Dartford Players of The Past

Moderator: Gary C

Ajaxman DFC
Posts: 255
Joined: Mon Sep 06, 2021 12:16 pm

Re: Dartford Players of The Past

Post by Ajaxman DFC »

The Futures White wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 12:52 pm Brentwood have parted company with Adam Flanagan.
He'll be able to come along and watch the Darts in action at Sudbury now.
Davedart
Posts: 61
Joined: Wed Sep 15, 2021 12:05 pm

Re: Dartford Players of The Past

Post by Davedart »

Maybe he might learn something, oops!
The Futures White
Posts: 553
Joined: Sun Sep 05, 2021 11:32 am

Re: Dartford Players of The Past

Post by The Futures White »

Chris Dickson has left Hornchurch for Erith and Belvedere!! :o
User avatar
Park Life
Posts: 2685
Joined: Tue Aug 31, 2021 10:39 pm

Re: Dartford Players of The Past

Post by Park Life »

The Futures White wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 12:52 pm Brentwood have parted company with Adam Flanagan.
It's a shame it hasn't worked out for Adam at Brentwood, he's a decent guy who gave his all when wearing a Darts shirt.
User avatar
Spike
Posts: 467
Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2021 5:21 pm

Re: Dartford Players of The Past

Post by Spike »

That he did. The management combo was an undeniable fail, but that doesn't diminish the huge contribution that both Flanners & Coyley made as players. Good luck to Adam, I hope he goes on to better things.
Buzz stop
Posts: 15
Joined: Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:08 pm

Re: Peter Taylor

Post by Buzz stop »

Kebabus wrote: Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:40 pm Don't really feel the need to have a Welling love in. Peter Taylor is at rock bottom, like the club he joins. It is what it is. Fools for letting the King go.
Welling let Steve King go solely because they couldn’t afford to supply the substantial budget he demands anymore. Generally wherever he’s been he puts together a great squad but it also generally comes with a higher cost than the average budget. Dartford have better finances than Welling I hope they are good enough to sustain SKs ambitions.
Rixsto
Posts: 37
Joined: Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:55 pm

Re: Peter Taylor

Post by Rixsto »

I think what alot of other clubs fans seem to forget Is that the reason we have " better finance's" is due to alot of hard work behind the scenes, we haven't had a rich sugar daddy come in and buy us up the league's like some other clubs have in our league.
User avatar
Spike
Posts: 467
Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2021 5:21 pm

Re: Peter Taylor

Post by Spike »

Buzz stop wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:03 pm
Kebabus wrote: Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:40 pm Don't really feel the need to have a Welling love in. Peter Taylor is at rock bottom, like the club he joins. It is what it is. Fools for letting the King go.
Welling let Steve King go solely because they couldn’t afford to supply the substantial budget he demands anymore. Generally wherever he’s been he puts together a great squad but it also generally comes with a higher cost than the average budget. Dartford have better finances than Welling I hope they are good enough to sustain SKs ambitions.
Dartford are better run than Welling, but then again, so were Lehman Brothers.
User avatar
Spike
Posts: 467
Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2021 5:21 pm

Re: Peter Taylor

Post by Spike »

Rixsto wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:27 pm I think what alot of other clubs fans seem to forget Is that the reason we have " better finance's" is due to alot of hard work behind the scenes, we haven't had a rich sugar daddy come in and buy us up the league's like some other clubs have in our league.
Absolutely, and some clubs fail because the aforementioned sugar daddy wants to play Championship Manager with real players and can't help meddling in team affairs.
User avatar
Spike
Posts: 467
Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2021 5:21 pm

Re: Peter Taylor

Post by Spike »

Buzz stop wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:03 pm
Kebabus wrote: Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:40 pm Don't really feel the need to have a Welling love in. Peter Taylor is at rock bottom, like the club he joins. It is what it is. Fools for letting the King go.
Welling let Steve King go solely because they couldn’t afford to supply the substantial budget he demands anymore. Generally wherever he’s been he puts together a great squad but it also generally comes with a higher cost than the average budget. Dartford have better finances than Welling I hope they are good enough to sustain SKs ambitions.
A manager can't DEMAND a bigger budget, he can only ask for one. Any manager who is not constantly seeking to improve the team is failing in his duty, any board of directors that acquiesce to financial requests beyond the club's means are failing in theirs. Fortunately, we don't have either problem at Dartford even though some people would like to believe otherwise.
User avatar
Park Life
Posts: 2685
Joined: Tue Aug 31, 2021 10:39 pm

Re: Peter Taylor

Post by Park Life »

Buzz stop wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:03 pm
Kebabus wrote: Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:40 pm Don't really feel the need to have a Welling love in. Peter Taylor is at rock bottom, like the club he joins. It is what it is. Fools for letting the King go.
Welling let Steve King go solely because they couldn’t afford to supply the substantial budget he demands anymore. Generally wherever he’s been he puts together a great squad but it also generally comes with a higher cost than the average budget. Dartford have better finances than Welling I hope they are good enough to sustain SKs ambitions.
I really do wonder how you know what the budgets are or were at the clubs Steve's been at, I have absolutely no idea and i very much doubt you do either.

