The Dart(s) Board

I Couldn't give a toss about Pennock and his pals leaving. Imho they were pretty average.

I hope that our board can come up with a manager who can give the fans some hope.
we need to get back to the Connie south asap.

But unless we can get more investment I can only see another underachieving season.

Really disappointing we've had no announcement, statement or info of any sort from the club, we've not even advertised the post?

I hope we don't go down the "he's a nice bloke" route or any old player will do....
Also hope whoever does the interviews knows what their talking about and sells the club in a positive manner?? What i'd give to be a fly on the wall.....

The last two supposedly nice blokes moaned about the budget for the majority of their tenures and imo this was to cover for their failings, after all they must have agreed to it at their interviews. The board should have clamped down on this from the start as all it's done is create a massive negative downbeat atmosphere at the club. Our budget whilst not the biggest is still competitive and the fact we got results against the top sides and struggled against the lower ones backs that up. I still believe the squad we had was good enough to get in the play offs but under achieved because of poor management.

So i'm not in the least bothered that Ady has gone and i've spoken to loads of fans and honestly not found a single one who was disappointed, which leaves me wondering what plans the board had as the rumours of him going where around for a few weeks?

Having said that as poor as it's turned out, i won't criticise the board for the last two appointments as both looked promising and there wasn't any real objections at the time.

As for the future, who knows who will get the job and regardless of the two previous managers negativity, we still have a great club and a it's a fantastic opportunity for someone to come in, lift the mood and fulfil our potential.

I still think it’s a bit early to be concerned about ‘no announcement yet.’ There’ll be all sorts of meetings and shenanigans going on. But it needs dealing with very soon so the future can be as settled.

Who do we want?
Who do we don’t want?

The only way to get DFC back where it should rightly be at the top of the non league pyramid
Is to get a complete new board
It will not matter what manager comes in
A lack of supporters through the turnstiles and a some crazy decisions by this board won’t add to the new managers budget

I have heard the comments about the board basically saying people in this forum haven’t got a clue , I realised some six years ago their ambition was not the same as the genuine fans
So my pals and myself voted with our feet and just became I suppose “armchair” fans

I applaud the diehards you really have sat in and supported the club , but many are now coming to terms with the fact this board are basically inept and clueless , you have to make the gamble in football and I truly believe we could have been watching Dartford in the football league
But I believe the clubs owners didn’t want to take the gamble, which has proved them very wrong , just look at Bromley and a good few other smaller clubs that have overtaken Dartford in the last five years

If you genuinely want fans back start taking notice of your fan base and start to run the club more professionally, Yep maybe I’m a “keyboard warrior” as I heard with my own ears from a prominent person at the club

But our circa £100 between us on admission and food etc has gone and unless this board don’t grasp this then they are obviously not in the business of running a jewel in the crown of Kent

I sincerely hope changes are afoot and I return to PP next season to follow the team
Even though we moved away from the area I continue to follow the club via here every game

Much respect to the diehards who followed the club home and away this season

Park Life wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 7:24 pm Really disappointing we've had no announcement, statement or info of any sort from the club, we've not even advertised the post?

I hope we don't go down the "he's a nice bloke" route or any old player will do....
Also hope whoever does the interviews knows what their talking about and sells the club in a positive manner?? What i'd give to be a fly on the wall.....

The last two supposedly nice blokes moaned about the budget for the majority of their tenures and imo this was to cover for their failings, after all they must have agreed to it at their interviews. The board should have clamped down on this from the start as all it's done is create a massive negative downbeat atmosphere at the club. Our budget whilst not the biggest is still competitive and the fact we got results against the top sides and struggled against the lower ones backs that up. I still believe the squad we had was good enough to get in the play offs but under achieved because of poor management.

So i'm not in the least bothered that Ady has gone and i've spoken to loads of fans and honestly not found a single one who was disappointed, which leaves me wondering what plans the board had as the rumours of him going where around for a few weeks?

Having said that as poor as it's turned out, i won't criticise the board for the last two appointments as both looked promising and there wasn't any real objections at the time.

As for the future, who knows who will get the job and regardless of the two previous managers negativity, we still have a great club and a it's a fantastic opportunity for someone to come in, lift the mood and fulfil our potential.

Does this really surprise you, why would we do an announcement informing the fans of what is happening.
It goes to show much the board thinking of the hardworking fans that turn up week after week and pay good money!