Darlo Uncovered

I have never understood the Science (or Maths) behind squad numbers. It all makes sense until after Rivers. Why do we have a number 77 and number 44 etc?

Sad to read that he's out for another season. Made me wonder about personal injury insurance the club might have in place for contracted players. The last set of accounts to year ended 30/06/19 only showed insurance amount of £1,500 which is far too small for any personal injury cover. So I wondered...

One of the best players to never turn professional, got to admire him for not having his head turned and staying loyal to Blyth for so long. Seems like he was happy enough to just play Part-Time football and work at his Mam's pub :clap: Who cares he doesn't play for us he's never played for us. Thi...

So "Exclusive" that not even National League site has anything on about it all, or the BBC. Hope it's true

grytters wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 29, 2020 4:04 pm

Is the game being streamed live, and is it being shown un in the clubhouse?


It takes a special kind of genius to come up with this -.

https://twitter.com/FACupFactfile/statu ... 6736610304

Rather than be lazy try reading the Club website!

The interview is superb A huge thanks to DJ, Chris Stockdale and everyone else involved. The amount of work which must have gone in to try and prepare us for this season, as volunteers, is staggering. [/quote Totally agree. Please don't waste time posting on here about this superb interview unless ...

poppyfield wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 13, 2020 3:10 pm

I just copied the post .

My apologies then.

It will interesting to see how our relationship with the rugby club evolves with a new chairman in place. RESIGNATION OF DRFC CHAIRMAN BY JESS CHEESMAN 11 HOURS AGO Resignation of DRFC Chairman 11th September 2020 Announcement - Retirement of Chairman Dear Member, On Friday the 11th of September 20...

I think you know very well what I meant. It is perhaps a little surprising that in these unusual and testing times Mr Wilkinson should choose to handover the position of chairman when his experience is most needed. That is all I was referring to. It is of course entirely his decision to make but it...

Never been a fan of Mr Wilkinson but you cannot deny he made a good deal for DRFC when he negotiated the deal with us. He did his job and got an agreement that seems heavily loaded in their favour as he knew we were desperate. Hope his replacement is someone we can get on with. The timing is intere...

Darlopartisan wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 06, 2020 2:41 pm

Don’t know if it’s true but would you lone a keeper to your rivals ?

Because he would get game time and migh improve and they may pay part of his wages!

Still no decision regards our request to play at the Arena? How long do the League need to make a decision. Clearly the venue cannot be the problem as it must be better (Safer) than most grounds in NLN. There is no rush until the outcome of the pilots is received and we actually start to plan for t...

Still no decision regards our request to play at the Arena? How long do the League need to make a decision. Clearly the venue cannot be the problem as it must be better (Safer) than most grounds in NLN. There is no rush until the outcome of the pilots is received and we actually start to plan for t...

Still no decision regards our request to play at the Arena? How long do the League need to make a decision. Clearly the venue cannot be the problem as it must be better (Safer) than most grounds in NLN.

bigdavethemaddog wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 26, 2020 4:37 pm

thought Alun said in his latest interview that he was still training with the club?

Think he referred to Luke Charman in that interview didn't he?

Good report & interview with DJ on this evening's Look North. Doing a great job of getting the message out there. Such an asset to the club. Indeed he came over as very professional. Agree DJ was even nice to DRC he says "We have a good Landlord down at BM!" The League are going to look really stup...

onewayup wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 18, 2020 3:00 pm

I see no movement on this front, can only assume it's going to be a season long loan now,
Time ticking down to restart the season, I will be going if allowed wearing a mask and social distancing.

Can you play in Goal you don't need to wear a mask!

quakersfan wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 18, 2020 7:38 am

Vodka_Vic wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:18 pm

Why did the academy move from BM and where is it based now?

Start of last season, based at the Dolphin and play their games I think at Billingham.

You "think at Billingham" but you have enough knowledge to hear that "things weren't going somoothly!"

Taken from his Facebook page: Peter Gibson MP: ⚽️⚽️⚽️ Football⚽️⚽️⚽️ Over on Twitter there has been quite a bit of traffic following my recent correspondence on behalf of Newcastle United Fans. I thought it would be helpful to confirm a few things. 1. More than sixty residents of Darlington have wr...

Emdubya wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:34 pm

quakersfan wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 13, 2020 6:25 pm

Does anyone know if DJ or DFCSG have actually spoken with Mowden at all? With the new owner/investor Ged Quinn they may well have different ideas.

Do you honestly think DJ would have gone to the national press with this without speaking to Mowden.

I thank you!

From a personal point of view I already decided I will not be attending while restrictions are in place so whether it's at BM or the Arena makes no difference to me. Also from the League's perspective it makes little sense in allowing us to move to a bigger venue thus increasing crowds when the con...

Seemingly so, but lots of questions too. What does he intend to do with the stadium? What if we jumped into bed and 5 years down the line it's sold on etc.etc. But certainly no harm in talking to him. DJ has clearly been talking to the Board of DMP otherwise we couldn't have put for our proposal to...

New owner at Mowden Park. This guy is involved with a property company called SW that has been loaning money to Darlington Arena Ltd, the company set up by the rugby club to run the Arena. From the Echo: AN entrepreneur who founded an international engineering firm has pledged to help secure the fu...

Apparently the arena is to be demolished to make way for housing and will replaced with a 7,000 capacity stadium for DMP. Obviously I have no idea how genuine this is but it will be interesting to see what comes out of their EGM. I thought I heard that the land immediately opposite the Arena (owned...

Vodka_Vic wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 12, 2020 1:05 pm

Clue please bga

DPM is currently a private members club. After their financial situation is discussed at tonight's meeting that may no longer be the case......

Be very interesting to see what comes out of DMP RUFC's extraordinary general meeting to discuss options after the council pulled out of the £20M Sports Village plans. Some members are suspicious that an anonymous benefactor who had effectively taken over the club’s liabilities from the council cou...

Good to see that the Isle Of Man are joining the football pyramid, even though they haven't been made to feel very welcome. Given the crazy PC world we live in nowadays it's a wonder the fa didn't make them change their name to the isle of person 😁😁 True that way that prevents the possibility of th...

Darlo_Pete wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 21, 2020 7:42 am

I know of a few north west based fans, but they aren't great in numbers. I think it would be to meet at somewhere like Birch Services & then car share from there.

Word of warning you do have to pay to park at Birch services. I left my car there for 8 hours before lockdown I think it cost me £12.

jjljks wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 16, 2020 7:43 am

Hardly coming for a pay day. More likely to get experience & working toward his coaching badges.

Off Topic but I really enjoyed listening to the interviews with Smudger. Interesting he says he made more money as he came down the leagues than when he was going up them!

We must have a Licensee on here who can provide more reliable figures on profit calculations!