F A Cup Second Qualifying Round - Crowborough Athletic (H)

[Tony]

What's everyone's pain threshold before losing faith in Dowse? Not that the players are doing anything to help of course.

[HamptonMad]

Please. Go now.

[BevereeMaster]

What's everyone's pain threshold before losing faith in Dowse? Not that the players are doing anything to help of course.

Should only deserve another shot if he can shift a lot of these players and start over a little bit.

If he’s going to stick with this crop of players then he has to go

[TW10]

Well the players Dowse invested in have shown to be not good enough, or they can't be organised into a collective that is good enough. Either way it reflects badly on the manager. I think he will walk.

[Whoryer]

Dowson out now. Embarrassing 2 performances against a team 2nd bottom 2 leagues below us. I said when he was appointed didn't want him back after flopping in his last few jobs. Definitely hasn't helped himself getting a load of Aldershot rejects including Nash too short to be a goalie, Widdrington who can't run and only usually plays for whoever is Dad is currently managing .Ince who shouldnt have been given another year, and Sho Silva a non scoring forward. Going down with Dowson and this squad unless something is done very quickly. Just hope we aren't stuck with alot of the players ,cause they have got contracts and no one else will want them. Very poor recruitment in the summer with what must've been alot bigger budget.

[Tony]

I'd be surprised if the Chairman didn't think enough was enough after that. Bit like when we lost 6-0 at Eastbourne last season which was the end for Alan Julian.The whole season bar a couple of games has been a shambles with poor recruitment and dreadful defending. If the club doesn't make a change now then how much longer will we give Dowse to turn it around? Dagenham, Ebbsfleet, Dorking in next three league games. We can't even put up a fight against Crowborough. Lot of investment just gone into the club, can't imagine relegation would be tolerated.

[Josh2002]

Has to go i’m afraid, that was absolutely unacceptable, you can include Saturday in that too. Dowse is a great man and he has done incredible things for this club: the Isthmian League win, back to back play offs at NLS, the later seeing us a shootout away from playing in the National League. However, that was nowhere near good enough. I didn’t think it would get worse than Saturday, but we didn’t lay a glove on them. Crowborough easily could’ve had more, and showed Saturday’s game wasn’t a fluke. Credit to our players who came over to the fans at FT and apologised, saying it wasn’t good enough. Dowse unfortunately was nowhere to be seen. I also wouldn’t be surprised to see him resign. I feel desperately sad that it’s come to this, because as I said, he’s an amazing man who’s done incredible things for our club.

[Lord Elpus]

Shocking result, absolutely no excuse for losing to a team two divisions below. Some idiot on twitter has just said "oh it's only the FA Cup" but that's not seeing tonight in the context of this very poor start to the season. (It also says a lot about how little the writer knows about non-league club economics.)

[Tony]

It would have been Wimborne.