OPPOSITION Q&A

Will discusses the Darts

ABOUT ME

I’m Will, I’ve supported Dartford since I was 7 and I’ve seen many highs and many lows whilst supporting Dartford. I go to every game I can, and me and my dad are both season ticket holders.

FORM

Our recent form has been poor. Since the sacking of Alan Dowson our football has been more pleasing on the eye but results worsened under interim manager Tony Burman, with him only gaining us 4 points from 8 games edging us dangerously close to the relegation zone.

HIGHLIGHTS

The highlight of the season for me was beating Torquay 3-0 in the reverse fixture, it looked like our season was possibly turning a corner with new signings scoring and an all round solid performance topped off with a clean sheet.

KEY PLAYERS

We’ve got a great shot stopper in goal in Bournemouth loanee Billy Terrell, being only 20 he can be prone to mistakes but his shot stopping is very good. Luke Coulson our captain is at the heart of most of our attacks, he plays on the left but has recently played centrally and has played very well. Youngster Olly Box has also sparked some life into our attack scoring 3 in his last 4 and clubs such as West Ham and Crystal palace have apparent interest in the youngster.

THE MANAGER

It’s Adrian Pennock’s first game in charge for us so I’m not too sure as to how he will set up. He was previously at DPMM FC, he kept a poor Barrow team in the National league so I’m hoping he can work the same magic for us. From interviews at former clubs I’ve heard, he adapts his tactics to suit his squad but he likes to have players and fans engaged by playing exciting football.

POSSIBLE LINE-UP

GK-Terrell LB-Clifford LCB-Adebowale RCB- Nembhard RB- Block/Statham LM-Coulson CM-Wynter Cm-Miller-Rodney RM-Shomotun ST-Wall ST-Akanbi (442) but could be anything under the new manager.

AWAY SUPPORT

Our fans tend to travel better when there’s a good day out involved with the trip, but with recent form our attendances haven’t been great. Since the sacking of former manager Steve King I think our attendances have been affected both home and away. I would expect we bring around 50-100

BEST OPPOSITION

Yeovil as a team impressed me the most, even though we held them to a draw their squad oozed quality and it could’ve been 4-0 in the first ten minutes, Frank Nouble came off the bench and looked a different quality to any player in our squad but overall Jordan Young was the standout. Luis Fernandez impressed me in both games vs Hampton and so did goalkeeper Adam Desbois.

STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES

This season it’s been very difficult to highlights the main strengths in our team but I’d say we are a hard working team, in many of the games we’ve came out on the losing side but majority of the time you can’t fault the effort the players have put in. This season our main weakness has been failing to see out games, it’s been our Achilles heel under both Alan Dowson and now previous interim manager Tony Burman.

PREDICTION

I’ll go for an exciting 2-2 draw since Torquay have drawn their last 3, McGavin worldie (obviously) and Jarvis to get Torquay’s goals with Coulson and Akanbi to get ours.