Dagenham & Redbridge 2 Aldershot Town 5
Dagenham & Redbridge boss John Still admitted the buck stops with him after witnessing his side’s heavy defeat to Aldershot at Victoria Road on Saturday.
Four first-half goals stunned Daggers, who could only net themselves through Jon Nurse.
Damien McCrory thumped in a late free-kick, but Aldershot scored again with virtually the last kick of the game to compound Daggers misery.
And, in a brutally honest assessment of his side’s performance, Still compared the defending to something more accustomed to a school playground.
“We’re making so many errors that if you were schoolboy players you would be saying you’re disappointed,” said Still.
“We’re making too many errors unforced.
“It isn’t like you’re playing a team, and on some days it happens, that completely rip you apart and you say ‘well we haven’t had a chance here’.
“I don’t see that. I always felt that we’d score enough goals, but we’ve got to stop conceding.
“I said to the players I don’t think its any of their faults. I bring them here, I coach them. It’s the manager’s responsibility, no-one else’s.
“If the players are not up to the job that’s not their fault, it’s my fault because I’ve brought them here, so I have to take responsibility.
“They’re told to defend properly and if we’d have defended properly we wouldn’t have been 2-0 down in six minutes.”
Read more reaction from John Still in Wednesday’s Barking & Dagenham Post
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