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Post by Vodka_Vic » Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:49 am

With the reserves setting an early pace I remember MG saying he wanted promotion this season. However I e-mailed the Northern League secretary Dave Robinson (not our own Robbo I assume) and he confirmed that reserve sides aren't eligible. Interesting also that MG publicly stated about going for promotion when this was never possible, unless he's convinced he has the ability to persuade chairmen to vote for a rule change!

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Re: Reserves

Post by Spyman » Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:27 am

Vodka_Vic wrote:With the reserves setting an early pace I remember MG saying he wanted promotion this season. However I e-mailed the Northern League secretary Dave Robinson (not our own Robbo I assume) and he confirmed that reserve sides aren't eligible. Interesting also that MG publicly stated about going for promotion when this was never possible, unless he's convinced he has the ability to persuade chairmen to vote for a rule change!
It's unlike Martin Gray to be going all-guns-blazing for promotion with a team that isn't eligible for promotion.
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Re: Reserves

Post by Darlo_Pete » Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:41 am

Have to admit I was a bit surprised when it was announced that we were looking for our reserves to get promoted to the Northern League, as I never seen a reserve side in the Northern League before. Cracking start to the season 11 goals scored and none conceded and top of the table. Hardly surprising though, when we are playing pros like Burgess in the reserves.

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Re: Reserves

Post by Vodka_Vic » Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:51 am

Spyman, re:eligibility for promotion, an interesting tweet exchange between the club and a fan.
The question is 'Does the team have everything in place should we win promotion/get into the play-offs?'
The reply is'Lots of work going on behind the scenes and you will have seen that work has already started on the new stand'
Hopefully this implies positive news about revenue streams rather then positive PR. A statement soon geeing up the fundraising and any news on revenue streams would be most welcome.

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Re: Reserves

Post by Vodka_Vic » Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:52 am

Darlo_Pete wrote:Have to admit I was a bit surprised when it was announced that we were looking for our reserves to get promoted to the Northern League, as I never seen a reserve side in the Northern League before. Cracking start to the season 11 goals scored and none conceded and top of the table. Hardly surprising though, when we are playing pros like Burgess in the reserves.
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Re: Reserves

Post by Spyman » Thu Aug 10, 2017 12:03 pm

Vodka_Vic wrote:Spyman, re:eligibility for promotion, an interesting tweet exchange between the club and a fan.
The question is 'Does the team have everything in place should we win promotion/get into the play-offs?'
The reply is'Lots of work going on behind the scenes and you will have seen that work has already started on the new stand'
Hopefully this implies positive news about revenue streams rather then positive PR. A statement soon geeing up the fundraising and any news on revenue streams would be most welcome.
Clearly the answer to that question is 'no'.

Hopefully the hard work going on means the answer will become 'yes' by March.

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Re: Reserves

Post by quakersam » Thu Aug 10, 2017 12:04 pm

Vodka_Vic wrote:With the reserves setting an early pace I remember MG saying he wanted promotion this season. However I e-mailed the Northern League secretary Dave Robinson (not our own Robbo I assume) and he confirmed that reserve sides aren't eligible. Interesting also that MG publicly stated about going for promotion when this was never possible, unless he's convinced he has the ability to persuade chairmen to vote for a rule change!
NL secretary is right but wrong as well. The current league regulations stipulates no reserve sides can enter, however FA rules trump these as was seen by St Neots Reserves who were palced in UCL1 which is step 6 (equivalent to NL2), if the club applies for promotion, they finish highest and the ground is eligible for Step 6 then it is likely the FA would step in and put the reserves into NL2

So yes, the reserves can be promoted
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Re: Reserves

Post by Vodka_Vic » Thu Aug 10, 2017 12:22 pm

Sam, in future I'm consulting you about rules. Now if only you'd known about the 500 seats.

