Darlo Uncovered

'Mind the gap' 'We'll never play you again' 'Laughing stock of north-east football' 'The reason we've never won the FA Trophy is because we've never been in the conference' 'I've got a jar of coppers in the kitchen, you can have them to stick in your bucket if you ask nicely' 'Won't ever happen to u...

the whole point is they expect greater interest and support from both home and away fans so they increase the capacity requirements, everything else is to ensure the safety really. as it stands BM is perfectly safe for the Championship or Premiership if the capacity didn't need to increase. So let'...

Can anyone enlighten me as to the reasoning behind different stages of the pyramid - from the Prem right down to our level - having different ground requirements? Is there any precise reason why they're in place, or why they differ as you ascend the leagues? When the powers-that-be were deciding, di...

What was Adolfo Gregorio like? Even after looking him up I've got zero memory of him whatsoever.

Does anyone know how the quality of the Evo-stik Prem compares with Division 1? Is it safe to assume that we should be up there challenging with the current squad next season, or is significant strengthening needed? Considering that Whitby finished comfortably mid-table despite us poaching two of th...

Don't know about the rest of you exiles, but the minute or two it takes me to scroll through the match thread - through my fingers!- the morning after a game (I'm 7-8 hours ahead over here) puts me through the emotional wringer more than actually being there ever does! I could feel my heart sink to ...

Yeah, you're right. I was dancing in the aisles this afternoon. Rarely have I left a match feeling more elated. I know you're being sarcastic, but given the way you're carrying on, there's probably an element of truth in your reply. Of course the result was disappointing (no one's denied that). But...

The 3 banana skins of Northwich, Scarborough & Mossley have been dispatched with ease. I can't see any issues moving forwards. I cannot see us failing now. Mods, ban this prick NOW! As any long-term uncovered lurker will confirm, fate-tempters have been single-handedly responsible for chucking away...

Don't get to any games as an expat, can anyone shed some light on why exactly it hasn't worked out for him?

I was really expecting him to dominate at this level when he first signed.

Knew the Stompers' predicament was too good to last, however after years of not paying any attention to them, it's been a very amusing interlude. The meltdown the entitled fuqqers went into at the prospect of returning to their natural level after a decade and a half of bankrolling has been hilariou...

They ain't happy in the bunker '.....for the first time in my life, I deliberately chose, with NOTHING else in the way or to do, to miss a Pools Home game. My club is dead.' 'The club could simply be ran by admin staff at the moment for all ior are putting in. I'll say it again... I absolutely hate...

...by the fact that Hartlepool, who have just been leapfrogged at the bottom of the table by Carlisle in a 3-0 home drubbing, are in meltdown, judging by the histrionics of the Poolies I know anyway. A Poolie mate of mine (who I'm currently laying into via text, of course) is utterly, utterly raging...

Here is the view of FC Utd of Manchester...very good read. http://fc-utd.co.uk/m_story.php?story_id=5524 To be honest I struggle to take FC Can't Afford a Utd Season Ticket of Manchester fans seriously when they talk about English footballing tradition. If tradition is so precious to them, they sho...

Hmm, I'm in two minds about this one. Head says that it could definitely be a positive step towards expanding the pool of top-class English talent as long as it's done alongside other measures such as improving coaching standards, heart says that that English football culture outside the Premiership...

The size of our budget compared with others in the league is a bit of a red herring as far as I'm concerned - the pool of players available to us is limited, as well as being subject to a lot of competition. Think about our options. There's only ever going to be a very small number of former pros av...

I ended up clicking through to the Blyth first team page - I find it interesting that almost the whole lot were playing at Northern League level previously, there are only one or two former pros. Quite a big contrast with Whitby, who have a surprisingly ample amount of Football League experience in ...

Interesting choice of headline Going from playing in level 3/4 of the pyramid to playing last year in level 9 and this year at level 8. It could (and is probably the case) be argued that the team now and the quality of football is sh*te compared to back then. Yeah point taken, a more nuanced title ...

Back in the days when I was a Darlo season ticket holder (late 90s - early 00s), it was fairly rare for attendances ever to dip below 2,500, and even during very dark days with the likes of David Brightwell and Steve Harper at the back and Kirk Jackson and Matt Clarke upfront, crowds of 3500+ were n...

I think it should be called The David Hodgson Stadium. Or, David Hodgson Presents: The New Feethams. Or the Hodgiedrome.

Couple of quick questions: 1. When are we supposed to start playing at Blackwell? Am I right in thinking the start of next season, rather than at some point during next season? 2. In terms of facility/capacity requirements, what do we need to have inplace at each level of the non-league pyramid? Apo...

...it's amazing that no animals were stamped, raped, cross-bowed or microwaved.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/432615 ... n-thieving

Breaking news:

The Northern League Award for the Best Team in Europe goes to: Borussia Dortmund.

Just found out about this, apparently a pre-season competition for fan-owned clubs.

I'd quite like to see us take part, taking on teams like
Pompey or Wimbledon would make for a more interesting preseason workout than RA or Gateshead reserves or whoever.

Perhaps a bit anal/OCD/Darlo Pete of me, but i'd like to see us beat every team 'on aggregate ' this season - so I'm looking for a victory margin of at least 3 goals in both our remaining fixtures. Only then can we truly say we pissed this tinpot league! :D We've already failed to achieve this, we ...

Fibonacci0112358 wrote:But we won't beat every team on "aggregate". (Granted, so far it's only one team).

Or are you then going to go down the "away goals" path?

I'm quite a sad b******, so yes I am. Which means that Newton Aycliffe didn't escape being flattened by the Darlo steamroller!

Perhaps a bit anal/OCD/Darlo Pete of me, but i'd like to see us beat every team 'on aggregate ' this season - so I'm looking for a victory margin of at least 3 goals in both our remaining fixtures.

Only then can we truly say we pissed this tinpot league!

Some scintillating wing wizardry starting at 4:35 - you'd expect nothing less from the permatanned, magic hatted magician that was Richard Hodgson.

As if Hebburn hadn't embarrassed themselves enough already this week, utterly, utterly humiliated 7-1 at home to the 'Big time Charlies'. Clearly the window-lickers of Hebburn Town are about as well suited to mind games as they are to free-flowing football. What makes it all the funnier is that the ...

It's almost as if you can divide NL clubs into two distinct categories, canny little community clubs which are a credit to the league, and banjo-plucking web-footed fucktards who go out of their way to appear as tinpot as possible. It's clear which category Hebburn fall into.

I hope that Big Tim will attend both Shildon and RCA, and make vociferous drum-assisted protests against the price hikes, while making a point of not buying any food, beverages or programmes. That will really get the message across that we're not willing to get shafted time and time again, while giv...