Darlo Uncovered

From my understanding Mowden rugby club won’t own the arena after the SV goes ahead, aren’t they handing it over as part of the deal. So Mowden Rugby club can go bust and it won’t affect the ground, although if both paying in and then only one that just have some effect. Also I think it’s already ow...

To be fair AA has said he would have liked a big physical striker, however O’Neill may cover this off for us for a period as he is quite aggressive for a young academy player.

What's your team in that formation

Elliott
Heaton, Laing, Galbraith
Donawa, Hatfield, Thompson, Rivers, Liddle
Campbell, O'Neill

So Trotman and Holmes out with injury and Holness out due to selection.

Yes true I'm not saying there aren't concerns about the squad - I had some during pre-season and the first 2 performances haven't been perfect. But, as LoidLucan has said, there's no point in forming judgements after just 180 minutes. It's a rebuilding year after all As for the defence, I thought w...

I'm something of a lapsed Darlo supporter, having only moved back to the area a few months ago. I haven't been going regularly since around 2013, so i'm toying with the idea of getting a season ticket again this year, as i enjoyed last night enormously. Felt great to be back. Thought we were really...

I wonder if other clubs have a subsection of supporters who have to have a scapegoat, or if this rather bizarre phenomenon is limited purely to darlington Yeah all clubs have them, just a forum/twitter gives them a voice that everyone can hear. Even though some players give you reservations, AA has...

Absolutely no need for some of these comments on Laing. Yes he got caught a couple of times in possession in the first half but so for example did Trotman yet not a word on that. And as has been pointed out the Gateshead number 9 was a nuisance and gave Galbraith just as much of a tough time. Secon...

Bad injury for Trotman believe he is at hospital think its an Achilles so will be out for several months That's bad news with a reasonably small squad. I don't think our squad is that small really. We're looking at missing Trotman, Atkinson, Wheatley, Holmes through injury on Saturday, and Burn is ...

Confirmed that we had 301 in the away end tonight.

Decent away following to be fair.

robsraiders wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 07, 2019 9:36 pm

Bad injury for Trotman believe he is at hospital think its an Achilles so will be out for several months

That's bad news with a reasonably small squad.

darlo2001uk wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 06, 2019 1:08 pm

He asked to leave.

He did and budget wise Armstrong was quite happy with that.

AA has said he could have kept more players from last season but budget wise that just wouldn't have worked, expecially as he didn't wnat to go down the 3/4/5 loan player front.

PierremontQuaker03 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:40 am

very good player - goal scoring midfielder. Presume he was allowed to leave because of the distance he would have to travel.

And the amount of money he was on.

Release one and get two for the price of the one released.

...............Elliot Trotman Laing Galbraith Liddle .......Holness Hatfield ....Rivers Thompson Holmes .............Campbell Subs: Hall, Heaton, Bascombe, Donawa, O'Neil Personal opinion - don't rush Atkinson back. We have the depth not to need to, and Omar is more than good enough to help boss th...

Have I missed something, if are just a walk in it’s £30, if you are a season ticket holder it’s £25, what’s wrong with that? What’s wrong it is quite simple. A season ticket holder has already paid for the football match, so £25 is for the cost of the food only. While the charge for the food for a ...

Have I missed something, if are just a walk in it’s £30, if you are a season ticket holder it’s £25, what’s wrong with that? Rightly or wrongly, it costs you more as a season ticket holder than it does as a walk in. You have paid say £10 per game for ST then £25 or £40 (think it will be this) so yo...

Most will have seen already but details on the link.

https://darlingtonfc.co.uk/news/hospita ... ame-for-30

Interested to see if the new prices, reduce take up. Hopefully not but I do think this could be quite price sensitive.

I’m not going to be happy until we have a matchball plinth sponsor Be good if we had something on the website, advising which matches had sponsor and match ball sponsor. Unless I am missing something I ahve no idea if we have sponsors for the first two games, I am sure Craig Morley is on it but if ...

Good luck to the lad, didn't work for him here and he had plenty to learn/improve which he might get with full time coaching. Agree with the above, his career at Darlo started badly and it never got much better, he might do ok if he played behind some leaders at the back of which we had none last ye...

Donawa is on official site in players section and I believe just waiting international clearance in terms of signature.

Really good interview from Johnston. Sounds like we are starting to really benefit from some extra bodies on the board and settling down our budget and revenue challenges, the fact that the board aren't constantly fire fighting seems to be giving them space to plan ahead. It looks like we should be ...

The cup run, is the unwritten thing that can rely on good draws, luck etc. It's something I want but have to accept that it might not happen and anything with that is a real bonus.

Think we need to dampen any expectations, Armstrong certainly wants us to. Below are my thoughts and anything else will be a bonus. Not in the bottom 8 looking over our shoulder all season. Like to see the top half a few times. Possibly in with a shout of the play-offs all the way until end of March...

quakerste wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 27, 2019 8:28 pm

I heard today we have signed Donawa but don't know how true that is.

I would expect it to be true from what's been mentione dby the club.

If we are sensible then we perhaps keep some on non contract terms for the first 2/3 months to cover the busy period of the start of season, so Donawa, Bell & Holness. It's not great and certainly not perfect but may work and gives them the opportunity to try and earn a longer term contract if finan...

So Alun confirmed the following. Needs to have a chat about Heaton and hopefully they can come up with something that suits both parties. Decision to be made on Omar who he thought was better today. Bascome is involved this season because of what happened last season, so assuming he is signed but it...

Great news if he has signed. We now have Galbraith/Watson for left centre back and Laing/Heaton right centre. Laing I dint know how the Pools didn't rate him I have been really impressed with him so far. Can't wait for the season to start. Bring it on. Agree on Laing, I was expecting someone who wo...

Bugger I've made arrangements to take the day off work to go, did they say why? According to Whitby it was due to injuries. I would suggest we are nervous of any injuries before the first game of the season. With a rather small squad and to be honest small pool of players we would like to start the...

Polar Bear will be overjoyed with this information. I'm sure he'll be here to comment soon as he apparently hasn't spent his time constructing a Spennymoor forum. well done on your season ticket sales, about 100 more than Spennymoor, fantastic achievement... does anyone know how many Hartlepool sol...

Well when I say achievement I mean they are paying teams that lose in the rounds some cash also. So if we go out in the 2nd round qualifier in the FA Cup and 3rd round preliminary in the FA Trophy we will at least earn some money. FA Cup 2nd round qualifier losers - £2,250 FA Trophy losers 3rd round...

Polar Bear will be overjoyed with this information. I'm sure he'll be here to comment soon as he apparently hasn't spent his time constructing a Spennymoor forum. well done on your season ticket sales, about 100 more than Spennymoor, fantastic achievement... does anyone know how many Hartlepool sol...