to captain the side. The experienced midfielder joined Salisbury in 2020 where he made 57 appearances over a three-year period which led to him signing for AFC Totton and then Sholing before signing across the dotted line for Poole Town.

 After getting back to winning ways on Saturday in very difficult conditions, Pat & Joe will be hoping to keep the momentum going with another three points.

Enjoy the game

Neil Wellington