Darlo Uncovered

Steve foster in the running to oust the clueless one ...i said six games Wild rumour or any substance? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Definitely substance. Steve Foster could do a job in the back four without a shadow of doubt. Sign him up I say. Amazing, six games into the season and there are a...

Great post 83...totally agree. Only thing is whenever we’ve not played 442, fans say ‘we’re too narrow’ and ‘we need two wingers to put crosses in’ and ‘players don’t know their jobs’ etc. You’re right about the 4-5-1 (although Syers was pretty much a makeshift forward. Remember he only switched to...

My comment was tongue in cheek, I'm not anti B.A. or S.G - however a little point lurks behind it, the point being - if you really want something you can often find a way to make it happen. As far as I know Tommy Wright (or St Tommy as you named him) doesn't have another job, is he full time or par...

I think for Ashton we need to do what we did post-Leamington last season - go 4-5-1 (or 4-2-3-1). That worked really well, there was a good transition between defence and attack, nobody really spoke about us being over-run and our form after Leamington was 7-4-3 IIRC. Something along the lines of - ...

Well today was woeful. We had no game plan, and I can’t really remember any patterns of play going forward. In the middle we looked outnumbered, we couldn’t deal with the press across the park and they just kept getting in behind time and time again. Maddison kept the score down to 3 and I really fe...

Obviously the initial reaction is disappointment because we battered Blyth and were well worthy of 3 points. BUT, that was a million miles away from the game against Curzon Ashton. We need to eradicate the error that caused their first, but I thought Galbraith and Burn were the pick of the back four...

With the greatest respect Spen, mentioning ‘snide comments’ when you speculated financial disarray not so long ago on social-media when we announced some form of reduced deal (season tickets?) really is ironic.

Strong rumours that Spendy have signed centre forward Shaun Tuton from Chester. Has only been at Chester for a week or so and was apparently on non-contract terms. It's maybe that vibe again :D No knocking them down is there, just how do they do it if Groves has stopped funding them. Where is the m...

It’ll be interesting to hear Lo’s opinion on Brackely’s first. TW mentioned about Maddison being stronger, but looking at the goal-cam it seemed that Ndlovu did a little more than just stand on the keeper. It seemed quite a clever way of freeing up a free-header in the box IMO.

Sounds like another good performance, and it’s great to get our first win of the season.

I wasn’t expecting much from today being totally honest, but it sounds like we were clincial.

Darlo2807 wrote:Find it unbelievable that O’Hanlon would mark Taylor in the 90th minute...

Spennymoor put Taylor on O’Hanlon throughout the game, and then who marks Boyes - and the other lads that Spenny had forward?

Good performance tonight, 4-4-2 - feel deflated to concede late on, but we’re getting closer IMO.

I guess the hindrance with 4-4-2 is that it may leave us a little open through the middle. Last season Syers would drop-in but it’s clear we want to try and get the best out of Styche & Ainge. Either way I’d be tempted to go for it - if Henshall is as good as TW says he is then give him a start on l...

The first 25 minutes was good, the game-plan worked - Curzon struggled to pick-up Nicholson and we were exploiting the middle. Well-taken goal by Ainge who is a monster in the air, and we looked in control. The problem was though that we just stood-off and didn’t press (to be fair I think this is of...

Hopefully he can cover RB too. Pretty happy with that squad now. We only have 6 defenders, one being a 19 year old youth, one being permanently injured, and one often injured. I'd say we need 2 defenders. I know Elliot can cover right back, I know Ainge can drop into defence, but that's not ideal. ...

Hopefully he can cover RB too. Pretty happy with that squad now. We only have 6 defenders, one being a 19 year old youth, one being permanently injured, and one often injured. I'd say we need 2 defenders. I know Elliot can cover right back, I know Ainge can drop into defence, but that's not ideal. ...

Hopefully he can cover RB too. Pretty happy with that squad now. We only have 6 defenders, one being a 19 year old youth, one being permanently injured, and one often injured. I'd say we need 2 defenders. I know Elliot can cover right back, I know Ainge can drop into defence, but that's not ideal. ...

HarrytheQuaker wrote:

Darlopartisan wrote:Thompson has just started his annual holiday, I don’t know but would expect him to be off on his jollies soon , just saying.

I'm sure he will be off to Ibiza soon which could be a problem

Thompson always goes away around this time every year. We’ll have to do without for a few games.

Tom Elliott can fill in at right-back too.

Is it possible that we just have two centre midfielders now? Rather than a holding and attacking CM. Wheatley and Hughes can seemingly both hold their own defensively and are useful in attack. As long as they communicate with each other I don’t see the need to have a dedicated holding midfielder. W...

Agreed, I think the key this season is that we’re going to have a much smaller squad, probably around 18 supplemented with players such as Vaulks, Glover and Saunders, which means that it’ll reduce the chance of players missing out. It wouldn’t surprise me to see players such as Vaulks and Saunders...

Agreed, I think the key this season is that we’re going to have a much smaller squad, probably around 18 supplemented with players such as Vaulks, Glover and Saunders, which means that it’ll reduce the chance of players missing out. It wouldn’t surprise me to see players such as Vaulks and Saunders ...

Maddison Trotman O'Hanlon Galbraith Burn Thompson Wheatley Hughes/Syers/Nicholson? Henshall Ainge Styche Is that what we are thinking will be the starting line up if the season started tomorrow? I expect so. Maybe Collins in at the back and I expect Hughes gets the nod alongside Wheatley - based on...

Nicholson has a solid record at NLN level - hopefully he turns out to be a good signing, and on paper this seems to be a coup by TW. Wedderburn fits the bill too - left-footed defensive midfielder who can play in numerous positions including centre-half. I’d take either him or Elliot, or perhaps bot...

Nicholson is more of a left-winger or second-striker than a centre-midfielder.

Talks ongoing with a Championship goalkeeper, (hopefully Pears).

Pretty sure Green can play out wide as well. The dream trio would be Pears, Elliot and Nicholson for me personally (would be happy with Blyth though) Agreed with regards to the selected three - Pears was oustanding last season. One thing I noticed is that both goalkeepers that we are considering ar...

If Jacob Blyth does have a long-term injury then we can rule him out. I’d love us to sign one of Elliot, Chambers or Nicholson. I don’t think it would be Green, he is a very good player but he is a more advanced midfielder as opposed to someone who sits-back. Elliot seems to fit the bill, holding mi...

Good shout regarding Tom Elliot, I’d love to see him sign for us.

As for the forward, I’d definitely take Jordan Nicholson.

Further announcements shortly according to Wright’s interview this afternoon with Ray Simpson.

Seems like a decent signing to be honest. I expect him to play through the centre, E.G, CM or behind the forward/s.

I think that’ll probably cover us in the middle with Turnbull, Wheatley, Hughes, Glover and Syers - providing that Wheatley doesn’t get snapped up at the V9 Academy of course.

Worked with Wright before, and with a nice £5k boost this afternoon it could be used to push a few deals over the line.