victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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Lets try a local team manager, there are lots of local clubs which have a playing managers let one of them have a go till next season can do no worst then the club is doing right now.
Karlos- Location: Dover
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Parmenter has made his appointment in the new assistant and the academy manager, Jake Leberl and Mike Sandmann. It doesn't stat whether they are joint managers or one or the other is in sole charge. No Steve's
https://doverathletic.com/news/managerial-update/
Just as cheap as Brundle, and also without much likelihood of improvement.
Keith Sansum1
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We can only give these two a chance .
With a small budget not much is likely to happen , but let's see how they do.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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As a good friend of mine, I hope Jake succeeds!
Karlos- Location: Dover
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He's going to need a goalkeeper as well as a miracle. Rumours of changing room aggro too.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Karlos
I read the article from the uncle who alleges one of the senior players head butted the keeper after the Maidstone game.
But with a season long loan coming to an end so abruptly I hope if there is anything in any of this that it is dealt with swiftly .
Something isn't right with the club
Players have been awful
I think for Jake he has an uphill task, and will need to act swiftly
I hope club survives
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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This morning I learnt that the fund raising Striker is to finish early in January as an idiot, who I will not name, wanted to reduce the top prize to £500.
Time the person involved went before the club dies completely, it certainly seems to be on a downward spiral. I hate football but hate to see our local cub's decline.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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The Striker is being replaced with a revived 200 Club.
Part of the reasoning is to do with laws of lotteries/prize monies/etc. See link.
https://doverathletic.com/news/striker-set-for-release/
To be honest I've would have had no problem with a reduction of the top prize if the additional money would help the club.
When/If the new competition starts and whether it will work is another thing.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Jan
I wouldn't call someone an idiot who was trying to look at ways of keeping striker together with making more money for a club tha t looks not to be competing with other clubs at the leagu e level.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Sorry Keith but it all depends on what story you are told and believe to be more or less true.
The one posted by the club or the person with insider knowledge who told me of the Striker was ending because the person with power, if he had his way, would reduce the top prize money from £1000 to £500. There was no mention of this 200 plan even though i said I would be interested if there was to be an alternative fund raiser in the future.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Jan
I think you have hit the nail on the head.
One thing the club has struggled with , is getting its message out there.
Because faithful fans were unaware of the striker was making a loss of not, it could only be assumed it was , or why would you end it?
So I think the suggestions going around from good minded people with the club at heart was that if it was making a loss then reducing the top prize may help.
Hopefully the 200 club which I understand will replace the striker in January will succeed .
Other small issues such as making it easier to join were also suggested as it appears for some it's a c I complicated joining system.
Without needing to know anything about football , the club is attempting to run on a budget that doesn't get itself into any debt.
Something the club and many other clubs at all levels have failed to do, and seen them go under.
The club now appears to b e debt free.
The club has suffered last season's on the field , but having recently sacked the manager and got a new one in, the supporters are hoping now for better times ahead.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Glad to see the players hAve warmed to the new mAnager structure .
It's going to be an uphill struggle to avoid relegation , but at least we could debt some promotion hopefuls as we did last week .
Hopefully the club will rebuild .
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Battling Dover , although lost , they were as good as play off chasing Aveley.
Dover, in t he first half scored one with the heavy wind behind them, but didn't use this to there advantage , which would later be costly .
Outplaying Aveley in t h e first half, and Aveley looking a poor side, Dover needed to have put away the three or four clear cut chances.
But they went in at the break 1 up.?
Aveley with the wind advantage in the second half put Dover under pressure where they spent most of the second half pinned in there own half.
In one early second half Aveley attack Dover player swiped at the ball completely missing it in the Dover goal mouth, but connected with the Aveley forward , who fell like his life depended on it lol
Getting the pen. And drawing level Dover were left to defend for 35 minutes , which they did well .
Like many games Dover tried to run down the clock , which again worked against them , with the injury time board going up as five minutes was this going to be a Dover point steal?.
In the 8th minute of injury time Aveley broke Dover 's heart scoring right on the final whistle .
But before these two games Dover in sure would have taken three points against play off hopefuls .
Having watched Aveley on this performance I don't think they will make the play offs (too 7)
But for a small club with obvious ambition, they have come a long way.
For Dover it's back to crabble next Saturday .
I think the new management team have at least got the players fighting more for the ball, we will probably go down, but on the way hopefully win some gAmes against promotion hopefuls.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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It's going to be a long season .
Bottom of league with no real goal scorers .
Again Dover didn't take its first half chances .
The club now down to under 600 supporters and looking already like a relegated side.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Although there are enough points, unless the club is able to bring in a striker and soon, being twelve points adrift, they will soon be unable to catch the bottom five place
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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although slough were poor , Dover did fight for ninety minutes and got the three poin t s
They could have won by a lot more as they missed many chances
Some of the bottom four also won , but hopefully this win will give the players confidence
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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Dover score 4 goals in 1 game
But let in 6
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Although for the neutral it would have been good .
For Dover i t s another three points gone .
Outplayed by a very good promotion seeking Worthing .
Worthing outplayed Dover most of the game, but because of the attacking style they use leaves them vulnerable at the back.
The Injury to the Worthing keeper looked a bad one getting treatment for 15 minutes before being taken off on a stretcher.
Dover played like a relegated side, gap to big to avoid relegation .
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Dover faces a tough test today against second to bottom Havant and W.
Already 10 points adrift relegation is likely .
Havant have also been struggling but beating Dover today gives them a chance of avoiding relegation
Something they would never have thought possible three or four months ago .
Dover is in need of a big sponsor rather than rely on a few smaller ones , and needs to look at itself as to where it wants to be .
It has struggled to remain professional in its outlook this season , together with reduced budgets seen players come in from the youth side some who have struggled against fit full time players.
Supporters even real passionate one's have had enough .
With the stAndards of football dropping , budgets reducing , it's looking like Dover 'are in serious decline .
This could be a good time to look at how the club can become more community focused
Something that other clubs have done .
Supporting them for 40 years in the good and bad days it is sad to see where they are at today.
I think they will take points off clubs in the run up to the end of the season but can only hope to try to reduce how many points they go down by
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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Relegation could be confirmed by next Saturday I think?
The end of this season's misery to be followed by more misery next season.