Darlo Uncovered

Darlo_Pete wrote:It's a bit of a mockery, when the top 8 could get promoted. But I guess there won't be many games that won't have playoff or relegation implications come the end of the season.

Top 7. Top team promoted + 6 teams in the play-offs.

In National League there are at least 3 teams with 3G pitches who would not be allowed into football league so can't take part in playoffs unless they agreed to remove 3g pitch before the following season. If these 3 were to finish in top 7 then it would mean teams finishing 10th get to take part i...

Spyman wrote:The guy has an agent? Seriously?

That was my first thought, but we don't know if he sought the agent or the agent sought him.

I'd be happy if his agent gets him (and us) a lot of money in a transfer to a big club.

At the National League AGM on June 10th all National League clubs will be asked to give their opinion on a proposal which will increase the number of teams who are eligible to take part in the National League play-offs from 4 to 6 as from next season. Full details: The National League's "trailblazin...

I think I like this idea - anything which acts to deter players from cheating can only be a good thing. I even see the young kids rolling around like they've been pole-axed on the local 5-a-side pitches where I live... copying off their heroes. I'm dead set against introducing any kind of technology...

Using iPad and Safari. First link gives grey bubble screen, second link works fine for me Thanks for your feedback, that helps. The grey bubble screen is on the DFCSG server which means that, for whatever reason, that's definitely a caching problem on your iPad. Glad to hear that the other link wor...

Works for me. http://fundraising.darlingtonfcsupportersgroup.org/ Tried the link and still the same. There's still a problem somewhere, but I think it's still likely to be with people's devices/browsers refusing to deliver a fresh version of the page. To be honest I'm still having the same problem ...

lo36789 wrote:

Craig09 wrote:im sure a good 90% are for a investor just not singh

I'm sure 100% are up for an investor. By definition an investor is simply someone putting money into the club.

I am not convinced 90% are up for handing over control of the club though.

10% might be closer

Darlo fans Paul Hodgson and Ian Carter have organised another of their popular Talk-Ins at the Railway Tavern. Entry is £4 on the door and the event takes place on Thursday 8th June, starting at 8pm. Former Darlo favourite Andy Toman will the special guest for the evening. Andy joined the Quakers af...

I happened to see these all over the place at my local shopping centre last week. Maybe someone knows a company who could make one in return for having their company name on it? They could catch on...



Sorry about my thumb

Didn't the same thing happen with the first pitch near the end when, I think, £3000 was suddenly withdrawn. Is it possible to find out if this is the same person? Could be a number of innocent reasons - maybe someone meant to put in £300 and put an extra zero on the end so went back in to cancel it...

Am I seeing things or has the stand fund gone down 4 grand .Sure it was at 18 this morning :eh: No, it seems to be fluctuating a bit - it's back up to £15k now. Could be some people have withdrawn, or switched it over to the BTB fund to help get that up a bit quicker. It could also happen that some...

Re the lack of directors and officials, why is it that a relatively large fan based club like Darlington is struggling to get people into key roles. I do not believe that any of the other clubs in North East non league football has paid officials ( except perhaps South Shields and in the past Whitl...

Could the DFCSG use some of it's annual membership fees to fund a part time person to take care of daily business and actively search out more income streams including investment potential. Good job for an intern but I don't think we've got a real office, have we? Or is there such a thing as a virt...

Perhaps we can put together a booklet for potential investors and sponsors, entailing the benefits of sponsorship or investment and how it can help them as a business? Example: X pays for completion of seated stand, giving naming rights for the next 5 years. Stand will be referred to as such on a m...

There’s a lot of finger pointing going on in the wake of current events, one I've seen here pointing right at me but I’ll take that on the chin and move on. First off we would be better off with Martin Gray than without him. I just think we should move on from that. A lot’s been said and not many of...

al_quaker wrote:He's misjudged the fanbase horribly, that much is clear.

That's a pretty damn fine excuse, in my book. Doesn't make him a bad person.

Go and enjoy your holiday Martin. This will all be forgotten in a couple of weeks.

I think John Tempest and the rest of us are quite in favour of finding some external investment from somewhere, and investment which doesn't affect our current make up, but John more so because he's got a tough job to do and needs some help in the boardroom. I can understand if he feels disappointed...

Just wonder if the players will have any thoughts on their manager allegedly promoting someone to be in charge who was responsible for the club all but going bust before and not caring about fellow players. Will it have any effect on them/their relationship with MG. "allegedly" ?? Is there some dou...

super_les_mcjannet wrote:Just thought I would throw a light hearted one in to break it up.

Magical Quakers wrote:Well based on our previous experience under Raj, I would expect sometime in September

Yeh, bloody Raj Singh.

Vote No!

Our you are able to send your proxy vote to the Chairman. You do this by emailing membership@darlingtonfc.org That's correct, I've already sent mine. The Chair can act as proxy for any number of members. Any other proxy can act on behalf of a maximum of 3 members. The Membership Secretary is keepin...

Has anybody taken into consideration the fact that at least some of the people who have committed funds to the latest 3 appeals (Pitch, Seating Phase 1 and Boost The Budget) might have second thoughts if a decision is made to allow Raj Singh to acquire shares in the club? I suspect that some might ...

I've no idea what the format or how they are run as I've never been involved in them. I just hate the idea of the club doing a crap live video that'll hang around like a fart in a locked room for ages... like that Spenny forum video where they spent half the time talking about us. :? Would one of t...

The live video, while easy to do, isn't so easy to make look halfway professional. Its all very well clicking the go live button but what are you going to film it on? A camera on a phone? Please.... this entire thing is a bit of a mess already without a joke of a live video on facebook done through...

Here's an idea, let's just blow him out of the water by investing all of the transfer funding and prove that we don't need the mans money? We don't need to prove we don't need his money. We just don't need it. With a push we'll get the Boost the Budget figure up to a pretty high level on our own, b...

Spyman wrote:What a contradictory piece of rubbish.

"The football club is bigger than one person"

Followed by:

"This could be the end of Martin Gray, which would be a disaster"

A disaster for who though, the club or the serpent trying to wrap its way around it?

So if ignore the fact it's RS for a minute, can we put something in place legally that any loans to the club must be done through the dfcsg and only the dfcsg can scrap that rule (even if we don't own 51% of the club) that way we can't get into the same me as again. I think we should cut off the se...

Well said both of you. We're under attack from vultures who are colluding to try and use our name and relative success to make money from themselves somehow. They are targeting our main vulnerabilities which are our desire for even greater success and our over-reliance on MG and his team. Their weap...

I don't see the point in letting someone buy a reasonable shareholding when we know they want more than 50% and we are sure we don't want them to have 50%. We may as well move on now. No, we know the investors want more than 50%. Singh is not the only investor. Also, 9% is not a shareholding that g...