Darlo Uncovered

You can see how they won at Farsley midweek. If the ball is in the air all the time then the pitch condition isn’t a problem. The teams that will win at Farsley will be the ones that play hoof ball. Maybe it is time we had some kind of regulation regarding pitch quality rather than just the ref dec...

The referee was inconsistent but that can bet said for most of them at the lower levels,
He was an improvement on the Gateshead ref but still not great.

Grays masterstroke was bringing in Harry Dunn who knew everything there was to know about the lower levels and which players would be good for us. Gray blended them into a great team as coaching was where he excelled. Yes, that and the enormous budget that allowed him to bring in the best talent in...

Going down this year, me thinks. Looking at social media, the fans are turning on Clark already. Squad is completely unprepared to play at this level. Who would have thought bringing in a manager with no knowledge of this level of the game could be a bad idea... It wasn't such a bad idea to bring M...

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. Are they not still playing on Sundays as well? Or have they given them u...

Well I guess there’s always something negative to moan about if you look hard enough. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I would suggest you have a look at the highlights of the game and then tell me the marking out is acceptable for our level of football.Christ,I watched a game on North park this ...

quakersfan wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 11, 2019 7:10 am

I’m sure if DFC had someone drawing attention to the pitch grass would have been cut. If we haven’t you can’t really blame rugby club

I suppose its down to if you want a pitch suitable for football or rugby.

Well I guess there’s always something negative to moan about if you look hard enough. The standard of the pitch and its markings are key to a game of football, believe it or not. Wasn't the case last season that the ground staff had to mark out the penalty area again just before kick off due to the...

Having just listened to Michael Liddle's post match interview, where he mentions the way in which the current members of the defence are beginning to gel, I would think there will be little reason for AA to make wholesale changes to the starting back 4, bar the obvious need to replace Luke Trotman....

LoidLucan wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 03, 2019 9:02 pm

And well done to each and every one of the 54 who carried the PrideofCountyDurhan flag through the turnstiles at Hereford today.

Obviously no free buses on today.

Hopefully Glover gets fixed up somewhere near his home in the Midlands. Would have been a crazy commute on his own for training and probably little (if any) match action. Maybe TW will try to bring him along again as he showed a lot of faith in him with a two-year senior contract as a young teenage...

Ghost_Of_1883 wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 29, 2019 8:51 am

A front three of Stonehouse, Currie and MacDonald was pretty good wasn't it?

Stonehouse usually played wide left for us that season, Alan Roberts was on the other wing.
Another one who passed far too soon was Stephen Bell who was usually the 3rd winger in that same squad. Died in 2001.

Scored a good goal years ago v Burnley when we won 4-2 I think, was a near post flick from a right wing cross. Great team goal.

Think we need to dampen any expectations, Armstrong certainly wants us to. Below are my thoughts and anything else will be a bonus. Not in the bottom 8 looking over our shoulder all season. Like to see the top half a few times. Possibly in with a shout of the play-offs all the way until end of Marc...

To be fair the derailment of the thread if mostly my fault. I queried why I and later other posters on this thread were being accused of abusing players, when there isn’t one post on this thread that does that. At the very worst there is very minor criticism, but if anyone constitutes it as abuse, ...

LoidLucan wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 21, 2019 8:59 pm

They're just not very good with figures ... whether it's three or seven figures

Considering they have 6 fingers on each hand you’d think they’d be better at counting.

polarbear wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 21, 2019 8:22 pm

How many did Spennymoor sell by your calculations, i make it 810..... Still waiting for the Hartlepool total

But you haven't SOLD 810.
As for Hartlepool, they have their own forum. I'm sure if you join it they will give you the answer, or even try looking at their official site?

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. well done on your season ticket sales, about 100 more than Spennymoor, fantastic achievement... does anyone know how many Hartlepool sol...

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 ...

If you read my post all I said is that some fans need a whipping boy to have a pop at. Bascombe got off to a bad start with us and it looks like his every mistake gets picked on. No it doesn’t. Generally it does. Recent example is Maddison. Makes a bad start then he gets savaged for every mistake h...

don'tbuythesun wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:57 pm

I was merely responding to a previous post where he appeared desperate to know our current sales position.

Looks like he got the wrong end of the stick

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? All he said was th...

Darlo_Rob wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:37 pm

I thought as those statements were quite obviously over the top and ridiculous, people would realise my post was aimed at Quakers83, obviously not.

My original comment wasn't aimed at you either, just pointing out the fact that some players get targeted so any little mistake gets amplified.

Its a common theme, someone gets off to a bad start (i.e. Stockport away) and people make their judgement from that and will jump on any little mistake he makes to back up that view. There is always someone who is the target for this. I could easily name at least one for every season I have attended...

We all see games differently, I thought Bascombe had a good game, used the ball well and made some excellent long passes, also a nats nacker aways from a brilliant goal. Yes his pass was intercepted and resulted in a goal, but once you start the blame game at this level of football there’s somethin...

Two points to note The pitch does not look to have been fertilised this summer to encourage growth and spread of the grasses on the pitch. It does not look as if it has been cut much either, because fertiliser plus a weekly cut would have produced a far better surface Obviously watering would have ...

Having talked to someone who actually coached Maddison, he said he was struggling because he had gone from training day in day out with a specialised coach to training 2 times a week and not always with a specialised coach. Add to that the fact, like gramps says, that fans were quick to get on his b...

HarrytheQuaker wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 12, 2019 7:18 pm

Well you believe any old shite

Could well say the same about you.

Maybe they think the money we provide for the upkeep is enough so they don't have to contribute since the game they play doesn't need a good flat surface.

Rumour I heard was that the grounds man quit because he wanted to follow the maintenance plan provided by the company that laid the pitch but the rugby club wouldn’t let him. Stop stirring ... What a load of shite they would nt let him follow the maintenance plan Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatal...