Darlo Uncovered

Do long term contracts mean anything in football?

I never really took a liking to Gray. Not as a player and not as a manager. When we had success with our promotions, I never considered him to be the sole architect. It was everyone, the players, the volunteers, the people back stage sorting the money, and the fans. To me, he came across as surly an...

Good luck to him at York (he'll need it) but not when he brings his team back to Darlington. I hope his team are well beaten that day. But it would be churlish not to acknowledge what he's done, and not to wish him well. By the same soft spot that Brian Little always looked out for Darlington's res...

HarrytheQuaker and DL5 - you owe Nimrod an apology

LoidLucan wrote:I'd get Barnier in there for the initial demand.

How about 'The Angry Fans' from the last fans forum? Send them down.

By your figures that would be 35K - but you'd be happy with 5K?

It should be more.

roadrunner wrote:Wouldn't be surprised to see him poach Thompson as well

Are you drunk ??

Gray was happy to float along on the glory that the fan owned model gave to him, however at the first sign of a slow down he fooks off.

Traveling back from work I heard Gray on BBC York at about 4.45. He said stuff like "York are a big club and deserve to be in the Football League/blah blah and stuff like "it was an easy decision to leave Darlington" blah blah The above interview and what I heard just shows that Gray inhabits the sa...

You have to feel sorry for Martin Gray. Having to curtail his ambitions for a short while must have been terribly difficult for him. Astonishing: Had we not hounded out 2 dedicated Directors over the ground grading fiasco, then I would suggest that he would possibly have been given his marching ord...

I think you have let your bias show there roadrunner. Guess this means your rumour making has been an attempt to undermine the fan owned model. Definition of Investor: a person or organisation that puts money into financial schemes, property, etc. with the expectation of achieving a profit. Can som...

You have to feel sorry for Martin Gray.

Having to curtail his ambitions for a short while must have been terribly difficult for him.

al_quaker wrote:Anyway, let's hope lots of fans of Premiership and Championship clubs turn up on Saturday.

I can't see it - they never do!

It's been previously mooted on here that Gray was un-sackable because we would never have been able to pay off his contract. I can't see a contract working only one way so surely he can't just up and go over night. Furthermore, what's the point of having a 5 year contract if it's ineffective? Or a 2...

darlo2001uk wrote:Hope York fans have long necks - with Penney and Gray back together there will be plenty of hoofball going on there

And a guaranteed early exit from the F.A.Cup.

Here is the statement. YORK City Football Club has confirmed the appointment of Martin Gray as first team manager and Dave Penney as sporting director. Gray, 46, has resigned as manager of National League North rivals Darlington to take up the position at Bootham Crescent. Chairman and owner Jason M...

But he would never do this, as he said in the Forum "You have trusted me for five year, trust me for the next five year, and I'll fulfil your dreams..." blah blah blah

..... Gray gets going.

For such a successful manager, I feel pretty meh about this. And that is pretty much entirely to do with his behaviour at the end of last season. 2 poor months and he quits. I thank him for the promotions. Hopefully we can now have a manager who fits into the ownership structure of the club. Wonder...

I certainly think it was the responsibility of those putting the plans / funding in place to be clued up about the ground grading criteria, i.e. the Board & not MG. Yes, I would agree with that - but he's been in football all his life, he's the professional, he thinks and talks about football all d...

That being said ever since that fans forum something has not been right with him. He created a divide between club members and fans which a manager should never do and we are still struggling from this as attendances have shown. While we're on about Gray - there’s something odd that still bugs me a...

I wouldn't look at it quite like that. Who says Gregan/Atkinson would go? Or the CEO.

And are our better players only here because of Gray?

Vodka_Vic wrote:Do York have enough money to pay up 3 and a half years on the contract for MG? (That would be the seats paid for!).

A good point, not a joke.

The Golden Hairclip wrote:Be careful what you wish for. It would be very damaging for the club if we lose Martin.


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It would be damaging, apart from his performance at the last fans forum, Gray's been good.

The more I think back to that night the worse it gets!

DL5 wrote:It's quite clear, we kick on with Martin and investment or we part company and rattle around in league 6 or 7 as we are

You're saying we would never get investment with another manager in place?

I've been considering the same points as you Spyman. Is Gray being exposed here, as in the past he's been able to buy the best talent and keep ahead that way, but now he can't any more. What galls me is that we see teams week in week out who on paper look a lot weaker than us but do better than us....

Spyman wrote:Gray's limitations as a manager seem to be becoming brutally exposed. He's either lost the dressing room, lost the ability to motivate a perfectly capable set of players or he's just too reliant on being able to buy up the best talent to keep things moving forwards.

Strong words indeed!

My opinion wrote:Lots of teams are in talks with possible new investors.
I don.t know what this thread has to do with Darlington FC

Absolutely nothing!!

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Quakerz wrote:Dial B for Brodie.

Dial n for no

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