Darlo Uncovered

I wondered if they might suggest this. The real problem with the NPL is it extends too far South. Until theu address that (the FA that is, its due to pyramid structure) travel will always be a big issue. Last year Kings Lynn were in NPL1. I just drove from there its over 200 miles. However i think p...

Scarborough only 67 miles away - strange decision The FA have no clue. Whatever Division they put Us in surely Scarborough should have been in the same. Is it any wonder teams from the Northern League don't want to go up... Anyway, most of them are much nearer to where I live. I reckon my mate in S...

These spreadsheets are doing the rounds but are totally unofficial. The biggest reason to suspect they may offer promotion to Spennymoor is the fact that the FA have stated so many times only one team will go up, just like they said there would be no reprieves at Step 4 then immediately backtracked ...

No its not an overreaction, even the tiniest Clubs make the effort to issue a Programme. It makes the Club look extremely bad quite frankly and the ones printed for the previous game of course could have been used with an insert, thats exactly what is normally done.

Travel expenses nearer the 15k mark. Clubs round here (South West) budget about 10k but the NPL has silly amounts of travelling.

The money issue is the most worrying thing. Our gate receipts for 6 home games would be a decent budget at this level. A lot of sympathy will be lost if we start asking for more. Similarly i thought the CIC membera fot to elect officials. Not feeling engaged right now.

That second half was so one sided had the cat chosen to sit in the Darlo half it wouldnt have had to move!

Agree with above sentiments re money. Surely we should be on a day to day basis making plenty of money. Our average crowds are way higher than planned. Larger than pretty much anyone has had at this level. Im concerned it looks like nobody is in charge
ATM too. Thats howthe press releases read.

Provided we don't get complacent we've got it won. Spennymoor are naturally going to focus more on the Vase going forward and will certainly slip up again in the league. Personally i think this is the point. I believe Spennymoor are going to have to make some tough decisions about Vase matches - do...

Hah. Indeed. LETS!!!

Was a great watch on Twitter! Sounds like a really good old fashioned entertaining game of football, and a superb result for Darlo!

Are you talking Independent or BBC? I am exiled too so don't know what they call themselves any more. Where I live the Local Indepedent Radio isnt local its all broadcast from some Central hub and has no Sports Coverage. However, and I have said this on here before, the larger Non League Clubs get c...

Pools are s***, we've been an embarrassment this season it's cringeworthy that a few games were we've been actually competitive has seen an upturn in mood. Grim. But come on, the Hebburn player was actually credited with that 'goal' had the least to do with all of it, the stars were the three Darlo...

Need not to lose. We then need Spenny's Vase run to continue to the Final and watch while their fixtures pile up at some point their fantastic League form will fall off with that kind of pressure.

No. horrible place. But, if the Rugby Club knocked down a couple of stands and erected some terracing (at their cost of course) before we went back then yes, as a last resort. More likely the Rugby Club will go bust before that happens. Apparently the whole thing is bankrolled by some rich bloke......

Sunderland RCA is quite small though it does have a couple of stands. There will be awful car parking problems there though. They would have to provide alternative parking as the area around it has been sold to private housing and I had trouble parking there for a gate of about 100. They may be cons...

Norton's "stadium" was the worst yet for me. My heart sank to my toes when I took in my surroundings yesterday. Northern League hell. It's one of the poorest set ups in both Divisions, imagine how soaked we would have got had it rained! To be fair, though I am not sure why I should , they've done a...

3 points deducted for singing "you can shove your secret shopper up your arse", no doubt !

I would hope we got 5/5 at Norton then. I heard absolutely nothing you could call offensive, either from fansnor players and managers. The only time i was offended was when i was asked for £8 at the gate....

Unfortunately those like me that live 300 miles away and cant choos e when we come up here have litle choice but to go. Id have thought twice had saturdays game been on but not once it was postponed. I dont get why so many bought their crap overpriced programme and spent money in the burger bars tho...

Bet they dont do that for their Vase games where in the past they have had big crowds. They are REALLY taking the piss. They have a multi millionaire owner and a big budget. Its just greed. Full stop. Ive also not heard of any such nonsense in other leagues to the extent these clubs are doing it.

The ground fell into disrepair during their last NPL stint. They also sufferred vandalism. On my last visit a few years ago they would have had a bit of work to do just to keep the NL happy!

There will never be standing in top flight football in this country again. The Scousers have made it too much of a personal, emotive issue for any of the powers that be to dare back it. I fear you are right. Yet Hillsborough wasn't caused by terracing. Are we to ban seating because of the Bradford ...

The Market Tavern is superb. Does good pub grub too.

We won 19 games conceding the odd goal. The problem is we aren't scoring any more. I should think this isn't that hard to fix, a lot of its nerves and composure. That isn't to say the defence needs to be tighter, but I just doubt its the reason for a couple of bad results.

I can only comment based on the Twitter live feed as Im exiled, but surely its the finishing thats the problem? I must have had at least six tweets about Thompson alone missing chances, including not scoring the pen. At this level you don't worry about conceding one or two if you are creating that a...

Very amused that holier than thou West Auckland have finished top.....

A previous post said there would be arrangements for exiles. Is this still the case? I wont be back in the NE until the 19th so going to the shop is a non starter for me.

I wonder if he works for Network Rail then? Next time I am in I will have a look in our directory.

On a similar thread, I found out entirely randomly that Carl Airey had been delivering my mates milk in Salisbury some years ago!!

What happened with you? Did you win a fight in the playground 2 years ago so now think you can talk to people you don't know from Adam the way you do? Your fight or flight instinct is definitely geared towards fight Hamster :lol:[/quote] Can you leave hamster's out of this? I may have to report some...

A Club that could afford Adam Boyd's alleged wages hardly need worry about hiring a couple of extra stewards.... Mind you their normal £4 is very low for Step 5, usually you pay £5 or £6. So although the increase is not as blatant as West Auckland the principle is the same. If of course it is true.....