Darlo Uncovered

Spyman, personally I think that's a terrible idea. That's basically turning the Cup into a money making system. Little club moves fixture to bigger club, bigger club has even more advantage, little club makes a bit of extra cash. Surely most fans wish to see bigger clubs compete on their home turf,...

I did hear a sensible(ish) suggestion the other day whereby the 3rd round onwards is seeded, so you have 64 teams split in to 2 pools of 32. These two pools are drawn against each other and the lower ranked team chooses whether they play the game at home or away - so Mansfield draw Man City and get ...

lo36789 wrote:David Stockdale also confirmed as left York

https://yorkcityfootballclub.co.uk/club ... er-depart/

Was he on their playing staff, or was it an off-field role he held? I can't remember.

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H1987 wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:34 pm

Christ how old is Amar at this point!?

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He was offside though, so it's not farcical. Whether it was appropriate to use VAR for a decision that wasn't clearly and obviously wrong is questionable, and a different discussion, but the ultimate outcome was correct whether it spoiled the underdog story for you or not. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro u...

onewayup wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:26 pm

Who's this Johnstone your talking about at AGM.
Surely you mean CEO David Johnson.

David Johnston, actually. If you're going to correct someone, don't get it wrong yourself!

And when they fail, they'll blame the previous Tory government. To be fair, the "previous Tory government" spend most of their time blaming things on an opposition that hasn't been in power for a decade and a half! I'm not a fan of the labour party in their current guise but I'd take them over the ...

I sincerely doubt the council are doing it for fun. Council budgets have been slashed to shreds since 2010. Particularly the ones that have been deemed to have voted incorrectly. They simply don’t have the money. This country is in an abysmal state and it ain’t local councils to blame. Wake up. Fee...

I didn't think he was injured to be honest just thought he was a desperate and ultimately poor signing. Having disappointing signings who end up persistently injured is not a particularly recent phenomenon. We had a brief reprieve from it when we had most players on non-contract terms but otherwise...

Was Caton injury prone, or just plain s***? I can't remember to be honest!

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Don't forget we've already seen what he can offer over 7 glorious games under Clowning. You could say that about most of the squad. I'm not suggesting Asante is going to suddenly come good, there's clearly fitness issues that look like they may be unresolvable, but to judge a player based on their ...

Hope he starts and does well, best for everybody concerned. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk He's starting - so he must've been fit enough to make the squad for a couple of weeks at least. Watson must've just decided it wasn't worth the risk throwing him in while others were doing the business. H...

Well, the club have released an official statement opposing the decision.

I think momentum will grow with this over the next few days.

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Ghost_Of_1883 wrote:

Old Git wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:26 pm

Completely different attitude to Mr Morose at the start of the season

You need to let this go and move on. Look forwards to the future. No one cares about looking back at the past.

Giggle

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MB86DFC wrote:Easy solution. All teams group together and refuse to play from 1st round onwards unless decision overturned

This

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I think one of the prime examples has got to be Accrington Stanley. There hospitality options for the size of their club/stadium/fan base are awesome, and you can see why the owner has spent so much money in recent years upgrading specifically in to that side of the business "losses last season of ...

Very positive move by the club. Encouraging that Watson has stated the squad only needs a few tweaks over the summer to make us competitive, and that promotion over the next couple of seasons is the aim. Whether thats realistic/sensible is neither hear nor there but its the right message and a 180 c...

I agree that the EFL is fundamentally a bit of a dream, and spending money upgarding BM to even just NL standard would have some benefit to match day experience. But wouldn't we still be incredibly restricted in our revenue generation on non match-days? I personally would be very loathe to put furt...

I am not sure that even close to a majority of clubs are 'properly going for a play off place'...wouldn't suggest it is the norm by any stretch. I disagree. I reckon 50% of clubs properly go for a playoff place. We are basically at the end of the season and ten clubs are in with a shout of a play o...

Why do threads always descend into personal point-scoring? I don't really care if someone thought Gowling should have been given more time, or if Martin Gray was the only man to get us out of the mess, or if the signing of an injured Asante was an egregious assault on our very existence as a fan ow...

Competitive sport is (or should be) about winning every single time. If not, then what's the point? That doesn't mean it should be the expectation, but you can't tell a manager or a player to only try to win half their games. If we were to go up (can't believe we're seriously having this discussion ...

Why do threads always descend into personal point-scoring? I don't really care if someone thought Gowling should have been given more time, or if Martin Gray was the only man to get us out of the mess, or if the signing of an injured Asante was an egregious assault on our very existence as a fan ow...

Obviously not but for the record I thought there was no point in getting rid of Gowling because someone like Watson would not want to walk into that mess. Delighted to have been proved wrong on that. I doubt that very much due to your constant defending of Gowling and the fact that applicants such ...

A fantastic achievement that we have stayed up, considering the absolutely dire position we were left in after Gowling was sacked. Well done to Watson and Mitchell and the players for stepping in and stepping up and producing a magnificent run of results and retaining our National League North plac...

I think we'll need to deepen the squad a bit if we're to do well next season. We have been quite lucky over the last few weeks that injuries haven't hit too hard (other than a couple of long term absentees).

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Yeh, Young won't be back. I'm sure a new GK will be a priority, and I'd hope that we have a good chance of securing Cornish and Barrow on contracts. If we can get those sorted early on, move out a few of the squad players/under-performers, then we should hopefully have a decent core of a side to fle...

Darl-Zero wrote:Not everything will go our way but I still think we should come out 3-1 winners.
I'm basing this on the 2 games I've seen this season. Curzon and Warrington away.
Let's hope I'm not needed at Chester.

Hope you had a bet on that scoreline!

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Things have fallen apart on and off the pitch at Blyth since the takeover. The takeover has yet to go through so we've been hamstrung in terms of recruitment. The old Chairman has been reluctant to invest while he's selling the club and the new chairman unwilling(or unable) to do so as he doesn't o...

I also like Hodgy and he definitely made Quakers one of the best teams to watch at that level I always thought this was a myth of his own creation tbh. He always used to talk about us playing this attractive brand of football, but other than than undeniable technical ability of a few of the players...

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Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:52 am

biccynana wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:50 am

So, if I'm looking at this correctly, we beat Farsley on Sat and we are mathematically safe as, regardless of what Blyth do in their last two games, Farsley won't be able to catch us.

Correct. It's a big old game.

Fair to say its our biggest game in something like 8 years?