Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,478
The club has just announced a new kit supplier. Not the actions of a club about to be shut down.
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DFL- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
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Karlos do you know of anyone selling old Dover shirts - maybe the old youth team tops or something. I need 14...15 for a team. But obviously can't pay £15 or whatever it is the club are asking for the old tops...
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,478
Can't help with shirts. Contact the club direct?
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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1st friendly tonight. Away at Hythe, with 400 spectators allowed in.
Followed by Margate away on Saturday. Margate have been streaming their games live on Youtube.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,002
Odd read on Live Text with so many trialists, although a few gems have been picked up this way (e.g. Poulton). 1-0 Dover.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,478
Fixtures are out.
Difficult start and difficult end.
Not enough quality in the squad currently to show that the club might survive relegation.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Karlos wrote:Fixtures are out.
Difficult start and difficult end.
Not enough quality in the squad currently to show that the club might survive relegation.
Hard to argue with that, old bean, but hope springs eternal.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,858
Chairman appears to be going for youth
And paying lower wages
It's if they can survive against the bigger clubs
The latest govt only 6 gathering may affect them
They need people through turnstiles
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DFL- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
- Posts: 126
Sports are not affected. That's what I read, or ???
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,295
Today's news appears to be a significant blow. "Organised sport" is exempt, but that refers to the playing of, rather than the watching. So a Sunday League game would be fine; a kick about in the park with ten of you, would not.
There's a narrow loophole that DAFC (and National League generally) gets re-branded as "non elite", and potentially have a capacity of 600, but that window will soon close as well.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Chairman said he had to comply spending £20,000
But it appears national League not able to have crowds but govt advice is rarely clear and keeps v
Changing
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DFL- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
- Posts: 126
WATCH ONLINE - LIVE STREAM Match v Dartford is available for a fiver, at their place
Vs Dover
https://bit.ly/2EVGGmh
https://www.dartfordfc.com/dfctv-to-live-stream-all-home-friendlies/Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Loads of talk about getting matches with spectators on (from 1 October) today. DCMS seem to be pushing hard for sticking with the 1,000 spectator limit.
For what it's worth, my own view is that the DCMS know that there is little chance of this happening - but don't want to be the "bad" guys, so are waiting to be overruled by the Department of Health and Social Affairs.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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It's crippling clubs like Dover
So many clubs at this level and below gone under and more to follow
The big thing here is footy is dominated by the premier League .
All the millions the club's get and even lower leagues lose out on FA cup games reducing winnings ties to give more to premier .
Of course the FA and premier League are terrified the big clubs will break away and firm there own super League
Whilst this goes on and players at the top level
Wages in the hundreds of thousands a week , yes a week
Dover , and clubs like Dover will go under
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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Macclesfield appear to be the 1st
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,295
Gutted for Macc fans, but very selfishly, should mean only three down now - which is seriously good news.
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,696
It is a crying shame that community clubs are going to the wall at the same time as premier league clubs have spaffed in excess of £400m on transfer fees - an FA levy of say 1% on those fees would have created an emergency fund of £4m this year alone on top of the £10s of millions from previous years transfer bonanzas. If the FA then used that fund to help fan trusts take over majority ownership of their clubs and develop sustainable business plans these sorts of things might become a thing of the past
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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Dover’s friendly at Dartford next week is going to part of the experiment to let 1000 fans into games.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Karlos wrote:Dover’s friendly at Dartford next week is going to part of the experiment to let 1000 fans into games.
I saw that. Good news. With the breaking news that the R rate (remember that?) is now 1.1-1.4, fingers crossed it survives.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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That's the problem
It's how long can Dover survive without crowds
But with this is the overall picture where a second wave of the virus is looking on the cards with a shutdown
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