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Re: Reserves

Post by darlo2001uk » Thu Aug 10, 2017 2:37 pm

Spyman wrote:
Vodka_Vic wrote:With the reserves setting an early pace I remember MG saying he wanted promotion this season. However I e-mailed the Northern League secretary Dave Robinson (not our own Robbo I assume) and he confirmed that reserve sides aren't eligible. Interesting also that MG publicly stated about going for promotion when this was never possible, unless he's convinced he has the ability to persuade chairmen to vote for a rule change!
It's unlike Martin Gray to be going all-guns-blazing for promotion with a team that isn't eligible for promotion.
We only become ineligible if we don't meet the criteria by the date that is fixed.

But never let the facts spoil yet another boring dig.

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Re: Reserves

Post by Spyman » Thu Aug 10, 2017 2:52 pm

darlo2001uk wrote:
Spyman wrote:
Vodka_Vic wrote:With the reserves setting an early pace I remember MG saying he wanted promotion this season. However I e-mailed the Northern League secretary Dave Robinson (not our own Robbo I assume) and he confirmed that reserve sides aren't eligible. Interesting also that MG publicly stated about going for promotion when this was never possible, unless he's convinced he has the ability to persuade chairmen to vote for a rule change!
It's unlike Martin Gray to be going all-guns-blazing for promotion with a team that isn't eligible for promotion.
We only become ineligible if we don't meet the criteria by the date that is fixed.

But never let the facts spoil yet another boring dig.
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We will be playing at the arena again next season - fact.

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Re: Reserves

Post by spen666 » Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:38 pm

IF the reserve side is seeking promotion, then will this not increase the costs for the club?

IE The higher up the pyramid a side is, the higher the wages it will need to pay to attract players.

Will this not be taking money away from the first team or ground improvements?

Not all players in the reserves are 1st team players coming backfrom injury and so already on the payroll of the club. The other players are leikely to want payments to match what they could receive elsewhere.


The otherside of the coin is that it is important that players get a competitive level of football when not in 1st team, eg returning from injury etc

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Re: Reserves

Post by Henley » Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:45 pm

spen666 wrote:IF the reserve side is seeking promotion, then will this not increase the costs for the club?

IE The higher up the pyramid a side is, the higher the wages it will need to pay to attract players.

Will this not be taking money away from the first team or ground improvements?

Not all players in the reserves are 1st team players coming backfrom injury and so already on the payroll of the club. The other players are leikely to want payments to match what they could receive elsewhere.
Eh? You're saying this as if Darlo's priority would be to win the Northern League. It's simply a case of wanting a better standard of football for our squad players to be exposed to, surely?

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Re: Reserves

Post by spen666 » Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:01 pm

Henley wrote:
spen666 wrote:IF the reserve side is seeking promotion, then will this not increase the costs for the club?

IE The higher up the pyramid a side is, the higher the wages it will need to pay to attract players.

Will this not be taking money away from the first team or ground improvements?

Not all players in the reserves are 1st team players coming backfrom injury and so already on the payroll of the club. The other players are leikely to want payments to match what they could receive elsewhere.
Eh? You're saying this as if Darlo's priority would be to win the Northern League. It's simply a case of wanting a better standard of football for our squad players to be exposed to, surely?
Not got a clue what you have read. I have never mentioned any priority for Darlington.

I have simply made a comment on finacial implications of earlier comments re the reserves and promotion.

Better standard of football has cost implications. There is only a finite amount of funding. Spend more at a reserve level means less to spend on 1st team / ground.
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Re: Reserves

Post by Henley » Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:03 pm

spen666 wrote:
Henley wrote:
spen666 wrote:IF the reserve side is seeking promotion, then will this not increase the costs for the club?

IE The higher up the pyramid a side is, the higher the wages it will need to pay to attract players.

Will this not be taking money away from the first team or ground improvements?

Not all players in the reserves are 1st team players coming backfrom injury and so already on the payroll of the club. The other players are leikely to want payments to match what they could receive elsewhere.
Eh? You're saying this as if Darlo's priority would be to win the Northern League. It's simply a case of wanting a better standard of football for our squad players to be exposed to, surely?
Not got a clue what you have rewad. I have never mentioned any priority for Darlington.

I have simply made a comment on finacial implications of earlier comments re the reserves and promotion.

Better standard of football has cost implications. There is only a finite amount of funding. Spend more at a reserve level means less to spend on 1st team / ground.
Again, eh?

