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Frustrating and disappointing that we failed twice to see the game out. Wasn’t there so I’ll have to wait for the highlights but SD’s description doesn’t sound pretty. If I understand the league rules correctly that’s Olly suspended for Brentwood as it will come into effect after Saturday.

As much as I’d love an FAT run, I’d rest every player if it gave us an edge Saturday week

What an absolute shit show of a performance, not one single leader on the pitch!
After Saturday I thought we might have turned the corner, but nope we hit the self district button again.

Every season we are in this league is a failure!

No MOTM for me.

Self destruction button pushed AGAIN stupid free kick to give away for there 1st BUT again Henley moaning at his defence but he's 6ft something doesn't come for crosses HELP YA FOOKING TEAM OUT as for free kick at end does he need glasses to line a fooking wall up shocking
As for olly and our disciplinary record is shocking something needs to change quickly

Totally escaped with a point despite taking the lead twice tonight. Some good football on display but certainly none from the home team in the second half. Loads of panicked hoofballs high, wide and not at all handsome. Think Box’s second yellow may have been for handball, or possibly a dive as he gathered the ball on the floor. I wasn’t convinced it was a foul, much like the one which gifted BH their second equaliser. Never been so sure a free kick would be scored.

We ought to have been out of sight at half time, simple as that. A game which looked exciting statistically but was a shambles.

Really poor standard of Football. We are 2-0 up and miss a penalty, we 2-1 up and they go down to 10 Men, we are 3-2 up the wall shows the Guy the other corner and the Keeper is beaten easily. Note all of there 3 Goals were from Free Kicks which were given away needlessly in dangerous areas, we certainly aren't going anywhere this season.

Beyond disappointing result and performance. With all due respect to Burgess Hill, they were shockingly bad, but aren’t 90% of teams we’ve played this season? Maybe this is what I should expect to be watching every Saturday and the odd Tuesday, maybe this is the norm for Dartford Football club now as we’re very evidently not better than the majority of the teams we face. Game management shocking once again, subs too late + Samir should’ve been subbed on the second they went down to ten, if not before, but once again Pennock too stubborn and hesitant. Completely imploded second half and forgot how to play football, constant hoof and hope to poor Callum jones who must be driven into the ground. No togetherness + fight in the squad, surrendered once again to poor, set piece goals. Long way to go but 14 points off the top, it’s so so bleak.

May I add, Bracknell Bowed out the FA cup qualifying rounds tonight, suffering a 0-3 home defeat in a replay against Flackwell Heath. They’re sat bottom of their division with just one win, have sacked their manager + We failed to beat them on 2 occasions and bowed out the FA cup at the first time of asking again…

For 80 minutes of that game tonight we had absolutely no control. So very untidy in midfield, toothless in attack and, at times, back to our unorganised selves in defence. In my humble opinion far from good enough - no better than a mid-table performance.

I could berate the referee who, like most of his peers this season, was totally inept, but our performance was not of his making.

A glimmer of hope last Saturday has been quickly extinguished with this evenings dire showing.

Sorry, no one player is deserving of MoM this evening. Thoroughly frustrating times for us this season. Frankly, I can now see and believe that we are a shadow of the team we were last season and things must change.

Pennock out!
We are a terrible watch and it’s not going to
Change.
Henly shouldn’t be starting let alone captain.
First half should have been out of sight, second half we are hanging on for dear life.
Make a change now before it’s too late!

Didn't post after the Aveley game as i was out Saturday night and just couldn't be bothered on Sunday and that's how i feel atm. Similar to our second half performance tonight.

Yes first half we played well and could possibly have been another goal up but second half you have to question the players attitude, they just sat back and showed little ambition or desire until Burgess Hill equalised.

We were playing a team at home who are just off the relegation places, second bottom on current form and on what i saw tonight probably the worse side we have played this season. They were full of unforced errors and wayward passes and yet we still couldn't beat them and at times in the second half with 10 men they were the better side. Even when they were down to 10 men we had all 11 back at corners, a total lack of belief on our part and i think that's the state we're in currently, so fragile when things go against us with no game management and leaders on the pitch. Unfortunately i think we also lack real leadership right through the club.

We're at a bit of a crossroads and the next month or so will not only shape our future on the pitch but possibly of it as well. Just plodding along hoping it will come good on the pitch and everything will be ok is not good enough.

IMO, every season in this division is failure for the club.

Amazing goalkeeping

Kermo18 wrote: Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:12 pm

Amazing goalkeeping

And for the third! Henly is an abomination. How Ady can regard him as Skipper material is really beyond me. I’ve given Ady my 100% backing of late. It’s now wearing very thin. We look out of our depth in the f*cking Isthmian League for f*cks sake. Leaderless. Clueless. Someone upstairs is gonna have to grow some balls soon or we’re f*cked!

