Dartford v Braintree Town Mon 2 May 2022

Man of the Match

Poll ended at Thu May 05, 2022 4:57 pm

Reice Charles-Cook
20
51%
Olumide Durojaiye
0
No votes
Jernade Meade
1
3%
Luke Allen
0
No votes
Kory Roberts
2
5%
Tom Bonner
9
23%
Danny Leonard
0
No votes
Jake Robinson
1
3%
George Porter
0
No votes
Jack Jebb
1
3%
Ade Azeez
1
3%
Kristian Campbell (Sub)
1
3%
Marcus Dinanga (Sub)
2
5%
Kalvin Kalala (Sub)
1
3%
 
Total votes: 39

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Re: Dartford v Braintree Town Mon 2 May 2022

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Tony H wrote: Mon May 02, 2022 7:20 pm Ozymandias - that’s an insult to Sunday League mate.

Cookie did play well, Captain Tom wore his heart on his sleeve as usual(got my MoM vote). Jack Jebb tried to make things happen. Unfortunately, too many journeymen in the team that likely won’t be with us next season!!

I too didn’t hang around at the end. Who won the season awards? Anyone? Bugger all on the Clubs socials as usual!!
Home Player
1st Dan Wilkes
2nd Tom Bonner
3rd Jack Jebb

Ernie Morgan Trophy (Away Player)
Exactly as above

Presidents Club Award (think that’s what it was called)
Kory Roberts

MOTM
Tom Bonner
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I started to do a detailed post but like most of the team today I couldnt be ar..ed , its all been said and IF Steve King thinks he is still the Messiah then he is mistaken , team selection today abysmal !!!!!!!!!

I will be at Eastbourne on Saturday hoping for an Ebbsfleet cock up to give us a home game in the Play Offs
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Hard to believe a good man-manager like Alan Dowson is currently out of work.
Anyway, back to today's game and what an abysmal affair it was.
Anyone neutral would be forgiven for thinking this was a run of the mill, end of season game with both sides having nothing to play for.
Basically we've gone from beginning the current campaign looking like a side more than capable of holding it's own in the National League to a club better off where it is now, especially after today's Dog & Duck performance with one game to go, rather than going on to suffer being embarrassed week in week out in non-league football's top flight next season.
For starters, why on earth didn't the inform Marcus Dinanga start today? Far better to let him score his regulation one goal per game, bag the points and then rest him for Jake Robinson later on.
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Is Dowson the Geordie with the super thick accent who no one can understand & brings that twat commentator Parry with him wherever he goes??
Please no, we haven’t sunk that low yet have we??
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Why not give the job to Ozymandis, we won’t win Fcuk all but could get the Fair play award at the end of a relegation season!!
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Whilst I'm not remotely interested in commenting on trolls who neither support the club nor attend games (Up The Darts) or naysayers that are so ill informed that they are still predicting things that have already happened weeks ago, still won't happen, the rest of the negativity on here is understandable.

We were absolute sh*te today it's true, but the score doesn't reflect the game at all. It should have been at least 0-4 to Braintree and would have been but for Charles-Cook's brilliant display that kept the score respectable. With the exception of Charles, Tom Bonner and to some extent Jack Jebb, we were pathetic and Braintree could have played Stevie Wonder in goal and still kept a clean sheet.

Steve King is undoubtedly a better football manager than I'll ever be, but this squad rotation policy just doesn't work for me, I just don't understand how it benefits us. We have some fantastic players but I do wonder if the lack of continuity is why the whole is so often significantly less than the sum of all the parts.and why performance levels are so erratic. After Saturday's 5 star victory, today's team selection didn't really make any sense to me, even though I tried to support the manager by offering justifications for it to the equally bemused fans around me. In truth my heart sank when I heard the team and I feared the worst. What followed was embarrassiing and I was so angry at the end of a game that for the first time in my 56 seasons, I left before the presentations. Absolutely devastated at how we just threw this opportunity away. I don't know about the team, but it's going to take a while to restore morale to the supporters.
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I just called to say I love you.
I just called to say how much I cared…..,,
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I wonder if SK reads this forum...? If not, perhaps someone should drop a word in his ear.
I know TB prohibited his players from reading it, but I'm sure he must have followed it at least a little himself.
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I said a while ago that I’d voted for Dan Wilks as player of the season. It seems that many agree. THAT says all that anyone needs to know about this current DFC set up. Please understand that I mean no disrespect to Dan, of course I don’t, I voted for him, BUT, there’s absolutely no way that a championship title / play-off contending team’s player of the season should be a goalkeeper. He should be ‘admired silently’ for his occasional interaction whilst those at the other end of the field go about their business, just as they did in the opening two months at PP and on the road. The fact that only Tom Bonner and Jack Jebb come close to Dan also speaks volumes for the complete madness of having nearly fifty players feature in a disjointed, disorganised shambles following early promise. Too many of those players do not have the Dartford FC mentality or deep-seated understanding of what it means to represent this club. This is Dartford FC people, NOT some also-ran, run-o’-the-mill, make up the numbers organisation like Braintree, Concord, Hemel or Chippenham. FFS, Kingy, get a team and stick with it for the next four (hopefully, three,) games!
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Quote from Hakan Hayrettin, Maidstone manager after winning the title in his first full season in charge.

