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Quoted from quebec38

If anyone else recognised the ref but couldn’t remember why… he was the idiot in charge against Mansfield 2 years ago. He had a howler that day. Threatened to do it on Saturday too - definite sending off for me early on.

In a way, maybe that did us a favour, If Dover had gone down to 10 men they would have put every man behind the ball to try and nick a draw, although their defending at times was that poor, we'd no doubt still have scored.

I was quite surprised in the first 10 minutes that they were actually trying to play some football, rather that parking the bus, which if they'd gone down to 10 I'm sure they would have done.

I think there plan was to try and sneek a goal then park the bus

Dover were actually passing it around very tidily in the early stages, before we got a foothold in the game. Their No. 22 looked pretty useful and we couldn't get the ball off him when he was in possession. Luckily, they had absolutely nothing up front and, though we couldn't get the ball off him, their No. 22 didn't do anything effective when he had the ball.

Very unusual to see a struggling team play like that, not least because of the acres of space they left in midfield and at the back. I'm surprised they've not had a drubbing before now and you always felt we could have bagged a few more if we'd wanted to go all out in the second half. No complaints, though. No need to risk injury when you've got the result well and truly in the bag. I think the starting midfield 3 look to be our strongest partnership so I hope they can stay fit to start most of the games together.