The Daggers were seriously depleated on a day where not much good football was played and not much fight was shown by the Daggers. Mark Janney, Tim Cole and Ashley Vickers were all suspended and Lee Goodwin and Steve Heffer were injured. This meant that Paul Terry was asked to fill in at right back, Broomy dropped back to left back and Danny Hayzelden made his debut up the left. On the right, Matt Jones deputised for Janney and in the middle, Forbes and Brennan replaced Heffer, and Terry who was at right back. At centre half, loan signing from Luton, James Ayres made his debut in place of Tim Cole.

The Daggers seemed to be making light of the decimated squad early on and had Nuneaton under pressure for the first four minutes. However, they failed to create anything and then Nuneaton came back into it and immdiately scored through Lee Charles. King crossed the ball to the far post where Ayres had lost his man and although Charles mishit his volley, it looped up and unfortunately, Roberts slipped on the muddy goal area and the ball dropped into the net.

The Daggers were not under huge pressure, but they were failing to create anything with their possesion whilst Nuneaton threatened when they had the ball. Dagenham's best chance was when Shipp cut inside and scuffed a left foot shot at the keeper.

On 28 minutes, Nuneaton doubled their lead through McGregor. Another long punt was misread by Ayres and McGregor stole in and he rounded Roberts and slotted in. It could have got worse minutes later when a similar chance was smothered by Roberts.

The Daggers were not getting the ball into dangerous areas at all and the only clean strike at goal was a long Paul Terry shot that went high and wide and a long-ranger from Forbes that was also over.

In the second half, Nuneaton could again have scored when they crossed low from the left and Charles hit his shot at the post when a goal seemed easier. The only thing the Daggers did was sling long range crosses into the box from the full-backs, Broom and Terry which were all cleared or collected by McKenzie

The Daggers could have scored from one such cross when McKenzie dropped the ball, but the resultant shot was blocked. Forbes also had a chance when he headed over from a Jones corner.

Nuneaton had another chance before the end though when the ball was crosses from the left and was headed just wide of Roberts' left hand post.

As the game moved into injury time, the Daggers has their best shot. Opara backheeled the ball to Junior who hit a shot from 20 yards which the keeper pushed over the bar. A poor performace and a defeat was deserved, and expected due to all the absentees.

D & R: Tony Roberts, Paul Terry, Lee Matthews, James Ayres (Mark Keen), Jason Broom, Matt Jones, Steve Forbes, Mark Brennan (Paul Cobb), Danny Hayzelden (KK Opara), Danny Shipp, Junior McDougald. Subs not used: Steve Heffer, Lee Goodwin

Man of the Match: Lee Matthews, at least he tried to play.