I'm really not accustomed to being on this side of the fence, but I can't help feeling that Dowse is having a detrimental effect on our club. It's just constant whinging and whining and excuse after excuse about the budget, plastic pitches, injuries, referees, bad luck and now the latest nonsense is that he can't get access to the training pitch. Dowse is the most negative, uninspiring and demoralising manager I can ever remember in my 57 years of supporting the Darts. If he took a job at The Samaritans we'd have a national suicide epidemic within days. He hangs everone out to dry, whether it be "idiot" supporters, his players or the board, we are all somehow to blame. It doesn't surprise me that he has struggled to make signings because he portrays our club in such a negative way. Now he at least recognises that in Bonner & Connor he inherited the best centre-back partnership in the league, although he never stopped slagging them off when they were here. He is not "building" anything, he's still mucking about with triallists and loanees, just slinging any old player he can get hold of into the mix in the hope something good happens. His recruitment has been an absolute disaster and even though we have more points and relegation looks unlikely, morale on the terraces is worse than it was under Flanagan & Coyle and there isn't even a "Reg" on hand to argue on the manager's behalf. I feel sorry for the board because he looked a good fit when he was appointed, but it clearly isn't working.
It most definitely didn’t work for Flan and Coyle but they did love the club for obvious reasons so you know they gave it their all.
While we can’t expect the same emotion from Dowse he could at the very least behave with respect towards the club and it’s supporters.
Statistics: Posted by KentC — Tue Jan 02, 2024 8:36 am