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[Nick L]

Chasetown got off the mark yesterday with a 1-0 win away at Lincoln. Will hopefully be going to their FA Cup game on the 29th Aug.

[cheshire snow]

Have to admit my non league team Altrincham have had a great start in the Blue Square

Played three games won 2 drawn one dont expect that kind of form to last though

Trouble with the Robin,s is that they are still part time were as the majority of the clubs

In this league are Full Time.

Still 2nd in the league after 3 games.I would predict them to finish about half way in

This league come May........Time will tell

[Andy Bown]

I don't take any notice of league tables until most teams have played 10 matches, however for the first time in x number of years Westbury Utd have won their opening 2 league games (2-0, 2-1), but have been knocked out of the FA Cup 2-3 in a replay that followed a 2-2 draw.

[Nick L]

Chasetown drew 1-1 to AFC Wulfrunians in the FA Cup Preliminary Round today.

[HighPressure]

Sutton United Won 4-1 in the Ryman lge yesterday making it 3 wins out of 5, we have a very young pacey side just lacking a bit of bite in midfield. We are set to sign last season's Dover playmaker so it should sure us up and give us a real chance of promotion

[Charltonkerry]

See Dartfords fine run is continuing (although not as good as my other team Charlton) nice to see over 1,100 Darts fans up there on Saturday, and yet another fine 2 nil away win today at Hornchurch. Bring back great memories of when the Darts where the best non league team in Britain, winning the Southern league, Wembley appearance, and great crowds, then came Maidstone and the misery that brought, great to see them on the wat back, just need a good cup run now.

[HighPressure]

Charltonkerry, on 31 August 2009 - 16:59 , said:

See Dartfords fine run is continuing (although not as good as my other team Charlton) nice to see over 1,100 Darts fans up there on Saturday, and yet another fine 2 nil away win today at Hornchurch. Bring back great memories of when the Darts where the best non league team in Britain, winning the Southern league, Wembley appearance, and great crowds, then came Maidstone and the misery that brought, great to see them on the wat back, just need a good cup run now.

Hello Dartford fan you are indeed flying at the moment but you have 3 very tough games coming up culminating in visiting my lot where you will find it a lot tougher. As for Charlton you were lucky to hold on to Nicky Bailey one of the best midfielder's outside the premiership, I think I gave him his first interview in football. He nearly signed for Chelsea as a youth, was turned down by Bristol Rovers (I bet they regret that?) prior to signing for Barnet, supports Fulham and his previous occupation was a bookie in Putney high street

[Charltonkerry]

Hello high pressure, i am not the only Dartford supporter on this forum during the snows of last year somebody else mentioned them. Unfortunately with my work commitments and being a season ticket holder at Charlton (yes there still are some) i cant get to Dartford very often (perhaps twice or thre times a year) even so i only live within 5 minutes walk of there ground (why do they play there home games on the same day as Charlton? when they dont coincide there crowds increase by between 100 and 200). Dartford playing at Watling Street still bring back great memories, who can forget the players such as Johnny Stevens, Les Burns, Malcolm Pike, and yes the great player / manager Peter Taylor. Perhaps we are lucky but the Darts always get a good coverage in our local paper and there games are always advertised well, just really pleased to see alot of youngsters up there supporting there local team. Tony Burman was talking about a promotion push before the start of the season, but as you rightly say there are some hard games to come in the near future, dont really think that the tables mean to much until you have played at least 10 games.

Funny everbody raves about Nicky Bailey but i am not yet convinced, scores lots of goals (especially this year) but gives the ball away to much in dangerous positions, but there again we have been spoilt at Charlton by good youngster of the likes of talented midfielders Spooty Parker (Chelsea has alot to answer for wasting his talents), and now we have Jonjo Selvey who if he progresses as it appears he might then there a England player if ever i saw one.

[HighPressure]

Charltonkerry, on 01 September 2009 - 06:23 , said:

Hello high pressure, i am not the only Dartford supporter on this forum during the snows of last year somebody else mentioned them. Unfortunately with my work commitments and being a season ticket holder at Charlton (yes there still are some) i cant get to Dartford very often (perhaps twice or thre times a year) even so i only live within 5 minutes walk of there ground (why do they play there home games on the same day as Charlton? when they dont coincide there crowds increase by between 100 and 200). Dartford playing at Watling Street still bring back great memories, who can forget the players such as Johnny Stevens, Les Burns, Malcolm Pike, and yes the great player / manager Peter Taylor. Perhaps we are lucky but the Darts always get a good coverage in our local paper and there games are always advertised well, just really pleased to see alot of youngsters up there supporting there local team. Tony Burman was talking about a promotion push before the start of the season, but as you rightly say there are some hard games to come in the near future, dont really think that the tables mean to much until you have played at least 10 games.

Funny everbody raves about Nicky Bailey but i am not yet convinced, scores lots of goals (especially this year) but gives the ball away to much in dangerous positions, but there again we have been spoilt at Charlton by good youngster of the likes of talented midfielders Spooty Parker (Chelsea has alot to answer for wasting his talents), and now we have Jonjo Selvey who if he progresses as it appears he might then there a England player if ever i saw one.

