Darlo Uncovered

I think we had a midfielder called Mike Robinson who never played again. If it is the same one he was called Neil Robinson and I see to recall he was a vegan, so didn’t wear leather football boots. Isn’t it odd the things you remember (assuming I’m right of course). Yes it was Neil Robinson, came i...

If that is the case then season ticket prices have risen. By maybe £25, I could be wrong... Ticket prices were obviously set and started to be sold before any of this kicked off and whilst it’s highly likely that the league won’t be expanded to 23 teams given the planned nullification of the divisi...

Almost halfway to this seasons total, it’s only the first week in April and no one has a clue when we might see another game of football. It’s a good effort and brought in much needed cash.

Hopefully the interest free instalment plan available now makes it easier for others to get involved too

We didn’t beat Rochdale at home in 95/96 or 96/97. We beat them 4-0 at the end of the 94/95 season but Painter never scored

If we effectively only have a license to play at Blackwell, and pay so much a game - do we still have any liability? We don’t own the ground or any part of it. I don’t wish any problems onto the rugby club but the Government have closed football down so are we liable for rent on something we can’t ...

According to the latest published accounts:

Turnover: £677K
Playing Staff: £365K
Coaching Staff : c£70K

So players were 54% of turnover or for £1 of revenue earned we spent 54p of it on players
Players and coaches 64%

Costs were £800K

It can still be run online if needed where staff can be protected.

A lot of small businesses if they can will need to diversify to survive. Pubs and restaurants need to look at providing delivery services whilst they still can at least.

Well after this evening’s news we can throw the entire 20/21 season in the bin, it isn’t happening barring a miracle.

Best get those vaccines on the go as this is our only way out of this now.

York have called there game off apparently. Wonder if they were worried about altringham, or want to see how kings lynn get on before playing or actually the virus? Or maybe they just thought what’s the point exposing players, staff and fans if we don’t have to In that case we better close the leag...

50 years wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 14, 2020 1:22 pm

York have called there game off apparently. Wonder if they were worried about altringham, or want to see how kings lynn get on before playing or actually the virus?

Or maybe they just thought what’s the point exposing players, staff and fans if we don’t have to

It'll be the last chance to see us for some time, although living near Boston I'm hoping I may have the chance on Tuesday. Divas is right in that what confronts us will be unprecedented and it will have big implications for next season too. I'm wondering if we'll need to do some fundraising going f...

Yes I am serious. League won’t start again until August/September. All sorts of issues to iron out with playing contracts etc. Given our PT status and players generally on shorter contracts they may even be a different approach to teams in the league. No one knows yet so I fail to see how today matt...

It does seem strange to hold this game today. It seems that there will be a long lay off with two options at the end of it. Either to declare a kind of ghost season or to ram a load of matches in mid summer. Either way todays game seems a bit pointless. Agreed. The only point of today’s game would ...

I think realistically we’re looking at September before we can get back to any sort of normality. It’s going to be a long, tough 6 months, the like of which many will never have experienced before.

Concerning situation and you wonder exactly where we would be without this seasons cup run and associated TV Fees Indeed the statement makes it clear that the current form of operation cannot continue indefinitely, and i guess until it changes fans and DJ aspiration of full time football, will rema...

Commercial manager won’t be included in commercial or hospitality.

Yes, BUT you do have to consider that BTB and DJ investment would have formed part of the playing budget calcs.

But yeah on the bare face of it, without £150K investment from the owners every season we’d probably not be able to compete at this level.

The doctors in Italy are singing a very different tune. Let’s see where we are in 2 weeks time when our path catches up with them.

The license at BM has another 16 years to run.

It’s very worrying for a number of reasons but like you say from a financial aspect it could be problematic. Many of our fans are of an advancing age and clearly at bigger risk of serious illness. Even if matches go ahead I expect crowds will be down partly due to this. We’ve also got a pretty much ...

Personally I wouldn’t class it as investment but suppose it’s a matter of opinion. It’s ultimately a cheaper way to attend games by making an upfront commitment. Fans at every club whether fan owned or not buy season tickets.

Hopefully the 500 club coming to an end will help improve those financial figures to something healthier and more sustainable in the near future. What financial figures are you referring too? We have not seen anything as yet, however fans are being asked to invest for next season without knowing th...

From the highlights it’s clear the players are starting to heed the managers request to shoot more.

They lost Callum Roberts and with it any chance of survival

I’m more interested to know what his contract situation is - whether he’ll become a free agent in the summer or not. Not that bothered about another loan spell this season but if we could somehow get him in for next season permanently it would be a seriously good signing. He obviously gets on with ...

The story is that one of the founding directors of Interlink Scaffolding used to be a director at Industrial Scaffolding Limited and wanted to use a similar name, logo, colour scheme.

Other than that no link between the two.

Darlo_Pete wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 03, 2020 2:36 am

Are ISL still in business, good business for them if they are?

No

Patrick Roberts and Ashley Fletcher both injured tonight and Stephen Walker / Mitch Curry out on loan so there to make the numbers up more than anything. He still had Nmecha ahead of him on the bench. I’m more interested to know what his contract situation is - whether he’ll become a free agent in t...

Yes, we will be carrying stock in the club shop also once the pre-orders arrive. Pre-orders allow us the liquidity to do that and also gauge demand for how much stock to order.

I am a 500 club member, and will be getting a new season ticket this week, I expect most will be renewing. Some 500 club extended not sure on how many. About a third expire with two thirds having extended for various lengths. Hopefully we don’t have to offer them again in future as it’ll mean finan...