Dartford v Bath City Sat 5 Aug 2023

[Park Life]

3-2 Coulson

[The 5th Searcher]

3-2 Coulson

[Lars Resort]

Yes , after a mad 5 minutes.

[Park Life]

10 mins et

[Park Life]

Sub:-
Box for Barzey.

[Park Life]

Bath are a bit robust...... 7 bookings and one red I believe.

[The 5th Searcher]

It’s Rabbets for Barzey

[Park Life]

3-3

[Park Life]

Sub:-
Sheringham for Allen.

[Lars Resort]

Dear me. Unbelievable stuff.

[Park Life]

Sub:-
Sheringham for Allen.

[Park Life]

Sub:-
Manor for Bradbury

[Park Life]

FT 3-3

[ozymandias]

Sounds a very entertaining game and also that we have an iffy defence and keeper.
The commentary was excellent and now the Sun's out.
Never mind.

[Rixsto]

Think we played well to be honest, keeper was shocking for all the goals, definitely an area that needs looking at

[DartfordHero]

We need to go and get a centre half who isn’t afraid to go and head the first ball. Two goals came from not winning the first header and less said about the keeper the better. Otherwise going forward we looked crisp and good at times but you can’t be scoring 3 goals at home and walking out with a draw

[Dart of Herts]

Disappointing result. We weren’t at our best but nor did they deserve three goals. Need a keeper or another CB who can marshall our defence.

Coulson showed why he’s got the armband. Oduadu also played well.

Onwards and upwards

[Mark Sweet]

2 points dropped.

The positive to take is there is goals in this team, we looked good on the attack and got the ball into dangerous areas frequently. Unfortunately that means very little if we defend like we did today. I thought the 2 centre halves were poor in the air, and as for the keeper I wasn't convinced when we first signed him and I am even less convinced now. Every shot they had on target went in and that included 2 very soft, slow paced shots. It's an area we must strengthen if we want to challenge at the top.

In terms of individual performances, the front 3 were fantastic. Harvey's work rate was superb and definitely helped the players around him, he should've scored one in the first half but aside from that he had a good game. Barzey was brilliant, his energy down the wing and dribbling past players is something we missed last season and he's someone we must keep fit to be dangerous this season. I thought Allen had a very good game as well but my MOTM has to go to Coulson. 2 fantastic finishes and his on the ball work was excellent.

One thing that hasn't changed is the officiating. Some of those decisions today were farcical. Harvey was offered no protection all game and almost had his shirt torn off of him at one point, still didn't get the decision.

Yeovil and Torquay both dropped points, so at least we've lost no ground to the pre season favourites!!!

[Top Cat]

No problem up front as we created numerous chances , but against a bang average Bath City side we somehow conceded three goals with a combination of poor defending and a iffy keeper . Only the first game I know , but those defensive frailties need ironing out , and soon .

[Lars Resort]

What's happened with young Manny? Not even on the bench.