Views from the Sieve

3-0 down at half time, Rendall having a mare, Andy Carrol touched the ball twice gave away 2nd goal. Now he's injured gone off, can't imagine we'll miss him. This is truly awful . .
Yeah yeah yeah it's about conditioning and fitness. Don't charge £15 on the door then!!!
I'm looking forward to the 2nd half....NOT!

I predict A Merge 6-0 reverse.

We’re a long way off challenging for any promotion, defence needs sorting as does the midfield. Barely scored a goal all preseason despite having lots of goals in our attackers, as long as the likes of Rendall, N’Guessan and Harrack are still around the side we won’t be any good.

Couldn't agree more

I seriously considered going this evening but so pleased that I didn’t, I’ve always thought that this coming season is going to be tough but it’s looking like a long hard road

I had a ticket for this evening and didn’t go as I’ve been told to avoid stress
Looks like I made the right decision. At this rate you might not see much of me this season.

Auntie Merge wrote: Tue Jul 22, 2025 10:45 pm I had a ticket for this evening and didn’t go as I’ve been told to avoid stress
Looks like I made the right decision. At this rate you might not see much of me this season.

Stress is part of being a Daggers fan, it’s perfectly normal!

Does anyone know the names of the trialists last night?

len wrote: Wed Jul 23, 2025 9:14 am

Auntie Merge wrote: Tue Jul 22, 2025 10:45 pm I had a ticket for this evening and didn’t go as I’ve been told to avoid stress
Looks like I made the right decision. At this rate you might not see much of me this season.

Stress is part of being a Daggers fan, it’s perfectly normal!

I know! It is what a top migraine consultant in the country said to me years ago.... 'You support Dagenham and Redbridge? No wonder you've got basilar migraine!'

I think we all knew Carroll was probably going to play around 25 games this season, and that was being optimistic.

If the injury is a tear, with Umerah gone we have no focal point to the strikeforce, so I do think we are short there as our other options are all very similar players from what i have seen.

Defence is the biggest concern, Kalambayi rumoured to want to leave, as much as he didn't shine last season for the money we are paying him, I still think he would be our best CB this season. Panter looks solid enough, Maghoma is still not ready. That leaves us with Rendall and Harrack to fill the void and we all know what a disaster that will be.

Be interesting to see what sort of movement we have over the next week or so, as that will define and show the type of owners we have in place ahead of the new season.

The issue with playing staff all goes back to the indecision over ownership and the appointment of a manager being all to late to have half a chance to assemble any sort of quality players that were available, by the time we were ready to recruit all that was left were the dregs and has beens, signing Carroll was a smart move to get the club in the headlines but as far as football is concerned he’s just another liability, we are in the s#it big time this season and a second relegation is definitely not out of the question.