Views from the Sieve

Sorry to see Ben go but it’s a results game and we haven’t been getting any!
Wish him all the very best for the future

Great for us as a player, but completely out of his depth as a manager. Should have happened sooner.

Sad to see Strevs go but the league results alongside the FA Trophy and Essex Senior Cup exits left the owners with no choice.

Hopefully we get someone in with a few more tactical ideas in.

Sad to see him go but its a results game and we cant risk relegation.

Being realistic, Strevs should have gone last season. But I hold no ill-will towards him, he’s a good bloke and cares about the club. He just wasn’t good enough as a manager.

Unfortunately, this is now going to be the time where I fear that we find out the truth about our board’s competency. They will now have their own manager, their own squad and their own director of football. Yet I can’t see our fortunes changing as the problem runs much deeper than 3pm on a Saturday. Hopefully I’m wrong.

Very sad to see him go but has been so inconsistent in the results since he had been here.
Wish him well for the future because comes across as a nice guy who gave. his best

It’s the fans fault, you’re all banned.

NBDag wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 8:53 pm Being realistic, Strevs should have gone last season. But I hold no ill-will towards him, he’s a good bloke and cares about the club. He just wasn’t good enough as a manager.

Unfortunately, this is now going to be the time where I fear that we find out the truth about our board’s competency. They will now have their own manager, their own squad and their own director of football. Yet I can’t see our fortunes changing as the problem runs much deeper than 3pm on a Saturday. Hopefully I’m wrong.

I agree, sad to see him go but inevitable after recent results.

Given the owners have had some experience of owning clubs abroad, I have some confidence in their competency but time will tell. I did initially fear Peter Taylor may have taken over temporarily but luckily that's not happened

Sad to see Ben go. An honest guy who loved Daggers but just didn’t have what it takes to create a winning team. Wish him all the best wherever he ends up.

What's the betting one of Kings mates gets the job

Angelo Harrop recently sacked by Braintree is JK mate.

I so wanted Ben to do well, but it's been obvious for quite some time that he's not been up to the job in hand. That said these players that he's had under his management have a lot to answer for. They've let him and us fans down time and time again and put in performances that have been totally unacceptable. It's fair to say that Ben's been unlucky with injuries to key players, but save for one or two of those, the rest have been nothing short of shambolic.
Their inability to put in a shift may well be down to the motivational skills of the manager, but it's a privilege to play any sport for a living, and therefore anything short of 100% is unacceptable.
Some may think that they're above putting in a shift, but there's a reason they're plying their trade in this league.
It'll be interesting to see who the owners think will be able to bring in to change things round, I just hope they get it right. They'll be hard pressed to find a more honest individual than Ben.

On the pitch has been a shambles for much of the season especially away from home. That's on Strevs and Young. The signings have been very questionable and that's probably on King.

Sorry to see it end this way and I'm once again unconvinced it will help much in isolation, but it became inevitable.

Wonder if they'll just appoint someone happy to do as they're told and pick whoever King delivers, or whether they'll go for someone with their own idea of how the job should be done.

I would expect several of the loans to go back in Jan and we still have major work to do on the squad. Left back remains a problem, central midfield is pathetic, and without Umerah we are massively struggling up front.

Hard to say that Strevens was not up to the job as manager when he got Eastleigh into the playoffs and was sacked there when their money ran out but still left them when they were 9th. Seems a reasonable cv to me.

Last season the money started to run out when Freud embarked on a phased withdrawal and this season's injury list is one of the worst I've ever known at any club and we have literally not been able to field the same team 2 games running. Add to that having numerous players foisted on him that I know he didn't want and I think he's been unlucky and had a raw deal.

He is Dagenham through and through and in retrospect it would have been far better for the club if Todd Johnson and Jody Brown, now at Woking, to have clinched the buyout. We might not have been any more successful but at least we knew they were committed with honourable intentions.

Let's all hope now that it's upwards and on but the inherent conflict of interests at the club makes me doubtful.

There seems to be a suggestion by a few people on here that James King has signed players that Ben Strevens didn't want but had to play and that was the way the owners wanted to operate the way the club should be run. Where has all this come from, is it purely something that just started as a rumour by somebody or is this fact?
The owners seem to have knowledge of running a club in Italy with a certain amount of success and appear to have a varied level of expertise amongst themselves.
I would be very interested if somebody on here could explain to me how and why they think the club is run this way and where did they get the information that this is true or are we going down the road of conspiracy theories?