Darlo Uncovered

At least Farsley have retained some gallows humour over their annual visit to the condemned cell....

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I think the authorities are now being very flexible with clubs in this position. For instance, Newton Aycliffe have been given until the end of May to get their work done to avoid demotion. They cited the very wet weather as being a factor in causing delays and say the money is in place.

It's actually P 21 W 12 L 9. You're doing him over there like. What makes it all the more unbelievable is his first 7 matches was W 2 L 5, and one or two numpties were questioning what had actually improved (the football was already miles better despite the results) Since then we've won 10 of our l...

You'd have every confidence in them using the budget wisely based on the effectiveness of their signings in the Great Escape.

Watson and Mitchell In talks and "We're confident that we will be.".....

As long as we don't go down, I really hope Blyth stay up to, I love going there, proper club and fans, great club house and pies. Hope Your new chairman puts the money in and is not one of those fly by nights that just sees the club as an adornment for his prestige. The Blyth fans seem to have got ...

I wonder if Danny Ellis will be playing against us on Saturday. I believe Farsley's 6ft 5ins defender Tom Allan is still suspended and Ellis, who's 38, played the full game against Peterboro Sports on Tuesday. Our former left-back George Smith was out injured on Tuesday. They've got a decent keeper,...

Rushall's directors are saying they aim to get all their ground grading work done by the end of April after getting a deadline extension. The new seated stand wasn't built by Tuesday this week but their plan is to get it thrown up, along with terracing at the sides of the stand to get the ground cap...

Bishop's Stortford's defence standing tall at Rushall last night....

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It's not been a good four days for them. No goals scored, 11 goals shipped and the manager announced he's jacking it in after his torture in the "North."

If we play at our best on Saturday then we'll be sound but if we reverted to the kind of display as at Rushall then it could be a nerve-shredding day. We'd have snapped your hand off for this scenario if it had been offered a couple of months ago. Rushall have now won four of their last five league ...

There's one or two things gone on in the background at Blyth that don't sound great. Apparently there's been a couple of cutbacks at the club since the takeover was announced with a big fanfare, one of which means the club is no longer providing food for the players on away trips. The independent su...

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. Chesham? Surely you can't have a place with a Tube station in National North. It's getting beyond ridiculous.

That's an astonishing turnaround on those two

Just look at that, we were 15 points behind Blyth and 14 behind Farley Celtic. Wow.

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. I just thank the good lord above that you'll be nowhere near the pre-match team tal...

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 ...

Even if you were in relatively good form, you wouldn't want your last two games to be Scunny and Brackley. But in Blyth's case the picture is even bleaker as they have lost their last 3 games and have just 4 wins in 2024. It looks even tougher when you read their fans saying of yesterday's demoralis...

You know that we've once again become respected, and feared, when the Chester fans say they are desperately hoping that we are safe by the time we face them on the last day of the season... purely selfish reasons of course . They are backing us 100% against Farsley!

There could be one further, potentially huge, complicating factor that may come into play. Rushall have said nothing about whether they will be able to complete their crucial and extensive ground grading work. This includes a new seated stand, new floodlights with new columns, new turnstiles and maj...

Don't know which games they will come in but I reckon there will be a weird, surprise result or two before this is done.

Good workmanlike game management today after going two goals in front. It was a stupid decision by Southport to play against the wind after winning the toss, I assume because they didn't want us to attack the Tinshed in the second half (like most teams opt for if they win the toss here). Why decide ...

Don't recall reading this anywhere but the man accused of murdering our former player Osagi Bascome in Bermuda in December 2021 has been found not guilty. Unfortunately it means no justice for his family as the police have said there are no further suspects although they have appealed for any furthe...

Whatever he thought he heard, you'd have hoped that after a pro career of more than 900 games and involvement with the PFA, he would have had more sense than to go on like that with supporters over a prolonged period, especially so with his offer to sort it out after the game.

Sorry Q, it got deleted. As I said, a picture that sums up the entirely supportive atmosphere behind the scenes at the club....

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I wasn't there but maybe Peter Clarke misheard and thought he'd said: "Break his legs." Clarke's getting on a bit and may have had his hearing aids switched off.

Creative use of a skip, some scaffolding poles and super-strength gaffer tape.

I don't mean to be funny but what the feck's holding that stand up at the back....
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If we show more of today's bottle, battle, determination and goal power we won't have anything to worry about.

They've got two players who've scored 28 goals between them this season. They also can be a handful at set-pieces judging by the fact that both their goals at Scarboro came from corners. We'll need to defend a helluva lot better than in our last two games.

Farsley showed signs of toughening up at the back in their 0-0 draw with Southport following an awful run. Not so much of an attacking threat from either side though. Southport by all accounts had no shots on target and Farsley one. I wouldn't like it to be between us and Farsley on the final day. W...