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STRIKER – DID YOU HIT THE NET?

Latest Striker results for Wednesday 19th July 

 

Congratulations to all the winners and better luck next time if your name wasn’t drawn out. It could well be your time next week.

For anyone who doesn’t know how the Striker Lottery works well let me explain if for you. Each week, so long as you have paid your £1 weekly subscription, your number will be entered into a draw. If your number is drawn, congratulations – you’re a winner! It’s as simple as that. The draw is held every Wednesday. Keep an eye on the website and social media pages for full details. Who knows, your number could scoop the £1,000 top prize.

Please note that only paid-for tickets are entered in the draw. For your convenience, your membership fee can be collected from you, or you can pay at the Club Office or, to save time, you can pay monthly or quarterly by standing order.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest and good luck

COMMUNITY DAY & OPEN TRAINING SESSION

Come and get involved as we throw our first community day.

With the re-energised Community Trust team being assembled in the summer, we look forward to throwing our first community day of the season. Come along and see what fun and entertainment we will have at Crabble, with the added bonus of the first team completing an open training session, followed by an in house match. We would love to see some new faces as well as old, so why not bring a friend or family member, and come and take a look at what we will be doing this campaign. And best of all, admission will be FREE for all.

Following the first team training session there will be some live music in the Centre Spot with a chance to meet and greet the players and management team. Why not bring along something for them to sign?

The running order for the day will be as follows:

  • 12-2pm – Inflatable Football Pitch supplied by the Football Fun Factory
  • Face Painting and Temporary Tattoo’s
  • A Shirt Raffle
  • Raffle to Win a Bucket of Booze.

Raffle tickets will be £1 each but the face painting and inflatable football is FREE and will be held on the community pitch behind the stadium.

  • 2pm – First Team begin Open Training Session on main pitch
  • 2.45/3pm – First Team in house match
  • 4-6pm – Live Music from Turmoil, in the Centre Spot.

We hope to see as many of you there as possible.

COYW.

 

STRIKER – DID YOU HIT THE NET?

Latest Striker results for Wednesday 12th July 

Congratulations to all the winners and better luck next time if your name wasn’t drawn out. It could well be your time next week.

For anyone who doesn’t know how the Striker Lottery works well let me explain if for you. Each week, so long as you have paid your £1 weekly subscription, your number will be entered into a draw. If your number is drawn, congratulations – you’re a winner! It’s as simple as that. The draw is held every Wednesday. Keep an eye on the website and social media pages for full details. Who knows, your number could scoop the £1,000 top prize.

Please note that only paid-for tickets are entered in the draw. For your convenience, your membership fee can be collected from you, or you can pay at the Club Office or, to save time, you can pay monthly or quarterly by standing order.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest and good luck

STRIKER – DID YOU HIT THE NET?

Latest Striker results for Wednesday 5th July 

Congratulations to all the winners and better luck next time if your name wasn’t drawn out. It could well be your time next week.

For anyone who doesn’t know how the Striker Lottery works well let me explain if for you. Each week, so long as you have paid your £1 weekly subscription, your number will be entered into a draw. If your number is drawn, congratulations – you’re a winner! It’s as simple as that. The draw is held every Wednesday. Keep an eye on the website and social media pages for full details. Who knows, your number could scoop the £1,000 top prize.

Please note that only paid-for tickets are entered in the draw. For your convenience, your membership fee can be collected from you, or you can pay at the Club Office or, to save time, you can pay monthly or quarterly by standing order.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest and good luck

STRIKER – DID YOU HIT THE NET?

Latest Striker results for Wednesday 28th June

Congratulations to all the winners and better luck next time if your name wasn’t drawn out. It could well be your time next week.

For anyone who doesn’t know how the Striker Lottery works well let me explain if for you. Each week, so long as you have paid your £1 weekly subscription, your number will be entered into a draw. If your number is drawn, congratulations – you’re a winner! It’s as simple as that. The draw is held every Wednesday. Keep an eye on the website and social media pages for full details. Who knows, your number could scoop the £1,000 top prize.

Please note that only paid-for tickets are entered in the draw. For your convenience, your membership fee can be collected from you, or you can pay at the Club Office or, to save time, you can pay monthly or quarterly by standing order.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest and good luck

STRIKER – DID YOU HIT THE NET?

Latest Striker results for Wednesday 21st June

Congratulations to all the winners and better luck next time if your name wasn’t drawn out. It could well be your time next week.

For anyone who doesn’t know how the Striker Lottery works well let me explain if for you. Each week, so long as you have paid your £1 weekly subscription, your number will be entered into a draw. If your number is drawn, congratulations – you’re a winner! It’s as simple as that. The draw is held every Wednesday. Keep an eye on the website and social media pages for full details. Who knows, your number could scoop the £1,000 top prize.

Please note that only paid-for tickets are entered in the draw. For your convenience, your membership fee can be collected from you, or you can pay at the Club Office or, to save time, you can pay monthly or quarterly by standing order.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest and good luck

THE WORLD CUP OF DAFC KITS – THE FINALE

Which shirt will be crowned the best home strip ever?

We now reach the semi final stage of the competition with only four shirts remaining. If you missed the earlier rounds, you can catch up by clicking here THE WORLD CUP OF DAFC KITS – DOVER ATHLETIC FC.

