Match Thread vs. Solihull Moors 13.04.21 [NL]

[MAD_MAGPIE]

Funny you mention Dover, actually. I was worried from the post-match when Ardley said the ‘boys were five minutes away from a well earned 0-0 on the road’. Everyone knew by that point that they were a shambles and that any team with designs on promotion should be ruthlessly beating them - we’ve carried that mentality with us all season.

I don’t think IB was moaning about teams using long throws btw - more our inability to defend them properly. Which seems fair enough.

Yes we all knew that this season we should have gone up a level to be the ones to hit the ground running. Some people say you can't judge a team straight away but it has transpired that the warning signs that were there then and in the pre-season game against York that we have a knack of making other teams look more 'up for it' or we allow them to grow into the game or play their game instead of imposing our game and style on them throughout.

Dover should have been a Bradford 5-0 at home in the Munto season if we were going to be the real deal and serious title challenges this season.

[Elite_Pie]

Dover should have been a Bradford 5-0 at home in the Munto season if we were going to be the real deal and serious title challenges this season.

It certainly should, because absolutely everything was in our favour. It was explained away by some that "the grass was too long", or "there are often freak results on opening day". We were bloody lucky that it didn't count in the end.