Darlo Uncovered

Hopefully a few things will happen after Chester from the board. 1. Announce SW &TM going forward. 2. Immediately then announce BTB with a realistic but stretching aim. 3. Offer some insight and regret at the mistakes made this last 12 months. 4. Talk up whatever budget we may have as being competit...

Brilliant effort today and recently and the relief when Main scored was just immense! The total effort and commitment by the whole squad has been an amazing turnaround and the joy from the bench at final whistle from everyone even if not picked today was testament to the job the two guys have done. ...

Have any of SW 4 signings had a bad game yet.!.? Difficult to say who has had most impact but all 4 were excellent again today. If I had to choose one I reckon it would be Young, just ahead of Main. The confidence a 17 yr old has given a mainly 30 yr old+ defence is unbelievable really. Another nerv...

Nerves in shreds again, why do Darlo do this to us. Controlled it for much of the match and could, probably should, have had 5 with a bit of composure in penalty area. Frustrates you at times but Salkelds goals have been huge. Thought Lawlor was excellent today and in first 20 blocked two potential ...

Linesman will get the blame and a big mistake but not the main reason we lost. Many of our old habits have come flooding back in recent games, just at the wrong time. Defence has been woeful again and our creativity lacking, but more importantly we have been outrun and outfought in last few games, e...

It’s been a while but we were outthought, outfought and out played today pretty much the whole game. If it’s between us and Rushall then that makes me nervous because they looked half decent and certainly are battling for everything. We do struggle to match teams who are very physical. We couldn’t m...

Defence been like pre SW days today. Both full backs very poor and crosses coming in too easily. First time for a while that we have been outfought for 45 mins. Think there will be more goals to come just hope it’s in our favour. There was me thinking we were 2-2 at half time and had “got away with ...

I agree Clearly a massive error giving the job to Gowling. I hope the board have reflected on the decision making process that allowed such a bad mistake to be made. However, credit to them for correcting the mistake - and it looks like they did so just in time. I seem to remember there was a schoo...

Just read a really good summary and breakdown of the last set of accounts recently published. Half understand it now and was very informative. Not a moan, honest. Just genuinely do not understand which roles makes up this figure of £185k on “ Management Staff wages” . Seems like a massive figure for...

Said a few weeks ago that we would need promotion winning results and we’ve only gone and done it!! Have to keep it going of course. What SW and TM are doing is brilliant, but easier I guess when you have good footballing brains. There tactics and substitutions are winning us games. The change in ke...

Unbelievable effort and commitment again as they looked completely knackered for a lot of the game but dug in and Young again outstanding. Whoever cleared off the line in injury time May just have given us a chance. Who was it anyone?. Main clearly would not have played if we had another forward. Su...

Probs deserved a draw overall but we were always going to struggle in second half given the amount of energy we put into Tuesday. Sure we would all have taken 3 points from last 2 games so happy with that to be fair. Next 3 games will go a long way to deciding our outcome I reckon. Agree completely ...

Hope Rivers is fit to play as think he has been excellent since he got back into the squad both when starting and as sub and thought he was playing as well as ever he has on Saturday before injury. Mind you, if him and Liddle remain injured, not sure who will be on the bench. Ngandu hasn’t featured ...

Completely agree. Given we seem to have 1 fully fit CH, why can’t we be told from the manager what the injury situation and Sukar loan situations are. Beyond me and very frustrating. Does it need spelling out for you? Sukar isn't rated. Otherwise we'd have recalled him. And as happened yesterday, B...

Been a while since I’ve been nervous before a game

A win would compete an excellent week for us, if we manage to take 9 points in 8 days that will probably be a pivotal moment in our season. However, you can take nothing for granted in this league, and it will likely be a tough game against opponents who will be equally desperate for the points. In...

Real shame if he is out for rest of season which I guess he will be if it is broken. Why do we seem to get such bad luck. Think he has been hugely influential in the games he has played and will be a big miss given he can play a number of positions. Sure we wil have tried for Burton and if not, it s...

Won’t know until see highlights but from where we were Griffiths header off the line in first half was a brilliant effort and thought he played well for whole 90 mins.

Life as a Darlo supporter, giving us some hope again! Now back it up Tuesday and ther really will be some! Thought Griffiths was outstanding today, the clearance of the line at 0-1 effectively won us the game I reckon. Know he was involved in the mess up but overall thought the keeper gave us a lot ...

May as well put this on repeat, but why even bother with a pre match interview. How on earth can we fail to ask about the central defence position and whether we can recall Sukar, never mind the Asante situation. It’s like we are just going through the motions of doing one but know it’s a complete w...

Guess it just brings it home when you do read of other clubs in takeover talks and the potential money and excitement this brings, just how far behind we are again as a club with little to no sign of it changing. But again you're making this wild, unsubstantiated assumption that clubs being in take...

Yep I was at shields. And yes he was offside often, but Watson has said that the players need to gamble on opportunities so assume Nelson looking at that and assume he is desperate to get that goal, team struggling up front but I think that Main and Nelson will come good, question being just will t...

You are right of course and that’s what we don’t have to worry about right now or the risk the other model brings. Fine balancing act I agree. The last 14mths though has seen decline on the pitch to the point of relegation together with little to no progress it seems on any new ground with the poten...

but I for one would swap that if a similar opportunity came out of thin air. I am so, so happy that we are protected from you or others making such rash and ill-informed decisions to hand over our club to anyone making unsubstantiated claims of being a "successful businessman" and in the process co...

Think if we can get Burton back then that’s a no brainer. If not, surely we have a recall option on Sukar given Lawlor was already injured when we extended his loan. Must have, surely! If we could play like we did for 60 mins mins last night and 40 mins last Sat you just live in hope that at some po...

Just read about the takeover at Blyth and how they are already planning for new players next season. Totally get that it does not guarantee success but my god it helps. So that’s basically every other decent non league club in the N East probably able to offer much better deals than we can. We will ...

Ironic but for me, the best we have played away for a long time . Yet, as usual, we miss simple chances and make 2 mistakes, and of course lose. That’s why we cannot win back to back and as a result will most likely get relegated. Sadly, Nelson was shocking again tonight, no idea why he started ahea...

How many times under Gowling did we bemoan playing well, but not really hurting the opposition? It is kind of happening under Watson now. Never. We never played well under Gowling. Every game was tedious negative plodding dogshit and I hate him for it. Under Watson, although results haven't really ...

Quakerlad wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2024 2:32 pm

Let’s try and be a bit creative with the squad……..no…..let’s pick the same midfield that hasn’t worked all season and creates almost nil opportunities. Platt, Hatfield, Liddle as our midfield again is a shocker!!

Honestly am beginning to doubt SW just a little bit.

Like I said, a shocker

Let’s try and be a bit creative with the squad……..no…..let’s pick the same midfield that hasn’t worked all season and creates almost nil opportunities. Platt, Hatfield, Liddle as our midfield again is a shocker!! Honestly am beginning to doubt SW just a little bit. As above and still seems unable to...