Why would it cost (materially) more to have our Reserves play in the Northern League as opposed to the league they are playing in now?

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Re: Reserves

Post by spen666 » Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:09 pm

Henley wrote:
spen666 wrote:
Henley wrote:
spen666 wrote:IF the reserve side is seeking promotion, then will this not increase the costs for the club?

IE The higher up the pyramid a side is, the higher the wages it will need to pay to attract players.

Will this not be taking money away from the first team or ground improvements?

Not all players in the reserves are 1st team players coming backfrom injury and so already on the payroll of the club. The other players are leikely to want payments to match what they could receive elsewhere.
Eh? You're saying this as if Darlo's priority would be to win the Northern League. It's simply a case of wanting a better standard of football for our squad players to be exposed to, surely?
Not got a clue what you have rewad. I have never mentioned any priority for Darlington.

I have simply made a comment on finacial implications of earlier comments re the reserves and promotion.

Better standard of football has cost implications. There is only a finite amount of funding. Spend more at a reserve level means less to spend on 1st team / ground.
Again, eh?

Why would it cost (materially) more to have our Reserves play in the Northern League as opposed to the league they are playing in now?

Why does it cost more to have a side in NLN as opposed to NPL?

I have answered your question in my first post.

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Re: Reserves

Post by Vodka_Vic » Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:12 pm

Not sure Henley if we would be able to play on the 3G pitch in the NL. I think there's ground grading stipulations. You have to have a cover for 50 spectators (which we may have next to the kiosk) and some sort of turnstile. We'd have to play on the running track pitch, but don't know if it fits Step 6 criteria. Think this may be the only cost implication.

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Re: Reserves

Post by Henley » Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:18 pm

spen666 wrote:
Henley wrote: Again, eh?

Why would it cost (materially) more to have our Reserves play in the Northern League as opposed to the league they are playing in now?

Why does it cost more to have a side in NLN as opposed to NPL?

I have answered your question in my first post.
I've never engaged with you before but I've seen enough posts from other Darlo fans bemoaning your idiocy. I can see why now.

Again, why would it cost Darlo more in wages for their Reserves to play in the Northern League instead of the Wearside League (assuming they won the Wearside League and were allowed into the Northern League)?

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Re: Reserves

Post by Darlogramps » Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:19 pm

Henley wrote: Again, eh?

Why would it cost (materially) more to have our Reserves play in the Northern League as opposed to the league they are playing in now?
Ignore him. He's deliberately being a tit to stir things.

He knows fine well the point you're making.
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Re: Reserves

Post by Henley » Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:20 pm

Vodka_Vic wrote:Not sure Henley if we would be able to play on the 3G pitch in the NL. I think there's ground grading stipulations. You have to have a cover for 50 spectators (which we may have next to the kiosk) and some sort of turnstile. We'd have to play on the running track pitch, but don't know if it fits Step 6 criteria. Think this may be the only cost implication.
Absolutely, Vik, but our friend from the Brewery Field is bizarrely suggesting that our wages would have to go up if we want our Reserves to play in The Northern League.

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Post by Henley » Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:24 pm

Darlogramps wrote:
Henley wrote: Again, eh?

Why would it cost (materially) more to have our Reserves play in the Northern League as opposed to the league they are playing in now?
Ignore him. He's deliberately being a tit to stir things.

He knows fine well the point you're making.
He does seemingly play the tit very well. My mistake was under-estimating his foolishness. I won't get fooled again :roll:

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Re: Reserves

Post by Vodka_Vic » Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:31 pm

Henley wrote:
Vodka_Vic wrote:Not sure Henley if we would be able to play on the 3G pitch in the NL. I think there's ground grading stipulations. You have to have a cover for 50 spectators (which we may have next to the kiosk) and some sort of turnstile. We'd have to play on the running track pitch, but don't know if it fits Step 6 criteria. Think this may be the only cost implication.
Absolutely, Vik, but our friend from the Brewery Field is bizarrely suggesting that our wages would have to go up if we want our Reserves to play in The Northern League.
Anyway, his tittishness has inadvertently raised a point, that there would be cost implications. Looking at Grade H criteria here:
http://www.thefa.com/-/media/thefacom-n ... ashx?la=en

It appears that we'd have to upgrade either the running track pitch or the 3G area, as there's no hard standing on 2 sides of the perimeter fence or pay box/turnstile on the running track pitch, and the 3G area would need a turnstile/pay box and cover for 50 spectators. But it would be good to play at a higher level as you say.

