Match Discussion: Dover Athletic (H)

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2015:11:11:18:23:17 by Deadly Submarine.

This will be a tough one, with our rocky home form, I'll go for a score draw.

think we just nick this 2 1

I think Tranmere can sneak it.

Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.

2-0 win. I'm always the optimist.

Two nothing to the SWA, dover and out.

We have 6 players out tomorrow right?

Davies
Hogan
Mekki
Harris
Dawson
GTF

That's the backbone of our team - they are all starting 11.

Mangan & Ihiekwe still recovering from injury too.

I'll go for a draw, 1-1.

Be interesting to see what the team is and who's in what position!

Think we are a little unsettled at moment with all the new additions. Dover are in form. 0-1 :-(

Brabin has intimated on the official site that Mangan and Taylor-Fletcher might have something to offer in the match, as he mentioned them training again, or that was my interpretation of that.

Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.

1-2

Anyone know if its on radio Kent?

A 2-0 win..defence like camels @#$%& during sandstorm

Dover have sent for reenforcements - just shared the Euston - lime street train with a lad who's sporting the Dadi haircut , presume hel'll be on the bench

Ps, Dover must pay well he was in 1st class

1-0 will do

We have some regular top players out today if the new signings can gel I think we will do well with a 1-1.

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Anyone know if its on radio Kent?
A 2-0 win..defence like camels @#$%& during sandstorm

lol. big top of the table clash with walsall v gillingham today so would think that bbc radio kent will cover the gills game. I will still try though, never know your luck!

Either 0-0 or big scoring game.so 2-2

No so confident after seeing our line up on bbc. According to them we are only starting with ten players and four subs! I guess the new lad will fill one of the missing slots

I can here the boos on the radio. sounds like more woefully inept refereeing yet again.

Blatant handball. In the old days the quote would have been 'he had the lace out of it'

The ref is annoying but feckin hell we are poo did the keeper even have to make a save defence is all over the show definitely handball how is it he's are fouls but didn't see the handball

Ball on floor needed. To much in the air, havent created anything of note

They have been more "creative" than us. Perhaps we should just train 3 times a week like them as well. Need a much better second half with better energy levels, I prescribe a kilo of jelly babies each

Should of been 0-0 half time. we were the better side second half and should of put one of those chances away. I agree we were poor and some of our players at times looked unwilling as well as unfit.

I think we are really missing Dawson,added a good balance to the squad,crossed well and had a bit of flare,also hardly ever gave the ball away something a lot of our players were guilty of today.

For anyone on Twitter checkout @DAFCLiveText and check out their updates from today... Not even biased more deluded at times....

We definitely missed Harris today, not enough quality into the box.
Really desperate type football with no pattern, all players dropping, crossing each other.
They were fitter and really wanted it!
I think without certain players, we are falling into the trap of having too much experience and not enough legs!
We looked at times during the second half like a team of individuals and they looked like a team!

I thought Taylor fletcher did well second half and played some good passes and Andy mangan tried his best

We were very poor throughout-they were better in the first half but the goal was blatant handball. Second half we were individuals rather than a team but should have at least equalised. They wanted it more-as for Brabins comments about our second half performance-he must have been watching a different match to me.



At least one of the Dover players abused at least one of our stewards after their last two substitutions.What happened at the Town end of the paddock concerning Mr Modeste?

Why did the Dover players remain on the pitch well after they had finished applauding their fans?

Having just returned home down south after the game I have had time on the train to ponder over the game and my initial thoughts are:-

1. Appalling behaviour by two Dover substitute's warming up in front of the Town Paddock who hopefully will be dealt with both by there club and the powers to be!

2. Equally appalling behaviour by a small minority of supporters both in the Town End/Paddock who if not forcefully restrained by fellow supporters would have caused our club to suffer a heavy fine and point deduction if there attempts to get on to the playing area and cause harm to the said Dover players had come to fruition!!

3. Appalling (word of the day) lack of any immediate response from the Stewards, police and Dover management to deal with the incident swiftly!!!

4. The rest of the game just pales into insignificance!!!!

End of!!!!!

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sparky100
Having just returned home down south after the game I have had time on the train to ponder over the game and my initial thoughts are:-
1. Appalling behaviour by two Dover substitute's warming up in front of the Town Paddock who hopefully will be dealt with both by there club and the powers to be!

