Darlo Uncovered

quakersam wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 28, 2023 5:10 pm

loan_star wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 28, 2023 4:35 pm

Looking more likely it’s Hodgy as interim manager.

If this is true our board may as well resign too Absolute laughing stock

I disagree.

loan_star wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 28, 2023 4:35 pm

Looking more likely it’s Hodgy as interim manager.

We could do a lot worse and it would generate a buzz and a bit of PR for the club.

I’d love to know who his number 2 would be! Any clues?

Interesting to see some Shields fans want Armstrong to replace Arca despite how it ended here Maybe a refreshed AA, without the annual need to sell the best players he has assembled, might just do OK somewhere like that. I’d agree but Shield’s money looks like it will be tempered moving forward giv...

Martin Gray is an obvious choice for those of us guided by past glories. I’d like to see him team up with Brian Atkinson in some way if he did return.

We need something, or someone, that will galvanise us into a decent BtB effort.

Dial M for Martin!

Ghost_Of_1883 wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 26, 2023 8:21 pm

If we go down, that's where we went down, throwing away 18 points on home soil, against shite.

Literally this. It is, sadly, this simple.

The Taylor situation is a massive red herring.

The simple truth is Gowling is entirely out of his depth in every way.

The thought of 3 managers in a year is properly grim, but Gowling is such a disaster we have no choice whatsoever.

Sadly, JG has to go before the New Year.

If we don’t, attendances will drift below 1,000 as we slide into regional football.

I'd love to know who turned us down, or withdrew from the running, before we appointed Gowling. It seems like more than just Hodgy said no.

I'm still personally disappointed we didn't appoint Lakeland but who knows what actually happened.

To be fair our transfer listing of players was a pretty poor effort. We didn't actually send a circular round other clubs who might be interested. Obviously just dependent on word of mouth. I got the news of Warrington and Scarborough transfer listing players yesterday. I got Chester's last Monday....

AndyPark wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 21, 2023 11:52 am

Be surprised to see Hazel tonight if the rumours are to believed about his next destination.

What are the rumours about his destination?

I'm going to get pillared for this but, as bad as last night was, I don't think that result in isolation is enough to sack him. We have taken 2 wins recently and looked decent against Chester in the first half before they figured us out. We're battling at the bottom so we're going to lose games and...

I'm going to get pillared for this but, as bad as last night was, I don't think that result in isolation is enough to sack him. We have taken 2 wins recently and looked decent against Chester in the first half before they figured us out. We're battling at the bottom so we're going to lose games and ...

Hazel's strengths are definitely not his hold-up/link-up play, even though he did get 11 assists last season. However, inside the penalty box he is a serial goal-scorer/chance-getter, and that, if he does depart, will be very hard to replace. He scored 21 non-penalty goals last season. That is ridi...

A great, and well needed result, especially us showing significant resilience under the cosh in the second half.

Would anyone be able to type up the formation/line-up for us exiles?

Whilst I wasn't baying for him to go, it was clear Armstrong's tenure had run its course, and he wouldn't get beyond the end of the season. However, this is far, far worse. JG does not want to work with the players we have, has lost the dressing room by offering them out whilst they're still in the ...

PierremontQuaker03 wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 25, 2023 1:37 pm

I think its important that we get to the first round of the FA cup - this could save our season in terms of being able to bring in fresh legs.

I'd love to see it but can't see how it will happen.

Quakers2009 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:45 am

It has the potential to become very messy as Taylor, Lees, Sukar & Nelson have all been offered to other clubs.

Surely he has to back himself to improve the players we have.

He hasn't even tried.

I'm quite sure, logically, Gowling will have chucked a number of the squad on the transfer list. However, from my limited experience at semi-pro level, I can't see us not naming them to other clubs. We're bottom, look genuinely dreadful, and we need to shift players out before we can get any in. I d...

If any of the above is true, it’ll hardly be a secret in the dressing room, and those players aren’t likely to be here in 12 months.

The difficulty is that we haven’t really got a squad suited to any particular formation/style as it is so badly constructed. I don’t really care what formation we play as long as the new gaffer and players know what they’re doing. For all the chat of letting players go, someone else has to want them...

To me it all boils down to one thing having your own STADIUM Simply, this. Whilst I have no axe to grind with either the Rugby Club or the board members who made the decision to move to Blackwell Meadows, and with benefit of hindsight, it is evident that it has not been the success that any of us h...

17 wins, 12 draws, 17 defeats over last 46 league games (we started last season with 4 points from 3 games, 5 from 5 games, then went on to win 6 on the bounce). Last season is evidence that you can't just take "the last 20 games" or "the first 10 games" and extrapolate results to suit whatever poi...

It is far, far too early to make any rationale judgements. 8 games in and we will see if your right Spot on. From my perspective, Alun gets the full season (unless we’re fighting relegation) and we review at the end of the season. Ok, but how do you define fighting relegation? Is it bottom of the l...

It is far, far too early to make any rationale judgements.

onewayup wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 09, 2023 4:22 pm

8 games in and we will see if your right

Spot on.

From my perspective, Alun gets the full season (unless we’re fighting relegation) and we review at the end of the season.

For all the criticisms of AA, two undeniable strengths are his ability to both identify and develop young players who have the ability to play at a higher level.

Shame this but don’t want a player who’s heart isn’t in it,really hope he’s not off to s*** shields 🤞 Absolutely right. Given his lack of games in 2023, he may not be high on the radar of many clubs. He may have done better to keep himself in the shop window by signing on for another year & we woul...

A lot of the pyramid is in dire need of restructuring. The only solution would be to go to 4 divisions at step 2 - but the impact of that would be to remove a promotion spot / playoff spot. What people fail to recognise is that the leagues are representative of the distribution of the population in...

Despite being about the lunacy of a Singh regime - it also talks to some of the lunacy of money at other clubs! "Gary Liddle would have stayed, but there was no-one at the managerless club able to make a decision on his future after South Shields offered a two-year contract and a pay rise." Yeah no...

https://hufc-never-say-die.blogspot.com/2023/05/from-deadpool-to-dead-pools-season-of.html Great read from Nick Loughlin A sobering reminder of our time under Raj almost mirrored exactly. Our success in the Trophy and their promotion, a litany of lies and false promises, appalling and illegal treat...