Pre season friendly Dartford v Sutton Utd Sat 27 Jul 2024 @ 3pm

[Park Life]

Attendance 602

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Subs:-
Allen for Duane
Trailist for Christian-Law.

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Subs:-

Day & Kepka for Odaudu & Jones

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FT 1-0

[Spike]

That was a decent watch for a friendly and a well deserved victory for the Darts. The team is starting to take shape and I am cautiously optimistic for the season ahead. Callum Jones in particular has really caught my eye in the friendlies. He works his socks off and has already scored a few goals, you can't ask for more than that.

[KSTDART]

Its been a while since I left a Dartford match feeling this positive. Yes it was a friendly but the match never felt like one . Sutton are two leagues above us but you would have not know it , we were superb and that was without Samir and Box .

Callum Jones scores Dartford’s winner v Sutton Utd

[Lars Resort]

Things are beginning to look up. Ade and Roland are getting to work well.
What a shame Ade was not given more time at the end of last season. We could have been talking about high hopes for another NLS season.
COYD's.

[Gatekeeper]

Well done Dartford! On that performance I think you are going to have a good season.

[Eagle88]

Thanks for the info Steve

[KingKong]

Really encouraging performance all over the pitch. Also great to meet the legendary and gorgeous Sutton Sal who some may remember from the old NLS forum!

[Sleightly Deceptive]

Really encouraging performance all over the pitch. Also great to meet the legendary and gorgeous Sutton Sal who some may remember from the old NLS forum!

I wonder if she’s saying the same on the Sutton forum?

It was a breath of fresh air watching DFC with flowing attacking football. On on the grass!!

[The 5th Searcher]

Today was the first time I’ve seen this new Dartford team this season & I have to say I was very surprised & pleased at the way they played. I actually witnessed a team that wanted to play on the deck football and who gave 110% for each other all over the pitch. We battled & hassled Sutton all game and forced them into making mistakes which is something I’ve not seen for a while now at PP.
I’m not going to get to excited just yet as it’s very early days but things do look promising.

I was very impressed with the Skinner Bar for season ticket holders and like the idea of £1 for the glass which you either keep using or hand it back and get your £1 back.

Plus the new food outlets are all good as well, the quality of food & the pricing is 100 times better than previous years.

[The Duke]

Agree totally with the 5ths post and great to hear the extra fan noise generated by the small number of young Darts fans , be great when the rest come for the League games when the levels will obviously increase = an atmosphere at PP again !!!! , great as the team will respond to that !!!!!!!

[tommytollbooth]

A very decent performance by our team but I would be worried if I was a Sutton supporter they couldn't hit a cow's posterior with a musical instrument. Let's hope Callum Jones is the goalscorer Dartford have been searching for and with Olly Box and hopefully a fully fit Samir to come in things could be promising for the season which is fast approaching.

[Tony H]

First time for me too at PP this summer and really enjoyed the look and feel of the place - thank you to the Board in implementing some really good changes. Loving the Skinners Bar!

On the field, really encouraging display. DOA’s signing caused a few raised eyebrows but he’s looking really sharp and forms an exciting partnership with an impressive Callum Jones.

For sure it will be a very tough Division with a very challenging opener away to Cray Valley but, on yesterdays viewing, we’ve made some real strides in the right direction I feel.

[M1 South]

V impressed with Skinners Bar, at £5 a pint can’t argue with that!!
(oh & I don’t think Sutton will be playing league football again anytime soon??)

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[Trevor B]

Very pleased to see the way we played with all our players putting in a good performance with full commitment in attack and defence.
Both keepers pulling off good saves especially in the first half and how many consecutive corners did we have 5 or 6 was it before they managed to clear the ball up field.
We came close hitting the bar and eventually for once our luck changed when we had a very good shot which hit the post and the rebound fell to Jones to put away for our goal.

[Park Life]

Thanks for the info Steve

Update on that as well mate, i saw Olly on the pitch at HT warming up and was told he could have played but club just didn't want to risk it.
Makes sense to me as i think he will be a key player for us this season.

[The Duke]

4mins of highlights on Suttons fans forum , we got caught a few times dwelling on the ball at the back - need to get rid of that habit ???? , Sutton Fans quite impressed with us though !!!!