What i do know for certain is DFC is run 100% legitimately and is as secure as any football club in the country, something we are very proud of and i doubt can be said of hardly any other clubs, especially at our level.

Steve has assembled a very impressive squad for us, a testament to his professionalism and knowledge of players so to say it's just down to his demands for a substantial budget are totally wrong. It's down to bloody hard work on his part and an extremely well run financially secure club that provides a guaranteed competitive budget (not reduced during the season) and in light of recent events this has proved to be just as an important factor.

I always enjoy the matches against Welling but they are in a real mess at the moment and with the current dual owners of the club looking at the development projects as their main focus, i hope they can secure their future.

As for Peter Taylor, a genuinely decent guy who may find that outside interferences may make his task more difficult than it already is.
Skip
Posts: 124
Joined: Thu Sep 23, 2021 8:04 pm
Location: Felixstowe

Re: Peter Taylor

Post by Skip »

Buzz stop wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:03 pm
Kebabus wrote: Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:40 pm Don't really feel the need to have a Welling love in. Peter Taylor is at rock bottom, like the club he joins. It is what it is. Fools for letting the King go.
Welling let Steve King go solely because they couldn’t afford to supply the substantial budget he demands anymore. Generally wherever he’s been he puts together a great squad but it also generally comes with a higher cost than the average budget. Dartford have better finances than Welling I hope they are good enough to sustain SKs ambitions.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Welling cut Steve King's playing budget about Christmas time of his one and only season at the bus stop and he still managed to get them into the play off final? That says a lot more for Steve King’s ability to build a quality team then it does for Mark Goldberg’s financial acumen in setting a sustainable budget. Mind you, Goldberg had a little bit of well publicised previous at Crystal Palace…
Skip (now residing in Suffolk)
Buzz stop
Posts: 15
Joined: Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:08 pm

Re: Peter Taylor

Post by Buzz stop »

Skip wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:34 pm
Buzz stop wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:03 pm
Kebabus wrote: Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:40 pm Don't really feel the need to have a Welling love in. Peter Taylor is at rock bottom, like the club he joins. It is what it is. Fools for letting the King go.
Welling let Steve King go solely because they couldn’t afford to supply the substantial budget he demands anymore. Generally wherever he’s been he puts together a great squad but it also generally comes with a higher cost than the average budget. Dartford have better finances than Welling I hope they are good enough to sustain SKs ambitions.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Welling cut Steve King's playing budget about Christmas time of his one and only season at the bus stop and he still managed to get them into the play off final? That says a lot more for Steve King’s ability to build a quality team then it does for Mark Goldberg’s financial acumen in setting a sustainable budget. Mind you, Goldberg had a little bit of well publicised previous at Crystal Palace…
Correct. One or two players got released but what upset SK was he had to get rid of some of his back room staff. I think SK and Goldberg fell out big time after that. It’s testament to how good that squad was that they still made the playoffs.
I’m not knocking anyone here. I’m a big admirer of SK and of clubs that are run as clubs and not the toys of Sugar daddies.
The Dartford team that destroyed Welling the other week looks the strongest in this division since Jamie Day’s Welling team that won 12 games on the bounce on their way to the title.
Dartford will win this league by a country mile. IMO.
User avatar
JCJ
Posts: 238
Joined: Tue Sep 07, 2021 1:08 pm

Re: Peter Taylor

Post by JCJ »

I think the talk of us having a big budget is pure jealous but what annoys me is it does a disservice to Steve King himself, he works bloody hard going to games watching players and teams which shows how committed he is to the club that pays his wages,

Dartford are where they are today through sheer hard work and know how of the game on the part of Steve King nothing to do with budgets, and I believe Kingy and Dartford Fc are a perfect match and he can take us far.
M1 South
Posts: 645
Joined: Sun Sep 05, 2021 6:21 pm

Re: Peter Taylor

Post by M1 South »

Yeah Halifax, Wrexham & Torquay for starters!!
Lennylenny
Posts: 237
Joined: Fri Sep 10, 2021 10:04 pm

Re: Peter Taylor

Post by Lennylenny »

I will have a bet that our budget is not in top four or five in this league, Havant, Dorking , ebbsfleet, Maidstone , dulwich ,
GordonRoadDart
Posts: 9
Joined: Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:08 am

Re: Dartford Players of The Past

Post by GordonRoadDart »

The Futures White wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 12:52 pm Brentwood have parted company with Adam Flanagan.
Rod Stringer appointed in his place:

https://www.brentwoodtownfc.co.uk/club ... am-manager
M1 South
Posts: 645
Joined: Sun Sep 05, 2021 6:21 pm

Re: Dartford Players of The Past

Post by M1 South »

Oh……I wonder if their paths have crossed before???
J44
Posts: 12
Joined: Wed Sep 22, 2021 2:22 pm

Re: Peter Taylor

Post by J44 »

Buzz Stop
Hearsay, which you publish here.
Any facts.. I don't think so.
Buzz stop
Posts: 15
Joined: Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:08 pm

Re: Peter Taylor

Post by Buzz stop »

J44 wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:39 am Buzz Stop
Hearsay, which you publish here.
Any facts.. I don't think so.
The present Welling Utd team are crap..Fact!
How’s that?
Post Reply