Darlo Uncovered

Very best of luck to him in the future. The total support he gave to Young spoke volumes about him. I'm sure he'll get sorted with another club sharpish.

He did say one of his priorities was to get them out of this league!

It looks like pretty much the entire squad at Blyth is out of contract and Jon Shaw will be highly likely to get the push so can't really enter into talks with players. There are strong rumours that some have already sorted out deals elsewhere.

Presumably Hayden Lindley will be released by us after he's finished with the play-offs at Pontefract Collieries. He scored his first for them on Saturday in a 6-0 win. On his limited chances with us he always seemed fairly composed on the ball but maybe lacking on the physical side in this league. ...

There's an option on Platt and I'm pretty sure that will be taken up, same with Lees if there's an option in his deal

I wonder if Will McGowan at Blyth is on the radar. Formerly with South Shields, he's a very good midfielder and a stand-out performer in a poor side and may well not want to drop down a division. Just 21 and from Newcastle.

Just looks like the council cannot afford the millions it costs to subsidise a stadium that has faded hugely from its heyday. And it will have to be hived off into the private sector so the full guarantees of tenure can't be provided at present. It's just financial realiies hitting home in these tou...

Can you imagine the uproar if Ainge had banged in 20 by Xmas and was then whisked away by Fylde or similar for an 18 month or two-year deal and we got next to nowt.

When Ainge signed I remember our fans positively salivating at the prospect of a Styche/Ainge strikeforce ripping our rivals to shreds. Everyone seemed to consider it a phenomenal signing. It was also reported that his previous injury problems were behind him.

Of course sometimes these extended deals have also worked in our favour as in the case of Josh Heaton, who had had injury problems but we eventually received a big fee for, Charman, also with injury issues, Hatfield (we wouldn't have got him without a two year deal), Mark Beck (again had had seriou...

Of course sometimes these extended deals have also worked in our favour as in the case of Josh Heaton, who had had injury problems but we eventually received a big fee for, Charman, also with injury issues, Hatfield (we wouldn't have got him without a two year deal), Mark Beck (again had had serious...

Maybe this comment about Asante from a Chester fan sums it up (although obviously he hasn't had much pitch time under his belt in recent months): "Sad to see what’s become of Asante these days - actually in better shape physically than I expected, but he was second to everything and his touch and wh...

Asante did look a pale shadow of the player he used to be and he has looked that way from day one. There doesn't seem to be any pace, aggression, movement or presence and I'm not sure it's just about building up match fitness. There's a real problem if this is the level when he's fit for selection.

More than 400 of our tickets sold is not too shabby in the context of the game. There would have been a right old bun fight for the 500 allocation if survival was riding on it.

The sale of Blyth has now been completed so the new owner, Irfan Liaquat, will be able to get on with his ambition to eventually take them into the EFL and all the way up to the Championship. The company that owns Blyth, Winners Worldwide, is said to be involved in luxury hotels and prime real estat...

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...