Darlo Uncovered

onewayup wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 26, 2020 5:33 pm

The arena is where we start the season if we get a start, social distancing not a problem there.
Fat josh trilling clown stay away,

Is that a fact or a opinion?

I would imagine that the Arena idea will be paused for now.

Old Git wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 26, 2020 10:52 am

I am doubtful the Government will bail us out because they will see how much money is at the top end of the game and think it should be distributed better.

See lo's link on the other thread - it explains how it may work, sort of a top up of lost revenue.

Your standard response to everything is just “call it off, scrap it” etc. It’s a broken record. Not everything, I usually like to push on and not take no for an answer, but I just feel that restarting the football season now, after all that's happened and is happening, is becoming messy. I hope you...

"Following this week's Government announcement that fans' returns to live matches will be delayed beyond early October, it has been reported that four-fifths of the National League North do not support starting the season without fans. York City are among those who do support the restart next month,...

I simply don't see how we can even contemplate playing a cup game when there is no way we can play league games if no fans are allowed. If we are saying contracts don't start until the league does we have no players to play the game for a start. I agree, it's become somewhat of a farce now. It seem...

Yep. Still feels like a lot of balls to juggle...it was a holding statement from the NL on the day they were due to make a decision so who knows what next. It's a holding statement as they are trying to work out how the season will pan out in a hurry. And given that most clubs will be bankrupt if t...

Good posts Old Git and quaker4life. This surely can't be a surprise to anyone, it was always on the cards, and it would seem that lower league and non league football may just have to be stopped until we are definitely moving in the right direction. You can't run a football club under these conditio...

FROM BBC WEBPAGE. Personally I don't see how the government can help the "arts sector" without bailing out lower league football. .... Government will argue that there is so much money in football ( at top level) that they need to sort out the problems themselves That's wrong. There's money in Arts...

FROM BBC WEBPAGE. Personally I don't see how the government can help the "arts sector" without bailing out lower league football. "Sports are now being warned to brace themselves for several months without fans and report back to DCMS officials what impact this will have on their finances. For EFL a...

Looks like no fans allowed, and our league says with no fans, no games!

This situation could happen to any club at any time - I will be surprised if the upcoming season runs to plan TBH.

It was seriously meant. We live in dangerous times, We all need to be careful, anyone who underestimates this virus is being foolish.

I can’t honestly see us returning to BM, not with us signing a 2-year licence at the Arena which may or may not coincide with a break clause with DRFC (pure speculation on my part). It was clear from Mick Birch’s interview that he is very enthusiastic to work with the football club, is willing to a...

Never been a fan of Mr Wilkinson but you cannot deny he made a good deal for DRFC when he negotiated the deal with us. He did his job and got an agreement that seems heavily loaded in their favour as he knew we were desperate. Hope his replacement is someone we can get on with. The timing is intere...

spen666 wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 09, 2020 5:52 pm

I don't want any football club to struggle financially, hence why back in 2012 I along with nany others donated to save Darlington when the Wolves were at the door.

Oops, misplaced capital letter -don't think we played Wolves that year!

leedscol wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 08, 2020 2:23 pm

Quaker85 wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 08, 2020 12:10 pm

Kidderminster was the very first game at the Arena.

What goes around, comes around!

I thought it was.George choking on his sausage roll et al.

Pork Pie I think.

I don't like The Arena, I never did do - but in a strange way I'm looking forward to this temporary change, because for once I will be able to get a bit of height and see the game from a better viewpoint.

Just think any one saying they will not watch Darlo at the Arena are a little pathetic. Get behind the team for gods sake...Surely it's the team you support not the friggin stadium. The move has been forced on the club by the pandemic... Get over yourselves & support the team. You are either Darlo ...

Fat Josh without giving your identity away what is your grudge are you a former employee of DFC ? Have you connections to Darlington rugby club ? Are you a former board member or if you hold a grudge against the club which you seemingly do why won't you at least have the decency to tell us what the...

Does anyone know if this has any implications (financial or otherwise) for our agreement to play at BM? Darlington Rugby Club don't seem to have made any comment. I'm sure they will have a view on it. I'm sure there has to be some kind of payment made to them. Whether or not it's the full amount is...

I'm pleased with this. In short it means that I can watch Darlo home games, in comparative safety. If our move had been blocked then the chances would have been that I would have been denied access to watching and supporting my football team. A few games back at The Arena will be interesting I feel,...

Fat Josh will be over the moon.

onewayup wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 06, 2020 12:04 pm

if he sees the comments he might just say stuff it

Nobody would do this.....

It’s funny communicating with Old Git - because when you call him Old Git you feel like you’re insulting him

And the guidance from the FA to all clubs in the NLS is that local lockdowns are irrelevant to football and "continue as normal". Ask individuals to isolate if symptomatic or test positive but no need to isolate any others or apply other measures. Seems a bit strange. You can get an area where no o...

Re away fans, it might make a difference as to where they come from. From a locked down area like Leicester or similar could be dangerous.

If I cast my mind back - right at the start there were a number of people who weren't happy, and chipped away a bit with a dissenting attitude, but my overwhelming memory about this time is the fact that the vast majority of fans were very much onside. Personally I wasn't sure, and it took me a whil...

If he's lost his passion for football, the "fire in his belly" so to speak - I feel that he hasn't got the attitude required to make good anyway. This isn't any kind of criticism of him, it's just that if he really had that hunger to be a footballer, and thought of himself as a footballer, he'd cont...

Very helpful that link. One bit that stood out to me in reading that was this line The revised capacity assessment will be based on the competition venue’s existing safe capacity,... Seems the guidance is saying safe capacity is to be based on each individual venue, not the minimum capacity for tha...