Ajaxman DFC wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:47 am
No excuses next season. Alan Dowson will have a full pre-season to assemble a Championship winning squad.
Apparently we have good players but truly good players consistently perform week in week out.
There were two outstanding teams in this league last season. The football might not have always been pretty but they got the results.
Dorking have an incredible history getting promoted every other season, stability followed by promotion.
I agree the National League is tougher than it was in 2010 but just look at the crowds some of these clubs are attracting. In turn this entices more coverage from broadcasters etc.
Plus only one FA Cup round to get through to enter the draw for that plumb tie.
Who doesn't want some of that?
Dorking remind me of Wealdstone. They are finding their feet at the level and I'm sure they will stay up. Unlike Maidstone who have f****d it up. Which if their game plan was anything like their crowd safety policy then I'm not in the least surprised.
I've got a lot of respect for Marc White who I used to think was a gobby so and so and was always waiting for him to fall flat on his face. I only used to watch his post-match interviews when his team lost. But my estimations of him rocketed, especially during Covid.
He's got a lot of good local sponsors behind him. Which leads me to wonder if there is more potential for us to do the same.
I'm sure the sponsors we have on board so far are very good.
Bericote must be an excellent assett to have behind us if it was worth changing the name of the stadium for.
As the town continues to grow it will create more untapped opportunities for investment in the club.
I was surprised the plans for the town centre were blocked on the grounds that Dartford is a market town.
Well it's not any longer, unless you believe having a glorified boot fair on Thursdays and Saturdays, on a disaster of a pedestrianised high street, that's being constantly dug up and used as a race track at night, qualifies as a market town.
I was born in Dartford and remember when it was a real market town. And it didn't involved two shopping centres charging exhorbitant rents either.
Infact the area which is now the Priory Centre used to be a proper farmers market including livestock. In those days we could have done a Hereford and paraded a bull around the pitch on match days.
Although after saturday's performance maybe a couple of donkeys would be more appropiate.