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A quick turnaround after Saturday's late winner. I cannot unfortunately see either Dieng or Lawless starting the game as probably wanting to ease both of them in as just returning from injury.
Not sure of lineup especially as Reggie Young now likely to be out for a period of time.
Another three points would be great but probably stronger opposition than we faced Saturday so will have to see.
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Diggerthedog
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Manager needs to play his strongest team from the start abs attack the game, no doubt he will revert to type.
Be our lowest league crowd for many years tonight not that the club will be honest with the attendance.
Be our lowest league crowd for many years tonight not that the club will be honest with the attendance.
I think the issue you have with our crowd is the least of our worries at the moment but midweek fixtures are always less attended especially when there is lots of games televised.Diggerthedog wrote: Tue Oct 21, 2025 11:10 am Manager needs to play his strongest team from the start abs attack the game, no doubt he will revert to type.
Be our lowest league crowd for many years tonight not that the club will be honest with the attendance.
Also I believe it is fairly common these days that clubs include season ticket sales whether that person turns up or not plus other sales. I would be interested in the West Ham official attendance last night, if they indeed publish it, as there were lots of empty seats in the stadium presumably by season ticket holders making their feelings known.
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Diggerthedog
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I think fans staying away is a huge worry as it’s money the club is losing out on, if the purchase of the club doesn’t go ahead the begging buckets will be out again. Whilst those in charge seem to not care either way if people turn up or not it will soon come back to bite them in the bum.
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AVincelotFlyingLeap
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Who the ****** bought a season ticket this summer after last season but has decided to stop going afterwards? What did these people expect?
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Diggerthedog
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Was it fun tonight, another relegation pending.
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DAGGER2003
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Awful performance. Only plan the Diagonal to Carroll. Can’t keep the ball. Got outplayed. Really grim. Another relegation battle awaits. Bradbury ball is dire.
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DI Mike Dashwood
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Have absolutely no problem with us whacking it to Carroll, it’s what happens next that’s the issue. Was there a midfielder out there at all for us all night??
Surely they know he is either gonna win it or it’s going to drop off the defender but absolutely zero desire or commitment to get to the second ball.
Who was the Horsham Number 7?? Presumably part time?? Will be going into work tomorrow pissing himself and telling his mates how he played 99 minutes at Dagenham without anyone getting near him.
Absolutely embarrassing.
Surely they know he is either gonna win it or it’s going to drop off the defender but absolutely zero desire or commitment to get to the second ball.
Who was the Horsham Number 7?? Presumably part time?? Will be going into work tomorrow pissing himself and telling his mates how he played 99 minutes at Dagenham without anyone getting near him.
Absolutely embarrassing.
Yep. Carroll is pointless for us because whilst he always wins the ball, he has no one around him for us to create something. No corners went near him either. We use him to set up the rest of the team but the rest of the team are a pile of shit being directed by a pile of shit.DI Mike Dashwood wrote: Tue Oct 21, 2025 10:24 pm Have absolutely no problem with us whacking it to Carroll, it’s what happens next that’s the issue. Was there a midfielder out there at all for us all night??
Surely they know he is either gonna win it or it’s going to drop off the defender but absolutely zero desire or commitment to get to the second ball.
Who was the Horsham Number 7?? Presumably part time?? Will be going into work tomorrow pissing himself and telling his mates how he played 99 minutes at Dagenham without anyone getting near him.
Absolutely embarrassing.
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Auntie Merge
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I renewed when we got told new owners, Anwar and Andy Carroll.AVincelotFlyingLeap wrote: Tue Oct 21, 2025 9:19 pm Who the **** bought a season ticket this summer after last season but has decided to stop going afterwards? What did these people expect?
I’m really busy with work at the moment, I was thinking about going tonight and bringing a friend with, but then I decided I had more interesting things to do like answer lots of emails.
i did listen in on Saturday for part of the game, and we managed to turn things around, just.
But after so many years of watching dire football, and coming away from games fed up, and wondering why I bothered, especially as I am meant to avoid all stress, as much as I want to see friends, i am tired of feeling so crap from watching us play.
It’s like being in an abusive relationship. You might not realise your relationship is abusive but once someone points out the signs, a lightbulb moment goes off and you plan your exit strategy.
Unless there are major changes at the club, I can see the exit door is open for me.
After 43 years, I think I am done. .
