Dorking Wandering
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Back at Meadowbank again tomorrow as we face Dover Athletic under the lights. The Kent side are currently 15th in the table on 38 points with just 1 win in their last 5 games.
No fresh injury news, but Marc did announce that Rutherford might be back this weekend for Farnborough and that Carter and Pybus are both a couple of weeks away.
Predictions:
Dorking 3-1 Dover (McCallum, Casey, McShane)
1,328 att.
Foulkes
Camp Annesley Norville-Williams
Muitt Gallagher Sidwell Lewis
McShane
McCallum Casey
Subs: Craig, Francomb, Knight, Vincent, McManus, Moore, Prior
Attendance can almost certainly be put down to a mixture of bad weather and a ton of home games. It has rained basically every day for 2 months and the last thing people want to do is go stand in it for 2 hours. Combine that with 5 straight home games then you get some more casual fans who will wait for Saturday fixtures or bigger opponents. We played Aveley and Tonbridge in midweek games last season and they were similar crowds with similar weather.
Tough first half but probably a little expected considering how little football we've played over the past few weeks compared to Dover. A much better second half, propelled by some excellent changes. Prior and McManus were superb when they came on and it was great to see Knight get on and score as well.
Shame about Casey but at least Rutherford is back this weekend by the sounds of it.
Stats:
Possession: Dorking 57% - 43% Dover
Shots (OT): Dorking 13 (8) - 11 (2) Dover
xG: Dorking 2.04 - 0.34 Dover
Accurate Crosses: Dorking 1 - 2 Dover - Our lowest amount this season
Top Performer (Dorking): Brennan Camp [7.7]
First half a dreadful watch, combination of timewasting by Dover, and few, few chances. Just a scrap really.
Second half got some soft decisions, one of which a 'foul' on Muitt (Muitt literally pushed the ball past then ran into the player) led to a goal
Knight looked great. Shame about Casey's injury. Was all about the 3 points which were grafted for. Late bonus seeing Chippenham beat Torquay putting us on joint top points.
Attendance was only 906 including 98 away fans, that is a really poor turnout (of just over 800 Dorking fans) which confirms my earlier suggestion that we should have been offing a multi-game ticket bundle at a small discount (3 consecutive home games gave that opportunity) to boost the crowd numbers
Country Road was a bit of a wierd one, played just as Marc walked out so The Bank were singing Marc's song instead. Worth another couple of go's - got to give it a chance, but at the moment it looks as popular as when they started playing Elvis pre-match at Palace!!!! 🤣
Overall pleased that Marc is finding ways to consistently win with what we have.
Since last season the ticket prices have been too high.
I attended a Championship game as an adult with my 2 sons for cheaper than it was to go to a Dorking Wanderers home game.
I have also just checked and to see Dorking for me and my 2 sons under 14 for the next game, it would cost £38.
I could go to Crawley’s next home game with my 2 sons (under 14) for £24.
The cost of living crisis is real everyone working is being taxed into oblivion, and I don’t have season tickets anymore. Therefore, this really matters. I wonder how many other people are put off by the astronomically high ticket prices.
With no bundles and very high prices it’s not good value for the level of football. It’s putting people off.
