Darlo Uncovered

Disagree on that point Loan_Star. Teams set up pitches which suit their style of play. If Farsley’s game is suited to long ball, whereas ours is about passing on the deck, the pitch is therefore different, in that it suits one team’s style over another. I suppose the question then is, do we have any...

On the subject of the referee, the Darlo fans around me thought the ref was giving us nothing and the yellow card he gave Donawa was a poor decision. On the way out of the ground the Southport fans were screaming at the ref that he had given them nothing and had cost them the game. Seems no one was...

Excellent performance today against a side who’ll be top 10 come the end of the season in my opinion which makes it more satisfying than the Kettering win. O’Neil is improving with every game and offers us something our other forwards don’t. And as said so many times before, Hatfield was outstanding...

No one cares.

You can't be full-time without increased income, that means increased attenances and increased corporate hospitality. Good luck growing crowds at a ground where people can't even see once the gate goes over 2500. It will be a even better match day experience when we add another set of railing to pu...

Can’t understand the love of Bishop Auckland There is no love of Bishop, not so much love that anyone would rather play in Bishop than Darlington anyway. It's only Darlo Pete saying he'd rather play in Bishop, just to be controversial. I don't think I'm being controversial, I'm just expressing my o...

Craig Morley and David Johnston have both stated that within a couple of years we will have exhausted the possibilities of increasing commercial revenue at BM assuming that off-field growth continues and that the Arena will allow much greater off field revenue. Well we’ll need all the money we can ...

I could be wrong, but I think Darlington Albion are now Darlington Town in the Wearside League (our old reserve side).

So if they play on a Saturday, that removes the problem of anyone potentially playing for them on a Sunday.

Why should he keep an opinion to himself? If he’s got one, and it’s genuinely held, I don’t see what’s wrong with expressing that on a message board, designed for that purpose. Too many people seem to want to shut down any criticism whatsoever. I personally disagreed with Laing being described as ab...

You couldn't write it could you. Absolutely devastating news for Luke and the team! As far as what to do, Liddle looks spot on at left back so no sense changing that, and even if we did Galbraith can not be entertained as a full back anymore. He's nowhere near mobile enough to play there at this le...

Not entirely sure why Laing is being singled out by some. Didn’t think he was any better or worse than Galbraith. Come the end of the season, we may look back on this as a reasonable point. Gateshead are a full time team with some really good players for this level. They’re gelling after a lot of ch...

Donawa has never played wing back, and won’t be starting this weekend I’d venture. Liddle or Watson will be moved to RB, or Atkinson could be brought in there if for. AA isn’t about to tear up everything he’s been working on because of an injury to Trotman. Not sure I agree on the “He runs about a l...

To give an indication of how ridiculously open this division will be, only one side (Guiseley) has a 100% record after two games.

I think that pitch was a bit of a one-off at this level, most of them are either decent or acceptable. That was like an over-used park pitch. However it doesn't excuse the schoolboy defending that gift-wrapped them the points. This. Pitch was diabolical, but (I hope) the worst we'll have to play on...

Thing is, we've changed so much this season it's really hard to know what to expect. From last season, only Thompson, Trotman and Galbraith are likely first teamers (if we presume Hatfield and Atkinson are first choice CM pairing over Wheatley). It's a whole new team with a new coaching set up. On t...

Plenty to be cautiously optimistic about, with the usual caveat that pre-season is very different to the league, so shouldn't be taken too seriously. But I do feel Armstrong has assembled a squad he knows what he wants to do with. Will be interesting to see if there's any further movement in terms o...

:lol: I wondered how long it would take grytters to call Rees-Mogg a racist... That term is thrown around so often by the left these days to defame the character of certain people that it's lost all meaning. I don't even take it seriously anymore! It's gotten to the point where I don't see the poin...

I'm saying this now, will take being shot down later.... Campbell will score 20 goals this season. *Screenshots, saves for posterity* ;) But in all seriousness, from the couple of pre-season games I've seen, he's clearly got the potential to be a class above in this division. His pace and movement ...

Love it when lefty/liberals who preach tolerance show their true colours by spouting abuse over things like this. Remember, when the left (or EU) set up entire departments to enforce standardisation, that’s good. When a low ranking Tory cabinet member issues a style guide, he’s an odious inbred wan...

Love it when lefty/liberals who preach tolerance show their true colours by spouting abuse over things like this. Remember, when the left (or EU) set up entire departments to enforce standardisation, that’s good. When a low ranking Tory cabinet member issues a style guide, he’s an odious inbred wank...

Quaker85 wrote:Begs the question why agree the fixture in the first place?


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No it doesn’t.

If it’s down to injuries, then that was unforseeable at the time the game was arranged.

Friendlies getting cancelled is no big deal.

But we’re talking about Bascome. And there’s nothing here in this thread to suggest Bascome is going to be a scapegoat, which was what you said. People pointing out he was at fault for the goal isn’t scapegoating, it’s a fact. Read my posts properly. I said of all the players we have it seems that ...

But we’re talking about Bascome. And there’s nothing here in this thread to suggest Bascome is going to be a scapegoat, which was what you said.

People pointing out he was at fault for the goal isn’t scapegoating, it’s a fact.

I was merely responding to a previous post where he appeared desperate to know our current sales position. Yep, got that. And my point was he has little to crow over, given we’ve sold nearly double Spennymoor’s total. Perhaps I could’ve expressed it a little clearer. But we all know PolarBear and S...

The rest of my post was very positive even saying that I thought one of our players had a decent match even though Gramps savaged him in his post by saying he wasn’t convinced by him. He said you "savaged him"? I didn't think you did so how is it I got the wrong end of the stick? Darlo_Rob doesn’t ...

I thought as those statements were quite obviously over the top and ridiculous, people would realise my post was aimed at Quakers83, obviously not. There you go loan_star, it wasn’t a criticism of me. TBF, I read it as Darlo_Rob intended. Ironically enough, it’s loan_star who’s got the wrong end of...

Who’s abusing anyone? Some people have pointed out they’re not convinced by Bascombe, some say they thought he played well. Just about everyone has said he was at fault for the goal. That’s not abuse, it’s fact, Armstrong said it in his interview. To some fans, anything that’s not “Every player is ...

don'tbuythesun wrote:Polar Bear will be overjoyed with this information. I'm sure he'll be here to comment soon as he apparently hasn't spent his time constructing a Spennymoor forum.

Why would he be overjoyed at us nearly doubling their total?

Giving them away as freebies to your academy players doesn’t count.

Looking at the highlights I think it was Donawa who made the horrendous pass. Also, Atkinson's injury looked more like a metatarsal the way he went down, although it was horribly reminiscent of Sam Muggleton's incident. It was Bascome who made the horrendous pass for the first goal. Out of the tria...

H1987 wrote:Aaaand it’s done. Until the end of December.

Great stuff. If Holness and Bascome sign, I reckon we are about done.

My guess is Armstrong will want another winger/forward, and another midfielder and that’ll be it.