Last 61 games

[BillyStubbsTears]

We have won 45 points.

In a season and a third, under three different managers and with an influx of over 2 dozen players, we have not got enough points to stay up in a normal season.

We averaged 0.7 points per game in the second half of last season. We have averaged 0.76 PPG so far this season.

The entire playing side and management is rotten beyond words. Even if we do find some spine and survive in the worst relegation battle in this division's history, we are at rock bottom and need a root and branch clear out. Unfortunately, most of these appalling players are with us until 23-24. I truly don't know where we go from here.

[Pliskin]

It's funny to say but I genuinely think that we are lucky to even be on 29 points this season.

Every win I've seen has been incredibly fortunate.

[BillyStubbsTears]

2, maybe 3 games you could say we have been clearly the better side this season. We've won points, occasionally, by hanging on and grabbing a goal against the run of play. It has truly been a grim, grim spectacle.

[steve@dcfd]

It will be said that the board have given sufficient funds to bring in players but the facts show that those player whether permanent or loan have either been past their sell by date or gaining experience. We have had injuries for over a season yes to key players. Taylor, Okenabirhie, fully fit Anderson, John and Close would have made the difference to some results. Only Tommy Rowe as shown the skills and consistency required for a good league 1 side. Decision making by the board after we sold Whiteman (yes he wanted to go) with players and managers has been very poor.
We had three good managers in DF, GM and DM all three left because the club’s ambition did not match theirs. All three have tried to be discredited by individuals on this board. Yet our downfall as a club as been dramatic as the results in the last 61 games have shown. With no improvement we will continue to fall and fail even in league 2.

[drfchound]

Some of us said towards the end of last season that we feared that the cataclysmic collapse could well spill over into this season and sure enough it has.
Would anyone be prepared to bet their house that it won’t spill over into next season?

[sedwardsdrfc]

Players, managers have all been very poor and need to look at themselves. The money is there to be better than this but the other football decisions the club has made over the last 2 years have been so poor that it's just money down the drain.

Since DM left us without a side we've hardly made a signing that's worked. We've appointed 3 terrible managers after very long processes that have cost us points. Worst of it all is we've made the same mistake with GM that was made with Butler and it'll be stick or twist again when it's mathematically over.

Even when we've tried to do the right thing it seems to backfire spectacularly. Get a Talent Manager to sign better players (right thing to do) quality of players drops. Offer longer contracts to stop the season on season turnover. Look at the players we are stuck with next season. All the right things to do but the execution by the people paid to do it hasn't worked out at all. Is it bad luck or are they not up to it...

[Lesonthewest]

Some of us said towards the end of last season that we feared that the cataclysmic collapse could well spill over into this season and sure enough it has.
Would anyone be prepared to bet their house that it won’t spill over into next season?

Based on recent performances (if you can call them that), the way we play without any form of stile or tactics, we will struggle in league 2.

[DonnyOsmond]

Is it time we start protesting at the ground to demand change? We all can see it's shit from top to bottom. Terry Bramall and Baldwin are the only ones doing OK IMO. We don't have a bottom 2 budget, so the funds are obviously there and commercial side were growing year on year.

The issue which we all know about is the footballing side. Recruitment has been shocking since Fergie left, minus the odd good deal here and there, why do we limit ourselves to only free transfers? That leaves us shopping in the bargain bucket and I'm starting to see the point of the bellends in the Dortmund scarfs.

Then we've got a squad of players that refuse to put a challenge in or want the ball and a manager that plays hoofball with one of the smallest squads in the league who have the lowest header completion rates in the league, so all were doing is giving the ball away straight off.

[Chris Black come back]

McCann recruited well. He didn’t actually make that many major permanent signings but his loans were all good. Maybe not the lad from Swansea so much, as he didn’t play him.

Whether budget or intent, after McCann it has been a real mess. Moore largely only bothered about Premier League youngsters on loan, with the jury being out on pretty much all of his permanent signings. Clearly Wellens and McSheffrey have spent a lot on not a lot of quality. There is virtually no resale value anywhere in the squad.

[Alan Southstand]

It started with McCann. No, not for the majority of the season when he had the bulk of DF’s squad, but at the end. I well remember his interview after the play off game at Charlton in which he claimed….”we’ll come back stronger next season”. However, he hadn’t met with the Board when he made that proclamation!

Stripped the squad of its experienced assets and demanded loyalty, only to sod off himself, when he realised he wasn’t going to get the financial support to allow us to come back anywhere near strong enough!

How we managed to convince DM to come in I still don’t know, but the over reliance on loans was the only way to go to put a half decent side out, with the funds available.

Since then it has been a catalogue of exceptionally poor management from the people in charge. No direction, no ambition (other than to balance the books) and no idea. And we are where we are! If nothing changes this summer we are back in the Conference.

[Upton Rover]

Shocking period of time down to the board not recruiting a genuine manager

[Filo]

It started with McCann. No, not for the majority of the season when he had the bulk of DF’s squad, but at the end. I well remember his interview after the play off game at Charlton in which he claimed….”we’ll come back stronger next season”. However, he hadn’t met with the Board when he made that proclamation!

Stripped the squad of its experienced assets and demanded loyalty, only to sod off himself, when he realised he wasn’t going to get the financial support to allow us to come back anywhere near strong enough!

How we managed to convince DM to come in I still don’t know, but the over reliance on loans was the only way to go to put a half decent side out, with the funds available.

Since then it has been a catalogue of exceptionally poor management from the people in charge. No direction, no ambition (other than to balance the books) and no idea. And we are where we are! If nothing changes this summer we are back in the Conference.

DM needed a stepping stone back into management, we were that stepping stone, what he said after he was appointed was all bullshit

[Chris Black come back]

We’ve got 8 games left to play. Our previous 8 games delivered 7 points. Same form repeated for final 8 games leaves us on 36 points and well, well adrift of not only safety but respectability.

[roversdude]

A bit of perspective needed DF’s father was seriously ill and left to look after him/his businesses. GM left because a Championship club came knocking as did DM.
Have to admit our managerial selections since have been poor

[DonnyOsmond]

A bit of perspective needed DF’s father was seriously ill and left to look after him/his businesses. GM left because a Championship club came knocking as did DM.
Have to admit our managerial selections since have been poor

Tbf a DF style rebuild is needed now.

[Prez]

A bit of perspective needed DF’s father was seriously ill and left to look after him/his businesses. GM left because a Championship club came knocking as did DM.
Have to admit our managerial selections since have been poor

We cannot say for sure why Fergie left, but i find it odd he resigned through the LMA and didnt bother to tell Gavin or Blunt.

Smells like he wasnt happy with the budget to me, especially after the sounbites he made on Radio Sheffield only a week or so before.

[ravenrover]

It started with McCann. No, not for the majority of the season when he had the bulk of DF’s squad, but at the end. I well remember his interview after the play off game at Charlton in which he claimed….”we’ll come back stronger next season”. However, he hadn’t met with the Board when he made that proclamation!

Stripped the squad of its experienced assets and demanded loyalty, only to sod off himself, when he realised he wasn’t going to get the financial support to allow us to come back anywhere near strong enough!

How we managed to convince DM to come in I still don’t know, but the over reliance on loans was the only way to go to put a half decent side out, with the funds available.

Since then it has been a catalogue of exceptionally poor management from the people in charge. No direction, no ambition (other than to balance the books) and no idea. And we are where we are! If nothing changes this summer we are back in the Conference.

Alan absolute rot about why McCann left, he went to a bigger club a league higher and probably for better money nothong to do with our budget it was about ambition