Billericay Town v Dartford - Tue 8 Oct 2024

[DA Mikey]

If that isn’t the nadir of our season, we are in for another very bad one.

[KSTDART]

Ben Allen on again with 11 mins to go. And again with the game decided. What is the point? Sorry, but the more this goes on just tells me that Pennock has absolutely no f*cking idea. 2 new players in for one obvious reason and he benches them!!! No Ollie Box and no explanation! Lose at home to Hendon and the Board have to make a decision. This can’t go on like it did before under the Clown. It’s the middle of October. Tick tock. We can still recover the season but not if we let this shit run and run. We’re staring down the barrel.

Ollie Box is injured and it was explained in a interview a couple of days ago.

[Mark Sweet]

Ben Allen on again with 11 mins to go. And again with the game decided. What is the point? Sorry, but the more this goes on just tells me that Pennock has absolutely no f*cking idea. 2 new players in for one obvious reason and he benches them!!! No Ollie Box and no explanation! Lose at home to Hendon and the Board have to make a decision. This can’t go on like it did before under the Clown. It’s the middle of October. Tick tock. We can still recover the season but not if we let this shit run and run. We’re staring down the barrel.

Ollie Box is injured and it was explained in a interview a couple of days ago.

Was it?
Last I heard he had a groin issue and he should be back for Dulwich

[Lars Resort]

Awful weather as well. Glad I stayed home and kicked the cat.

[Sleightly Deceptive]

Ben Allen on again with 11 mins to go. And again with the game decided. What is the point? Sorry, but the more this goes on just tells me that Pennock has absolutely no f*cking idea. 2 new players in for one obvious reason and he benches them!!! No Ollie Box and no explanation! Lose at home to Hendon and the Board have to make a decision. This can’t go on like it did before under the Clown. It’s the middle of October. Tick tock. We can still recover the season but not if we let this shit run and run. We’re staring down the barrel.

Ollie Box is injured and it was explained in a interview a couple of days ago.

I heard he was available Kev and surprised to be left out.

[Kermo18]

4-0 another error.

Hopefully won't be a queue iat the bridge.

Only to jump

[KSTDART]

Ben Allen on again with 11 mins to go. And again with the game decided. What is the point? Sorry, but the more this goes on just tells me that Pennock has absolutely no f*cking idea. 2 new players in for one obvious reason and he benches them!!! No Ollie Box and no explanation! Lose at home to Hendon and the Board have to make a decision. This can’t go on like it did before under the Clown. It’s the middle of October. Tick tock. We can still recover the season but not if we let this shit run and run. We’re staring down the barrel.

Ollie Box is injured and it was explained in a interview a couple of days ago.

Was it?
Last I heard he had a groin issue and he should be back for Dulwich

No Ade said at the weekend in his interview Ollie had damaged his pubic bone

[The 5th Searcher]

Ben Allen on again with 11 mins to go. And again with the game decided. What is the point? Sorry, but the more this goes on just tells me that Pennock has absolutely no f*cking idea. 2 new players in for one obvious reason and he benches them!!! No Ollie Box and no explanation! Lose at home to Hendon and the Board have to make a decision. This can’t go on like it did before under the Clown. It’s the middle of October. Tick tock. We can still recover the season but not if we let this shit run and run. We’re staring down the barrel.

Ollie Box is injured and it was explained in a interview a couple of days ago.

I’d heard he was advised not to play on the 3G pitch tonight.

After tonight’s result I’m beginning to wonder if the whole team had been advised the same thing.

[Paulcanary]

The club we all loved has long gone
Awful decision making from above has cost this club dearly.

We will be struggling at this level and potentially below for a long time

I feel this is true and I always try to be a glass half full rather than empty type

I’m sad we have sunk so low …..did we really smash/beat ebbsfleet twice over Xmas such a short time ago …..shocking downward spiral

[Park Life]

Re Olly Box, spoke to him before the game and he confirmed he'd had a slight injury but had a warm up on the pitch tonight and if no reaction
confident he will be back Saturday. I think the fact it was also a plastic pitch it was agreed it wasn't worth the risk tonight which i think was the correct decision.

[Top Cat]

So what’s the excuse tonight then ? Goalkeeping errors ? we played well but just couldn’t score? We never had the run of the green ? or was it because Billy & Ricci were just a better team all round ?
Not quite there just yet , but theres a sense of deja vu creeping in .

[Spike]

I spoke to Olly who was doing a fitness test on the pitch before the game and said he still wasn't quite 100% but hoped to be available by Saturday.

It was another disastrous result and our season does appear to be rapidly going down the toilet. Something obviously needs to change, but judging by the different conversation on the terraces, if I asked 100 people what needed to be done I'd get 100 different solutions, so maybe the fix isn't as obvious as we each of us like to think. However, the one glaringly obvious problem that does seem fairly unanimous is the interchangeable goalkeeping situation which has been nothing short of catastrophic in recent weeks. Both keepers have suffered more than a few calamities and I don't think swapping them in and out has been helpful to either. Kerbey had an absolute stinker again tonight and chants of "dodgy keeper" were heard from Billericay fans in both halves. I don't think it's in ours or Kerbey's interest for him to start another game, it would surely be better for both parties if he returned to his parent club and starts again at pastures new. At least Marsden is OUR player and maybe he would benefit from starting regularly, at least until he improves or we bring in someone better.

Clearly our team isn't good enough, even for this level. We need reinforcements, proper reinforcements. NOT broken down players who haven't played for 6 months and are only using us as a means of rehabilitation.

