Play off Final - Dartford v Dover Athletic Mon 5 May 2025

[Park Life]

Attendance 3805

[Park Life]

Sub:-
Pinder & Dsane for Carruthers & Okoye

[ozymandias]

Not creating a thing. Dover are poor and we're not much better..We need that goal, we can turn it around.

[Park Life]

0-2

[Park Life]

Sub;-
Dunne for Whitefield

[SKennedyDFC]

Full time:

Dartford 0-2 Dover Athletic

[Mark Sweet]

Bottled it again imagine my surprise

Marsden is an absolute joke of a keeper, should be the first one out of the door this summer.

[Ken Shabby]

Followed this on the commentary so no idea how it transpired, but it sounded as if Dover came with a game plan which worked perfectly for them. They seemed to have our atracking threat closed down and taken their goal and promotion.
Gutted, but you have to say the team and manager turned this around. I'd have bitten your arm off for a play off place in October.
But we're stuck here for next season. Let's hope we build on the foundations.

[ozymandias]

Poor game. Didn't deserve it. Not sure the best team won. Not a lot to choose from both.
Still I'm sure Sweet would have enjoyed it.
Denzelle by a long way our best player.

[Mark Sweet]

Followed this on the commentary so no idea how it transpired, but it sounded as if Dover came with a game plan which worked perfectly for them. They seemed to have our atracking threat closed down and taken their goal and promotion.
Gutted, but you have to say the team and manager turned this around. I'd have bitten your arm off for a play off place in October.
But we're stuck here for next season. Let's hope we build on the foundations.

And that's exactly why the club is where it is at

Relegated after fighting playoffs to the National Prem for years and people are happy with Isthmian playoffs, knowing what will happen with our playoffs record.


We were awful all over the pitch. 2nd best to everything and Dover deserved the win.

[Mark Sweet]

Attendance 3805

Board will be delighted. May not have gone up but at least we got a good attendance!

[DA1]

Poor game, poor result.

Dover weren’t anything special but done a job on us as we just didn’t turn up.

Foundations are there for next season but how many players can we realistically keep? This was our chance this year to go up and we blew it. Next year won’t be any easier.

Oh well, see you in July! COYD

[Dorset Dart]

Difficult to take yet another play off disappointment, but being as objective as possible I think the better team won out today. We created very little from open play but credit to Dover who defended very solidly and always looked dangerous on the break.

[Sleightly Deceptive]

Bottled it again imagine my surprise

Marsden is an absolute joke of a keeper, should be the first one out of the door this summer.

Second out of the door. YOU should be the first. f*ck off somewhere else. And when you get there, f*ck off from there too.

[Mark Sweet]

Bottled it again imagine my surprise

Marsden is an absolute joke of a keeper, should be the first one out of the door this summer.

Second out of the door. YOU should be the first. f*ck off somewhere else. And when you get there, f*ck off from there too.

I pay my money I am entitled to my opinion.

[Number Six]

Bottled it again imagine my surprise

Marsden is an absolute joke of a keeper, should be the first one out of the door this summer.

Second out of the door. YOU should be the first. f*ck off somewhere else. And when you get there, f*ck off from there too.

I pay my money I am entitled to my opinion.

We’re not really interested in your opinion

[Dart of Herts]

Bottled it again imagine my surprise

Marsden is an absolute joke of a keeper, should be the first one out of the door this summer.

Second out of the door. YOU should be the first. f*ck off somewhere else. And when you get there, f*ck off from there too.

I pay my money I am entitled to my opinion.

To be fair if you gave me a fiver every time you spewed your rubbish I wouldn’t mind it as much

[JCJ]

Bottled it again imagine my surprise

Marsden is an absolute joke of a keeper, should be the first one out of the door this summer.

Mark Sweet is an absolute joke of a supporter and should never be allowed on this forum

[Dart of Herts]

Anyway… real fan’s opinion (I paid with Monopoly money)

We were second best today. Agree with other comments that neither side was brilliant but Dover set up better. We got turned too many times in midfield as well.

Proud of the lads for getting this far. We will lose one or two players but we go again

[Top Cat]

Becoming Par for the course when DFC reach a play off , never turn up when it matters . Can except a defeat if we actually put in a performance , but a couple of lame shots at goal over 90 minutes is not good enough at any level , especially in a play off final at home . You can say Dover done a job on us , but they weren’t that great and they didn’t have to be today . So another season in the Isthmian league it is
Awful game !