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D.R.A.S.T.I.C

Post by isitouryear » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:51 pm

Darlington Require A Striker To Increase Crowds

Ive seen this on another thread but who actually ran this intiative? How much waqs raised? Was it Darren Roberts we got with that money? I can think of a better time to restart this. its good for the club as a team and brings the fans closer to the team and club. Especially now we are short of a goalscorer.

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Post by TinShedDarloFan » Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:14 pm

Wasnt long term but i remember something being organised so Chris Porter had a wage coming in after Darlington wouldnt pay him, once a decent amount was raised Reynolds turned around and said that Porter would earn a wage

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Post by piggy » Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:27 pm

I think unfortuately Drastic only manged a few hundred quid, which I presume was given to the club, shame as it was a cracking idea by whoever had it.

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Post by Quakerz » Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:31 pm

Plus of course signing a striker, or signing any number of quality players in any position will not increase crowds.

So the concept was fatally flawed anyway.
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Post by Norm_D_Ploom » Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:57 pm

It depends who signed them Q and the circumstances surrounding the club at the time.

For whatever reason when Reynolds gave Hodgy a decent budget the crowds, helped in no small part by £ 5.00 admission, responded, when Haughton did the same for Penney they didn't.

A lot of people had seen it all before, a lot of people were turned off for ever after the failure in 2000, a lot of people just couldn't warm to Penney and weren't prepared to give the team (and Penney) a chance.

Its their loss as no matter what any of us thought of him as a man, his style of play, or his tactical ability as a manager, it wil be a long time before we see players of the ability of Pav, Purdie & Austin at the club again.

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Post by uncovered » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:39 pm

TinShedDarloFan wrote:Wasnt long term but i remember something being organised so Chris Porter had a wage coming in after Darlington wouldnt pay him, once a decent amount was raised Reynolds turned around and said that Porter would earn a wage

the chris porter wage issue was started on the messageboard. the club were not paying Chris Porter, so we all decided to start a campaign to raise money to pay him some wages. The site started off the campaign and people pledged a certain amount of money per week to go towards paying him something like £300 a week. After two days we raised the necessary pledges and the national media even got in touch, I was interviewed on 5 live drive about it at the time.

I think it embarassed George Reynolds and he then decided to pay him a wage, stating that he never told Tommy Taylor he couldn't have money for a keeper anyway.

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Post by QuakerPete » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:53 pm

Also, the Supporters' Club and the Supporters' Trust helped to raise over £10k (TASK) for the club to be able to afford to get Danny Graham on loan from Middlesbrough - wasn't there another player at the same time?
This was heavily supported by fans at the time - in an effort to avoid relegation to the Conference.

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Post by Darlo_Weststand19 » Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:31 pm

Paul raised a canny sum and the money was paid to Steve Morgon i believe. The lad that raised all the money reads the boards. So he can say if he wants to regarding the outcome.

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