Mark Bell leaves

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Mark Bell leaves

Post by Alfie » Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:58 am


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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by Darlopartisan » Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:33 am

Good luck to him, had some outstanding games for us.

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by QUAKERMAN2 » Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:51 am

Makes sense really, particularly as Adam is a goalkeeping coach anyway, frees up some wages also.

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by tezza » Tue Oct 10, 2017 9:02 am

Importantly the unravelling begins

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by Darlopartisan » Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:35 am

tezza wrote:Importantly the unravelling begins
Was he part of the MGFA set up?

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by al_quaker » Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:46 am

According to the man himself on twitter - no he isn't

Best wishes to Mark - a big player for us in his 1st spell here

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by darlomadbutler » Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:17 pm

Good luck to him, he had some outstanding games!

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by princebishop » Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:39 pm

The club terminated his contract, not him asking to leave. Strange decision given a new manager may feel him necessary?


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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by al_quaker » Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:40 pm

princebishop wrote:The club terminated his contract, not him asking to leave. Strange decision given a new manager may feel him necessary?


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According to the man himself on twitter, he did ask to leave!

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by spen666 » Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:42 pm

princebishop wrote:The club terminated his contract, not him asking to leave. Strange decision given a new manager may feel him necessary?


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Darlington Fc would like to confirm that we have cancelled the contract of goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach Mark Bell at his request.
http://darlingtonfootballclub.co.uk/mar ... s-quakers/


Are you saying the club are lying? If so, what is your basis for saying club are lying?

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by SwansQuaker83 » Tue Oct 10, 2017 2:30 pm

spen666 wrote:
princebishop wrote:The club terminated his contract, not him asking to leave. Strange decision given a new manager may feel him necessary?


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Darlington Fc would like to confirm that we have cancelled the contract of goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach Mark Bell at his request.
http://darlingtonfootballclub.co.uk/mar ... s-quakers/


Are you saying the club are lying? If so, what is your basis for saying club are lying?
Or he's requested that we cancel his contract? His contract is a mutual thing, we'd have to cancel it if he wants to leave...

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by tezza » Tue Oct 10, 2017 2:39 pm

Andy Collet the current keeper coach at York. Perhaps feeling vulnerable as today he invites the press to watch the current YC keeper go through their paces.

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by Comfortably_numb » Tue Oct 10, 2017 3:11 pm

tezza wrote:Importantly the unravelling begins
who next.....our second choice left back for the U18's....

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by LoidLucan » Tue Oct 10, 2017 3:21 pm

Our weekly wage bill must have dropped a fair bit since gray walked away. Cant imagine we'll have the same number of backroom staff as we move forward.

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by Spyman » Tue Oct 10, 2017 3:49 pm

LoidLucan wrote:Our weekly wage bill must have dropped a fair bit since gray walked away. Cant imagine we'll have the same number of backroom staff as we move forward.
I believe Bell's departure signals that you are in the running for Manager's job. You did say I was getting the GK Coach job if you were successful, didn't you?
On Sunday April 29, 2012 at 10:25 pm, Darlo Cockney wrote:Sadly some people have nothing better to do that invent rumours.

We will be playing at the arena again next season - fact.

Quakerz - if you actually attended games and spoke to people you might actually find our facts, rather than spreading s*** on this board.

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by Darlofan97 » Tue Oct 10, 2017 4:09 pm

Another member of the backroom staff, Brad Blythe, has also departed the club today.

By my reckoning that's only the physio (Jimmy Nesbitt) and kit-man (Gary Smith) left now with the joint-managers after the departures of Gray, Atkinson, Gregan, Dunn & Bell.

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by spen666 » Tue Oct 10, 2017 4:36 pm

SwansQuaker83 wrote:..

....

Or he's requested that we cancel his contract? His contract is a mutual thing, we'd have to cancel it if he wants to leave...

Of course the club would not HAVE to cancel his contact if he wanted to leave. A footballer signs a fixed term deal. He has no right to leave during that period.

That is the whole point of a fixed term contract. Both parties are tied to it unless they both agree to vary it. There is no obligation on either party to agree to vary the contract

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by don'tbuythesun » Tue Oct 10, 2017 4:40 pm

What else does Brad Blythe do? I see he's a coach at MGFA?

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by QUAKERMAN2 » Tue Oct 10, 2017 4:48 pm

The backroom staff that Gray assembled was way over the top.How can you warrant a goalkeeping coach at our level and god knows what this Brad Blyth guy did.As Lucan said, the club must be saving a fair bit so it is set up nicely for the new manager to come in and put his own staff in place.

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by LoidLucan » Tue Oct 10, 2017 4:52 pm

Sorry Spyman, that was the case until i heard about the glass you nearly dropped on saturday...

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by LoidLucan » Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:05 pm

I thought it was Bradley Blythe, Kit Manager, Gary Smith, Assistant Kit Manager, and Jimmy Nesbitt, Sports Therapist.

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by Spyman » Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:19 pm

LoidLucan wrote:Sorry Spyman, that was the case until i heard about the glass you nearly dropped on saturday...
Who are your scouts?

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On Sunday April 29, 2012 at 10:25 pm, Darlo Cockney wrote:Sadly some people have nothing better to do that invent rumours.

We will be playing at the arena again next season - fact.

Quakerz - if you actually attended games and spoke to people you might actually find our facts, rather than spreading s*** on this board.

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by bga » Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:00 pm

QUAKERMAN2 wrote:The backroom staff that Gray assembled was way over the top.How can you warrant a goalkeeping coach at our level and god knows what this Brad Blyth guy did.As Lucan said, the club must be saving a fair bit so it is set up nicely for the new manager to come in and put his own staff in place.

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Add to that MG and his 2 Assistants, admittedly these were all part-time appointments, but surely there was no justification for all of them. Hope the new Manager makes any appointments based on our needs not to feed his ego.

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by princebishop » Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:14 pm

Misread tweet....


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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by notgnilrad » Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:58 pm

bga wrote:
QUAKERMAN2 wrote:The backroom staff that Gray assembled was way over the top.How can you warrant a goalkeeping coach at our level and god knows what this Brad Blyth guy did.As Lucan said, the club must be saving a fair bit so it is set up nicely for the new manager to come in and put his own staff in place.

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Add to that MG and his 2 Assistants, admittedly these were all part-time appointments, but surely there was no justification for all of them. Hope the new Manager makes any appointments based on our needs not to feed his ego.
This, we didn't need so many backroom staff for a PT club, we must have saved quite a bit of wages as Quakerman2 says above.

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by Darlofan97 » Tue Oct 10, 2017 9:33 pm

Certainly gives the new manager scope to bring their own backroom staff in.

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by darlo reborn » Tue Oct 10, 2017 9:40 pm

Or higher wages for a better manager

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by don'tbuythesun » Thu Oct 12, 2017 9:36 pm

BradleyBlythe was apparently our Assistant Kit Manager. It's like on the film credits when you think....what do they do? I'm almost lost for words.

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by Maurice_Peddelty » Fri Oct 13, 2017 4:39 am

don'tbuythesun wrote:BradleyBlythe was apparently our Assistant Kit Manager. It's like on the film credits when you think....what do they do? I'm almost lost for words.
So who was 'Best Boy'?

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Re: Mark Bell leaves

Post by don'tbuythesun » Fri Oct 13, 2017 6:28 am

Vinny Jones-key grip.

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