Darlo Uncovered

Curtis Main/Cedric Main First DFR now Ginge.

I see Spennymoor play arch cloggers Alfreton tonight. That'll tire them out a bit for Saturday.

Or a coach, like Craig Liddle.

Our players looked to be enjoying themselves on Saturday. The passing was good and we looked fitter and more positive than we’ve been for a long time.

If we can take this form to Tuesday night we’ve got every chance of another win as top team Tamworth didn’t look anything special when they turned up.

Salkeld. Numerous times this season I’ve heard people unfairly slagging him off but yesterday he excelled himself. For the penalty he had no right to get on to the through ball yet he thundered through to claim it, leaving both the covering defender and goalkeeper looking downright dozy. When the ba...

Our second goal was an own goal. We were stood behind that goal and their defender tried to kick it wide but with the speed of events he knocked it in.

Quakerlad wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:06 am

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

Me too. I’ve got that ‘big match’ feeling. It’s preying on my mind.

Idea binned.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68450854

This game is indeed massive - and huge, enormous, gigantic, very very big, colossal, mammoth, ginormous and hopefully monumental and season defining too. By the end of tomorrow we could be sitting level on points with Banbury and ready to turn over Scunthorpe on Tuesday. In the last ten games we hav...

Crowd as 283 - I would say at least half of that was Darlo fans Isn't that pathetic. Why do they bother? They are putting out and subsidising a service that the locals don't want. If the people running the club can do so without massive losses, are enjoying themselves running a club, and have pride...

What was the crowd, and how many Darlo fans? Anyone Crowd as 283 - I would say at least half of that was Darlo fans Isn't that pathetic. Why do they bother? They are putting out and subsidising a service that the locals don't want. If the people running the club can do so without massive losses, ar...

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Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:40 am

Darlopartisan wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:39 am

What was the crowd, and how many Darlo fans? Anyone

Crowd as 283 - I would say at least half of that was Darlo fans

Isn't that pathetic. Why do they bother? They are putting out and subsidising a service that the locals don't want.

I listened on DFR. Didn’t this goalie make two good saves at the end of the match? I think from Salkeld.

I'll third that.

Very 'off the peg'

I've gone red.

Spyman wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:03 pm

theoriginalfatcat wrote:Steve Watson and Julian Joachim.

Correct (although both already guessed above)!

Gareth Southgate also a member of the same team.

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And Simon Grayson apparently, started out playing for Bedale Town FC !!

Steve Watson and Julian Joachim.

Do you remember Carl Shutt in goal Loan-star?

Not only was he a super ace player on the pitch but when he turned into an emergency keeper he was capable, brave and took no s*** from anyone.

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. This match last night again sh...

Number 3 for me. It reminds me of one from the late 90s.

Edit, just had an email to say the final is between 2 and 4.

This sounds BRILLIANT.

In the absence of Ginge and his stat machine, I've had a look at the fixtures for the bottom seven (realistically, the others are clear of being dragged into the relegation places). Even (rose-tintedly) allowing for us having the best record (W4 D5 L2), we still go down on goal difference. Might ne...

I hope the young goalie stays a bit longer, he looks capable and it’s two wins out of three appearances for him.

One of my spies tells me Asante expects to be in the squad the week after next. So that's maybe for the Scunthorpe game?

Or, maybe not?

I think we really need to be trying to tie Watson and Mitchell down to be here next season, regardless of which league we are playing in. I think they should be able to build a team that is either capable of holding their own in NLN or being promotion contenders in the league below. I look at this ...

That was a true “victory for football”

Buxton shot themselves in the foot by pissing about when they could have chosen to play a bit.

There was a funny kit clash today, a little too similar for me.

H1987 wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:07 pm

Also, that vile Hartlepool-ish away kit needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Just as much to blame for our relegation as Gowling

Our away form is better than our home form. It’s the lack of MrQ that is costing us.

I’d like to nominate W8Poolie.

In David Hodgson's book Three Times a Quaker, I'm sure there's a story, possibly 2 stories of players signing up to deals knowing they weren't right.

I don't know if this is the case here but it does happen, according to D.H.

Asante out, who'd have thought.......

It's a longish read but interesting.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... rs-and-won

It's getting very perilous now. I know I sound negative but I'm already half resigned to us going down. I know what you mean. When Armstrong left I felt relatively realistic about things getting turned around, and at that point we seemed to have time on our side but now we're just about out of time....