I have to admit to remembering Watlin Street, but you do have a nice new ground complete with roof moss

Dartford should really of got a playoff place last season but had a real dodgy patch @March which blew it for them. As you say 10 games is better evaluation point as you still have sides in transition this early including mine, if we can sort our problems out relatively quickly then we will challenge and hopefully our signing of last season's Dover's midfield playmaker should help us. Dislikes about Dartford: you cannot smoke and the ridiculous rule of removing bottle lids including trying to take my 6yr old sons fruit shoot top

As for Nicky, not the prettiest of players but he will always be the last man standing will as you say get goals which is a bonus and you will notice the difference if you take him out of the side. He may give the ball away a lot but I wonder how many times he actually won it first? and the other thing about him is he has performed the same at every level he has played at.

Edited by HighPressure, 01 September 2009 - 20:10 .

[Nick L]

Chasetown crash out of the FA Cup at the first hurdle, after drawing 2-2 in their replay they went on to lose 5-4 on pens to AFC Wulfrunians.

[Charltonkerry]

Well another great win win against Hendon (5-0) with an impressive crowd of 1,100, the Darts are now 5 points clear of second place Tooting & Mitcham after only 7 games, can the glory days be returning, to early to say yet, but it is a good start. Also Charlton won there 6th game on the spin, could footballing life be better, don't know will tell you in May 2010.

[HighPressure]

Yep very impressive Hendon are no mugs and 5-0 certainly shows intent and Dartford will be the team to catch. My Sutton side went down 1-0 at home to Boreham Wood which is terrible for one of the favourites to win the title at the start of the season. We have real problems in midfield in fact we don't have one, but what we do have is the hottest striker outside the football league and at 18yrs and 3 weeks you cannot move at our place for Scouts. Six goals already from a kid that has not played above youth level before this season and everyone one of them finished clinically. Stefan Payne is the name and he is too good for us and this league so I expect he will be gone soon unfortunately.

While writing this I hear that he has signed for Fulham on a three year deal and has been loaned back to Sutton, hopefully for the remainder of the season? This kid is special!

[Charltonkerry]

HP, it seems to be happening more often that larger teams are signing non league players, Charlton have done it recently on a couple of occasions. Nice to see it. Bet it means you will have a freindly against Fulham to look forward to.

[Nick L]

The Premier League have donated £1m to the Conference clubs. This is generous but surely is just a drop in the ocean?

http://news.bbc.co.u...onf/8259550.stm

The amount each club will receive will be about the same as some top players earn in a single day!

[HighPressure]

Charltonkerry, on 07 September 2009 - 06:17 , said:

HP, it seems to be happening more often that larger teams are signing non league players, Charlton have done it recently on a couple of occasions. Nice to see it. Bet it means you will have a freindly against Fulham to look forward to.

Still waiting Fulham and Sutton to announce the deal officially as they have to get the wording right apparently, but Stefan Payne currently just one month into his senior career and currently the leagues joint top scorer has signed a pre contractual agreement to join Fulham on a 3 year contract in January (they cannot sign him before). The deal includes 25k up front, 2 friendlies against the Fulham first team and if he establishes himself in the first team we could make a further 250k with 20% of any future sell on, so if he signs for Man Utd for 10mill we get 2m

And Dartford get to see him next week

[Charltonkerry]

Pity the game next week is away otherwise i might have taken a trip over to Princes Park, still i would think that the Darts will take a lot over to your place on Tuesday night, good luck anyway hope it is a good game and the best team wins.
These deals for players and the add on's certainly makes things complicated and not always do you get what you expect, ask any Brentford fan concerning the Michael Turner move, Charlton will get alot more than Brentford just because of somebody not reading / understanding a sell on clause. Hope you enjoy spending your 2 million odd.

[Charltonkerry]

Another great away win for the Darts 4 nil. Darts now have 22 points from 8 games with a goal difference of 23, what i think is impressive in this run is the defence as they just dont seem to conced goals. Now for the big one away to Sutton on Tuesday night.

[HighPressure]

Charltonkerry, on 20 September 2009 - 06:33 , said:

Another great away win for the Darts 4 nil. Darts now have 22 points from 8 games with a goal difference of 23, what i think is impressive in this run is the defence as they just dont seem to conced goals. Now for the big one away to Sutton on Tuesday night.

Interesting you call it the big one, we are 10pts behind and 7 places lower the game should not prove difficult for such a rampant side?

Seriously I am sure that Dartford will see the game as a big pointer for them as they played well and lost both games against us last season. I am not saying Sutton are going to win or even get a draw but I suspect that Dartford fans agree that if their runaway train is going to get derailed the most likely place is GGL on Tuesday?

I will there

Edited by HighPressure, 20 September 2009 - 19:19 .

[Charltonkerry]

I was thinking it was the big one, because certain teams have always been around at this level and you can judge performances by the results gained, a few other teams in my mind would be Rugby and Kettering. Hope it is a good game and the best team wins, unfortunately because of work commitments i wont be there.

[Charltonkerry]

The big one again finished with a fine 3 nil away win for the Darts, lets hope and was a good game and that high pressure went along and saw it. HP if you got time prehaps you could give us (me really) your impressions?
For those of you who perhaps are unaware of Dartfords start to the season it is Played 9 won 8 drawn 1 with a goal difference of 26, i only wished my other team Charlton start was as impressive. Another bit of good news Berwick won tonight to go top of Scottish league 3, dont ask why but i have always looked for there results and every year i promise myself a trip up there, well i suppose i still got time, just realised it could be a hat trick of promotions, after the end of the long season however i would like to believe at least one of my teams will be promoted, but which one? or could it be more than one?

Edited by Charltonkerry, 22 September 2009 - 21:59 .