Karlos- Location: Dover
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Tuesday's game at home to Chesterfield has been postponed due to in their team. Although they might not have made it here anyway.
Karlos- Location: Dover
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Another DAFC game postponed this coming Saturday.
Keith Sansum1
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Can't see them finishing season
Probably better for Dover as they are bottom
That league is finished
And a new season
With no points deducted or guessing points that may have won
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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In shock news, Dover Athletic actually won a game.
3-1 v Barnet to swap places with them at the bottom.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I think what is worrying is last week's managers interview where he indicated the club only has two more weeks wages .
He indicated a lot of other clubs are in same boat
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:I think what is worrying is last week's managers interview where he indicated the club only has two more weeks wages .
He indicated a lot of other clubs are in same boat
Parmenter said the same thing last summer, but very few clubs did go under.
He decided to call the other teams' bluff by his budget cuts, every other club in the league seems to have carried on as normal.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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We can only see but this time round , unlike last time there's no money coming in .
Good though Yeovil lost last night ,
So should league continue and Dover not go under its in Dovers hands to get out of bottom
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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After being one up
Lost 3-1 away at Yeovil
Probably seeing the slow end of Dover FC
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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very sad to see Dover might go out after all what has happen but can understand ,the chairman like him or not done alot of work for the club and it would have gone years ago if he had not put his own cash into it. But he has a company and workers to look after and that can not be easy in the times we live in.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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I'm no great fan of Parmenter. He always seemed like a miserable sod compared with Husky's days in the chair but it's unarguable that he has done a huge amount for the club. I really don't see what choice he had. You can't saddle a business with potentially unsupportable debts and, as a national league club, DAFC had to be run as a business.
How it will end, who knows? I can't really see any white knights riding chargers coming to the rescue. On a positive note, many punters think there will be no promotion/relegation within that tier of football this season.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I can see Dover going back to the old days when there was no payment to any staff but that might not be a bad way.Its wait and see
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Iv with Ray in parts on this .
So the chairman isn't the most popular , doesn't mix with the supporters , purely a business move.
The club would have continued in the lower tiers , but he came in with great ambition .
But although that's no had thing and no one expected a virus outbreak.
Even he recognises there are bigger things than football at this time.
He was on radio Kent this morning indicating he's to furlough all staff this week , how many players will stay Will be interesting .
It appears the club's were promised finance for season but that has run out, and as he says he's not willing to saddle the club with hundreds of thousands of pounds of debt .
He's unwilling to take out loans which is not keeping club on sound footing.
Looking grim for the club
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The way I see it but I might be wrong ,Dover does not own the ground the council do,so Dover does not have much assets to get a big loan anyway, if there is to be a winner out of all this it would be the council ,the ground is in the housing plans already for building at some point,so Dover will have to move in the next few years anyway and the chairman is right in the way he is thinking about putting the club in alot of dept which they might not be able to pay back ,that would help the council to take it over in a year or two for buiding etc, so there is not much room to move on keeping football up on that ground, but as I said I could have got it all wrong we will see.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Football and Dover will remain.
The chairman could be trying to just bide time
And without doubt Dover will go down the league's
But he will again put money in if he knows there's to he a return.
Because he had out a lot of money into club he probably won't just walk .
But do all he can to finish this season now and then regroup next season where he hopes crowds and revenue come back on stream .
Dover doesn't need to move from this ground as it's big enough for its needs for done seasons to come .
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I said the ground is the D.D.C. and it is already for planning at some point for housing so Dover sooner or later will have to move ,when the D.D.C. is ready to put housing there.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Multiple clubs across the National League system are starting to announce their intentions to furlough their players and staff, the latest being Maidstone United. I fully anticipate Dover to do similar, and rightly so.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I hope that Dover do keep going it would be very sad if they do not so lets hope they do but it is the money.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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There would be an outcry if ground ever sold so unless club went under and not reformed it's unlikely
Yes clubs are fighting now to survive
Probably best for clubs like Dover to moth ball until next season.
Joke now is the national League are fining some clubs for not playing
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:
Joke now is the national League are fining some clubs for not playing
Could the reason be that the football hierarchy are living in their own little bubble rather than the virus ridden world as it is at the moment.
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