Pure DFC Archive

Pedro wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:32 pm Ian Hendon? Left position as assistant manager at the Fleet today.

We don't need a left position, we need a left back!

mickw wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:25 pm If this bloke King is so good why isn't he in work??

Waiting for a club willing to meet his terms, perhaps they are getting thinner on the ground these days. Most probably earning at present doing scouting reports at all these matches he attends.
It isn't unusual for out of work managers waiting for another job , or those who have no interest management, there was one at the Slough match taking copious notes. They do reports on individual players as prospective signings for a club, or sizing up opponents they have an upcoming fixture with.

Llamaman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:00 pm

mickw wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:25 pm If this bloke King is so good why isn't he in work??

Waiting for a club willing to meet his terms, perhaps they are getting thinner on the ground these days. Most probably earning at present doing scouting reports at all these matches he attends.
It isn't unusual for out of work managers waiting for another job , or those who have no interest management, there was one at the Slough match taking copious notes. They do reports on individual players as prospective signings for a club, or sizing up opponents they have an upcoming fixture with.

This is complete nonsense. From a friend of a friend I'm told that he has stated what a huge club Dartford are and is a feeling he has expressed constantly and feels he can take us as far as DFC want to go. Now that's what I'm told, true or not, I'm going to run with it as my thinking is we can go all the way with Mr. King and we cannot possibly employ anyone better.. From all the people I speak to at other clubs they say that there is no one out there as good as him. All I can do is look at his track record and this totally backs this up. More importantly he took a semi pro club into a professional capacity and not only that, got them into the football league. Our hope for the near future. He could easily move to many clubs. To me at least and I admit I have a pea sized brain but this is a fantastic opportunity. One more point, I believe the greatest 2 non league players i have seen over the decades were TB and Terry Sullivan. Now when Terry Sullivan joined DFC I was in amazement that we had signed one of the greatest players we could. This is exactly the same feeling I'm getting now. Believe me please when I say 2 fans from 2 local rivals are praying that Mr King doesn't join us as they firmly feel that we will do incredibly well with his knowledge and leave them trailing. I promise you they mean it.

Complete nonsense? Explain what part of the post please, Steve King is not employed as a football manager at present, I would presume with his record he is not short of opportunities, so he obviously waiting for his terms he is happy with to be satisfied. Perhaps Dartford is that club we shall soon find out. If you disagree, or have some relative information to clarify things, there is no need to dismiss someone's point of view when it has been reasonably put as complete nonsense, its not polite - bad form and all that. Anyway if S. K. ends up at P. P. I am now expecting to see the Darts in the Championship within a decade, providing this old git can last that long. Can I have a guarantee ?

The nonsense wasnt personal to you and I apologise if you think it was. All I know from many people, is just how highly regarded this man is that's all. From my angle I can only go on his record and more importantly achievements. You look at it and no one can beat it. Let's just leave it at that. I simply wouldnt respond at all but I just see so many comments that are either invented or that as I say are simply wrong. I then just feel I have to say something. Guarantee the football league I couldnt guarantee it but I tell you this he is the only man who could get us there. His record proves it. But before all of that is the requirement to go from semi pro to working mornings a week. Hes done that so who really better equipped would there be. Not only that but he reached the football league with that team Macclesfield. There you go 1974 they've done that why cant we. Look let's just wait and see but as I said earlier this to me would be the equivalent of the great Terry Sullivan signing it really would be that huge. I really hope I really do.
Kind regards
Reginald Theodore Horsfield

I see from the Messenger that interviews will start next week.

Reginald. Please don't cite Macclesfield. Today, once again, for the umpteenth time, they are reported as their players not receiving their wages. They are a team running beyond their means and budget. That is why many of our fans mention keeping to within our budget.
Mind you, a good FA Cup run could do wonders for us!!

COYD

Darryl McMahon hailed as a great manager. What!!!! Millions a season as a budget and squeaked in via the play offs and then against 10. Employed as a messiah and look at whe he has achieved now without backing financially. Thats my point. Nothing. A few months soon he will be drawing his dollar without a care. Hey a blasphemous term " for christ sake" we cannot go out of a budget and correctly so. So why are you all worried. Stay as we are all tick along. A good social club. No not for me. Everyone should understand that the old guard via natural ageing has happened and whilst brilliant is no longer . Lets move on to where we aspire too. Now if people want to be a drink up boys club then that's fine. If they truly want to be a football club then do the right thing and not squander this chance. Please please please. It may never occur again. And believe me it may never. I beg the board to take us to another level. Not maybe instantaneously but with Mr King and Mr Burman you will not and you will not find two greater people to lead Dartford football club.

spike wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:28 pm So the main contenders would seem to be Jay Saunders, Steve King, Bobby Wilkinson, Brad Quinton … and possibly Scott Lindsey?

Can cross Scott Lindsey off the list, he’s just taken over at Chatham!

A bit of a shame if Scott was on the original Interview list. But his return to Kent appears not directly linked to our Vacancy.

Each interview gives the Board a variety of experience, views and perceptions, from outside our Club, to balance against any criteria they may have set or discussed. Presume we are down to four, from what I have read on here.

Personally, I nail my hopes on positive structure and development, based on where we actually fit, in the Financial reality outside the 'Honeypot' Football League.

But I accept that many will disagree, and want boom for their buck, in order to follow the cause.- It's not a case of 'Right' or 'Wrong', just expectations and perceptions. Good Luck to both sides of the Interviews !.