Darlo Uncovered

My overall impression is that there is a lot of crap/mediocre teams this season, the likes of Gloucester, Peterboro, Bishop's Stortford, Rushall Warrington etc, which makes our abysmal season so far all the more alarming. The ease with which Jim Bentley transformed Southport from looking relegation ...

JG says he is very confident things will turn and we will get out of this, no problem. He says he sees signs of progress (althought probably not so much in the last four games). He knew what he was taking on and can silence the doubters by producing the results that he believes the team is capable o...

https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/nati ... /predicted

Too harsh or a realistic assessment of our prospects based on nearly half a season of struggle?

What's not so good is the little matter of us winning just 2 games out of 13 under JG, failing to beat most of the very poor teams around us in crunch games, facing a large points gap to a position of safety, quickly knocked out of all the cup competitions, crowds and interest tumbling and recently ...

Rowe, Lindley, Ngandu, Asante.

What strongly indicates that we won't be good enough to win this fight is our record against teams in the bottom ten. We've failed to beat Warrington, Peterborough Sports, Blyth, Rushall, King's Lynn, Gloucester and Bishop's Stortford, the sole success being Farsley and we've yet to play Banbury. Th...

Obviously lots of people have doubts over JG based on his Darlo record of 2 wins in 13 games but there are also question marks over his consistently poor loan choices, the fact that we've come full circle after initially freezing out several existing players, the drastic and failed formation change ...

You're mistaken if you think people who are questioning things aren't behind the club and players.

I agree with that. We've made a big mistake and I think we'll probably just have to now take it on the chin and then prepare for how we'll pick up the pieces.

Sadly Asante looks miles away from offering an effective contribution.

This week has pretty much confirmed for me what our fate will be. The inability to get the required goals and leaking poor goals against two really bad sides says it all really. We are just not good enough to stay in this league. Couple our inadequacies against poor sides with lots of inevitable def...

It can't be easy for them having to adequately fund the playing side at the same time as being threatened with an automatic relegation unless they carry out major improvements to their ground over the next four months. To meet the ground requirements for Step Two, they must build a new 252-seater s...

It can't be easy for them having to adequately fund the playing side at the same time as being threatened with an automatic relegation unless they carry out major improvements to their ground over the next four months. To meet the ground requirements for Step Two, they must build a new 252-seater st...

Previously depleted Rushall have brought in several new signings recently, including some young EFL loanees, who helped improve them enormously in their victory at Boston this week. Also don't want to scare anyone but... Last month: Rushall Olympic 5 Chorley 0 This month: Chorley 8 Darlington 0 Gulp!

Mistakes sometimes happen in a congested box like that when virtually everyone bar their somewhat erratic keeper was in the area. Their 20st centre forward was also a difficult obstacle to negotiate :D . TT did save us from an even worse result just afterwards. In all honesty he had very little to d...

I hope there's the chance of some loanee back-up after the four forays into the loan market have so far fallen short of what's required.

Better performance but we failed to win because of the problems that have repeatadly haunted us for a long time of failings in front of goal and conceding a poor goal. It meant that a poor side, who were terrible on the night, were able to rescue a point. Unfortunately we did fade towards the end an...

From what I saw tonight Asante looks a long, long way off match sharpness. I think we may need to be patient, putting it mildly.

He must be delighted to swop this Godawful relegation scrap for a playoff battle and hopefully he'll do the biz against Rushall tonight. I wouldn't back against it.

Whether you're for or against this, the timing could hardly be worse given our current issues and the fact we have something of a critical few days ahead.

They are desperate for a fit goalscorer with a proven record. He's signed for them.

I suppose we were hoping that we might unearth a natural goalscorer who could adapt to men's football. He did look a bit lightweight for this kind of league and didn't take the couple of chances (or was it one?) that came his way in his very limited game time. He also didn't fit the profile of the b...

I'll be honest I haven't looked at any video of that game and, come to think of it, it's been a long time since I've re-lived any of our "highlights." I've binned off travelling and tomorrow will take an almighty effort to drag myself down to BM for a thriller under flickering floodlights against a ...

Or another cost cutting exercise-clean your own boots and kit?! Something Gary the kit man does for all the players, cleans and stores their boots, as well as sorting out the washing. He shouldn't need to do that. The players should be washing their own kits and boots with their own tears, after th...

The game where it did look as though something else was going on was Spennymoor. JG opted to have no central defenders on the bench, leaving Sukar and Lees out of the squad. Of course the inevitable happened and Lawlor was injured in the first half, leaving us with no suitable replacement and the su...

I think 2 wins in 11 league and cup games, including an astonishing 8-0 humping by one of our peers, would test the patience of anyone, whoever is at the helm.

Today was mission accomplished (I detest writing that) to the extent of avoiding another humiliating battering, showing some limited signs of recovery from Tuesday and getting our new signing on the pitch. Scunny will also be pleased to get the game won by half-time so they didn't have to over-exten...

I don't think the aftermath of this public forum will do anyone much good at all and i mean club, board, staff, management and players. Accusations against people not there to defend themselves is not a great path to go down. And I see stuff like "It was also interesting to hear that Middlesbrough ...

Middlesbrough trusted AA enough to employ him in their Academy and subsequently to loan out their players to him both at Blyth and here.

I don't know what AA's plans are going forward but he may well be wanting to get back into management/coaching. And no-one wants this kind of reputational harm inflicted on them especially when they can't put their side of the story. It's bad enough when it's done on social media without it happenin...