"I have stuck with the same squad, I have probably used the least number of players, and they have worked tirelessly for me."
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Shocked that people are actually talking about a change in manager already? Do people not remember what we were like under Coyle and Flanagan.

I hope Kingy doesn't read the forums, must be super demoralising knowing you're competing at the right end of the table yet people still want a change...

King is the right man for the job imo, he just got yesterday horribly wrong.
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Oh dear the natives are not happy and I don't blame them.
All those changes against a team who were up for it big time.
Our powder puff attack and indifferent display resulted in a thoroughly deserved defeat.
We MUST put our best 11 on the pitch for however many games we have left.
Like others on here I didn't stay for the presentations not because we lost but it was the way that we lost .
SK totally underestimated our oppo and we now have a mountain to climb.
The phrase that I kept hearing was ....
Too much bl** dy TINKERING!!!
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Eagle88 wrote: Mon May 02, 2022 6:30 pm I said a couple of months ago we would be lucky to make the Playoffs I haven't changed my mind. We might just scrape in, but too many changes too often.
What about World War 2 Eagle, who do you fancy, us or the Germans?
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Oh dear, I seem to have rubbed M1 up the wrong way AGAIN. I get that Bonner is/was a good player but he's now half a yard off the pace and I did question him being at PP at the start of the season. He does take the Captaincy too far in my opinion, continually facing up to the referee when there's no need to and to the extent that it disrupts OUR flow of play.
Yes, he's still a good player but I don't think a lot of the players who started yesterdays game will be there next season and I'm sorry to say Bonner included.
The real MOTM would have been their No4 who won almost everything in the air and chased the ball down to put in the perfect cross for the goal.
I'm sorry if I upset you sometimes M1 but really 'do I give a f**k?' We can play chess if you like, on my river boat.
We should have beaten Braintree yesterday on the back of a 6-0 drubbing of Slough, you'd have thought we'd have been up for it, but did anyone seem interested in playing yesterday?
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Good God Ozy , IF you are questioning Tom Bonner then I just wonder what you think of the others as other than him , Wilks and Marcus have been poor for weeks , the realisation has probably crept in that IF we scrape through the Play Offs then probably only 3 of them are good enough for the National Premier
IF we are comparing Managers then do it against the best [ who have actually won something ] NOT Coyle/Flanagan !!!!!
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ozymandias wrote: Tue May 03, 2022 9:11 am Oh dear, I seem to have rubbed M1 up the wrong way AGAIN. I get that Bonner is/was a good player but he's now half a yard off the pace and I did question him being at PP at the start of the season. He does take the Captaincy too far in my opinion, continually facing up to the referee when there's no need to and to the extent that it disrupts OUR flow of play.
Everyone is entitled to be wrong once in a while Ozy, but don't push it.
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ozymandias wrote: Tue May 03, 2022 9:11 am Oh dear, I seem to have rubbed M1 up the wrong way AGAIN. I get that Bonner is/was a good player but he's now half a yard off the pace and I did question him being at PP at the start of the season. He does take the Captaincy too far in my opinion, continually facing up to the referee when there's no need to and to the extent that it disrupts OUR flow of play.
Yes, he's still a good player but I don't think a lot of the players who started yesterdays game will be there next season and I'm sorry to say Bonner included.
I'm sorry if I upset you sometimes M1 but really 'do I give a f**k?'
Here you go Ozy........

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The Duke wrote: Tue May 03, 2022 9:21 am Wilks and Marcus have been poor for weeks ,
I am gobsmacked Duke. Wilks is player of the season by a country mile and Marcus has scored 11 in 13. And Wilks hasn't even played for a few weeks.
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Re: Dartford v Braintree Town Mon 2 May 2022

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The issue yesterday for me, wasn’t neccesarily the quality of the players, but more to do with how they were used in the formation…though I’m still not sure whether it was 433, 442 or 4213!
Assuming it was three in the middle, all three, Jebb, Allen & Porter will want to get forward, so who’s sitting and winning the balls, as it’s not a trait of any of them. Looked like Porter was playing just behind the front two, which meant no one out on the left.
Every time Robinson & Azeez have played as part of a front three it’s not worked, because neither of them can play the wide role, so yesterday both seemed to be playing centrally, so again nothing on the left. Leonard seemed to be flirting between a front 3 and occasionally dropping into a more orthodox midfield, though without much success.
If Dinanga is carrying a knock we needed either Robinson or Azeez, not both, and have support from Leonard/Kalala/Roberts either side of them!
So for me, it wasn’t so much lack of quality, but a poor formation, with the players in the wrong positions not playing to their strengths, and that comes down to one man.
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Re: Dartford v Braintree Town Mon 2 May 2022

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I've slept on it and I still find myself so annoyed with that pathetic performance yesterday. So many players looked like they couldn't wait for the season to be over. If they play like that in the play-offs we'll be out within one game (which is likely to be a quarter final match now).

If only we had a manager who knew what his best team was and how to stick with a settled team...
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