Although things look pretty bleak right now, one thing I think is important to stress is that as bad as things have been in recent weeks and were again tonight, our players never gave up. Unlike last season's rabble, they continued to give everything right up until the final whistle. That gives me hope that all is not yet lost. There are good players out there and two or three quality players in the right positions could change everything. Ady needs to work fast before the heads do eventually start to drop.

[Babylon]

I have been a season ticket holder for 20 years but I doubt
If I will be renewing next year.

I can handle a defeat but this squad is seriously lacking in experience and quality
As I have said before, great stadium,great facilities etc.

I am not that impressed with our managers recruitment at all ,another relegation battle cannot be ruled out.
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE SHAMBLES

[Skip]

I spoke to Olly who was doing a fitness test on the pitch before the game and said he still wasn't quite 100% but hoped to be available by Saturday.

It was another disastrous result and our season does appear to be rapidly going down the toilet. Something obviously needs to change, but judging by the different conversation on the terraces, if I asked 100 people what needed to be done I'd get 100 different solutions, so maybe the fix isn't as obvious as we each of us like to think. However, the one glaringly obvious problem that does seem fairly unanimous is the interchangeable goalkeeping situation which has been nothing short of catastrophic in recent weeks. Both keepers have suffered more than a few calamities and I don't think swapping them in and out has been helpful to either. Kerbey had an absolute stinker again tonight and chants of "dodgy keeper" were heard from Billericay fans in both halves. I don't think it's in ours or Kerbey's interest for him to start another game, it would surely be better for both parties if he returned to his parent club and starts again at pastures new. At least Marsden is OUR player and maybe he would benefit from starting regularly, at least until he improves or we bring in someone better.

Clearly our team isn't good enough, even for this level. We need reinforcements, proper reinforcements. NOT broken down players who haven't played for 6 months and are only using us as a means of rehabilitation.

Although things look pretty bleak right now, one thing I think is important to stress is that as bad as things have been in recent weeks and were again tonight, our players never gave up. Unlike last season's rabble, they continued to give everything right up until the final whistle. That gives me hope that all is not yet lost. There are good players out there and two or three quality players in the right positions could change everything. Ady needs to work fast before the heads do eventually start to drop.

Spike, hopefully Ady has access to sufficient budget to bring in the 3 quality players to make the difference? At least it’s encouraging to read that the effort and commitment is still on display; that’s half the battle. A campaign to make the play offs could easily turn into a relegation slog if the players decided to throw the towel in.

[Park Life]

Gave away another soft goal very early on and as a result were chasing the game for the rest of the night.
Having said that after we settled down we didn't play too bad first half but when we did look like we might break through, Riccay made sure by any means we wouldn't. But their keeper only had to make one save first half which summed it up.
Second half we still had a fair bit of possession but again their keeper was rarely troubled and when you're not scoring and regularly giving poor goals away, you're always going to be in trouble.

Was surprised to see a change in goal tonight and since the Buffoon pissed Wilksy about, we've never really sorted that position out.
Also surprised we've signed another forward as i think Callum, Eddie, Olly and Ben are decent for this level and their goals record is pretty good, given the right service I'm confident they would continue to score on a regular basis. Maybe Ade has muddied the waters a bit in these two positions and created more of a problem for Saturday?

I'm not really surprised the position we are in and thought that we would need to do a bit of wheeling and dealing around this time, it looks as if Ade has also come to that conclusion. After starting the season fairly well we are now on a bad run of results which is very concerning, but i do think that if we can get a few decent signings in key positions, we should be able to turn things around.

The players are still trying and giving it a go right until the final whistle so they will continue to get my support, unlike last season when clearly quite a few players threw the towel in.

Plus points, the Bridge was clear and i didn't have to talk any Darts fans off of it on the way home.......

[ozymandias]

Ouch, we seem to be lurching from a team to be admired and at times feared and now we are getting easily beaten up and it is now becoming embarrassing.
I was with Ade 100% at the beginning of the season but I am now wondering if a team that soundly beat favourites Chatham was due to a poor Chatham.
The wheels are wobbling, sadly it's now becoming easy to beat a poor side but now a dwindling crowd is looking at it from a different angle.
I fear that it's turning into a fight not to be a scrap to not drop into ISE football next season.
I do hope I'm wrong.

[Matt85]

The club needs to evolve and get with the times, this won’t happen until the board of directors step down and a new board with fresh ideas comes in.
Clearly the current board have done wonders for the club and that shouldn’t ever be ignored, that however shouldn’t give them a free pass to continue taking the club backwards.
Watching them swan through the bar last night to collect their tea and biscuits is starting to wear thin for a lot of people.
As for the game, WOEFUL.
Glimpses of looking half decent at times, but never looked like scoring again.
We started the season playing 4-3-3 and played some good football. Changing it to 5 at the back just to get Samir back in hasn’t worked.
The keeper situation is becoming as farcical as his substitutions, chopping and changing them every 2-3 games makes no sense to anybody other than him.
Plenty of time to turn it around, I’m just not sure we have the right man in charge to do it.

[Mark Sweet]

Don't think he's changed the formation just to get Samir in.

Samir can play central or wide which he would be able to do in a 4-3-3

Everything from the tactical setup to the subs is wrong.

[templehillian]

Was unconvinced with Pennock's appointment in the first place, as his managerial record was not that encouraging and clearly was not the preferred option. As shown by our results since, he is not good enough. I was prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt as he took over nine or ten games later than he could have been installed, and by then we were in freefall. However, recruitment and result suggest now would be a good time to try and get someone else in before things get desperate come the new year and we are fighting to avoid another relegation instead of a return to the National League where we should be aiming and accomplishing.

[Park Life]