Darlo Uncovered

Putting any more investment in to developing BM would be like building a conservatory on a property you rent. It would, but what if you knew you couldn't buy a house for years, or possibly never, and you needed a conservatory? I fundamentally agree with you btw it's just that this ground issue is b...

This thread has morphed a bit from it's origins but there are some parts of Blackwell Meadows I like, such as the location, the way it sits in an almost countryside setting and the way it has character. This is all negated by the bad view of the pitch and some of the ramshackle facilities, some of w...

because the Rugby Club don’t want any further development of BM. This is not true - beyond hear say from fans when has 'no further development' been said. Development to EFL standards may have been mentioned. I believe that it was DJ himself who said that the Rugby Club were against any further dev...

Good thinking JJ. It would feel like a football ground then.

I take it you mean it won't belong to DFC? Yep. Remember the 36 inch water main going diagonally from open end that limits building. Surely we can't get rid of the Tin Shed - only part of Feethams we still have? Of course we could if it meant we could comply with the necessary ground grading requir...

I take it you mean it won't belong to DFC?

Yeah, that's another way of putting it.

Reading through this thread again it seems that that nearly all of us feel similar.

I am not sure that even close to a majority of clubs are 'properly going for a play off place'...wouldn't suggest it is the norm by any stretch. I disagree. I reckon 50% of clubs properly go for a playoff place. We are basically at the end of the season and ten clubs are in with a shout of a play o...

⬆️ I’m sorry, it could be me, but I can’t get my head round that. I would say the question is, next season - are we going to behave like a normal football club ie properly go for a playoff place, or not? Bearing in mind that if Steve stays we should be able to realistically perform to about the requ...

What an achievement it would be to reach the National League! To get back there as a fan owned club! To get back to where we were before the financial meltdown which was caused by others. Yes it would be very hard to consolidate, and we would look like the church mouse playing in a tatty spruced up ...

At the little awards give out post match on Saturday I was keeping an eye on Main because I was expecting him to win something - when he didn't he genuinely didn't seem bothered. I'm not comparing him or matching him up against anyone else, but as a stand alone point I think he's a gem of a player, ...

Not me. Main is a better player in nearly every way IMO. His work rate, his thinking, the way he is determined to bundle his way through a defensive block, his team work ethic.

Perhaps Hazel was better a placing a shot? But I can't remember.

Well, yeah, this is what I was alluding to really. It's not a good sporting mentality go into anything half throttle, but the situation is a bit more nuanced than that. The dumbing down of expectations etc last year was a massive mistake but moving on from that, if Steve stays then it's a good sign,...

That's the problem, and it's tricky. I suppose if we ever got promoted, the motivation would be just to stay out of the bottom four, which would obviously be an achievement in itself, hard but not impossible. IF Seatgate hadn't occurred, and IF we had got promoted that season, then the same scenario...

I'd keep Griffiths and Rivers.

Taylor can go for me, we need someone better and tbf to him, he will be able to find another club - he's to good to be a "squad player"

There are some brilliant posts above. ⬆️ In a nutshell I feel our problems began when we were top of the league and our decision makers (and I'm choosing my words carefully here) "hinted" that we weren't ready for promotion. This then turned into the limiting of expectations mantra that crippled us ...

Does Watson still work for NUFC? If so and he’s happy with his work/life balance then I think he’ll stay - the problem is that he’s obviously capable of managing at a higher level.

Where was D.J. Yesterday?

I was hoping Main might have picked up an award yesterday post match, but no. He has been superb since he joined and in some ways reminds me of Gabbiadini - the way he just pushes his way through, not taking no for an answer.

It's actually P 21 W 12 L 9. You're doing him over there like. What makes it all the more unbelievable is his first 7 matches was W 2 L 5, and one or two numpties were questioning what had actually improved (the football was already miles better despite the results) Since then we've won 10 of our l...

I’ve been looking through Steve’s results this year and there are quite a number of losses, and the stats show we played 19, lost 9, won 10, no draws since he’s been here at all! It’s the 3 points each win that has kept us up so that’s great - I wonder if it’s been a case of throwing caution to the ...

I think Farsley playing midweek helped us, they faded a bit in the second half.

Great drama today, the last goal - WOW.

Our form since Steve took over just proves the point that a football team must have something to play for. When Armstrong lost key players and they weren’t replaced, the other players took their foot off the gas, promotion it seemed wasn’t on the menu. Then of course we had all that mantra coming fr...

I just hope that Tommy Taylor is named as a sub as knowing our luck Matty Young will get injured in the first 5 mins and witout a keeper on the bench... I have had exactly the same thought. It might seem over cautious to some, but I think for such an important match it would be reassuring to have a...

At this level I worry about referees and players doing daft things. These end of season big games are nerve shredding because there are too many variables. Last season near the end (maybe Curzon) there was a clear penalty for a handball that everyone saw except the ref, and this cost us big time. To...

I'd love to think that tomorrow's game is going to be a plain sailing win, but as other long in the tooth supporters have noted, Darlo rarely do things by the easiest route. I know it is the job of our publicity machine to talk up this game to get more people through the door and on current informa...

Spennymoor at present winning, meaning they’ve jumped over Chester in the league.

Wouldn't it be good if we put them to the sword in a Whitby like way - 5 nil up after 15 minutes.

That was the second to last game of the season.

That Darlo side of Hodgie's that failed V Peterborough, they were so entertaining. Liddle, Heaney, Gabbiadini, Collett, Heckingbottom, Michael Oliver and others, what a side that was. But the thing is, although the team was assembled by Hodgie (hooray ) It was financed by Reynolds (Booo My favourit...