Darlo Uncovered

I see Wrightson has left Blyth today. No news on destination as yet

I voted #3 first time around. I like the new #1 too. How about #2 for the away kit with a new colour to replace the white but keeping the narrow black lines?

Just seen the highlights. Man, did we miss some chances! Spenny scored with their 1 on 1s, we didn't. That was a bad miss by Adam Campbell. He scores some good goals, but misses some easy ones too. And what was Elliott doing for their first goal! If he'd stayed back, there were covering defenders. ...

Typical of them Ron, poor organisation of their own cup final

10 goals in 11 appearances in 2019 suggests he’s a good option to have

...which will not happen. I fear a hiding and several injuries over there

For me Lambert doesn’t really add a lot. Goal scorers are expensive/rare and every team wants one. AA stated after the Motherwell friendly that big lads up front are even harder to find because the trend in academies of late has been to develop smaller more mobile forwards. As for leadership in defe...

Not sure but he can’t have imagined that he’d go to York to then play so little

Are we still in for this Gary Martin move in January? If so he/Donawa could see us through to the end of the season. Remember this is a rebuilding year.
I can see us going for McGuire in the summer esp if York go up to the NL

Holness will play RB, New lad in midfield?

After last Saturday I’d definitely say Laing could be pressed in as a makeshift forward. He caused mayhem on the Ssddlers’ defence and won all flick-ons

Another project club, bankrolled by a character ‘made good’ (stretching it perhaps)...another future ‘ending in tears’ scenario in the making IMO

It’s tough. We’re short of bodies but they may never get the chance to represent their country against a huge opponent again. Can we manage without them?

A quick scan of the comments on their FB page and it’s clear to see that many of their fans can see us winning. It’d doom and gloom there at the moment. Darrell Clarke is questioning the players’ desire etc. It’s got ‘shock’ written all over it. Only downer is that the negativity will produce a poo...

A quick scan of the comments on their FB page and it’s clear to see that many of their fans can see us winning. It’d doom and gloom there at the moment. Darrell Clarke is questioning the players’ desire etc. It’s got ‘shock’ written all over it. Only downer is that the negativity will produce a poor...

Sounds harsh but I don’t think Elliott would have kept Leamington out yesterday or commanded his box like Connell did. He was immense and inspired confidence in both the back four and the travelling fans. Hopefully we can keep him

They’re getting a panning on DFR

AA would love a target man. He said as much to myself and Quakerman2 post-Motherwell. Thing is big target men are rare and/or expensive these days as the fashion among the bigger clubs/academies is now to sign small, mobile forwards, hence why there are more of them knocking around at lower levels. ...

Blyth got in there with no investment (by which you really mean a benefactor willing to donate money with no return). We are pretty much a brand new team and will take time to gel. Also remember Blyth had McGuire to play up front whereas our ‘no 9’ is smaller than Thommo. Alun said it’d be like this...

Nathan Cartman is ripping this league up

Darlopartisan wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 12, 2019 6:56 pm

1 down , Beck

Hope he didn’t celebrate

Am sure Holloway was there v Motherwell. Maybe not

Me and Quakerman had a good chat with AA after the match. To summarise: Hatfield is a key signing (a ‘nasty t**t’ that he was missing at Blyth). Work to be done with Campbell after his years as a winger in the FL. Pace and movement cause chaos in this league. Big forwards are now hard to find/expens...

50 years wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 06, 2019 12:56 pm

They have brought a great following.

Aye...just the right mix of eye candy and hardened drinkers with the odd indie frontman chucked in for good measure

0-1. Keeper sliced backpass behind for a corner (looks a good shot stopper though) They scored a rebound goal from the knock-down. Playing well, looking fit, solid at back/defensive midfield (Holness and Hatfield). Good going forward but wee Campbell too lightweight/small for this league?? Early day...

I'd sign Hatfield tomorrow. In fact I’d not let him out of the car park tonight until the ink’s dry

Initial thoughts...the Bermudan CF is a big unit. You can see Burn’s ability in the warmup. He owes it to himself to perform. We also look a lot leaner than we did at PSV. Some of the impressive bellies from Lanarkshire would have fitted in well at that game. Oh yeah.. and Campbell is much smaller t...

Yeah I thought that Vic. Bascombe talked in that article about next season as though he’d be here

I remember it well. The belly struggled to fit in it at times. Vic I wore it when we played Kirk Douglas’s team on that Sunday morning when we had huge bellies and monstrous hangovers...I scored a cracking volley to put us one up but it quickly unraveled as the opposition worked out that they’d giv...

I used to have one with the 3-D no 9 on the back. I think I got it (and the red/black ‘Brasso’ away one) direct from Jack Hatfield’s shop in Middlesbrough