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by Mark
Fri Aug 25, 2023 10:33 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: How safe is Strevens position?
Replies: 12
Views: 18680

Re: How safe is Strevens position?

Not sure any manager of our club should be given any more money. A reduced budget still isn't poverty. Ben is a well loved here and everyone wants him to do well but we've got a bad side and he recruited a fair number of them. I do have some sympathy with some of Daryl's dross still under healthy co...
by Mark
Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:49 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: Southend United
Replies: 60
Views: 182063

Re: Southend United

Whole thing is mental. Appreciate all clubs at this level are probably one absent owner away from insolvency, but unless we're about to reform the entire sport, the only course of action is to stop the club competing. It makes a mockery of the integrity of the competition. If you can't pay your staf...
by Mark
Wed Aug 16, 2023 7:15 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: What are Ben's options here?
Replies: 12
Views: 23786

Re: What are Ben's options here?

I believe it is still a half decent budget for this level, although it seems we have to continue spending a chunk of it on Mussa and also Balanta rumoured payout. I wonder if our club has taken advantage of these pretty unfair new NL contracts whereby we can reduce salaries after 12 weeks of inactiv...
by Mark
Mon Aug 14, 2023 4:28 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: NL: Gateshead (H) 15 August 2023
Replies: 43
Views: 95014

Re: NL: Gateshead (H) 15 August 2023

No issue with a smaller squad but as noted they have to be reliable with a long history of being injury free, and they have to be very good. Clubs have done it in the past but if course the league is now seemingly dominated by money clubs with 25+ players. If Hare and Page are long term, we need mor...
by Mark
Sun Aug 13, 2023 10:15 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: NL: Gateshead (H) 15 August 2023
Replies: 43
Views: 95014

Re: NL: Gateshead (H) 15 August 2023

Can't see it getting better very quickly. Gateshead are very good on the ball and will move it quickly and make life very difficult for us. If we are really wedded to this 352 I'd at least like to see Johnson, Weston and Lawless come in for Page, Kendall and Rees. I'd put Ibie up top with Inih. I wo...
by Mark
Sat Aug 12, 2023 5:39 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: Dreadfull.
Replies: 18
Views: 38143

Re: Dreadfull.

Terrible. Ibie as a wing back, do me a favour. The midfield 3, looked like 3 lads we'd pulled out of the pub, painfully slow, not sharp. Rees totally anonymous and Vincent couldn't pass wind. Kendall offered zero up front, no pace, couldn't hold it up, didn't link with anyone. No legs in the team wh...
by Mark
Tue Aug 08, 2023 2:56 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: NL: Southend United (H) 12 August 2023
Replies: 26
Views: 30637

Re: NL: Southend United (H) 12 August 2023

As Digger says, they hadn't sold many tickets originally and then suddenly everyone jumps on the bandwagon cos they won a game. As for the trouble, as noted above every year around 50 or so knob heads attach themselves to each club and attempt to turn this game into some kind of row. I doubt many re...
by Mark
Sun Aug 06, 2023 5:36 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: NL: Altrincham (A) 5 Aug 2023
Replies: 16
Views: 21266

Re: NL: Altrincham (A) 5 Aug 2023

I reckon if Johnson was fit, Westy may very well have found himself on the bench. Page is surely the guy we are expecting to provide ammo from the left this season.

Agree we are definitely going to need to dip into the loan market to cover all the extra minutes and inevitable injuries.
by Mark
Wed Jul 26, 2023 2:43 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: No Views From The Sieve
Replies: 18
Views: 33092

Re: No Views From The Sieve

Those new big red posts underneath it mean you cannot see more than about 2/3 of the pitch from anywhere in the sieve bar the first couple of steps. If you stand between them both goals are obscured. If you stand either side of them the other half of the pitch is obscured.
by Mark
Sat Jul 22, 2023 1:32 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: West Ham Friendly
Replies: 6
Views: 3537

Re: West Ham Friendly

Think the one and only official sell out in our post 92 era was against Ipswich?
by Mark
Mon Jul 17, 2023 7:53 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: Manny Gone
Replies: 8
Views: 6730

Re: Manny Gone

Killing your aging, best creative player at wing back is a non-starter for me. 433 is the way forward. I am sorry to see Manny go, apparently a high earner and we can sign 2 for the price of 1, but purely on football he walks into our current team. If we really are going to play 3 centre backs with ...
by Mark
Sat Jul 15, 2023 4:18 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: Friendly: Hornchurch (A)
Replies: 22
Views: 20972

Re: Friendly: Hornchurch (A)

It doesn't shock me. We have made a couple of quality signings but overall in the squad we are a long way short. I would guess the lack of recent signings is budgetary and hence we might not see the improvements we need at all. I don't like wingbacks with the players we have, I don't think it will w...
by Mark
Sat Jul 15, 2023 3:17 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: Friendly: Hornchurch (A)
Replies: 22
Views: 20972

Re: Friendly: Hornchurch (A)

Conor Lawless.
by Mark
Sat Jul 15, 2023 2:33 pm
Forum: Discuss all things Dagenham and Redbridge
Topic: Southend United
Replies: 60
Views: 182063

Re: Southend United

Not really sure what they are protesting about. Should the chairman pay all the bills out of his own pocket? The business doesn't have the money to pay. As I understand it, Kimura are interested in buying but the terms are not agreed. I can only speculate, as nothing is public, that Kimura do not wa...