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by Tony H
Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:44 am
Forum: Archived Misc 2023-2024
Topic: Alan Dowson sacked
Replies: 62
Views: 8165

Re: Alan Dowson sacked

Lennylenny wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:10 pm Everyone going well done board for being brave and sacking him , but who is getting sacked on board for giving him a two year contract?
Sorry pal, that is just a ridiculous statement.
by Tony H
Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:12 pm
Forum: Archived Misc 2023-2024
Topic: Alan Dowson sacked
Replies: 62
Views: 8165

Re: Alan Dowson sacked

Had to be done! Absolutely no criticism from me of Dowse as a person, he was a decent, hard-working bloke. At the end of the day fans opinions have been heard and the Board, who like us are fans, made a difficult but correct decision for the right reasons and for the good of the club. Very well-writ...
by Tony H
Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:40 pm
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Weston-super-Mare v Dartford Sat 6 Jan 2024
Replies: 111
Views: 560874

Re: Weston-super-Mare v Dartford Sat 6 Jan 2024

I didn’t say it was coincidence, rather more than coincidence given the frequency!
by Tony H
Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:36 pm
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Weston-super-Mare v Dartford Sat 6 Jan 2024
Replies: 111
Views: 560874

Re: Weston-super-Mare v Dartford Sat 6 Jan 2024

This conceding late goals business, surely, cannot still be regarded as mere coincidence. It’s now developed into a very worrying TREND. Trends can be designed out. By the manager. He manages players’ attitudes. Dowse clearly (based on evidence) can’t deal with it. What happened to ‘game management...
by Tony H
Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:17 am
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Weston-super-Mare v Dartford Sat 6 Jan 2024
Replies: 111
Views: 560874

Re: Weston-super-Mare v Dartford Sat 6 Jan 2024

Thank you Matt85. You’re right, some of the stuff isn’t Dowse’s fault. I’ll repeat - the players have to take some responsibility! It isn’t Dowse that puts them out onto the pitch to concede goals late in a game either - but, whilst challenging, something can be done to rectify this and it requires ...
by Tony H
Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:55 am
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Weston-super-Mare v Dartford Sat 6 Jan 2024
Replies: 111
Views: 560874

Re: Weston-super-Mare v Dartford Sat 6 Jan 2024

Well my first game since Taunton away. I was expecting a much more boring afternoon of attritional football than I got. I enjoyed the game and was surprised to see Dartford playing it around quite a bit. Weston started strongly and should have taken the lead when they had a golden chance that bounc...
by Tony H
Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:00 am
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Weston-super-Mare v Dartford Sat 6 Jan 2024
Replies: 111
Views: 560874

Re: Weston-super-Mare v Dartford Sat 6 Jan 2024

Rebuild the club? It wasn’t broken before you and your mate turned up, and you can’t rebuild a club with loan players. Let’s face it as a coaching team you have no idea how to coach or obtain players Maybe Mr Tyler is suggesting that the squad they’ve assembled this season is broken and needs re-bu...
by Tony H
Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:59 pm
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Dartford v Welling Utd Sat 30 Dec 2023
Replies: 79
Views: 43958

Re: Dartford v Welling Utd Sat 30 Dec 2023

Just listened to Dowse’s interview with BBC Kent and picking up on the point he makes about not being able to get onto the facilities (I assume training pitch) when he wants to sometimes. Surely this can’t be right or acceptable. Probably in defence of Dowse here, if the first team want to train th...
by Tony H
Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:36 am
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Dartford v Welling Utd Sat 30 Dec 2023
Replies: 79
Views: 43958

Re: Dartford v Welling Utd Sat 30 Dec 2023

Just listened to Dowse’s interview with BBC Kent and picking up on the point he makes about not being able to get onto the facilities (I assume training pitch) when he wants to sometimes. Surely this can’t be right or acceptable. Probably in defence of Dowse here, if the first team want to train the...
by Tony H
Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:46 am
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Dartford v Welling Utd Sat 30 Dec 2023
Replies: 79
Views: 43958

Re: Dartford v Welling Utd Sat 30 Dec 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=pTIAQqRntgE&feature=youtu.be “It’s not been the best year”. Does he mean year, or season. Either one works. No, it’s NOT been the best of years/ seasons! “Haven’t got recruitment right!” Really, you don’t say!? IMHO there’s probably no more than 6...
by Tony H
Sat Dec 30, 2023 8:56 pm
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Dartford v Welling Utd Sat 30 Dec 2023
Replies: 79
Views: 43958

