Darlo Uncovered

I’m just looking forward to us trying to play a bit of football, we have had a year of dross and the players have looked clueless. Plus we’ve hardly been scoring any goals. The only way is up with Terry surely!


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After this weekend, we have a tough run of fixtures, highlighting even more damage that Howling did to us. This is going to be one tough ask to get us out of it.


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Good appointment- I think most will be happy with this, let’s get behind him and the lads and give it our best.


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And Spenny have now got shot of Dickman. Wonder if they've got Fenton lined up already. I'm afraid skint and probably relegated Darlo are maybe at the end of the queue. It's looking like we had our big chance and a clear run at the managerial market when we sacked AA. Now the water is muddied. Very...

So we know Gray was at the game and Hodgy, anyone else?


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A "director of football" is surely daft. If you have someone overseeing how you play and taking care of player movements then you may as well bin the manager's job - thereby making the DOF the manager. I agree, a Director of Football is stupid at this level of football and with our resources. It is...

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Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:57 pm

PierremontQuaker03 wrote: ↑

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Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:17 pm

Nothing against him but he hardly “ticks all the boxes”.

May I ask who does?

Well nobody but on paper Martin Gray, Steve Watson and Graham Fenton would tick more boxes.

Agreed on Fenton, Gray and Waston haven't done too well in their previous jobs.

MinistryOfSillyWalks wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 28, 2023 9:21 pm

Graham Fenton anyone?

Relieved of his duties at Blyth: http://www.blythspartans.com/club-state ... am-fenton/.

For what its worth I said Fenton last time before the left-field appointment of Howling. I will dig out the evidence if it turns out to be him

CrazyDarlo wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:17 pm

Nothing against him but he hardly “ticks all the boxes”.

May I ask who does?

Graham Fenton has left Blyth Spartans, Maybe it’s him? Maybe AA going to rock up at Blyth again. Back to South Shields probably, then AA to Blyth - the merry go round continues - if AA does get a job presumably we would stop paying him - as he surely cannot pick up a wage and then get another job i...

Graham Fenton has left Blyth Spartans, Maybe it’s him? Maybe AA going to rock up at Blyth again. Back to South Shields probably, then AA to Blyth - the merry go round continues - if AA does get a job presumably we would stop paying him - as he surely cannot pick up a wage and then get another job i...

Available, North East based, experienced in this league and the league below, good connections in the area. Good age. For me ticks all the boxes.

Anyone down the training ground, seeing the lads been put through their paces, I assume DR is taking training? I was hoping something would be announced today, and the new guy was lined up, but hopefully tomorrow something will happen. I was hopeful that after the Bishops Stortford performance DJ w...

For me Martin Gray is the obvious choice until the end of the season, he's available, he take's no prisoners - dropping out of this league will set us back years, the people that don't want him back need to bite their tongue for now if it means we stay up. There is no obvious other choice. Needs mus...

Sadly Gowling has already caused too much damage for whoever is appointed. I hope I am wrong, but I think we are in too deep with how much we backed him. The accommodation, paid analyst, Asante’s wages, selling Hazel etc. Alun left us with an unbalanced squad. It wasn’t ideal, but with the resource...

Agree with many of the comments, Gowling must go now. Get Hatfield and Lawlor in charge for Saturday. We now need to get the best possible candidate until the end of the season and take stock. If we go down then things change completely. It’s been nearly a month and a half since mid season boost the...

A win on Saturday and we are right back in the mix. I don't want to think about the alternative. If we do win, we will be bottom of quite a large pack of teams, some of which will be looking over their shoulder as they were not expecting to be part of the relegation mix. A win on Saturday is a must.

excuses in early - there is a virus going round

I don't think many people actually care about the ins-&-out's but it's quite clear that there's been more to this than just a player suffering a short-term injury. Yes, the main thing to it was that he was a 32 year old oddball AA signing and he was just ordinary for us. Nothing more to it than tha...

The fact we have signed an undercooked striker, yes with some kind of ability, and seems like everyone is pinning hopes on him. Isn't it more of a worry that we don't have the personnel to create the chances consistently? Yes, possibly an upgrade on Hazel but no guarantees he will bail us out on hi...

Who?

Really disappointing to concede so late in a game we should have won. But that's what bad teams do - don't win games they should. Taylor should have done better for the goal - a poor bit of goalkeeping. We're in real danger of getting cut adrift. I'm hopeful we can pick up a decent points total ove...

Personally, I think he needed to go. His form only came when he was partnered with Beck up front, apart from that he was bang average. His link up play was terrible. We move on.....with a striker that's suspended and one that isn't fit.....

So all these loan signings, ins and outs and it looks like we will be relying on the core of players that got us into this mess into the first place tonight. Given all of the contacts JG has (allegedly) I was expecting us to push the boat out over the weekend and go again, but alas nothing. I have n...

For the best

I'm sure I can remember after a particularly bad display at Feethams, David Hodgson put the entire team on the transfer list! He said something like "if any team wants any of these players give me a ring" :o This needs to be done, they are all a shower Rip it up and start again. I take it no player...

I completely agree with the Board deciding not to allowing beer to be drank on the terraces, unfortunately we have a minority who can't handle their beer. Who would be left to deal with any issues from excessive drink....it would be the stewards on a few quid an hour or the volunteers. We also have ...

let this misery end....please

Worst defeat in 37 years and nothing from the club...nothing. There was a post match interview with our manager in which he apologised to supporters. What else are we meant to do? If you’re after more communication there’s a fans forum in 48 hours. The worst Darlington result since 1987, that’s som...

Worst defeat in 37 years and nothing from the club...nothing.