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Good job Alex Wall wasn’t playing

Buzz stop wrote:Be prepared for an afternoon of cheating,time wasting and general anti football tactics. Horrible team of so called footballers. I hope you smash them.

Just what I was thinking, during and after the match, but before reading this post. I was reminded very much of their county cousins, String-'im-up City. Shame we couldn't smash them.

Oh dear, that was so disappointing - a game we really should have won slipped away from us again.
That's not to say that this was a good Dartford performance - it wasn't by a long chalk with mistakes all over the pitch.
Earlier this season I congratulated the management team for making substitutions when they were needed and not leaving it til the 75th minute (which we were long used to). Today they certainly let me down.
Master Coker may have some merits but he keeps them well hidden as far as I am concerned. He was inept from the very start and whilst it may have been worth hoping he would improve before half time, he certainly didn't deserve to continue for the second half. Ryno has his detractors but he caused more chaos in the opposition box in his first 10 minutes that Coker had done in the whole of his 70 minutes.
Agree that the ref was very poor, but I thought that Nobes talked his way into the book unnecessarily.
MoM is a toughie - Nobes not effective though busy, Bradders played well, Greenhalgh faded in and out but I thought that Roberts put in a shift throughout the game and always looked a threat so he gets it from me.
PS Did I see Andy Pugh out on the pitch doing exercises before kick off? Hope so cos we could do with his skills in games like todays.

My first game for a couple of months and have to say quality was very poor. I was all for a change of management but tony was always going to be a hard act to follow. Adam and Jamie are relatively inexperienced but they need time and as fat as I am concerned they have my full support but having cocked up the squad and ruined the season they need to work hard to get it right next season
As for the game there was no plan and no pattern of play. Basically we are a team of individuals, some flashes of good work from noble bradbrook greenhalgh and especially from Roberts.unfortunately nothing knitted together
Basically I do not understand how some posters are so positive , blind faith I suppose
As for concord they are a team of ruffians , whoever the manager of that lot is he should be ashamed of himself, absolute filth
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Charlie also showed individual skills and image Roberts man of the match

mickw wrote:Oh dear, that was so disappointing - a game we really should have won slipped away from us again.
That's not to say that this was a good Dartford performance - it wasn't by a long chalk with mistakes all over the pitch.
Earlier this season I congratulated the management team for making substitutions when they were needed and not leaving it til the 75th minute (which we were long used to). Today they certainly let me down.
Master Coker may have some merits but he keeps them well hidden as far as I am concerned. He was inept from the very start and whilst it may have been worth hoping he would improve before half time, he certainly didn't deserve to continue for the second half. Ryno has his detractors but he caused more chaos in the opposition box in his first 10 minutes that Coker had done in the whole of his 70 minutes.
Agree that the ref was very poor, but I thought that Nobes talked his way into the book unnecessarily.
MoM is a toughie - Nobes not effective though busy, Bradders played well, Greenhalgh faded in and out but I thought that Roberts put in a shift throughout the game and always looked a threat so he gets it from me.
PS Did I see Andy Pugh out on the pitch doing exercises before kick off? Hope so cos we could do with his skills in games like todays.

Noble not effective but busy.......you’re clueless

Noble not effective but busy.......you’re clueless[/quote]

Thank you

I was so optimistic this morning but once again, despite being the better side throughout and managing to get ourselves in front, we managed to toss away a couple of valuable points. I was very surprised and disappointed by Concord's thuggery, they were lucky to lose only one player as Essam should also have been sent off in the first half. The ref clearly went to his pocket for the yellow card before changing his mind when he realised it would have meant a red. Nevertheless, we could and should have won this game.

Nobes and Ben were both excellent throughout today, although Ryno also made a huge impact when he came on and with his presence, we very nearly grabbed a deserved winner. Brilliant as Nobes was (and always is), his silly yellow card was just enough to tip my MOTM scales towards Ben. Everyone in the ground could see the ref's inadequacies, it wasn't necessary for Nobes to point them out to him as we can do that on here, but I'll come to that later.

So, for the second league game in a row, daft mistakes have cost us dear. Even more unfortunate was that in consecutive league games, it was the same player that gifted the opposition their equaliser. In my opinion, it's just not been working for Coker. Today he was barely noticeable going forward and needlessly handling and giving away the penalty was arguably the only significant contribution that he made to the game. I can't help thinking that we made the substitution a bit too late, but then if I'm honest, I would have made it at 2.55pm. I don't deny I've always been firmly in the pro Ryno camp, but on the evidence that I've seen, even Darbyshire or Cue would have been ahead of Coker on my list. It's a strange one, because Coker was once rated highly enough to earn a 2 year deal at Crystal Palace and our management duo do keep picking the lad, so I guess there MUST be more to Andre than we've seen so far. I hope he goes on to ram these words down my throat and prove me wrong, he wouldn't be the first player to do so.

Also, can't finish up without mentioning the referee who appeared to be completely out of his depth (both physically and metaphorically). Bottling Essam's sending off was bad enough but he's the first ref I've ever seen accidentally kick off the second half without noticing that one side didn't have a goalkeeper on the field. I'm also curious as to what the laws of the game say about stopping and restarting a game that has already kicked off. There's no law that says you have to have a goalkeeper so I'm not sure that was the correct course of action. By the time the ref noticed his mistake and stopped play, Concord's keeper was already on his way back to his penalty area and you could argue that he might have been yellow carded for entering the field of play without permission. Had we scored in that short period before the mistake was noticed it could have been interesting. Had THEY scored, maybe even more so.

Ah well, so it's Woking up next and whilst we have enough quality to get a favourable result, success will surely require that we navigate the entire 90+ mins without yet again making silly errors and needlessly gifting goals to our opponents.