Re: Dartford v Welling Utd Sat 30 Dec 2023

And so endeth a pretty woeful and uninspiring Christmas period (for me anyway!) Today we did nowhere near enough to win the game. Yes, had Luke put away that guilt-edged opportunity we’d probably have won the game BUT, that aside, Welling looked the most likeliest of the two teams to score whenever ...
by Tony H
Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:06 am
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Welling Utd v Dartford Tue 26 Dec 2023 @ 1pm
Replies: 74
Views: 32032

Re: Welling Utd v Dartford Tue 26 Dec 2023 @ 1pm

Papadopoulos played well at PP and I was surprised he was on the bench. Maybe he had been recovering from an injury. Which may have been lucky for us. Also I think that Danny Bloor is an excellent manager who was unfairly dismissed at Eastbourne. I agree with your views about Bloor. Look at the sta...
by Tony H
Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:02 am
Forum: Any Other Discussion
Topic: Dowse post?
Replies: 11
Views: 3135

Re: Dowse post?

Want to put this to bed once and for all, believe it or not , it don’t matter. I regret posting it on bus on way home before thinking about it , there was no motive no agenda and can see it wasn’t good for the club, this I have apologised for. I don’t like the football Dowse plays but don’t dislike...
by Tony H
Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:35 am
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Welling Utd v Dartford Tue 26 Dec 2023 @ 1pm
Replies: 74
Views: 32032

Re: Welling Utd v Dartford Tue 26 Dec 2023 @ 1pm

Tony H wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:34 am The Board has made its decision. They gave Dowse a 2-year contract and are backing their man. I won’t criticise the Board as they’ve done so much good for the Club and I genuinely expect they want more from Dowse and the team on the pitch.
That was, of course, in response to JCJ’s earlier post.
by Tony H
Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:34 am
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Welling Utd v Dartford Tue 26 Dec 2023 @ 1pm
Replies: 74
Views: 32032

Re: Welling Utd v Dartford Tue 26 Dec 2023 @ 1pm

The Board has made its decision. They gave Dowse a 2-year contract and are backing their man. I won’t criticise the Board as they’ve done so much good for the Club and I genuinely expect they want more from Dowse and the team on the pitch.
by Tony H
Tue Dec 26, 2023 5:27 pm
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Welling Utd v Dartford Tue 26 Dec 2023 @ 1pm
Replies: 74
Views: 32032

Re: Welling Utd v Dartford Tue 26 Dec 2023 @ 1pm

A very good travelling contingent of Darts fans today too, swelled the crowd to over 2000. More of the same at PP on Saturday please?
by Tony H
Tue Dec 26, 2023 4:55 pm
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Welling Utd v Dartford Tue 26 Dec 2023 @ 1pm
Replies: 74
Views: 32032

Re: Welling Utd v Dartford Tue 26 Dec 2023 @ 1pm

A rare away win! A scrappy win! Two very poor teams on show but the industry of Chinny and Luke just about saw us over the line. A win is a win, and so is a clean sheet, so let’s hopefully build on this. We should win comfortably on Saturday. As others have said everything about Welling is very poor...
by Tony H
Sat Dec 23, 2023 9:04 pm
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Dartford v St Albans City Sat 23 Dec 2023
Replies: 70
Views: 28557

Re: Dartford v St Albans City Sat 23 Dec 2023

As I said on a previous thread, I'd like to see someone like Harrop from Braintree join us. He's young, already experienced at this level and will bring fresh ideas. The question is why would he move from Braintree to us? And especially after re-signing Baris it seems even more unlikely to happen. ...
by Tony H
Sat Dec 23, 2023 6:24 pm
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Dartford v St Albans City Sat 23 Dec 2023
Replies: 70
Views: 28557

Re: Dartford v St Albans City Sat 23 Dec 2023

No direction, no shape, no desire, no clue! Absolutely poor! Mind you, it is circus season and Dowse is the biggest clown of all time! Get him out now before it’s too late. I am going to vote for MoM, as I agree with another poster about the very few on that pitch that made an effort, and that is Lu...
by Tony H
Sat Dec 23, 2023 6:19 pm
Forum: Archived Match Threads 2023-2024
Topic: Dartford v St Albans City Sat 23 Dec 2023
Replies: 70
Views: 28557

Re: Dartford v St Albans City Sat 23 Dec 2023

Has to go tonight. That was absolutely dire. Wall and another player went down the tunnel and didn't bother coming over to us fans that did stay, get them both gone as well. As to who comes in I don't know Like I suggested last week, though you disagreed Mr Sweet, Tony Burman with Ben Greenhalgh.