Darlo Uncovered

Barrow knows all about serious injuries during his time as a footballer. Early in his career he fractured his thigh bone and said of that injury: "I was about 5 minutes away from losing my leg. Fortunately, I was well attended to by doctors and I managed to make a recovery, and that is why I enjoy f...

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Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:45 am

We still need to try more shots from outside the box as Will showed us the way.

Particularly when the opposition keeper is playing on one leg. Don't think I've ever seen a keeper having to carry on when they are as hampered as that by injury. He looked to be in agony.

Christ, are you still banging on insanely like this every time the name Armstrong is mentioned (and even when it's not). Surely there's got to be some suitable therapy available

I'll bet the owners of Curzon Ashton sometimes feel like they're pushing a large boulder uphill in terms of attendances. Last Tuesday's home game with Peterborough Sports attracted just 149 people. Must be a bit demoralising when they compete very well at this level. The ground's excellent (although...

The Curzon Ashton player-manager Craig Mahon says he expects us to come and defend and concentrate on not losing. Maybe he'll be preparing for the wrong sort of game. I'm sure we'll be going there with attacking intent.

I thought Buxton were a strange and limited side. Their main (or maybe only) attacking threat seemed to be based largely around bringing their two 6ft 6in defenders forward for set-pieces. I don't recall them playing like that the day they demolished us when AA was absent to look after his son in th...

To be fair to Craig Elliott he was very fair in his post-match interview and said he thought we played well and deserved our win. I almost felt guilty for telling him to enjoy the journey home

That was a real cannon-fire of a shot by Nelson to earn the Victory... sorry but it had to be done :D. Pleased that he made amends for Tuesday's misses and played such a key role in a crucial win. It clearly meant a lot to him. Maybe just the confidence booster he needed. We stuck at it despite the ...

It's generally accepted that the club has been run with a very modest budget... and there were still losses to be covered by Platten. Unless there are substantially increased income streams and a huge rise in attendances those losses will be magnified if this guy splashes the cash. Blyth probably al...

I've seen a suggestion that it was £1 with Platten writing off £700,000 loans. It is therefore said to be debt free. There is still no evidence that this new owner has been linked to successful, long-term companies ie not ones that have been dissolved without filing any accounts. The basis for trust...

We continue to sign no creativity. What has happened to the £30k+? I would say that both Main and Cornish are very much creative players and very good signings. Just look at the chances Main laid on a plate on Tuesday. Watson also said that Rivers (who can be creative) had looked very lively in tra...

You may be right. Blyth are playing at their highest ever level but Platten has had some fearsome stick from some fans after things levelled off or they struggled. Some said he needed to go because he was holding the club back through lack of investment. This new owner said the magic two words "Foot...

There still doesn't seem to be any concrete evidence of this new Blyth owner's involvement with any long-term, profit-making, stable companies with healthy balance sheets. He says he is rich and successful and deals with the super wealthy around the world and has promised Blyth the Earth. If that's ...

Even just a small amount of research reveals more red flags than a match at Anfield. A fair number of Blyth fans can see behind the flannel and have some grave concerns.

I'm sure Blyth have done all the due diligence in the world over this Irfan Liaquat bloke who describes himself as a "Serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and deal maker." Maybe best not to read too much into the fact that his latest business, Winners Worldwide, was only set up less than a year ago w...

I would get Sukar recalled if we can, simple as that. He'll do a job for us. I think that's a better bet than some emergency, untried Academy kid at this stage.

"I thought Darlington were much better than many teams we have played this season and we were fortunate to go in one up at half time, second half we were better and found a way to win." That's a Boston fan's comment on the match and he's right. In the first half, a neutral would have thought we wer...

Just read that following the injury to Hazel, Boston secured the loan signing of Bromley's Adam Marriott who scored an absolute shedload of goals for King's Lynn and Barnet.

Wasn't he only subbed on Saturday because of the imminent danger of a second yellow.

Don't know what the right approach is with this sort of thing... it seems different clubs have different attitudes when there's violence involved. It is quite a subjective call based on the impact of any backlash especially once a person has 'served their time' (as determined by the courts) so to s...

There was a pretty dramatic ending to one of the weekend games involving the relegation battle. Rushall drew 3-3 with Gloucester and two of their goals were apparently worldies scored by a sub call Sam McLintock. Just two days earlier McLintock, 23, who had his contract cancelled at Boston last year...

Tamworth were mediocre. As has been said above, how they are top of the league is a complete mystery, I've never seen a less likely physical specimen as their centre half, even in the Northern League. The second worst specimen also plays for Tamworth, their long throw specialist. Then there was the...

Nah, it was a brutal, disgraceful lunge, deserving of a 10-match ban. I say that in the spirit of pointing out that the Shields fans were Premier League standard whiners, who moaned at everything, stormed out of the ground en masse as soon as we had the audacity to score, have since called us the wo...

8 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 reall...

Good to eventually take advantage when circumstances went in our favour. Their fans were angry over the reds but both looked fairly clear-cut. We were ruthless as they tired late on but for a long time it looked like they might get away with a backs-to-the-wall 0-0. Possession-wise it must have bee...

Good to eventually take advantage when circumstances went in our favour. Their fans were angry over the reds but both looked fairly clear-cut. We were ruthless as they tired late on but for a long time it looked like they might get away with a backs-to-the-wall 0-0. Possession-wise it must have been...

Here's just one example of the amounts required of an investor/benefactor/bankroller at the lowest EFL level. Harrogate Town's accounts for the year ended June, 2022 showed total ongoing liabilities of £4.27m and losses for the year of £1.16m. The financial statement says the company will have suffi...

I'm not sure how far £30k goes in the current climate but we did sign a striker who had scored and created goals at this level (with an extended contract), who was in demand, along with Barrow (loan but cost implications) and Cornish, who looks lively. There is also some ineffectual/not up to it pla...

I think it could be a tight game with them edging it by virtue of having someone who is scoring goals, Blackett. We do look a bit better in defence these days but still hardly ever look like scoring and going 1-0 down generally means game over. Their game against Alfreton followed the same pattern a...

Gowling did pretty much what the Hereford fans said he would. Lots of ineffectual recruits coming and going, often hardly playing.