Dartford manager Alan Dowson stays calm as his side aim to get first National League South win this season at the fourth attempt against Farnborough

There’s no panic at Dartford yet, insists boss Alan Dowson.

Having finished second in National League South and lost out in their play-off Semi-Final last season, Darts will hope to be vying for promotion again this time.

But they’re winless after three games, having been pegged back at home to Hampton & Richmond on Tuesday after frontman Harvey Bradbury’s header while winger Brandon Barzey was dismissed late on.

Dowson is remaining level-headed, though, despite early-season criticism he and his players have been given on fans’ forums.

Dartford were also winless throughout their pre-season. They had started with two league triumphs last year but had just nine points from their first seven fixtures.

“There’s 43 games to go so I’m as calm as you like,” said the experienced Geordie, who denied Saturday’s home game against Farnborough is now a must-win match.

“I really am.

“I’m not getting paid to take pressure, I’m getting paid to try and manage a football club. That stuff doesn’t bother me.

“I don’t read them [fans’ forums] - I do get told about them - but I just think some of them are idiots. They’re slagging the team off after three games.

“We came second here last year and we’ve got a top-12 budget.

“But that’s just some of them, the majority of them are as good as gold.”

One of several crosses by defender Tommy Block led to Bradbury’s goal against Hampton and Dowson felt he was a stand-out performer, alongside recently-signed Oxford United loanee defender James Golding.

“Tommy and the centre-half were excellent,” he noted. “We’ll take a lot of positives from that.

“It’s just disappointing we conceded so late again.

“We’ve got to do something with the strikeforce. We are having chances and, with the chances we missed on