Darlo Uncovered

I have found our twitter to be strangely quiet in general recently. Other clubs at this level seem to push home games constantly, whereas our twitter account doesn't seem to mention much at all until the day before/day of the game. I appreciate it will be run by volunteers, but considering we have ...

Fixtures for the remainder of the month added - sorry the Southport one was missed.

Think it's about time I found someone with a bit more time than me to look after the day to day on this place, the code's getting old and I'm getting behind on looking after it...

Salford game is up for prediction and confirmed signings have been added to the dropdowns, sorry it's a little late. Will try to get the rest of the season added over the weekend.

There was a problem with the DNS (behind the scenes stuff to do with the domain) that meant some people were being directed to the wrong server. All sorted as of late yesterday morning but, owing to the way the internet works, some will catch the fix before others. Just keep trying, and it should re...

Think we've got a handle on what's gone on here, fix is in place and will roll out over the next few hours (DNS related, so it needs to propagate...)

Getting reports via Twitter that it's not working properly for a few people - am looking into it.

They would only be single games rather than two legged affairs, so there wouldn't be any extra games:

Current system: 5v2 / 2v5, 4v3 / 3v4 + Final = five games
New system: 4v7, 5v6 + 2v(A), 3v(B) + Final = five games

Did your friend find someone to run his bath for him?

We have to stop hounding out the ones we do have, as well. As lo says, we need them. Volunteers giving their time freely are a rare and precious commodity - priceless, and they're going to make mistakes just as anyone in any walk of life can. Even just a minor example, I regularly get the wrong name...

roadrunner wrote:Let's all pay 10 pound a month to be a member of this message board to be able to post not a member you can't post

You jest, I'm sure, but I know of boards that are actually run this way...

jjljks wrote:What if I can't get to the SGM but want to vote? How do I get a postal or proxy to vote

You can appoint a proxy to vote on your behalf by firstly finding someone willing, and then e-mailing the SG to let them know, per the instructions in the e-mail you may or may not have received by now.

BUSHEAD wrote:Wait til the announcement comes from the club, but it's gonna be unpopular in my opinion .

And when will that be?

*insert obligatory "Mickey Mouse club" joke here*

bga wrote:Yep excellent read Michael. One small point, you have not factored in the possibility of a Hung Parliament in the General Election!

Nor did I ponder the effects of the different types of Brexit. Guess I'd best start again....

Don't mind you posting it in here, so don't worry about it. I've got no ads on my blog so I don't need to worry about the penny or two of revenue I'd miss out on

Excellent summary Mikky. I know it's not the same thing but Salford's owners appear to have a 50/50 split between Peter Lim and the class of 92. Perhaps this would be possible for us? Didn't MG confirm at the recent forum that anything less than 51% is not workable? Could be wrong but don't think s...

The alternative was Martin's belief, and not one I necessarily agree with. We still have one of the larger fan bases at this level, never mind the ones below it, which with sufficient budgetary control could leave us with a playing budget that wouldn't be top 5 but wouldn't be threatening to our lea...

Finally managed to get my thoughts on this whole thing down. You can read them here if you wish: https://mikkyx.co.uk/blog/post/sustaina ... or-success

roadrunner wrote:Just seen Raj, McLaren,Hodgy coming out of hotel with two others in Yarm and they weren't talking cricket.

You know this is only credible if you were walking your dog, right?

It was an absolute pleasure to have you on the radio with us on Monday - thank you for joining us

There's some talk on Twitter about how a "confusing" e-mail received from the FA when we started to look into the grading rules may form a key part of our appeal. As with all things on social media, I'm not so much taking it with a pinch of salt as the entire shaker, but we'll see what the club pub...

There's some talk on Twitter about how a "confusing" e-mail received from the FA when we started to look into the grading rules may form a key part of our appeal. As with all things on social media, I'm not so much taking it with a pinch of salt as the entire shaker, but we'll see what the club publ...

It still feels like a stupid rule to me. Asking teams to spend five to six figure sums - at our level - on the possibility they could be promoted is just asking for those clubs to be in financial trouble if they don't win the league and / or fail in the playoffs.

Regards penultimate sentence above, I thought one of our Sponsors "Feethams Darlington" was also our PR Agency, or have I got that wrong? Feethams Darlington is the leisure / food place on the roundabout opposite our old ground (if only...!) - I don't know who our PR agency is meant to be these day...

woody58 wrote:But to be honest, I can not see an investor, for example funding a brand new stadium for Darlo without a controling share.

Well, not until one of us wins a Euromillions roll-over, anyway....

Darlo_Pete wrote:Not able to predict the Harrogate game.

Look again.

Really dropped the ball on this one (and not for the first time this season), sorry. I'll have the rest of the season's fixtures in by this weekend and I'm working on tooling to make it easier for me to put the whole season in one go for next season.

SwansQuaker83 wrote:Who pays for the hired stewards and why do we have them?

DFC pays for them because we don't have enough volunteers, I believe.

Hopefully Tommy Wright will get a good reception when he returns as manager of Nuneaton. Why?.He was at the club for 5minutes. 21 goals in 76 games across two spells (so says good old Wikipedia, anyway) and a member of the FA Trophy winning squad. Although I'd personally give him a much warmer welc...

Undercovered wrote:Wasn't that the administrators?

Nah, you're thinking of Dewey, Cheetham and Howe there.

(for some of our admins, anyway...)