2. Equally appalling behaviour by a small minority of supporters both in the Town End/Paddock who if not forcefully restrained by fellow supporters would have caused our club to suffer a heavy fine and point deduction if there attempts to get on to the playing area and cause harm to the said Dover players had come to fruition!!

3. Appalling (word of the day) lack of any immediate response from the Stewards, police and Dover management to deal with the incident swiftly!!!

4. The rest of the game just pales into insignificance!!!!



End of!!!!!

I think they may have been warming down not up.Modeste was escorted from the side of the pitch away from further trouble and was talking to Mekki at the entrance to the tunnel for a short period after.

Whether warming up or down does not excuse there or are fans behaviour. It was appalling and lasted many minutes.

I only saw Modeste as he came very slowly off the pitch when subbed with a face like a slapped kipper. Didn't see what went on between him and the town paddock although I saw some of them surging forward and then him escorted away from the area. Then saw him ''speaking'' to Mekki by the entrance to the tunnel.



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Have to say sparky100 has got it absolutely correct in their version of events about the saga in front of the town end paddock, the only thing he failed to mention was the two total cretins from the Platinum Lounge seats in the Main Stand who acted worse than drunken yobs and their language was on a par with their behaviour but don't worry the stewards had disappeared in the main stand also, probably eating the remains of the buffet. Mr & Mrs Palios your income generator was a backfiring embarrassment today. Also thought Dover unfortunately deserved their win today, thought they caused us lots of problems and you could see why Brabin built them up before the game.

I am just waiting for the racist card to be played to excuse or even justify his behaviour!!!

The truth is he was abused by our so called fans and he stood his ground , good on him. He has every right to warm up or warm down without having to suffer the vile comments hurled at him. Him standing up to the idiots irked them more, so what. We see it creeping into the ground more and more. We had the idiots inthe main stand and then we the usually idiots in the town end who when the game is as bad as yesterday turn on the manager, the team, the team and yesterday visiting player warming up.

At the end as three Dover players were running towards the Kop to warm down a number of fans threw objects (plastic bottles) and started to move in their direction needing stewards to intervene.

Now maybe the Dover players shouldn't have done that (they did look surprised when they looked up and saw the reaction) but surely they should be ok to do that without such a reaction.

To avoid just such a reaction teams normally warm down after the fans have left.

Still doesn't excuse this sort of reaction by so called fans.

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The truth is he was abused by our so called fans and he stood his ground , good on him. He has every right to warm up or warm down without having to suffer the vile comments hurled at him. Him standing up to the idiots irked them more, so what. We see it creeping into the ground more and more. We had the idiots inthe main stand and then we the usually idiots in the town end who when the game is as bad as yesterday turn on the manager, the team, the team and yesterday visiting player warming up.

Most common sense post on here .As an Everton fan with a long standing liking of Tranmere I came to this game ( I live in Kent and watch Dover regular ) with a friend . There is no segregation of fans at most Conference games and both sets of players warm up and down in the same places week in week out . It is in no way to annoy or attempt to wind up opposition fans as they change ends at half time . The reaction of those Tranmere fans was pathetic and in no way reflective of the atmosphere in a few pubs and after the game by any other Tranmere fans we met and talked with . I felt Dover were the better side and that must have hurt Tranmere fans as they are everyones ' must beat ' team . Plenty of other clubs who were ' too big ' for the Conference have felt the same in their first season out of the league and Tranmere may well have to resign themselves to the fact they are not going to walk this league .

On Sunday at Goodison I had to sit near some f****r moaning even though we won 6-2 so Tranmere fans being miffed at losing 1-0 isn't the worse thing I took away from my weekend . I wish Tranmere well and hope to see the true fans and not the idiots down at the Crabble in March . Hopefully by then Taylor - Fletcher and McNulty may have lost the few pounds required to have the impact on the team their class and experience should have . There are a lot of young fit sides in the league and carrying overweight and unfit players for 40 plus games is no easy task . Good luck as you should at the very least make the play offs .

I think that there are a few different versions on both boards all of which purport to be ''the truth''.It is pretty clear that there was blame for the incident on both sides.