Dartford manager Ady Pennock on two red cards in the first three games of the Isthmian Premier season

Dartford manager Ady Pennock won’t be pressing the panic button after a “crazy” start to the season.

The Darts have had two red cards in three Isthmian Premier games and picked up just one point.

Skipper Michael Olarewaju saw red in last Saturday’s 2-0 defeat at St Albans, a week after Ben Frempah was dismissed at Dulwich in a 4-0 opening day loss.

It’s been a slow start but Pennock has still taken encouragement from what he’s seen.

“Of course, we wanted to get nine points out of three games,” he said. “Against Billericay, I thought we were really good and then we started on Saturday how we finished that one off.

“I don’t want to point fingers at anybody, we’re all in it together.

“Football can change very quickly, we’re not pressing the panic button and there’s been some positives as well.

“It’s been crazy but there’s been some positives as well. There was only one team in it on Saturday (before the red card), we could have scored two or three before but their keeper made some good saves and they cleared one off the line.

“We needed that first goal but we showed some good signs although the results don’t reflect that.

“The first five games were always going to be difficult against teams who could be in contention for winning the league.

“They’ve been tough games and playing with 10 men against these sides as we’ve done twice means you are up against it at times.”

Pennock revealed the Darts appealed against Frempah’s red card at Dulwich, but the original decision was upheld.

The Darts boss said: “We appealed the first one because the lad kicks the ball and it wasn’t a bad challenge, it was clumsy, he was going away from goal and Jonny Henly was going to pick the ball up. We thought that was a good appeal but they said