Darlo Uncovered

Love him. My favourite player last season and this (less competition this season). Never gives up and never loses possession cheaply

I think had we won tonight we’d probably have gone and blown it Saturday. (I blame myself for taking off my mint green away shirt after 5-a-side and having a nervous shower. Come out and it’s 1-1)….Jonny back on Saturday plus Asante fitter and stronger. I’m quietly confident because this is still an...

Looked like Hazel waved us farewell today as he was subbed and then the way he approached us at the final whistle. Sukar had a good game today. I still think he has future leadership potential

Exactly this…we obviously rested players with an eye to our two pretty crucial games next week. Thought Lees looked at fault for the first but he grew into the game and looked more solid. Second was a long-ranger. My standouts today - Griff, Sukar, Moke, Ngandu. We looked better when Will and Salkel...

Adriano is my favourite player. Tidy on the ball and never gives it away. Definitely worth keeping him to play in front of the back four with Platt or Lindley

Chesterfield Twitter confirms he has left the club after contract termination by mutual consent. Wikipedia also has him as being a Darlo player

Playing devil's advocate here. In his interview I believe he had analysed Darlington games, maybe even watched them, and has concluded that a number of players, who have played appallingly since February, are not good enough, regardless of seniority or not, so feels the squad needs big changes True...

Set to be announced on loan from York City, Taylor won’t be returning. For me he would be a good signing , has kept over 20 clean sheets when on loan at Scarborough, was also very highly rated by Andy Collet who wasn’t a bad keeper himself For me Whitley and Burton are the types of players who shou...

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Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:48 am

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Going off of Twitter rumours this weekend.

Apparently Adam Lakeland, then of Curzon, applied for the role & wasn't even given an acknowledgement.

&& Steve Watson was apparently 1st choice.

I had heard that Lakeland had got to the final three candidates along with JG plus one other

Christ I’d forgotten about Lindley already…can’t keep up. Yes sorry Winfield LWB. Lindley will have to play also so a ‘name’ might have to de dropped? Squad has gone from too small to having several players for each position. Presumably Lindley is a replacement for Moke who I like but fear is not in...

I think he will stick to 532

Robson
Rowe Griffiths Lawlor Burton Winfield
Ngandu Platt/Lindley Hatfield
Simms Hazel

Although he seems to like Salkeld so could find a spot for him

Interestingly myself & Vodka_Vic spoke to his dad at a game and he basically said that TT had zero confidence in the defence in front of him. I know he has a biased view but interesting all the same

Meanwhile Junior Mondal, who AA froze out last season, is banging them in for Whitby

So when Alun was saying’we knaa what we’ve got in there Ray’ did he genuinely believe that we had a competitive team with good characters etc or was he just trying to get us all pumped up? When we hit our poor run he then talked about ‘the lads are fragile’ etc. it seems like those worried about our...

I like this too. Only issue is Hedley is very right footed to play LB. Also whenever we play 442 there’s a loud consensus that ‘we keep getting overrun in midfield’
I don’t like 352 but JG seems intent on playing it as did Alun throughout pre-season hence his addition of Windass. Is he injured btw?

On reflection, if you break us down player by player, there aren’t many who you would single out as not being good enough for NLN football. TT - solid keeper Griffiths- good RB Lees - solid CB Lawlor - mostly solid CB Sukar - mostly solid CB or LB Mustoe - mostly solid LB? Platt - very good DM Hatfi...

I thought the goals were pretty awful at the game. On YouTube they should come with a XXX rating. To call it schoolboy defending would be an insult to schoolboys. This has been a failing for too long now. Maybe Lambert and Beck papered over the cracks last season? JG was right in his interview that ...

If some players are unhappy that their cosy status quo has been busted then they should have tried a lot harder to keep AA and DH in a job. It was too cosy and poor performances didn’t result in team changes for months on end

It was a nothing game and then we gift them like that twice in 3 minutes. Add to that our zero threat up front and I’m afraid relegation looks a formality. Hazel and Curry offer nothing. Salkeld and Hatfield only ones to come out with any credit so far. Still not sure why Salkeld is playing left win...

IF this is true then the players wanting him back should have worked and tried harder since January as a mark of their loyalty

Was a great finisher

Articulate, positive, intelligent…feels like a breath of fresh air after 8 months of despondency and ‘ahh that’s a certainty Ray. We knaa what we’ve got in there…’

Pleased with this after airing my previous fears about Stockdale. He knows the league and is articulate when interviewed. Looking forward to Saturday much more than I was this morning. I’ve gone from kicking my shirt around the centre circle to doing a full-on Barry Fry run down the touch line all i...

If true then not excited at all. His record at Rochdale was terrible. Maybe he has something to prove etc etc but agree with the above. Maybe he delivered the sharpest power point.

That wasn’t Moke - that was Platt. I don’t think Liddle hides, he just lacks consistency/seems to lack the ability to press effectively sometimes. If you want to talk about hiding, watch Scunthorpe’s 4th goal back & Buxton’s 5th. I stand corrected re the pass having seen the video. Still think Lidd...

That`s one of our biggest problems too many balls going sideways or backwards from midfield need someone to either run forward or pass it forward. Thought our wingers did better tonight seemed to put more crosses in but same problem no one there to apply finishing touch.Thought we were going to blo...

Happy that posters don't pick new man ,some really strange people put forwards. Or…Tommy Wright to quit Leicestershire Constabulary and return as ‘Av got unfinished business Ray, t’be honest wiv ya.’ Alan White will also reprise his role at barracking ‘Lino’ and reminding Ray that ‘we’ve brought in...

Liddle seems to hide in games. He doesn’t help defensively and doesn’t get forward to create any real threat. Agree re Hazel…maybe you’d not want him next to you in the trenches. I’d bench him for Salkeld who’s a big unit and looks to have the ability to flick on and hold the ball up. He’s certainly...

Ok…Cattermole/Wheater dream ticket

Good. No loss. I’m backing Graeme Lee out of that list