I think you have an agenda to get King'y out of the club, because you don't like him or he has upset people former staff of the club , how can you call his first season here a failure he took us from the brink of a relegation season to a play off final and again he got us to the play-off this season which is what he said he would do,SKennedyDFC wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 9:10 amMultiple things wrong here IMO.Pedro wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 8:55 amSo, not too many changes from the team that tonked Eastbourne and yet that team didn't turn up last night. I have no problem changing the team at all - King goes to more games than many of our previous managers and tries to get a team out he feels will beat them - of course it is the guys on the pitch that have to deliver it.SKennedyDFC wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 7:19 am
But it's fine to be chopping and changing players in the team every week? Stick with King this club goes nowhere.
If you had your way - i.e. not bring in new players, then we would have finished the season with academy players (no offence to them at all). Kingy has had so many injuries to key players to contend with and lost one of our most gifted players to Southend. I would say the majority of players brought in have been improvements to ones let go, so I really don't see your problem.
Firstly, most club's have injuries / suspensions throughout a season. It's inevitable. Yet the more successful ones (look at Maidstone United for example - whose manager has come out and said it's down to a solid stable team that has led them to success this year) had a core group of players who made up the majority of the squad. If you look at the team that started this season for us, it is a million miles different from the one that ended it.
If King can't recognise a good player or bad player before having to play him for two or three games then that says a lot about him as a manager. What he has got is a good network of connections in football, however, this had led to players drifting in and out of the club without so much of a mention (that bit comes down to the poor comms in place at Dartford these days).
Regarding the academy, what's the point in having it if we are never going to reap the rewards of trying some of these kids in competitive games? Again is this because King cannot develop talent himself?
One of my key issues with King is that he is very short-termism. He looks at the immediate games and doesn't look to develop a squad with a team mentality. You only have to look at the reactions of some of the players who have worked under him (take Ryan Hayes for instance) to see how he is a poor man-manager.
I also struggle to see what brand of football / style of football he is going for? It beggars belief that we can turn up to some games and smash teams 6-0 or 7-2 and then go and lose 1-0 to a low side like Braintree or put in an abject performance like we did last night. This to me says that the players HE has selected and brought to the club are not consistent enough to take us to the next level.
Other clubs around us are pushing forwards (Ebbsfleet United, Bromley and Maidstone United) and we are standing still or, worse, going backwards! Floating fans will go and spend their money watching a higher division than another season of National League South football given the chance.
I've lost count now of the times King has failed in the play-offs but it's almost inevitable that you're going to lose with him in charge. He's failed twice with us now and for most managers that would be the final nail in the coffin.
We could have had games next season against Oldham Athletic, Scunthorpe United and Southend United. Instead we have matches with Cheshunt, Worthing and Farnborough. That's the price of King's failures!
You cannot argue we have had our fair amount of injuries and players that were out of form at the same time, look at how many left backs we have had injured this season, He had to go out and get more players to maintain a challenge sorry to say using academy players that are not at this level yet would have been a disaster and people would have said why didn't he use any of his contacts instead of academy players.
Your entitled to your opinion but it is becoming a vendetta because you don't like him rather than what is best for the club and I'm not just talking about on this forum but also on twitter and believe me its just not this club you do it to you are the same for CAFC always negative .
Kingy is the way forward in my opinion as I cannot see who else could come in and have us challenging at the top end of the table rather than relegation which was where we were before he came in.
DFC have played in 4 play-offs and only one won, Yes Kingy has been the manger at the two off them but we had no right to be involved in his first one when you look at where DFC where when he took over