Boxing Day Kick Off vs Welling United

[Kentc]

Lee Noble fantastic.
Ryan Hayes totally ineffective and worst player on the pitch. No way did he give 100% no matter how popular he is.
A and J seem to not have a clue and were out though and their team outplayed.

Team selection wrong.
Tactically didn’t work, hoof it to JP.
Thank goodness for Lee Noble. His work ethic matched his quality and they only one really playing decent football......again.
Defence under a lot of pressure.

Even though it’s not why we lost, probably worst officials for many years and there’s been a few.

Disappointed with Wellings constant diving, exaggeratiing and surrounding the ref.
Mills only booked for stamping on TBone, their 8 made 2 footage lunge early on.
Ref got so many decisions wrong it was shocking even by our levels standard.

I genuinely have no clue what A and J are doing now apart from resorting to hoofball and target men tactics with some Lee Noble quality thrown in every week.
They have to start taking some responsibility and stop saying the players performance isn’t what it should be. It’s partly their job to get the performance from them and it can’t always be the players fault.

We have no identity on the pitch as a team. This is down to A and J.
I really want them to have time but we’re clueless and the players look without direction.
Seems to be long balls again now, hoof it to JP and get him to hold it up or bring others in. The football we played on the deck at the start of the season has gone.

The better team won, outplayed and out thought. I thought all but 1 of our players gave everything today but I’ve no idea what the management team are doing with them.

[One Nil]

Welling better than us in mostly all departments and deserved the win.
First half set up was awful. Cannot play a lightweight like Philpot as a lead and expect anything - he adds nothing, just follows the play. Persisting with him says more about the managers' current confusion than anything. Ryno had a mare, no worse, and Bradders was played out of position first half - if you are going to bring him back for a derby then play him where it can count i.e. as they did for the second half where he was effective and our impact ahead of him was far better, especially with two up front. Nobes was re-energised by it, and had a fine second half because he was out of it first half too just like everyone else.

[Dartford Knight]

Apart from lee noble our whole midfield and attack are Ryman league quality

[Kentc]

Welling better than us in mostly all departments and deserved the win.
First half set up was awful. Cannot play a lightweight like Philpot as a lead and expect anything - he adds nothing, just follows the play. Persisting with him says more about the managers' current confusion than anything. Ryno had a mare, no worse, and Bradders was played out of position first half - if you are going to bring him back for a derby then play him where it can count i.e. as they did for the second half where he was effective and our impact ahead of him was far better, especially with two up front. Nobes was re-energised by it, and had a fine second half because he was out of it first half too just like everyone else.

Noble May of not been effective first half as they dominated us and he was left exposed. He was our best player that half too.
Ryno is a luxury player but he needs to put more in.
It’s been noted we improved in 2nd half but this was mainly after 60 mins when Ryan went off.
If Noble had a game like Ryno he’d be slaughtered but it’s crazy how some give certain players a break and judge on different levels for different players.
I know Rynos strengths and there are certain things he is not great at, this is accepted as his talents the other way can be exceptional.
However he needs to put in all he can and today he didn’t. Terrible performance carried by the others.
Amazing how he can be so poor and get a break when others would be highly criticised.

[Ajaxman DFC]

Two Tribes Frankie Goes to Hollywood as the teams emerge from the tunnel. Dartford v Newport County. Final score 2-1 courtesy of a late winner by Richard Rose. And that was one of many top flight ex league clubs we took down that season. Fast forward to the farce of a season we find ourselves in now. Forget Frankie. Talking Heads with Road to No Where is more appropriate to the direction we're heading in now. As for today, this was the worst derby I've seen for a long time against the Village People.

[Buzz stop]

The better team won. Better all over the pitch. Better team won end off. NYD Dartford will be better. Surely they can’t be any worse. Can they.

[babylon]

I hate to admit it but we were clueless on and off the pitch.
Outplayed,out thought and no direction whatsoever!.
It is not losing that gets me ,it is the way we lost today that is really
Frustrating.
Is there a striker in this club who is capable of scoring 10 goals
in a season........answers on a postcard
OUR GOALS FOR COLUMN DOES NOT LIE!!
IT AIN'T GOOD ENOUGH!

[DA Mikey]

We all slag Welling and PVR off, but it’s only when you are squeezing past each other by the bins behind the main stand to swap ends, slipping down the death trap steps on the terracing and queueing out of the door / ground for the bar / turnstile that it really dawns just how laughably awful it really is and that this club have incredibly more than once been tier five.

That aside, they are better at football than us which is arguably and frustratingly the main thing, especially since they are not very good.

[Ozymandias]

Hey ajax, if you are naming groups now, how about Elbow? I didn't go to the game and quite frankly, I'm glad about that.
Sounds like we have our Player of the Year mid way thru the season, Noble is the only player winning anything this season.
I do not fancy our chances at PP against this crowd and I'm only reading that from posts on here.
Much nicer walking by the sea yesterday.
Happy New Year everyone. See you on the 1st.

[paulnorwich]

Not only were we very poor but for the first time ever I felt no option but to move from where I was standing in the first half. Players get stick for errors which is par for the course but some of what I heard was so distasteful it made feel ashamed to be a Darts fan. I’m no prude and have been watching football for over 45 years and heard all sorts but sometimes enough is enough. We are in a transitional season and are so inconsistent it’s unreal but it is like that sometimes. DFC have brought me and my family lots of joy and disappointment over the years which is why we go week in week out home and away but I can’t help feeling we as a club really are standing still now right now. Let’s all hope 2019 brings us a change of fortune. Happy New Year!