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Andy Young

1 (1.1%)

Billy Burgess

3 (3.4%)

Adam Gross

3 (3.4%)

Adam Flanagan

2 (2.3%)

Jamie Coyle

4 (4.5%)

Danny Dafter

2 (2.3%)

Danny Harris

2 (2.3%)

James White

3 (3.4%)

Rob Haworth

0 (0%)

Lee Burns

18 (20.5%)

Elliot Bradbrook

35 (39.8%)

Ryan Hayes (Sub)

11 (12.5%)

Carl Rook (Sub)

2 (2.3%)

Lee Noble (Sub)

2 (2.3%)

Total Members Voted: 87

Voting closed: February 09, 2010, 08:23:23 PM

[The Duke]

we have a squad of 21 players and it is obvious to all [ including our back four who dont have the confidence to give them the ball ] that our midfield do NOT have the history of playing at TOP  ryman league level and therefore we have no-one able to create anything so the ball just gets lumped up in the air  from the back to to the front men

my view is that out of the 21 , 4 should go and the cash from their wages spent on [ 2 ?] proven [BSS if possible ] quality midfielders OR it could turn out to be a disappointing season 

YES ,  we were flying before xmas and creating chances  , thanks ryno and the departed jamie day BUT it aint happening now !!!!!!!

sutton were NOT  good side with the worst No 5 I have seen this season but he can head a ball  , so didnt have a bad game , we had 4 really good chances but in this league goals to chances ratios have to be high or lose games !!!!!!!!

my MOTM was eliot bradbrook UP THE DARTS

[theajaxman]

Poor home performance again , when was our last good one?

You have to go back to 13 Oct 2009 for our last convincing decent home performance when we beat Tonbridge 2-0, which came on the back of the 1-4 drubbing we received from Chelsmford City 3 days earlier.

[The Duke]

ANYONE know whether the 50- 50 wasCLAIMED today IF NOT please ron what were the winning numbers

IF I have WON  , I will donate £20 to the club [ honest !!]

UP THE DARTS

[DartHerb]

After another poor Home performance is anyone worried the bubble has burst ?
As someone said earlier we have been getting away with it for a while and the big lead is dwindling.
It has been lucky that no other team can put a run together to be right with the Darts at the top.

Tonbridge now becomes a must WIN game to get back on track!!!!!! 

[pokerface]

Following from DartHerbs post, I am not sure whether its a case of the bubble bursting or simply other teams improving, Perhaps other teams are working us out and simply playing to their strengths, which seem to be our weaknesses.

As disappointing as todays performance was, i thought that we played to the oppositions strong points. The quicker the ball went up, the quicker it came back! With the central midfield pairing we had today, we seemed to be giving the other side the initiative. We simply dont seem to be able to keep the ball in our attacking third. If you dont play with wide players in the side and play two defensive minded players in the middle, where does the creativity come from?

One final thing, I thought that that the opposing manager was a catalyst for a lot of the confrontation and excessive aggression in todays game. From where I was, he was clearly signaling an over aggressive attitude and i think that this only sought to disrupt us while acting as a bench-mark for the way that his side should conduct themselves. Every foul by Sutton player resulted in a run  of the mill restart whilst every foul by a Dartford player resulted in 1 x ref, 2 x linos and numerous Sutton players getting involved! Not black and white specs, more of an objective observation.

 

[Dartford Knight]

The duke - roger and fleetboy are spot on
1. We can buy as many strikers as we want but it won't matter if our midfield can't control the game.
2. Our best momenets came when ryan came on the pitch ...how could we leave him out ??
3. We should get rid of at least 4 players and get in 2 quality midfileders.

If we don't we may still win the league but next season we will get murdered in the blue square south and we want to go up playing good football surely with bags of confidence.

Whitey's game has suffered since Jamie Left the two of them together controlled games and Whitey was getting better and better - he is only young and Jamie complimented him ...we need someone similar to take the reigns in midfield with white and let Bradbrook and ryan do the business on the flanks

[HITCHIN DART]

On reflection today was in my opinion the low point of the season it aint gonna get worse that that I am sure (hope I wont regret that statement!!)....

A team that includes Burns, (fit again) Bradbrook, Rook,Ryno, Harris et al aint bad folks but they need to be selected and play together. Would like to see Noble getting a run of 5/6 games as well!

At the moment we seem to have at least 2 changes a game that cannot be helping the flow of our game!

1 cause for concern:- A quick look at the prog today and I see we have 4 games in a row at home coming up and our home form aint too great at the moment.........NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Mr.Jol (softcore)]

A team that includes Burns, (fit again) Bradbrook, Rook,Ryno, Harris et al aint bad folks but they need to be selected and play together. Would like to see Noble getting a run of 5/6 games as well!

At the moment we seem to have at least 2 changes a game that cannot be helping the flow of our game!

 

[Dave T]

Very poor today  I've been saying that we've "getting away with it" since Bognor at home

Bognor   Home  2 0 down against bottom of table   we nicked a point at the death for 3 3

Waltham Abbey 1 0 down   with 10 men  we turned it round to win 2 1

Hornchurch 1 0 down and we were never in it !

Cray at home  1 0 down   we were poor but nicked a draw

Cray away  2 0 up but scrapped a  2 1 win

Carshalton 1 0 down at home   grabbed a point but were never worthy winners


I'm sure TB and the team can see a trend here    apartfrom smashing Canvey 52 we have been poor for 2 months plus

Let's get it sorted  Come on you darts !!