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Re: Reserves

Post by Henley » Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:42 pm

Talking of Reserves, whilst not as bad as 'The Stiffs' it's still a bit of a pejorative term.

Would there be anything stopping us giving them another name? Like The Quakers, for example.

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Re: Reserves

Post by spen666 » Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:01 pm

Darlogramps wrote:
Henley wrote: Again, eh?

Why would it cost (materially) more to have our Reserves play in the Northern League as opposed to the league they are playing in now?
Ignore him. He's deliberately being a tit to stir things.

He knows fine well the point you're making.

Call me all the names you like, but its a fact of life that the higher up the pyramid you go, costs go up, whether wages demanded by players or as someone else has mentioned ground costs.

There is absolutely no reason why Darlington can't seek promotion for the reserves, but the money will inevitably reduce the money available for the 1st team/ ground.

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Re: Reserves

Post by Quakerz » Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:04 pm

Oh shut up Spen, half of the teams in NL2 don't pay any wages at all.
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Post by Quakerz » Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:06 pm

Henley wrote:Talking of Reserves, whilst not as bad as 'The Stiffs' it's still a bit of a pejorative term.

Would there be anything stopping us giving them another name? Like The Quakers, for example.
We could call the reserves "Darlington 1883" and have another round of banter about it with the pitchfork wavers when we paste their clubs 5-0 every week.
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Re: Reserves

Post by Spyman » Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:10 pm

spen666 wrote:
Darlogramps wrote:
Henley wrote: Again, eh?

Why would it cost (materially) more to have our Reserves play in the Northern League as opposed to the league they are playing in now?
Ignore him. He's deliberately being a tit to stir things.

He knows fine well the point you're making.

Call me all the names you like, but its a fact of life that the higher up the pyramid you go, costs go up, whether wages demanded by players or as someone else has mentioned ground costs.

There is absolutely no reason why Darlington can't seek promotion for the reserves, but the money will inevitably reduce the money available for the 1st team/ ground.
But the 'reserves' would be made up of Conference North (or even National) players on Conference North (or National) wages who just weren't getting a game for us for whatever reason, and players from our U21s or whatever we call them.

We wouldn't be signing a new set of players for the season in the Northern League. We'd be playing already-too-good-for-that-level players in the Northern League (a bit like last time Darlington were in the Northern League, incidentally), who are already on our books.
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Re: Reserves

Post by spen666 » Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:14 pm

Quakerz wrote:Oh shut up Spen, half of the teams in NL2 don't pay any wages at all.

Do you really want a side as competitive as Ryton & Crawcrook ?


Sorry if the truth is inconvenient. Its a simple fact of life that the further up the pyramid you go, the more costs increase. For a club that are trying to raise funds to improve the 1st team ground and to maintain the playing budget, to increase other costs seems to be financially imprudent

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Re: Reserves

Post by Vodka_Vic » Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:20 pm

Spen, if you'd kept the costs argument to ground grading issues, like I've shown, you'd have a point, but you brought wages into it, which isn't a point.

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Re: Reserves

Post by Quakerz » Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:24 pm

spen666 wrote:
Quakerz wrote:Oh shut up Spen, half of the teams in NL2 don't pay any wages at all.

Do you really want a side as competitive as Ryton & Crawcrook ?


Sorry if the truth is inconvenient. Its a simple fact of life that the further up the pyramid you go, the more costs increase. For a club that are trying to raise funds to improve the 1st team ground and to maintain the playing budget, to increase other costs seems to be financially imprudent
Spen, no "truth" spouted by you is inconvenient because no one gives a toss what you are on about, or think you are on about.

Read Spyman's last post. It saves me repeating it.
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Re: Reserves

Post by coles » Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:26 pm

Why not use Darlington RA and send our lads on loan to play for them at this level player can register for two teams in different leagues can they not

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