I think tonight was even worse than the 5-2 loss to Worthing. We were just SO bad. That long diagonal to Carroll as others have said is a plan if we have runners picking up on it as we did in the second half on Saturday. But tonight nothing, and our defending was downright comical at times albeit some last ditch tackles only saved us from a bigger beating.
Now the SE27 Dagger
Cannot disagree with any of the comments, we were absolute rubbish. I don’t remember us having any shots on targets, their goalkeeper didn’t have to do anything all evening. Our long ball up to Andy Carroll is ok if it is working but last night was clearly not but we don’t seem to have a plan b.
All the teams we have played so far are so much better at keeping possession and creating lots of goalscoring chances than us and just walking through our defence.
We may be full time but have a number of players that are clearly not good enough.
All the teams we have played so far are so much better at keeping possession and creating lots of goalscoring chances than us and just walking through our defence.
We may be full time but have a number of players that are clearly not good enough.
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Diggerthedog
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Said it a million times, full time players at this level are the worst and not better than the part time players at the same level. Proof is in the pudding, should have gone part time over the summer and be done with it.
On Saturday we got lucky due to the opposition switching off in the dying seconds, I commented then that I had no confidence that it was a turnaround moment, this is basically due to the fact that Bradbury isn’t very good (politely saying he’s f#king sh1t) tactics are so predictable and turned out to be the same against Horsham apparently, when they watched us in previous games they must have left the game pissing themselves laughing knowing that they didn’t have to work hard to outplay us, im not a coach but I can see that to beat us just have a reasonable player around Carroll when he wins a header and then just pick up the loose ball and counter,
Bradburys tactics are just schoolboy level, pleased I didn’t go last night and can’t see why I’d want to pay to watch this sh1t anytime soon.
Bradburys tactics are just schoolboy level, pleased I didn’t go last night and can’t see why I’d want to pay to watch this sh1t anytime soon.
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daggerChris
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Carroll needs runners or crosses into the box to be effective, we offer neither.
I simply do not understand what system Bradbury is trying to play. We are so passive, and basically invite teams on to us with no pressure on the ball. Even sunday league players can pick decent passes out when given all the time in the world to do it. It is definitely down to the manager on that front as he sets the team up in that shape.
Outside of Dieng, we have no midfielder who wants the ball or looks to play a progressive pass. How N'Guessan and Sidwell are professional footballers is beyond me, neither can play a pass and neither get involved in trying to break the play up, they basically just shadow run the opposition.
When we do break, half the players look too knackered or scared to get out of their shape so we can do it at speed. On 3 occasions yesterday Hemmings broke with the ball and was surrounded by 3 Horsham players with not a single Dagger anywhere near him and no passing options.
It is without doubt the worst Dagenham team/setup since I have been watching the club since we won the Ryman prem with Garry Hill in charge. We are very quickly becoming a laughing stock, and given the way this season is going, its hard to even get frustrated with the performance this level is now just what we expect from this group.
Club need to make a statement on ownership one way or the other so fans at least understand what is going on. And whoever the owners are or who is in charge need to pull the trigger pretty quickly on Bradbury or you will continue to alienate the entire fan base who at the moment just cant be bothered with the club.
I simply do not understand what system Bradbury is trying to play. We are so passive, and basically invite teams on to us with no pressure on the ball. Even sunday league players can pick decent passes out when given all the time in the world to do it. It is definitely down to the manager on that front as he sets the team up in that shape.
Outside of Dieng, we have no midfielder who wants the ball or looks to play a progressive pass. How N'Guessan and Sidwell are professional footballers is beyond me, neither can play a pass and neither get involved in trying to break the play up, they basically just shadow run the opposition.
When we do break, half the players look too knackered or scared to get out of their shape so we can do it at speed. On 3 occasions yesterday Hemmings broke with the ball and was surrounded by 3 Horsham players with not a single Dagger anywhere near him and no passing options.
It is without doubt the worst Dagenham team/setup since I have been watching the club since we won the Ryman prem with Garry Hill in charge. We are very quickly becoming a laughing stock, and given the way this season is going, its hard to even get frustrated with the performance this level is now just what we expect from this group.
Club need to make a statement on ownership one way or the other so fans at least understand what is going on. And whoever the owners are or who is in charge need to pull the trigger pretty quickly on Bradbury or you will continue to alienate the entire fan base who at the moment just cant be bothered with the club.