Darlo Uncovered

Really good sales volume announced during the week. https://darlingtonfc.co.uk/news/record-shirt-sales-after-only-a-week Basically as of Wednesday night we were on 376 shirt sales. FIrst month of previous year sales were:- 18/19 - 176 19/20 - 257 Wonder if it will push beyond 400 this year in the fi...

National League are working towards a September start for season 20/21.

I presume they hope we can get some people in the grounds then, which seems reasonable currently but not sure that would be full capacity - who knows.

I’ve said before managers like to get their own players in and normally let players under an own regime go at some point - Gray, Wright no different. We are living under a new player budget hopefully DJ in his forthcoming netcafe can actually let us know what it is as a fan owned club we should be ...

Tez has been fantastic, not many play 300 games and score over 50 goals, with 3 promotions.

I also think he has gone out at the right time as well, works for both player and club currently. The end of the old era, we continue to move on.

So up to Wednesday night, 235 shirts had been sold via our online shop. Not sure what we normally sell early on. https://darlingtonfc.co.uk/news/shirt-orders-past-200-already Also a decent deal if you want to by both at £74.99 - I am sure everyone knows this but thought it was worth putting on. http...

Finished second according to Wiki, assume it's accurate.

Because he’s a Bishop Auckland based, experienced full-back that would do a good job for us - and would also free up Hedley to play in his actual position. On this thread; Tait - Not good enough. Wrightson - Not good enough. McMahon - Why would we be after him? Pattison - One of our own - we all kn...

Because he’s a Bishop Auckland based, experienced full-back that would do a good job for us - and would also free up Hedley to play in his actual position. On this thread; Tait - Not good enough. Wrightson - Not good enough. McMahon - Why would we be after him? Pattison - One of our own - we all kn...

Quakers83 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 03, 2020 8:38 am

Wrightson I think would be a good bet as we went in for him last summer.

From my understanding we didn't go in for him last year, things can always change but not convinced we will be in for him again this year either.

We have a fantastic steady squad of 13 and it seems AA has been given enough resources to add 5 decent players to that. Looking at his recruitment last summer then I have no worries with his judgement. If Lambert wants to be part of that then would be more than happy, two strikers would be amazing, ...

Wrightson isn’t good enough for where we want to be imo. Can’t see that one happening as I’m sure he was out of contract last season and he didn’t end up here which would have been a safer bet Always caused us problems when he played against us, similar type of player to Thommo but if we are seriou...

He can state what he wants really, a bit like you on your troll twitter account.

No point getting upset with trolls, they just feed off it.

Who cares.....

Never heard anything about fencegate, and darlington being absolved of any blame although that was always going to be the case as it was a total balls up by spenny- more. I really hope that The punishment fits the crime, points deduction, Nothing happening to Spenny either I believe. Generally the ...

Both good players and I think most fans would be happy for them to sign but we are not in a position to worry about it if they wish to move on. We already have plenty of defensive and midfield options and there will be plenty of players available who could prove as good if we need to strengthen in ...

onewayup wrote: ↑

Sat May 30, 2020 8:02 am

Can we push on to 120,000 BTB ,last day to reach the new target. Com,on lads and lasses one final push.

We have Sunday 31st as well.

Amazing even before the circumstances are taken into account.

I don't agree, time is a great healer & from the fans reception for him at York last season means he is very well thought of by the vast majority of Darlo fans. Pete people slated the bloke and unfairly so in my opinion.. Also people slagged him at York too unless you didn't hear that Sent from my ...

Galbraith, Atkinson, Watson and Holness still without contract then? I wonder if Galbraith, as Captain, is being saved until last to be announced. It would seem odd if he were moving on not to announce that at the same time Thompson did. Whatever happens now we've tied down the core of the side whi...

Interesting to see that Alun isn't furloughed atm, as he is busy sorting out the squad for next season. he's probably one of the few managers at our level who isn't furloughed. What makes you say that? Pretty sure he is furloughed. I'm not sure Armstrong is necessarily needed to resign players who ...

Most if not close to all clubs are bankrolled, especially below the Premier League (also many of them). What happens if that outside investments stops I guess is the sentiment. In our case our budget would drop off by about a 1/3 if we had to make those saving straight in the player/management area....

Some of it is using services from GAS, such as the people who work for GAS but also complete jobs for Spennymoor Town also, finance etc.

HarrytheQuaker wrote: ↑

Tue May 19, 2020 12:27 pm

darlobaz791 wrote:Hearing he won’t be with us next season. No contract renewal.

Where did you hear this??

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From Omar or someone close to him at the time.

Omar was always possible to return and still is possible.

He wasn't told he wouldn't be offered anything at the time, just there was no offer at the time I believe. Obviously the club has to understand it's position before they can move forward.

I see that Luke Trotman is not intending to return (on official website - update No.9) Thomson had a great partnership with him and I wonder if some of Thoomo's lack of penetration was due to Hedley not getting forward to support him as much. When Thommo said he was leaving, I wondered if Trotts ha...

If he's good enough for Spennymoor then he's good enough for us. This is a classic case of a Manager favouring players that he has brought in over inherited personnel. He's definitely better than one lightweight winger from Blyth (for example) and he's certainly not over the top due to age or fitne...

AndyPark wrote: ↑

Mon May 18, 2020 1:53 pm

Spennymoor.

Going with Andy on this one.

At the very least you can guarantee a discussion will occur.

South Shields have a number of Academy coaches and that set up to pay for, they also have a food outlet outside of match day etc. that needs to be paid for.

I am sure they have big squad outgoing also but not the full £50k I would guess.

I don't have a lot of interest in new signings currently, once we know any timelines and what's possible I might. At the minute, we don't know our budget, we don't know when football will start, players don't know what to do. Some players will be happy with signing a contract with us but we don't kn...

He could just keep hold of the stadium and charge them £100k a year to play there and then sell them the stadium for £1m if they could raise it, basically he can get some of his money back or they can go off and groundshare with Bishop.

As we know anything can happen.

Well he has been running the club for 21 years so I reckon he is quite happy funding them each season. Quick glance at their financial position and they seem in a great place, I presume he is another one of those good owners with loads of cash.