Dartford v Wingate & Finchley Sat 8 Nov 2025

[Park Life]

FT 1-2

[WillDfc42]

Very confused by the game management today, playing olly through the middle 2nd half when we lumped the ball continuously is one i’m struggling to understand. Taking off the leagues top scorer too when we needed a goal is another questionable decision.

Despite frequent time wasting and poor sportsmanship Wingate to me looked a proper, well drilled side and deserved the win.

Motm: #17 Caoilan Mcgettigan

[Sleightly Deceptive]

Summat went wrong there. Sloppy passing. Questionable substitution against a very good team. After their equaliser, their skipper ran up to the celebrators and shouted. “Let’s go for the win!” and it looked very likely. Best side I’ve seen this season. Shame. But we knew it wouldn’t last long - need a red bull or two. (Is it me or have Samir and Callum come off the boil a bit?)

[Lars Resort]

Slipped up, it's going to happen. Scrappy. Others above are getting big wins , whereas Brentwood are slipping up big time.
Still on the edge of the play off position's.

[Trevor B]

Sleightly Deceptive Says
(Is it me or have Samir and Callum come off the boil a bit?)
I have to agree with you and it is not just this game but the last few games where these two were prime candidates for substitution in the minds of several fans but it would seem that Samir eventually gets substitutes but despite his performances Callum stays on until the end of each game

[DartfordHero]

Just an overall poor performance from us today. We were never really at the races other than maybe a 10 minute spell in the second half with the offside goal and the goal we scored. Too many players looked off it today from the very start but we were never going to go unbeaten the rest of the season and its all about Tuesday now. Interested to see Sammie Mcleod training before the game this week, looks like he is finally on the mend

[Park Life]

Missed the last couple of games due to holiday and was so looking forward to today's game but that was short lived as we never got going and it was a real scrappy performance from us, one of those days you get where it just looks like nothings going to click.

We were just chatting in the second half saying sometimes you need to grind out a 1-0 when your not playing well so when we took the lead that's what we were all hoping. However credit to W&F as they kept going and although i didn't think there was much in it, they looked the more likely to win the game towards the end.

However i have to say i was really puzzled today as i've already stated we never really got going but didn't make any changes until late in the game even though we had a decent bench. I couldn't understand why Eddie got subbed when he was our most involved forward second half and the leagues top scorer, especially when we know him and Olly can get a goal out of nothing? Not the decision i would have made and we should really have tried something much sooner than we did imo. Also not sure how their number 17 was allowed so much space in the middle of the park for the entire game?

A really disappointing day so we need to bounce back Tuesday and put in a much better performance.

MOTM a real tough one as i don't think anyone really stood out. Tennent had a decent first half but ive gone for Bland as he kept going and scored.