Darlo Uncovered

If they can get in, or if they can afford it. And if they can stand the stench of sportswashing. Yes, good point. Chelsea V Newcastle at the weekend - YUK. I watched neither MOTD or MOTD2 and felt better for it. Good piece on that match here https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2022/mar/13/sta...

theoriginalfatcat wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 13, 2022 9:16 am

If they can get in, or if they can afford it.

And if they can stand the stench of sportswashing.

Guess they can concentrate on making a late push for the play offs now Positive you’re a Poolie fan. I do like to see them do well, then again i like to see all the north east teams do well. I often think how great it would be to see darlington, hartlepool, gateshead and york all playing in league ...

Didn’t Tommy Wright also come from Barnsley? Also I believe Carl Airey was signed from them as well. Yes, one of the stars in our 1985 promotion side. Think he went abroad after us, a rare Darlo export! He went to Charleroi in Belgium but didn't settle and played just three games at the start of th...

I think Phil Lloyd, scorer of the second goal against Middleborough in the FAC in 85, came to us from Barnsley, too.

Barry Conlon (second spell)

bga wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:27 pm

.... or were Leicester City not in the top flight when he played for them?

He started at Barnsley anyway, but no, he left LCFC after the Div 1 play off final in 94.

lo36789 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:57 pm

Did Adam Reed ever play for Blackburn?

Not according to Wikipedia.

After managing Darlington he left to manage Norwich City from 1966/69. What he did after that I have no idea. I am guessing he left football management after that but if anyone knows what happened to him it would be interesting to know. According to the Eastern Daily Press, after leaving Norwich, w...

Emdubya wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 08, 2022 4:29 pm

Think it’s safe to say the Farsley monkey is well and truly off our backs now.

Indeed, and what a way to do it. Chorley is now our worst away record - 1 pt from 12.

Looking forward to this one since missing the Spenny home game. Need a win, hopefully we can travel back with 3 points. I would never have thought of Farsley as our bogey team (not least because I don't believe in bogey teams) but of all the teams we've played three or more times away, in league ma...

bga wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 06, 2022 4:49 pm

Those of a certain age will remember the Alf Videsen episode

don'tbuythesun wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 06, 2022 5:47 pm

Bga, it's wiedersehen.

I thought bga was on about one of the lesser known Scandi noirs there for a moment.

Enjoyed watching their win on TV tonight, really good game. Had it all. Eight goals, a comedy own goal redeemed by the player putting one in the correct goal, a classic defender/goalie mix up, an elaborate fall for a penalty, some neat finishing, and the 'underdogs' coming back from two behind (twi...

Old Git wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 12:23 pm

Thought it was fit as a butcher’s dog.

And "more fat on a butcher's pencil".

You have to love predictive texts. I was working in poolie & my partner sent me a text asking how my day was going & I started to reply that I was in monkey & it automatically came up with hanger as a predicted word, haha. Pain in the aris if you find yourself working in Monkseaton, Monkwearmouth, ...

The quality of teams in the Northern League is fast being eroded. Imagine if in 2012 we had been placed into a league which had not included Spennymoor South Shields Dunston Marske Hebburn and Shildon. We would have had it won by Christmas. Out of them teams there was only really Spenny who were a ...

PierremontQuaker03 wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 17, 2021 8:24 pm

Anyone know what happened to the Coppinger and Robinson money? We’re they sold when Peaden was the owner? If so I can guess where the money went

PQ03 wins the prize for longest gap between posts in a topic

“At its peak Mission Impossible was selling between 800 and 1,000 copies on average gates of 2,500, which was a phenomenal take-up rate…” For those of a certain age, Mission Impossible was as integral to 90s-era Darlo as Feethams, Hodgy and Dugald McCarrison’s loan spell. Steve Harland tells YOURCL...

Retiring this summer. 800+ appearances (nearly 700 of them for Donny Rovers). https://www.theguardian.com/football/football-league-blog/2021/mar/02/james-coppinger-doncaster-legend-aged-40-kit Interesting footnote in the article that Ricky Ravenhill’s son is also in the Doncaster squad. Wonder how ...

Call me a pedant ("ok, you're a pedant") but with a topic title like that I thought we might actually see some clips. But anyway, mine is easy. Northampton v Darlo at the County Ground on a beautiful spring day in April 1991. Chosen because it's the greatest goal I’ve ever seen Darlo score, and prob...

Not sure how this nugget has eluded me for 13 years, but I've only just discovered that Matty Appleby became a qualified deep sea diver after he hung up his boots https://web.archive.org/web/20081221143956/http://www.givemefootball.com/pfa/pfa-news/mattys-glad-he-took-the-plunge . Any other interes...

tdk1 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:01 pm

Presume you've seen the josh gray article in the echo yesterday?

I hadn't, actually, so thanks. Good example!

Retiring this summer. 800+ appearances (nearly 700 of them for Donny Rovers). https://www.theguardian.com/football/football-league-blog/2021/mar/02/james-coppinger-doncaster-legend-aged-40-kit Interesting footnote in the article that Ricky Ravenhill’s son is also in the Doncaster squad. Wonder how ...

Not sure how this nugget has eluded me for 13 years, but I've only just discovered that Matty Appleby became a qualified deep sea diver after he hung up his boots https://web.archive.org/web/20081221143956/http://www.givemefootball.com/pfa/pfa-news/mattys-glad-he-took-the-plunge . Any other interest...

Retiring this summer. 800+ appearances (nearly 700 of them for Donny Rovers).

https://www.theguardian.com/football/fo ... ged-40-kit

Vokuhila wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 18, 2021 4:57 pm

onewayup wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 18, 2021 11:31 am

I believe that devide and conker was the way the national league set the voting upto be,

Not that old chestnut.

Chapeau, Vokuhila.

Freedom of information?? You get 28 days to respond...haha and you can't follow up / force people to go quicker. I was talking about the buried report. The one that the league are controversially sitting on. The report that according to it's writer shows mistakes in the way the lottery's money was ...

Fell down a Youtube worm hole earlier today looking at a feature on disused football grounds. I seem to remember that someone on here went around Feethams in 2004/5 time when all the stands were still up and took a load of photos inside the stands/changing rooms etc??? Anyone still got a link to th...

This is also from 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQaGXjhVytI

Fell down a Youtube worm hole earlier today looking at a feature on disused football grounds. I seem to remember that someone on here went around Feethams in 2004/5 time when all the stands were still up and took a load of photos inside the stands/changing rooms etc??? Anyone still got a link to th...