Oh it was irony? Do you really want to pretend that? They way we are right now if we lost both games its not a complete shock for us but dont kid yourself with that mug. 
it was your cup final and the cups an embarrassment. 

to be fair and put it into context were so poor right now it is our cup final too. 

Dartford line up: Sandford, Statham, Odaudu, Rooney, Diarra, Nembhard, Coulson, Allen, Alexander, Chin, Miler-Rodney. Subs: Bradbury, Wall, Manor, Box, Wynter.

Very disappointing in front of possibly the best crowd of the season.

another match of shooting just wide / over / hitting the post.

we should have won easily, particularly after the 1st half performance, but we fail again.

not not sure if Ill bother with the away fixture in a few days time, hardly seems worth it.

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Marvellous!

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 Sorry, but I have to disagree. it was anything other than marvellous. 

Its been a long time coming, just think how it was 10 years ago 

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Jimmie wrote:

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Dartford in the first half looked worn down, and short of ideas, while we played with lots of purpose. I know I wont be agreed with, but the first half was in my view some of our best football this season. The second half was a turnaround, they suddenly looked as if they were trying to win the match. Our problems with inaccurate shooting held us back once again, created tons of openings, but couldn't put them away.

Just like against Eastbourne, a draw would have been a fair result. In the first half of the season we didnt seem to have any shape in attack with one up front, I really enjoyed seeing Tristan and Adam in attack with Antony behind them, that combination is well worth using again, as we'd lost control of the game before Adam and Antony came on, and we ended up the team more likely to score with that triangle of players.

Defensively we looked miles better with Crossley back, on the way into the match I had a quick chat with a Welling insider and asked them for their views on the season so far, as I was interested to see how they see it, and they said we've been badly affected by injuries, which has a knock on effect on the other players as we have to play players that havent built up understandings. That is spot on, Crossley coming back gave us a really solid defence that worked together well, and the first half of the season was almost one of what could have been, as if we'd not had all the extensive injuries to Adam, Jack, Crossley, Mitchell we would have been much higher up the table.

There was lots of context to the match, Dartford's recent results have been poor, their fans don't like the football they are playing and want the manager sacked, attendances are poor, and chatting with someone in the know from Dartford there seemed strong signs that if Dartford lost both games against us their manager would be sacked. Odd as going into the match they were 6 points below play offs and 6 points above relegation, and had finished second last season, but they seem to have the play offs as a minimum expectation and wont accept less. Still, there was some good news, the Dartford guy told me the real reason why Steve King was sacked, which always puzzled me, and annoyed me that I must be the last to know, and now I finally know that I can just hope all the more Eastbourne appoint him and that we never do again!

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 You can try to analyse why we dont win games as much as you want. You can say we should have done this or that Or what whatever. Unfortunately our team doesn't believe they can win a game. They have lost before the first whistle. We lost today against a pile of turd. Sorry Dartford fans but you are no better than us. Two fking awful teams boring the ars of a half decent crowd. 

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Your criticism of our team is fair. 

However, you are worse than us. 

Im not saying this as something to be proud of but you are not as good as us even if were poor too. 

A very poor game of football played between two very poor teams. I was shocked how poor Dartford were because they usually have a very good team. I know our team is poor. I used to take consolation in the fact at least we played good football but even that has gone out the window now. We gave the ball away to cheaply in our own last third trying to play out from the back. If you can't be motivated by playing in a local derby in front of a large crowd when can you be? If the budget isn't big enough to sustain NLS football I feel sorry for Danny it must be like hitting your head against a brick wall. So I'm not saying it lightly and it may not be his fault but for whatever reason Danny Bloor and his management team have done a poor job thus far. I kind of think the owners would like to see Welling United relegated. Wind the club up as non viable. Quickly make their money by redeveloping the ground. I can see a new Welling United AFC or something rising as a phoenix club in Footscray Road, Eltham. Something is seriously wrong and as I've said before I just can't see us getting the points we need. Nothing I saw today makes me feel I'm wrong as the points gap to safety widens. I've heard excuse after excuse but ultimately 4 league wins from 24 games is disgraceful. Isthmian league here we come.

Verdict: Terrible game, terrible performance, terrible result

Winning 10 games is possible but unlikely on current form. Personally once we know more about our fate in a few games time I would consider introducing some of our talented under 23 players into the first team and gain experience of first team football with next season in mind.

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As mentioned above I think there is some logic in looking at the long term. Danny knows the League, his time at Eastbourne proves that and really could we do better . Probably the best chance of at least a competitive season next year in Step 3 is keeping him, if he wants to stay.

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 100% spot on