Darlo Uncovered

I don't really know if there is an easy answer. If you make the Northern Premier League go straight into Conference North you give step 3 Northern sides a 1 in 12 chance of getting to Step 2 whilst giving the rest of the county a 1 in 36 chance - not sure that will be interpreted as fair. There isn...

Also, we've repeatedly shown we can compete with full time teams in individual games. Taken over the course of a season we may not be able to maintain the standards we set in some of those, and we may be relegated again, but we wouldn't be embarrassed by any stretch. Of course we should aim to go u...

At least Alty fans will only have to pay £10 when they return to The Field. Spennymoor surcharges other visiting Co. Durham fans 40% - £14 for the visit of Darlo and Gateshead but back to £10 for everyone else.

Oh i remember it well,uriah Rennie being accused of brown envelop acceptance at the time think it was Rennie,s first season in the football league.one hell of a lot of controversy over where 12 mins extra time came from .i believe his first game in the league was at Darlington, might have that wron...

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"Darlington's players celebrate after forcing a replay with a 97th minute equaliser" - looks suspiciously like the opening goal

Not seen it mentioned earlier - their manager is ex-Poolie Darren Clarke who brought his Salisbury side to the Arena in the FA Trophy Quarter Finals in our FA Trophy Winning season 2010/11. He was open about how he would use his Poolie contacts to get inside information for the match.

There's a great stat in Craig Stoddart's Echo report; this is the first year that Darlo have won 3 FA Cup ties since 1988/9. That year we had three home draws and saw off Runcorn 4-2, Northwich 6-2 and Halifax Town 3-0 (featuring Les McJannet's classy backheeled goal). What makes this year's run all...

Match report from the Daily Mail - starts by claiming we took only 50 fans and carried on in with similar accuracy (Phoenix Club, three consecutive promotions) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7543811/ON-ROAD-Bermudan-boys-help-Quakers-quest-Darlington-aim-banish-ghosts-troubled-pa...

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Sun Oct 06, 2019 10:19 am

Did we take a good following that day? I see Gabbiadini was in the Sunderland team!

We had half of the terrace at the Fulwell End (or was it the Roker End). Played well enough but the gulf was too big.

Great performance today, that is after the first half hour when Leamington were on top and missed a few chances. New keeper was MoM for me. As a southern based fan who has seen the Darlo games at Leamington for the past three seasons, today's team were a step up from our previous two unbeaten visits...

Anybody seen Darlo play twice in two days? I remember two away games in two days at the end of the 85-86 season. Derby and Brentford I think, both defeats? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Brentford (a) 5th May 1986 (lost 2-1) then Notts County (a) 6th May (lost that one 5-0). Line up v Notts was...

Seems to have made an excellent first impression - scored from 40 yards (did he ever do that for us?)


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Fri May 24, 2019 11:50 am

Wycombes old ground had a side to side slope, one touchline was about 6' higher than the other.

First away game of the Conference season 89/90; Smudger led the team out and gently tapped a warm-up ball which disappeared across the pitch down the slope to the far side where the Darlo fans were

Isn't there a rule that you don't have to move divisions within 3 years of your last move? Worcester were given such an exemption preventing them being moved back to the North a few years ago. Gloucester went from North to South in 2017-18, so they might be within their rights to refuse to move. Gl...

Coming from 2 down at home to Hartlepool to win 5-2. McClean in the tin shed end before half time then 4 from Alan Walsh in the Polam end in the second half. About 1981 I think. Also coming from 3-1 down at Salford to win 4-3 has got to be worth a shout. The Pools 5-2 was the first one coming to mi...

. . . Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister. How the country needs her back right now. Mrs. Thatcher hated football and its fans. Compulsory Identity Cards for football fans (including Division 4) were legislated for and ready to go when Lord Peter Taylor of Gosforth published the Taylor Report a...

Moved again. Semis tomorrow, final Monday. By my reckoning that's the fourth different set of dates. And Stourbridge have had to cede home advantage in the semis. Indeed - Stourbridge finished 3rd so were at home in the playoffs, but because of 4 days of faffing around by the Southern League and FA...

Bit of an issue with the super playoff - both of the Evostik Southern semi-finals tomorrow have been postponed because of a possible ineligible player at one of the clubs (Stratford). Kings Lynn, Alvechurch and Stourbridge not happy, especially Stour whose ground gets handed over to Stourbridge Cric...

Plenty of ex Darlo players getting on the scoresheet today in the EvoStik
- Nathan Cartman for Farsley
- James Walshaw for Scarboro
- Liam Hardy for Buxton
and Dan Lowson scored an OG as well

Darlo games v FC United - played 6 won 6 !

From the deafening silence from those who attended the match do I assume that Mr Caton did not give a Franz von Werra experience to make anyone have regrets. Caton did not have a memorable debut and was subbed in the second half. Agree with all the comments about two poor teams (and a ref who was e...

I think James Speare is the worst goalkeeper I’ve ever seen play for Darlo. Yes, even worse than Ashlee Jones. Now that we're on this subject, how about: Martin McGrother - 1986, had to play when Mike Astbury was cuptied. Let one in through his legs in the FACup first round when we beat Mansfield 2...

[quote="Alfie"]Gloucester were in the NLN a few seasons ago, didn't we play them in our first season in NLN? Yes - we beat them home and away. Now they play in Evesham but they're hoping to move back to the City in 2019/20 (new ground Meadow Park). When they were moved from NLN to NLS they were give...

Alan Walsh's son Phil played against Darlo in the final Conference season, for Hayes & Yeading. Looked just like his dad. The game also featured Jordan Pickford.

Chorley beat Barrow today in the FA Cup 4QR so will be playing in the first round proper that weekend

Cyril knowles possibility did a better job? Did he have less cash than little had via Dick Corden? He absolutely had less money than Little had under Corden. Knowles turned us from perennial Division 4 no hopers into promotion winners off the back of very small crowds in previous seasons and theref...

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"Johnno and Bernard" have taken over at Chester

Just checked on maps for away travel and I will have Kettering please.[/quote]

They don't play in Kettering any more (where we played them at Rockingham Road in our first Conference season) - they're now in Burton Latimer (home of Weetabix)

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/sport/yorkcityfc/16155499.Dave_Penney_wants_Martin_Gray_to_carry_on_as_York_City_boss_if_club_miss_out_on_play_offs/#comments-anchor Read what his programme notes were for the Chorley game. Read Duffy's comments near the end. Duffy is the Chair of the Football Supporters'...