Darlo Uncovered

If Youhill isn't fit and no new right back is brought in I would put Mitchell at Right back and play 3 in the middle ...Porteous, Turnbull and Nowakowski,,,Then play with 3 up front with Thommo, Dowson and Cartman. Hopefully bringing on Army sometime in 2nd half. Question for you Gramps is Who would...

Please do share how disputing your opinion was in anyway different to how you challenged darlogramps!? Or is it that you just don't like the boot being on the other foot? Bale was always touted as a left midfielder come left back, when he made his break through at Southampton he was played at left ...

Please do share how disputing your opinion was in anyway different to how you challenged darlogramps!? Or is it that you just don't like the boot being on the other foot? Bale was always touted as a left midfielder come left back, when he made his break through at Southampton he was played at left ...

I wonder if Manutdgramps (Man Utd version of Darlogramps) wrote similar when Antonio Valencia (bought as an attacking right midfielder) was moved back to wingback by Ferguson...Or Spursgramps did the same when Bale was switched from left back to attack. Sometimes it is what is best for the team as ...

Marvellous - let's neutralise one of our most effective attacking players in Mitchell and go into the season without a recognised right back. If we start the season with Mitchell at RB, Gray has screwed up over this position. Mitchell should not be our first choice RB. He's ok as a makeshift full b...

Just back from the game, thought the scoreline flattered Spennymoor, we didn't deserve to lose by 3 goals. We didn't seem to have much penetration up front, although Armstrong did well when he came on. Not sure about Gibbons he did some good things, but was out of position for their first goal Jame...

Yes, a good review. I am not worried about the long throw not being there. There are other ways of getting the ball into the box, chances are that from normal play White or Burgess would be down the field anyway. I would have liked to see Watson get more game time during pre-season as I think he is ...

No I don't to be honest. If Newcastle built a new ground in Darlington I wouldn't class that as costing us money. You think Leyton Orient fans are now going to become West Ham fans because the ground is a what a whopping 1 mile closer to their ground than the current stadium - what is that in Londo...

Looks like they got a better deal than we have been offered by DRFC.
They got £76 million for finishing 12th and are only paying £2.5 million rent and that includes stewarding and policing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33780720

Very happy that Burgess will captain the side, as he will be in the heart of our defense, so he should be able to organise everybody. As has been said..It's not the position that the man plays. It's the man who is captain. I'm sure that had Burgess played centre midfield he would have still been ca...

Yes. Happy days.
I remember waiting outside of the bus station with my brother (after a game)for the PINK to arrive.
We then caught the bus home and spent the journey reading up on the league tables and match reports.

Bogratsteve wrote:

al_quaker wrote:

Bogratsteve wrote:If I use my Ipad and link through from the stories on twitter to the Echo I don't get asked for subscription............

Thats odd -- I do!

Bizarre

I think it is the amount of times you use it on a set time scale...Something like reading 20 stories per 30 days.
Could be wrong though.

I think it's time to call G for Gateshead. The International stadium is within the local area and has excellent transport links and is only a further 30 miles from Bishop. We cannot take our chances at Heritage Park being refused promotion next season would be disasterous. Although not ideal it wou...

footifan wrote:

Spyman wrote:P.s. can we please refrain from making this 'class of' thing a regular part of British terminology? It is a horrible Americanism and the term doesn't even work in this context.

Oh crap... does that make me an Americanism

No but if you were called SOCCERfan..Well that would be a yes

Thought I had got onto the Sunderland website here.
Not interested at all in anything Sunderland

I liked him a lot when at Darlo...Very good first touch .. Holds the ball up well and brings his team mates into the game.
A very good signing for you in my opinion.

I'm quite surprised and shocked to see that RA haven't been included in our pre-season itinerary. A historical fixture that I hope isn't being jettisoned. We owe them a lot. In what way do we owe them anything? I could be over-playing this but I recollect they were a significant part of our story a...

Sorry, but have to disagree with you on the worst prformance..I think that Brownie gets that for what he did (or didn't do) in the same game v Kendal..No-one was surprised to see him substituted after 15 mins..Even he admitted it was his worst performance of the season Agree with you on everything e...

I know it is a regular feature, but why are we playing Whitby this season? Liking the look of some of these. South Shields will be the first game back at Filtrona. Also, Harrogate Town will be good. As will Spenny. I find it strange as well. You usually don't play teams from the same league in pre-...

According to the Echo, the following fixtures have been lined up. Lots of away games. Pre-season programme: Saturday, July 4: v Durham a Saturday, July 11: v South Shields (a) Wednesday, July 15: v Seaham Red Star (a) Saturday, July 18: v Billingham Syn (a) Tuesday, July 21: v Harrogate Town(a) Wedn...

And I don't think Quakerz was calling fans wankers for the style of play they like. He called them wankers for making out we're a long ball team when the truth is we're not. So when we have to be a bit more pragmatic and a bit more direct, some put that down as "hoofball" which is not the case. Cor...

The Brendan Rodgers comment was referring to the "Only at Darlo" comment. My point on this is it's all clubs. Not just Darlo The Wankers comment was referring to the style of play. They are seperate issues. Not the same at all. Ultimately Liverpool have won nothing, we have, twice. A section were w...

The Brendan Rodgers comment was referring to the "Only at Darlo" comment. My point on this is it's all clubs. Not just Darlo The Wankers comment was referring to the style of play. They are seperate issues. They were separate issues in your post. I've linked them together by pointing out similariti...

The Brendan Rodgers comment was referring to the "Only at Darlo" comment.
My point on this is it's all clubs. Not just Darlo
The Wankers comment was referring to the style of play.
They are seperate issues.

I think the style of football we play is fine. We are not a long ball team, we have too much quality to play like that. The only time we play hoof ball is when we have run out of ideas or we have fallen behind and then we revert to aimless hoof up field. I agree with you 100%. We play direct footba...

There isn't a right style or wrong style for playing the game. Some like the old Wimbledon way (they won their way from nowhere to the 1st division and won the FA cup with longball football), some like the Barcelona way (arguably the best team in theworld at the moment)...I'm somewhere in the middl...

Just because players such as Thompson & Mitchell aren't tall it doesn't mean that playing direct or with the early ball forward is not suited to them. Players of that sort, Youhill also, benefit when they can get 1v1 or in space between the lines- situations that arise of an early ball turning roun...

OK ..You are entitled to your opinion...I just think your overloading the forward line with your choice. Last season people (me included) on here were saying that our 6 forwards (Purewal, Armstrong, Dowson, Hatch, Thompson and Fisher was too many. I'm sure MG will bring in who he can so it doesn't r...

17 is a first 11 + 5 substitutes allowing 1 extra in case a player is injured in the warm up as often can happen.. I am curious as to who you would leave out of the squad given the players we have and additions that we need..central midfield and cover for right back. (Mitchell can cover right back b...

I'd start Dale over Thompson on the left wing and rotate the two. Thompson could also be rotated on the right or behind the strikers as and when. As for McTiernan. My first thought is he'd play alongside Portas, instead of Scott. But it's the strength in depth that's important. Can't do it with 15 ...