IT seems to be cliché week for table-topping Dartford.

On Saturday it was ‘a game of two halves’ at Tonbridge, while Tuesday’s evening date at Wealdstone will be the illusory ‘six-pointer’.

Which begs the question – if it’s a draw, does it become a no-pointer?

Darts elected to kick to the North Stand under a sky which resembled a canvass of blotched charcoal clouds.

But it was certainly Tonbridge running the opening 45 minutes with swift raids, mainly along the flanks.

The hosts almost took the lead early on when a right side corner was mis-judged by Andrew Young but the consequent shot on goal was to no avail.

Young, however, made amends with fine saves from Sam Long but was unable to do anything about Angels’ only goal from Paul Booth, whose 18th minute shot went in via the upright.

Then a Lee Minshull shot went agonisingly wide ten minutes before the break.

Whatever was said by Tony Burman in the interval certainly did the trick as the ‘old’ Darts’ knack of crushing the opposition in the latter stages of games came to the fore.

Ryan Johnson fired home the leveller through a forest of legs within six minutes of the restart, following good build-up play involving Ryan Hayes and the effervescent Danny Harris.

Harris put the Darts in front on 72 minutes and Elliot Bradbrook, who had previously hit the post, killed off the game as a contest with an unstoppable 30-yarder with eight minutes to go.

Substitute Rob Haworth, who was playing a sort of controlling role, rounded off a great afternoon for resurgent Darts by heading an Adam Gross cross firmly past Lee Worgan with two minutes left.

It was also a triumph for the travelling army of Darts’ supporters who, following the drummer’s lead, sang and chanted incessantly throughout, outmatching the Angels’ not inconsiderable choir.

Dartford: Young, Burgess, Gross, Flanagan, Beales, Johnson, Hayes (White 83), Noble, Harris, Burns (Haworth 74), Bradbrook (Coyle 88). Subs not used: Dafter, Burchell. Att: 842.