UPON his return to the County Ground with new club Yeovil, former Town boss Paul Sturrock took no extra pleasure in having got one over his old team.

Sturrock got Town promoted from League Two in 2007 and still speaks highly of the club he left to rejoin Plymouth Argyle.

On Saturday he brought his already relegated Glovers to Wiltshire with the sole purpose of assessing his squad for what he hopes will manage swift return to League One next season.

He left in the knowledge that his players can certainly apply themselves defensively and, given the right encouragement, can trouble one of the tightest defences in League One this season.

Yeovil were not always pretty, but their defending was effective and they deserved their win.

In a game with plenty of positives for his team, beating a previous employer was not one of them for Sturrock.

“No there’s no extra satisfaction in beating an old club,” he told the Advertiser. “Swindon were very good to me, I enjoyed all my time here and I’m desperate for them to get promoted, but I’ve got a job to do like any other manager.

“I think I left a decent taste in everybody’s mouth here. In the years I was involved we got promotion and stayed up and I think I did a reasonable job. I’ve always been appreciated, the supporters are very kind here and I like the club.

“They’re a very exciting team and play in a very cavalier style. If they score first then you can be on the end of a smacking. I think they’ve still got a great opportunity (to go up).”

Prior to the game Sturrock was predicting a ‘torrid afternoon’ for his players, but a change of system to a five-man defence ensured that did not happen.

“First half was a bit traumatic because we decided to have a look at another system,” the Glovers boss explained.

“That took Thursday and Friday to work on. Then we could we ready to play an expansive team, a team that plays with the whole width of the football pitch and have got players that can break you down with pace.

“We stuck to our task, I thought in the second half in the five minutes when we scored we were very effective and had a few half-chances ourselves.

“There were a lot of things in and around the box I think we should have done better with and I think the boy took the goal very, very well.

“At this minute every player at this club is playing for their future either here of somewhere else, so their performances are vitally important to them.”