Semi final match one saw an old classic take on its more recent counterpart. The Gomez 2015 shirt would have its work cut out with the CountryWide Derv shirts clear winners in the early rounds and it would prove to be the same outcome with this. The 1993 Plaaya shirt was an astounding winner, gaining 59% of the votes to become the first Dover home shirt in the final.

Semi final two saw two heavyweights go head to head. Another Plaaya Countrywide Derv, this time the 1995 edition, faced off against our millennial shirt, the 2000/02 Vandanel Jenkins & Pain. On paper it looked to be a tight affair and the voting was in agreement with the 1995 shirt narrowly scraping through to the final with a 52.1% win ratio.

And so onto the final…

The showpiece contained two similar shirts from the early to mid 90’s so one would think it would be a tight, cagey affair as most finals are. It really wasn’t. The 1993 edition romped to victory with 72% of the votes to be Crowned the greatest Dover Athletic home shirt.

Massive thanks again to all involved. A really fantastic bit of nostalgia. Maybe an away one next summer, lads?

STRIKER – DID YOU HIT THE NET?

Latest Striker results for Wednesday 14th June

Congratulations to all the winners and better luck next time if your name wasn’t drawn out. It could well be your time next week.

For anyone who doesn’t know how the Striker Lottery works well let me explain if for you. Each week, so long as you have paid your £1 weekly subscription, your number will be entered into a draw. If your number is drawn, congratulations – you’re a winner! It’s as simple as that. The draw is held every Wednesday. Keep an eye on the website and social media pages for full details. Who knows, your number could scoop the £1,000 top prize.

Please note that only paid-for tickets are entered in the draw. For your convenience, your membership fee can be collected from you, or you can pay at the Club Office or, to save time, you can pay monthly or quarterly by standing order.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest and good luck

STRIKER – DID YOU HIT THE NET?

Latest Striker results for Wednesday 7th June

Congratulations to all the winners and better luck next time if your name wasn’t drawn out. It could well be your time next week.

For anyone who doesn’t know how the Striker Lottery works well let me explain if for you. Each week, so long as you have paid your £1 weekly subscription, your number will be entered into a draw. If your number is drawn, congratulations – you’re a winner! It’s as simple as that. The draw is held every Wednesday. Keep an eye on the website and social media pages for full details. Who knows, your number could scoop the £1,000 top prize.

Please note that only paid-for tickets are entered in the draw. For your convenience, your membership fee can be collected from you, or you can pay at the Club Office or, to save time, you can pay monthly or quarterly by standing order.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest and good luck

THE WORLD CUP OF DAFC KITS

Which kit will take the plaudits?

Ever wondered which classic Dover Athletic home shirt is the most majestic? Well wonder no more as we bring you the World Cup of Dover Athletic kits (home edition). The idea crafted by the River End Podcast was wonderfully brought to life through graphics by Jordan Pettman. A selection of shirts were put in a random generator and drawn out to create a knockout style competition. Bringing back to life some of the clubs most iconic retro shirts, the lads have worked this to perfection so I think it’s only fair that it gets the coverage it deserves. Each tie was decided by a poll on Twitter, with the winning shirt moving through to the next round before ultimately being crowned Dover Athletics’ greatest home shirt.

Courtesy of @theriverend1 & Jordan Pettman

Round One

Match one saw the 1993-95 shirt romp through with 76% of the votes. And it was a similar story in match two as the fans voted for the 1992/93 version to triumph over its more recent counterpart.

Match three was a landslide victory over the less fancied Jacetts pinstripe number with over 80% of the votes while in match four, we saw the emergence of our brand new 40th anniversary shirt. It would be the last time we would see the 2023/24 edition as it was beaten by the 1997/98 Daihatsu.

With one half of the draw completed, it was now time to turn attentions to the opposite side.

Match five was a tight affair with the 1995/96 shirt squeezing past with a 55% vote whereas the 2003/04 shirt pipped 07/08 to the post in match six. The 2000 Vandanel won match seven and concluding the first round set of fixtures was the latest shirt, the 2022/23 Megger. The 2010/11 shirt was victorious and marched through to the last eight.

The first game of the quarter final stage saw two heavyweights from the first round clash with the two early Countrywide Derv shirts facing off with the 1993/95 Plaaya shirt knocking out the much fancied Spall version. Next into the action was the 2015/16 shirt which squeezed past the 1997/98 Daihatsu with arguably the closest vote of the competition so far, claiming 51% of the votes to make the last four.

The 1995/96 shirt was a worthy winner against its 2003/04 competitor and found itself through to a semi final spot. Completing the round was the 2000/02 shirt, facing off the 2010/11 version with the millennium shirt edging through with 59% of the voting.

We now have only four shirts remaining for a chance to be crowned Dover’s greatest shirt, probably. You can check out the action as it unfolds if you have a Twitter account. Just follow @theriverend1 for your chance to vote and get involved. If you don’t have Twitter fear not, as we will return once we have completed the final. Great work lads, superb.

The Final Four

With the club entering its 40th anniversary year, you can now pre-order your new home shirt for the coming season. Click HERE for more details.