Darlo Uncovered

For those talking about stadium requirements: For National League North you need to have 500 seats and show the ability of how you can upgrade your ground to 4000 capacity. For National League there are no other requirements but to show you can upgrade your ground to 5000 capacity. I would love to ...

Aye, it just rubbed me up the wrong way listening to it. To be honest, it feels like there is an air of arrogance about it. We just want to know *something*. I can even deal with it if the honest answer is we just can’t afford it as a football club. Fine. But this kind insider ‘things are going wel...

I would say the question is, next season - are we going to behave like a normal football club ie properly go for a playoff place, or not? I am not sure that even close to a majority of clubs are 'properly going for a play off place'...wouldn't suggest it is the norm by any stretch. We behaved like ...

We are hardly going to be able to pull a new stadium out of our backsides at short notice if we somehow managed promotion We wouldn't need to. If we were promoted any time soon we could update BM. The changes needed to stay in NL will obviously cost money but they aren't the cost of a new stadium. ...

H1987 wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:59 pm

It’s also insufficient for promotion to the National League.

No it isn't. That was seat gate.

We can be promoted to the National League...we would just need to do some work if we got there.

It depends what options players have. If they don't have full time options then what.

They are currently not able to get into the team for struggling NL - where do you go in full time football from there.

I think it all depends who is available from elsewhere. I wouldn't keep anyone if there is better available. Wouldn't surprise me if Michael Duckworth (York) and Will Smith (Harrogate) are available this summer. Luke Charman's contract is up at Fylde and he hasn't played for the first team since Jan...

Released today about Southport's owners - quite grim reading in part.

https://www.livpost.co.uk/p/special-inv ... collapsing

Fair enough. Disagree though, they’re absolute cack and I’m not arrogant in saying that. No I agree they were probably the worst team to visit BM this season. I just don’t dare take anything for granted where Darlington FC are concerned. There's been a fair few teams just as bad if not worse this s...

Yeh, Young won't be back. I'm sure a new GK will be a priority, and I'd hope that we have a good chance of securing Cornish and Barrow on contracts. If we can get those sorted early on, move out a few of the squad players/under-performers, then we should hopefully have a decent core of a side to fl...

I did think they couldn't offer us £19 seating whilst home fans have the option of £16 standing. However I must be wrong because this seems what Chester do every game. Always assumed the had to offer something at the same lower price home fans were being offered. Even if only small numbers. No. You...

tdk1 wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:20 am

Looks like the first two blocks have sold out already.

Do they usually charge £19 entry? Or are we being milked for cash again?

Same as always https://chesterfc.com/ticket-prices/

If I've got my geography of Chesters ground right the two tarrifs are standing v seating.

That Darlo side of Hodgie's that failed V Peterborough, they were so entertaining. Liddle, Heaney, Gabbiadini, Collett, Heckingbottom, Michael Oliver and others, what a side that was. But the thing is, although the team was assembled by Hodgie (hooray ) It was financed by Reynolds (Booo My favourit...

A wider split means more relegation or less promotion (per division).

Just stop calling it north call it region 1 and region 2 and it becomes a lot harder to say "they shouldn't be in that division"

I'm not sure I have an "emotional attachment" to the name!! It would be interesting to know the travelling distances for North v South teams as over the years we seem to be increasingly travelling southwards and there are huge financial implications especially with so many teams being part time. I ...

Old Git wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:08 am

Surely we will get Needham Market simply because they are in a feeder league to the NLN.

It's completely irrelevant. Leagues effectively feed into steps not leagues.

Every season in June teams are allocated into divisions at their steps.

With every year I think it becomes clear the lower leagues need restructuring. I’ve said it before, expand the football league (4 leagues of 20), more sensible regionalisation below that (you might want a 3 way rather than two way split). The pyramid is precious and more and more clubs are running ...

Good predictor of league placings here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j9Xsb52BW6OYS98S4SIM4ueejxbA2I9CHePzrzlqSlk/htmlview# Map of the step 2 predictions here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1u6aAx6tpXh_RKPFTgzEQRfJUCsBkGEg&ll=52.76087296780504%2C-2.037592500000008&z=5 Been pret...

jjljks wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:50 pm

Just when NLN wave goodbye to Bishop Stortford, up come Needham Market FC - almost Ipswich!!

Needham Market will go south.

We will get Chesham and possibly Oxford City and St Albans I think.

The only way that winning on Saturday doesn't see us safe before the final day is if Farsley beat Peterborough Sports AND Blyth win away at Scunthorpe.

Kings Lynn v Peterborough Sports is almost certain to be a draw as I think it will see them both safe.

I strongly suspect the players will want to go to Chester knowing they can have a team night out in Liverpool / Manchester to celebrate.

If they can settle it on Saturday they won't need to worry too much about the game itself...

It's very rare in a 46 game league at any level for a team to require 52, 53 or 54 points to secure 5th bottom spot, not unheard of but very unusual. Normally somewhere between 47 and 50 or so points would be enough for 5th bottom place. We might just happen to have picked a more freakish season to...

It would not completely surprise me if a team stayed up on 50 points this season.

I think we actually have enough as it is as agreed with others that Blyth won't pick up another point this season. I expected Rushall to beat them.

It's not comfortable until it's mathematically confirmed obviously.

Ghost_Of_1883 wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:32 pm

Haven't they got a couple of long throw specialists? Hopefully they'll only get throws against the wind.

They play completely different under Jim than they did under Liam.

I don't mean to be funny but what the feck's holding that stand up at the back.... https://x.com/DarloFansRadio/status/1774903141227549172?s=20 Haha but also l wonder how much one of them costs. Can't help but think one would make a massive difference to the away end at BM - you could probably fit ...

The mistake is already made if he is contracted to next season. Who knows though. I mean at this stage he's not 'needed' for the rest of this season. I think we have the firepower that we need to get the points we need. There is a point where you get him back properly - try and get a proper pre-seas...

Have Darlington Town received funding?

Or is Eastbourne being developed and Darlington Town happen to play at Eastbourne?

Are we sure it isn't just this....

https://www.darlington.gov.uk/your-coun ... m/?id=1631

Even the Warrington commentator thought we deserved the win. The next two home games are massive, 2 wins and we are safe. I don't want to be going to Chester needing something as they have fallen out of the playoffs and might need a result to secure a play off spot. I suspect one might be enough - ...

⬆️ Merely pointing out that players get injured. You were right about Gowling 97, but FFS - stop banging on about it. No - because it is entirely relevant (and probably the biggest reason why) to the situation we are in. We can't pretend we weren't in the situation before Gowling came in. Our recor...