Darlo Uncovered

Have not seen anything on official website confirming anything regarding Sousa. Is it definite that he is on trial or merely speculation? I doubt you'd see anything official about a player in on trial. Gary Smith tweeted a picture of the squad training at Hummersknott yesterday, the player crossing...

Numbers released for this afternoons draw: The North  1 Altrincham FC 2 Chesterfield FC 3 FC Halifax Town 4 Hartlepool United FC 5 King's Lynn Town FC 6 Notts County FC 7 Solihull Moors FC 8 Stockport County FC 9 Wrexham AFC 10 South Shields 11 Skelmersdale United 12 Chester 13 Marske United 14 AFC...

Numbers released for this afternoons draw: The North  1 Altrincham FC 2 Chesterfield FC 3 FC Halifax Town 4 Hartlepool United FC 5 King's Lynn Town FC 6 Notts County FC 7 Solihull Moors FC 8 Stockport County FC 9 Wrexham AFC 10 South Shields 11 Skelmersdale United 12 Chester 13 Marske United 14 AFC ...

Ilkeston or Stafford Rangers at home would do be a decent draw for us.

Out of pure selfishness wouldn't mind Bishop Stortford beating Royston and getting them away, might just about manage to get a ticket with an East Herts postcode.

Good performance tonight. Not too dissimilar to the Prescott game but in this one we took the lion share of our chances when they came. Still bits and bobs to improve, we did surrender a few too many chances but barring a 5-10 minute spell in the first half most were given up from long range and whe...

jjljks wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:42 pm

Worth having a word with Sousa to see if he would be interested in playing for us in future.

He was a proper player. Looked threatening everything he got the ball. Surprised he's in that division on tonight's showing.

I' m afraid to say but it was not a knee jerk reaction last season when we played with two in the middle of the park we were poor it only improved as did our form when we played with three and put Holness in there. Unfortunately Holness decided he wanted to move on and has not been replaced which h...

quakerste wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 10, 2020 5:18 pm

Why has Alan not been in the dug out?

Got a 3 game ban at the end of last season i believe, then season ended before it could be served. Cant remember which game its from.

Really disappointing performance from us. Especially as we managed to get the lead even after Hatfield went off injured. Too many flashes of last season when we weren't at it, too slow, not testing their keeper enough. We know the injured players are a big miss but those coming in have to do more to...

Goes without saying we really could do with winning to put some points on the board. According to the latest news on official website Charman should be fit and Campbell and Maguire will have fitnesses tests so hopefully the injury situation is not as bad as we feared. Agree with Lo only 1 game in s...

Another game of some positives and negatives against a team who should be first or second if budgets and full time status are taken into account. Sounded like another positive performance from Saltmer in goal making some good saves. The defence for the most part sounded solid and the additions of Mc...

Bit closer than we would have liked but we got the result in the end and into the hat on Monday and c.£4k in the bank. Plenty of decent balls in from the right hand side from McMahon. Charman was the stand out performer. 2 really well taken goals and good build up play taking his defender out and ro...

Footifanreturns wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 03, 2020 4:22 pm

Was Dan McGuire injured ?

Had a slight hamstring strain during the pools friendly last weekend.

Team for today:

Saltmer
McMahon
Hunt
Storey
Liddle
Rivers
Hatfield
Atkinson
Donawa
Charman
Campbell

Subs: Wheatley, Laing, Watson, Hedley, Reid, Armstrong

Feel's so good to be thinking about a match thread on a Friday. I know Premiership and FL football has been back for a few weeks now but nothing beats football where you actually care about the results at the end of the game. Will be a tough game tomorrow, not just because of the potentially wet and...

Poor lad. No luck at all. Hope he gets to recover and get back to playing football as soon as possible. I'm sure he'll be well supported by Danny O'connor and the rest of the management team. Wish him all the best in his recovery.

Got to say, top draw interview with DJ just gone up on the website. Answers most of the questions which have been raised: https://darlingtonfc.co.uk/news/dj-talks-about-the-serious-situation-facing-the-club We really are lucky to have him along with all the other volunteers who have supported the cl...

So I get the points raised about the season starting. An update on the clubs thoughts would be nice, but understand they may not want to say too much at the moment. The playing side though I don't get. Would we all be happy if in the middle of a season we didn't hear anything on the playing side fo...

Hard to give an update when there is nothing concrete to update. As you say we start in a week. We have no idea if fans can be let in. (Nor do any teams who are playing step 2 opponents). There are question marks whether step 2 clubs will play as playing will activate the costs associated (a concern...

Is this a possible way back; Wed Sep 16, 2020 2:45 pm Statement from Silkmen Supporters Trust - The SST are devastated by the decision of the court to wind up Macclesfield Town Football Club. The responsibility for this lies at the feet of one person – Amar Alkadhi. We are currently looking into wh...

Don't really care about results at this point in pre-season. Nice to see us creating chances and scoring goals, and those goals being shared around between our attacking players over our last 2 games. Biggest frustration is we still haven't been able to play what I would have said is our strongest b...

BBC News - Fans attending sporting events in England from October to be reviewed, says Prime Minister https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/54094363 I think politics is very relevant to us. Not very promising noises being made. One of the things I'm slightly disappointed with, is that the league seems to hav...

Think 500 club members should get priority somehow? Not for me. Huge respect to those who joined and extended their 500 club memberships when asked, but this is a friendly against a club in the league below, with very limited tickets on sale due to Covid. It's not exactly a need to be there / 'I wa...

Sure I seen on Twitter that still have to pay them the annual fee, supposedly 60k... But the rest was effectively pay as you go. I think the rental/license cost is closer to £30k per annum. But we then pay for other services (car parking, staffing etc) at £1k on a per match basis and then there are...

Laing and Storey haven’t featured in the two games we’ve played and from the highlights, it looked like Watson was filling in there so I’m not surprised we’ve conceded 8 goals against quality opponents. I’ve no idea whether or not the keeper is any good but surely the above has to be taken into acc...

Report on the official site sounds like we fashioned ourselves a fair few decent chances. But looking at the team below that played for us. Still no game time for either Storey or Laing. Looking forward to seeing one of them alongside Hunt see who stakes a claim for the other CB slot. Starting team:...

Tough way to start the friendlies, against a playoff chasing league one team who are a week or so away from starting their season. But more than anything just glad to hear we're playing football again. Sounds like we created a few chances so looking forward to seeing them on the highlights later (Ke...

I don't envy any clubs at this level trying to arrange pre season games. There are differences geographically as well but these are the current proposed start dates. PL2 - 12th September Step 1 / 2 - 3rd October Step 3 / 4 - 19th September Step 5 - North West Counties is 3rd October / Northern Leag...

Anyone got any idea who we might be facing up against in pre-season friendlies? Considering the FL, NPL and Northern League season will be kicking off in September not much time left to play sides at those levels before their seasons start. Just really leaves us National League sides and the regions...

Well done Will Hatfield. Speaks volumes when a player wins both the player of the year awards voted for by the Fans and by their fellow players. Personally went for Campbell's goal vs York for goal of the season, love watching the ball go in off the bar like that. But Hatfield v Kiddy would have bee...