Lets try this

Young Burgess Coyle Flanagan Gross hayes Bradbrook Burns Noble Rook harris

I wasn't there today, tempted to say I'm glad, but I'm not. The team needs as much support as possible as we go through this sticky period.  I think Paul is right though, and as he probably realises (I'm sure TB does) the Bognor game was the first after Jamie Day's departure and whilst I'm sure TB is doing all he can to find a like for like replacement, this does illustrate just how influential JD was to us... surely even you must acknowledge this now Silverado?

Come on you Darts, nothing that a confidence boosting top drawer performance won't put right.... apart from a class central mifielder of course!!!!

[The 5th Searcher]

We seriously need to get in at least 1 if not 2 bloody good central midfield players as we was completely lost today. Alan Poulton (Suttons number eight) completely controlled the midfield for them whilst he was on but was also in the middle of all the aggro when it started and was constantly surrounding the ref at every foul as well as putting in a few dirty/nasty tackles.

Whether it be Burns / Harris or Bradbrook (at present) we HAVE TO have 1 of these in the central midfield position who can put the boot in get the ball down and play the the forwards in and who can also pick up the ball from the defence and know what to do with it without just lumping it up field or kicking it anywhere.

The way we are going at present it won't be very long at all before Kingstonian are right up there with us looking to take top spot. We are now only 7pts ahead of them although they have played 2 games more than us although that means nothing as we seem to be dropping the points.

My MOTM vote went to Lee Burns today.

Burns & Bradbrook have got most of the votes so far, Ryno has got 4 and somehow James White has even got a vote  .

Unless we really do something at Tonbridge next Saturday then i can only see a similar result happening at present. I could be wrong but i thought i'd heard something about a gentlemans agreement with Tonbridge  that Carl Rook wouldn't play against them, if thats the case then thats 1 forward less for next Saturday.

[HITCHIN DART]

Bugger the gentlemans agreement (As you can see with Mr J Terry there aint many gentlemen in football nowadays anyway) 3 points at stake and Rook should play!!!

[The 5th Searcher]

I agree but i can't see it happening.

[rambo]

we start the game with no width.people call for harris to start wide left so he does at hayes expense.this meand that harris naturally spends a lot of the time inside hence never goes past anyone on the right , rarely is wide right so burgess has no one to give the ball to and it looks as if burgess plays his worst game in a dfc shirt,not his fault.
bradbrook starts wide left but very early drifts inside but but then we have nobody on the laft because gross will not overlap.
sutton play 5 in midfield and one up front.we are outnumbered in midfield so i assume we try to counter this by telling harris and bradbrook to stay inside more .we are still outnumbered in midfield because we have two up front and sutton have one.as a result the midfield is completely congested and there is no outlet because we have nobodt left and right.so we give the ball to haworth ( who plays without motion ) and to burns who runs tirelessly but cant give and go to players wide right or left because they are not there ,everyone is in the middle.what a shambles,what has gone wrong
many people called for ryan to be dropped and replace him with harris,what a joke.hayes comes on has 3 shots and put 3/4 dangerous balls in the box.
when hayes plays he creates majic and he has two sometimes three on him which CREATES space elsewhere.

[rambo]

as for the ref and his two muppets,what a shower.the ref is meant to control the game ,if he wants a chat with someone why doesnt he join a debating society.
sutton came to spoil and be aggressive,so what its up to them and for us to deal with that tactic .you could see after 10 miutes the game was niggly and brutal and he should have stamped it out with bookings.he just talked and talked and stopped the game and by the time of his first booking between 32/35 minutes the tone was set because the players knew what they could get away with.attrocious ref.

as for us, i maintain the lower level you go down to and make no mistake this is not high level football so the players are not the brains of the football world,they are limited in what they can do.the best way of getting a result is to play   4 4 2 because they all get it and they know where their team mates are meant to be.

its gonna be a long second half of the season and i hope we can stumble over the line.

[TREVOR B]

Sutton perhaps deserved the win on the basis that they were the better side in the first half, but a 0-2 flattered them as in the second half we should have gained at least a draw had we taken our chances and Coylie hadn't cocked up.

I must say that on the votes front Burnsy & Bradders rightly way ahead and four well deserved votes to date for Ryno who looked so much better having had a spell on the bench to reflect and once on provided us with the Ryno we all love.

At least 5-6 telling crosses, two of which should have seen players on the end of and resulted in goals, plus a good run into the box forcing a save from the keeper, then following it up only to see the second shot cleared off of the line, praise where praise is due.

Of the team performance as a whole, only one major problem which most have identified, with no creative midfielders of quality (read Eddie Mac/Jamie Day) we are not in a position to produce many chances to either put balls wide to the wings or through the middle for the forwards, but rely on the long high balls punted forward from any of the back four or Andy.

For the teams we are playing against  their defenders pick up the balls in the air and their central midfield win second ball knock downs or rebounds and convert the moves into attacking breaks using either wing and should they lose possession they then gain it straight back from our lumped kicks back up field.

Much as it pains me to say it, as some have said, it may be right in moving Burns into midfield as a temporary measure now that we have Rook to battle it out up front, plus at least one quality centre midfielder to be signed up a.s.a.p.

A local derby away against Tonbridge coming up next, with them wanting to get a win over us it will not be an easy game, so it will be interesting to see what side is picked and you could even see Beales being pushed into midfield to strengthen it along side Burns, who knows ?

Tony picks the team and today did see him make early substitutions when things were not going right, so whatever his decision I've no doubt that it will see a good number of loyal fans travelling next Saturday hoping to see that elusive win of late, arrive at the end of 90 minutes.