Darlo Uncovered

Just look at what's happened to South Shields in the league below. Their capacity has now been slashed from the 600 they started the season with to 300. And in early July they announced they had sold more than 600 season tickets. Today they tweeted this: "The club wishes to make supporters aware tha...

Would be a strange situation to see the Prem handing over an extra wad of cash to say Salford's collection of billionaires and millionaires. Odd times indeed.

Will Prescot Cables be allowed out? Knowsley, where the club is based, has the highest rate of new infections in the whole of England.

Interesting that the meeting with the new chairman and board at Darlington RFC is described as "welcoming, positive, friendly and dynamic" and they are "keen to draw a line under some of the problems of the past". Words like that used over our relationship at BM certainly sounds encouraging.

Looks like season will start on Oct 3.

It's probably York's best chance of going up if a load of clubs go bust by being forced to play without fans.

Durham FA tightening things up...

https://www.durhamfa.com/news/2020/sep/ ... ember-2020

Some valid points particularly about pubs: -Im really sick of hearing “we can sit in a packed pub but not go to football”. What packed pubs? Hardly as if a pub will have anywhere near the amount in of even a northern league Game. Have these idiots spouting this s*** been to a pub lately? -i think t...

The big fear is that this may all be academic if we don't manage to halt this surge in the virus. Looks like it's coming back big time now people have dropped their guard.

Does anyone know if this has any implications (financial or otherwise) for our agreement to play at BM? Darlington Rugby Club don't seem to have made any comment. I'm sure they will have a view on it.

People who profess to care about this club need to take a long, hard look at themselves when they use social media to undermine it. It's all very unsavoury and is not the way to raise issues that they may have.

Yes, I think they would be the likely ones if they can't get the new ground into a useable state.

It's still not yet certain that Boston will be able to kick off next season in their new ground and if they do manage it there will still only be two stands ready, so that will affect the capacity. They have previously said they have a groundshare option in place should the Covid delays mean the new...

Two or three people seem to be intent on stirring things up and doing their best to undermine things behind the scenes.

We should get that Sky News presenter Niall Paterson invited along to a game. He said at the end of the interview that he's a Celtic fan but looking for an English team to support and he may take a close look at Darlo

Harrogate have chosen to tear up their pitch and groundshare for as long as it takes because they want to play at a higher level and they are not being asked to repay the huge grants they have been given. They could have just opted to stay in the National League, it was their choice not to. You are ...

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Fri Aug 14, 2020 3:35 pm

Seeing as Spennymoor are always boasting about their ever increasing fan base it might be cost effective for them to share the arena with us too ,

I expect their arrangements will be announced first on the new big screen at the Field Of Dreams

Good to know he's putting Darlington first.

Quinn must see a good property investment opportunity long-term because from the outside the timing of it looks just about the worst it could possibly be. I wonder if MP have got some kind of binding guarantees, if that's possible, regarding rugby activities going forward. Quinn must be very sure ab...

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 fut...

The compelling argument against it would be if this was some sort of underhand bid to move us there permanently. Clearly that is not the case. If it makes financial sense and allows all our fans to attend then it's the right temporary fix in an emergency situation. I just hope the League will allow ...

I think we would have to do what's necessary to get through these difficult times, including a switch on a TEMPORARY basis if required. I don't fear it would signal some kind of move to make it permanent and see it as a stop-gap to deal with an emergency. Some other issues would need to be looked at...

According to the Echo, DMP RUFC have a salary budget of £350,000 & also need funds to maintain and repair the Arena. Maybe someone will be waiting in the wings at tonight's emergency meeting of struggling Mowden Park.... "Members said speculation was mounting that an anonymous benefactor who had ef...

Yes they are spending again and yes they may well be up there again but among the pledges to their small band of fans time around is this from Groves: “Spennymoor Town FC WILL offer promotion-chasing football of an entertaining standard." Fair enough to be saying you'll be giving it a go for promoti...

You look forward to this all year, don't you

Plans afoot for a salary cap in the National League as well. 900k limit in the National League, 600k at our level is what’s been proposed. a good idea. wonder how it will be policed though? will some clubs 'get round' this by adding extras to the overall benefits package for players (free houses, c...

Plucky little fairytale club Salford City lost £32,000 a week in getting promoted from National North in 2017-18 and in the National League in 2018/19 they were losing £64,000 a week (total of £3.3m) in getting promoted to the EFL. Their owners Project 92 Ltd had lent the club over £5.4 million by ...

Plucky little fairytale club Salford City lost £32,000 a week in getting promoted from National North in 2017-18 and in the National League in 2018/19 they were losing £63,000 a week (total of £3.3m) in getting promoted to the EFL. Their owners Project 92 Ltd had lent the club over £5.4 million by J...

I'm hoping Joseph Cala will soon go public on his cash-laden international consortium It would be a real bonus if he's wearing his Fila trackie.

Presumably his starting point is the £2m he has invested (loaned) plus probably his totted up interest rate on top. But surely if this consortium has got gazillions to invest in this golden opportunity to take over a non-league club, then paying off RS will be just chicken feed to them.