Darlo Uncovered

There needs to be a complete rebuild, from the players to the staff and the board imho. The club has malaise that has set in and been allowed to grow deep into every fibre, and leadership has allowed that. In the past 4 years are we any better off than we were before? On the field definitely not, o...

Fenton was a previous Hodgy signing…him to manage with DH as DoF? Fenton's Blyth contract runs until next summer and he would have to be bought out as they've stuck him on gardening leave. Some Blyth fans think he's going back to Shields and some speculating he may be coming here. Yep, means that w...

If this is true our board may as well resign too :thumbdown: Absolute laughing stock I disagree. If people are happy to appoint someone even on an interim who’s not managed for almost two decades then I’m done with this club The truth is that the general casual fan will be far more engaged with the...

The truth is that the general casual fan will be far more engaged with the popularist story of ‘4th time a Quaker’ and a former local hero than a Josh Gowling type. It’s a feel good story. Hodgy would add far more to the gate and get a lot more patience from the fans. If we were appointing a manage...

Martin Gray can come back and bring along his mate Raj Singh, who having eventually disposed of Hartlepool, will have the money to invest in the club giving us a record budget which AA can come back and spend by giving Andrew Nelson a new 10 year contract.

We'll have to pay a severance to the current manager and staff, as well as to some of his terrible signings. Do we know that though, for sure? Have you ever wondered why the terms of J.G's contract remain so secret? Or why he even got the job when possibly, there might have been better candidates? ...

leedscol wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 26, 2023 3:41 pm

No one has suggested DJ should go have they?
We really would be in the sh** then.

We are in the s*** now and DJ is the man in charge. He's seems to have some fans under a kind of spell just because he talks well.

And who do you suggest we get to replace DJ or are you going to volunteer. These stupid comments actually get worse after every defeat. Some on here need to learn about finance.. We are where we are and have to live with it, the alternative is we could get in a new manager and pay for three manager...

A lot of the phoenix clubs or clubs that were demoted have bounced back and climbed up the divisions, so I suppose we must be one (or maybe the only one) of the few who have actually stalled and then started going down again. Yeh the only one. - Bury got beaten to promotion by a Vauxhall Motors tea...

Never thought I’d say this, but if we do get relegated, I would find it hard to justify renewing my season ticket which I’ve had for 35 years . Everyone is entitled to use their cash as they wish but have to say, I find it strange you kept your pass through 3 administrations and dropping down to th...

Quaker85 wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 05, 2023 8:33 pm

Would you rather hire a 5 a side pitch from a football club that charges you VAT or a local authority that doesn’t? Asking for a friend …

Do you mean Eastbourne? I'm just struggling to believe the demand for six-a-side pitches is enough to generate the money needed to cover the repayments.

It's not really possible to build a 5,000 capacity ground at BM because of the pipe. It'd also look stupid if we did somehow scrape it together. But if a tangent it is but we know it involves knocking down / replacing the clubhouse. I think cobbled is a fair point though. Bristol Rovers feels prett...

This week has pretty much confirmed for me what our fate will be. The inability to get the required goals and leaking poor goals against two really bad sides says it all really. We are just not good enough to stay in this league. Couple our inadequacies against poor sides with lots of inevitable de...

We've played five home games against bottom half teams and we haven't won any of them, we just aren't catching up and I can't see who we can beat. I think we're almost certainly done for. I have been giving Gowling a chance, but we've just had two winnable home games and we've gone into them without...

EDJOHNS wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2023 10:02 am

You are correct. I was taught to catch it from ANY cross into the box.

The first keeper I ever remember seeing punch the ball rather than catch on a regular basis was Jeff Wealands

Come on, goalkeepers have been punching the ball since the game began.

Pretty much agree with the above.Why on earth did Gowling take Moke off who was having one of his best games for us, instead of Salkeld who was giving the ball away far too much and was poor last night imo.Regarding Tommy, we have a goalkeeping coach and surely it's glaringly obvious he has to star...

I’ll be delighted with two 1-0 victories. I'll be happy with two 4-0 victories. Or a 5-0 + 3-0. Or a 6-2 + a 4-2, you get my drift. 1-0 victories would have been OK had we lost 2-0 at Chorley. But we didn't so they're not. Absolutely ridiculous argument. There's a column in the table for goal diffe...

A small bonus, we get 45% of the gate receipts for today, minus VAT and expenses. So at least twice as much as we would have got in prize money.

still_darlo wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 18, 2023 5:17 pm

Ten NLN sides lost to lower league sides today. TEN. Is this a really poor league we're in this year?

No, they are resting players. There is very little money to be made from the Trophy unless you get to Wembley.

One mic seems to be working then it someone got swapped and the panel have the worse mic in the room!

bga wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 17, 2023 2:44 pm

Hit send too soon and am no good at maths. It is 36 plus current 14 isn't it so 50 points.

We have 28 games remaining don't we? So 14 wins equals 42 points, plus 14 equals 56 points.

Depends. I don't want us to go out of business, team has been relatively successfully to be honest given the situation we have endured over the last fee years, and given the odd time I have talked to DJ yes he is a football man. I don't want us to go out of business either, but somehow we're not ma...

If DJ leaves it will be much worse than that, the previous CEO steadied the ship before leaving for Hearts and stints at Pools and York in different capacities but before them we had good intention people but club nearly totally went bust,( and I mean totally out of business). We need someone with ...

Re the forum - if the shouty minority (who know nothing about the complicated mechanics of running a football club) cause too much bother and force out, or piss off some very capable volunteers (who do know something about the complicated mechanics of running a football club) we're screwed. :thumbd...

Sukar was dropped....offered out to other clubs......and now Gowling needs him back. I am absolutely amazed that people can't see that this is terrible man-management, just like the Tommy Taylor situation. Burton was a massive upgrade on Sukar. Are managers not supposed to drop players for better o...

What you usually find from these forums is that the board and management give a really good account of themselves, everyone leaves feeling optimistic and looking forward to the future, and the team carry losing every week. If we could turn our forum form into league form we'd be flying.

I don't think as a club we are "rotten to the core" but we've been on a downward spiral for the last 11 months for sure. I would like to know how we've got to where we are if we have a top half budget. That takes some mismanagement. The expectations for this season were set so low that there seemed ...

Since time immemorial Darlo fans have needed a scapegoat. Hazel is now it. He goes, we get a new striker who doesn't get 20 goals either, and suddenly it'll be another stick to beat Gowling with. I would guarantee that, if Hazel went to Scarborough or Farsley, he would score more goals this season ...

Massive mistake to let go the only player at our club who is capable of scoring 20 goals a season. It beggars belief if we sell him. Should be building a side around him, not alienating him while trying to flog him to a rival Building a side around him? I think you mean that unless he has a very go...

This is the entire reason for my next 6 matches thread. No, in his first 6 matches he demonstrated no ability to turn things around, but that was only 6 matches (5 league, 1 cup, 0-2-4), and 6 matches really isn't enough no matter how alarming the initial signs are. The next 6 matches are almost li...