What a disappointing performance against a poor opposition. With a penalty at 2-0, it should be game over. The penalty was saved and we failed to come out for the second half until the score was 2-2. Even then a lucky deflection gave us the lead back, but we could not hold on at home to see the game out.

One clean sheet at the end of September is not good enough.

Another useless official in my opinion, is not sufficient excuse for our poor performance. How their number ten stayed on the pitch, but Olly was dismissed, will remain a mystery to me as I believe that said opponent commited the worst two challenges of a very average match in terms of foul play. This was not a two red card match by anybody's standard. Two more points dropped. Please don't anybody shout about unbeaten runs until we start winning against such average opposition.

Good luck for Saturday and the Trophy. I fear that we will need it.

The comment of being in this league is a failure is absolutely right. We should never have been here in the first place considering we was a nailed on Conference South play off contender year in and year out, now suddenly we can’t beat Burgess Hill at home? Shocking mentality. I saw enough of Henry at Dulwich to know he isn’t going to secure us any points, just give them away all season and when he was named captain rather than dropped that was my first sign of the season that it could be a long and hard slog of a watch again this year

The comment of being in this league is a failure is absolutely right. We should never have been here in the first place considering we was a nailed on Conference South play off contender year in and year out, now suddenly we can’t beat Burgess Hill at home? Shocking mentality. I saw enough of Henly at Dulwich to know he isn’t going to secure us any points, just give them away all season and when he was named captain rather than dropped that was my first sign of the season that it could be a long and hard slog of a watch again this year

Wow, three times. I think you got your point across.
Thank goodness I wasn't there. A bit of a change from Saturday.
At 2-0 up I am very disappointed. All the talk from Ade and Roland and we're still not in any sort of form.
What next at Hadley? They must be thinking of a bit of giant killing, they'll be disappointed on the size of the giant too.
I am doubly disappointed as Bodø were 2 up against Spurs.

The way things are panning out I am not expecting much at Brentwood. Still, makes for an interesting season.

We are a very fragile club atm . The performance until the penalty miss was excellent. The pen should have been taken by Sam no 3
Once the the pen didn’t go in we lacked confidence snd came out in the second in a frantic mess. The coaches were all frantic as were the players. I have no idea if the coaches were frantic first which spread to the players or the other way around.
At times the players were waiting for the coaches to tell them when to press. That’s astonishing as every player shouldn’t need to be told who to press and when.
As others have said not to win when 2 up in twenty minutes and 3-2 up with 5 minutes left is very bad
How the players list confidence after such a good start is beyond me
I am thinking of motm and cannot pick any of the starting 11 as they all made mistakes after the first 30 minutes.
How the keeper didn’t come off his line for the free kick goal is astonishing. If he had come and punched the ball away taking out the player at the same time the ref would have still given a free kick to the keeper for obstruction as they always do
Sorry but I have zero confidence in the keeper.
Strangely I give motm to Dan as he did nothing wrong in his cameo. He plays like a proper centre forward and does not run around like a headless chicken. I hope he is now fit to play and he cements his place in the team and scores regularly
This is a very erratic league and all is not lost yet. Ade and the coaches need to calm down reevaluate the season and start again

Didn't go so I was spared all the "fun".
Eight games and just 2 wins.
After reading all the posts I am joining the ranks of ,annoyed and frustrated fans who are getting more.and more dissatisfied every week.

There will always be the hard-core fans who follow the club every where but believe me Mr Pennock
THIS AINT GOOD ENOUGH.

Just updating my records this morning and I see that I have now witnessed one win in seven games, yet also only one defeat. Draws appear the order of the day. No 0-0, or 5-5, but everything in between. Perhaps more of note is that in the eighteen matches that I watched last season, we conceded twenty goals. I have seen us concede fifteen already this season at a rate of more than two per match.

To find a similar defensive performance in matches I have watched, I have to look back to 2010/11 when we conceded sixteen in the first seven matches. We had been promoted the previous year. However, five of those conceded were scored by Port Vale over two FA Cup matches. We finished tenth that season with a flat goal difference having both scored and conceded sixty goals in the league.

To pick up a point from a previous post, I have no idea if Henly is good captain material or not. However, what I observe is that opponents' captains spend the entire match in the ear of the ref, constantly complaining and making observations and their opinions known. I am sure that this has an effect, as must they be, or they would not do it. We surrender this opportunity every time that we name our goalkeeper as captain.