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Our eighth home draw so far this season (out of 17 games). That's sixteen points dropped. It's good that we're unbeaten at PP this season but all those wasted points could come back to haunt us.

Very poor, lucky to get a draw. I'm really not sure why we keep lumping balls up when we fail to win every header, then there's nobody in the midfield to pick up the second ball.

We do not look like a team that should be promoted.

BAWArmy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 5:42 pm Very poor, lucky to get a draw. I'm really not sure why we keep lumping balls up when we fail to win every header, then there's nobody in the midfield to pick up the second ball.

We do not look like a team that should be promoted.

UpTheDarts

Thoroughly abysmal performance but somehow we managed to cling on to the unbeaten home record. I'd like to say that our goal was the deserved result of us plugging away for an equaliser, but that wouldn't be true. We posed zero threat throughout the game and barely caused Hemel to break sweat. The fact that we scored was most welcome but in all honesty it came out of nowhere. One of our very worst performances of the season but an important point none the less. Were it not for the fact that Hemel resorted to so much time wasting I might even have felt sorry for them, but similar to the game away to Braintree, it feels like poetic justice when such negativity goes unrewarded. Bloody awful game, best forgotten

MOTM Kory Roberts

Spike wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 5:45 pm Thoroughly abysmal performance but somehow we managed to cling on to the unbeaten home record. I'd like to say that our goal was the deserved result of us plugging away for an equaliser, but that wouldn't be true. We posed zero threat throughout the game and barely caused Hemel to break sweat. The fact that we scored was most welcome but in all honesty it came out of nowhere. One of our very worst performances of the season but an important point none the less. Were it not for the fact that Hemel resorted to so much time wasting I might even have felt sorry for them, but similar to the game away to Braintree, it feels like poetic justice when such negativity goes unrewarded. Bloody awful game, best forgotten

MOTM Kory Roberts

Robinson needs to start,you pretty much summed the game up agree with the MOTM.

UpTheDarts

We really left it late and scored from what was really our only threatening effort. We need to pick ip the intensity to much of the game seems to drift by like its a preseason friendly

Dinanga’s goel

I get what you mean re Murtagh Spike. I didn't expect him to be at the back for the rest of the season. It was only Margate and the KSC.
But now all the hype for the Maidstone game must be ebbing away slowly as it approaches. Yes, it would be nice to beat them as it normally is, but we are falling further and further behind the front two and our 2nd/3rd spot is now precarious.
But No matter how far down the pecking order we drop I still think we will be the side to watch out for. As long as it's not on today's performance.

Absolutely awful performance!!
Very very lucky to equalise in the 95th minute.
Quite a lot of people missed the goal because they had simply given up.
NO SYMPATHY for Hemel ,their time wasting cost them 2 points.
I will.always support the Darts but today was a tough watch
Hopefully the real Darts will turn up when Maidscum come to PP.

Terrible game to watch due to various factors
1 HH came to destroy , over physical time wasting cheats. Don’t expect teams to come here and expect to lose but their tactics were very questionable , it’s very successful isn’t it HH manager , it’s got you to 13th place , well done
2 the officials were useless , totally missed or ignored HH cheating, should have been at least 10 minutes injury time each half
3 we were useless, we had no idea how to tactically deal with HH tactics and did not stand up to their physicality, we lumped them ball up to the two forwards who were marked by much taller defenders , and the forwards were to far apart. Also the midfield were to deep so all the loose midfield balls fell to HH midfielders

We were lucky to get a very welcome point
Obviously I can’t comment on an injury during the game but taking off 11 was wrong as he was doing more than Kalvin

Motm to kory roberts , the only player that consistently played football and one of few that was not scared of the physical side of the game

It’s going to be a real battle to nick that third position. I hope Steve can find a way to win 3/4 games on the spin

Dire performance {?} , the blame lies with the Players and also the Manager who having seen his plan for Wingers NOT work 1st half should have changed it , brought on Allen and Robinson in 46th minute and given it a real go , at least that fans would appreciate that instead of another 45 minutes of " same old same old " !!!!!!!

Can we win the play offs NOT on todays form !!!!!!!!!!

MOTM Kory Roberts as with the exception of Bonner the rest didnt turn up !!!!

We really cannot play worse than that again this season…can we!?
Still, a point is a point and still all to play for (well, a top 3 finish anyway!!)
MoM for me - Jack Jebb who tried to make things happen! What a difference our three substitutes made when they came on btw! For goodness sake why does Jake Robinson not start most games. He’s the NLS top scorer of all time after all!

Match report:
https://thedarts.eu/2021-2022/119 vs He ... H- 1-1.pdf

That was awful to watch. HH chased us down and played as a team, attacking and defending and deserved 3 points (sorry about that HH, no 2 was particularly annoyed about the end result, Shame ).

We played little through the middle, reverting to long ball counter attacks but more often than not, too slow, and not in numbers. We just seemed disjointed and and never got into the game until the subs came on.
Only positive is that we got a draw, which will help the morale. Great to see Luke, Jake and George coming on and having a big impact. As others have said kory or bonz for mom.

Lots of players missing now, so it's going to be a tough run in.

Today needs forgetting about, just a bad day at the office, we hope.

Up the Darts.

Thank goodness that the anti football team we came up against today did not bring to an end our unbeaten record at home. It was two points dropped, not one gained, but I felt so happy to see us score in time added on for the constant diving and time wasting of our opponents.

Sad to see King playing for this outfit. I believe that he deserves better.

Perhaps the ref would like to consider why he kept stopping the game for pretend injuries to our opponents. If they wanted treatment, they should leave the pitch or kick the ball off to bring play to a halt. None were head injuries. I do not believe that the ref should not be stopping the match in such instances.

That was painful to watch so I did the decent thing for my BP and left before the end. (But mainly cos I had to be in Slough for 6pm!) not sure I can even pick a MOTM. It’s not right to blame the referee for our piss-poor performances (one too many this season at PP!) but that geezer was was about two steps (in the pyramid system) out of his depth. Seemingly no idea about the game and why HH were constantly doing a ‘Hungerford’ on us with total shithousery. Sadly, I can’t see us being promoted. Kingy’s constant chopping and changing (not always forced) and playing Ade on his own just ain’t cutting it.

With some players returning I expect we will be stronger for the play offs, we need to pull out all the stops in an effort to gain home advantage.

We have proved in a one off game we can beat the best, we have to pick up some form in the last couple of games.

Not so sure you can claim that Kingy didn’t pick his strongest starting 11 yesterday with so many out with injury and a few just returning from lay-off’s. So, the players that are selected MUST stand up and be counted. There appeared very little desire yesterday to win a game of football. I’ll go so far as to say that at least HALF the eleven that started showed no passion for the Dartford shirt, and that frankly is unacceptable. These players must understand that they are paid good money, as quality players, to wear that shirt and perform for a team pushing for a top 3 finish.

Very impressed, as always, with that drive and enthusiasm that Robbo and George Porter give us and them, with Luke Allen, made a real difference. Other players, with notable exceptions who fight for the cause, should take note.

Btw, I do still strongly believe that we will beat Maidscum. COYD.

Does anyone know the 50-50 result?

KingKong wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 10:40 am Does anyone know the 50-50 result?

I can’t remember the number off of the top of my head but it has been claimed.

Tony H: 5 of our best players were on the bench so I’m not sure that was our strongest starting XI !!
For 94 x minutes it wasn’t a very good watch was it?