Darlo Uncovered

Just watched the highlights from the York game. As many have said, in not only this game, but most of our other recent games we have pretty much matched our opposition - we've just given away badly timed and sloppy goals and not been able to get back in to games. The list which has been put together...

Have sent you a contribution Scott. Cheers

First half Spenny played some decent football and Chandler looked like he was completely bossing the game, however second half we seemed to pull our socks up and I thought we probably deserved the draw, could have taken 3 had the referee given a couple of the penalty shouts. Ferguson is playing incr...

Pitch looked great for the stands, and seemed ok for playing decent passing football on - but on a few occasions huge clumps would get kicked up, or if someone went for a slide tackle it would really churn up. No idea what will happen once the rugby starts being played on it. Ground was the same as ...

I'd personally keep Carts, at least until the new forwards we've brought in find their feet with the club. If anything goes tits up with them, we still have Carts. Some of the players we've brought in to play upfront over the last 2-3 seasons haven't always been exactly what they said on the tin and...

Does anyone know if whilst the ground work is being done for the new seats, will it reduce BM capacity temporarily? Presumably no-one can stand where the works are being done?

Does anyone know what happened to the clubs relationship with the Building Society? They sponsored the club for 10 years and then disappeared after the Houghton admin season.

With the current situation, wondered if there scope to reach out to them for sponsorship opportunities?

Central midfield is an area we have a lot of players/cover and I'd imagine he was quite a high earner given where he came from. He was a great player and it's a shame he's gone but i'd prefer Portas and Turnbull in there if I had the choice.

Even if the rugby club do get a share, that is incentive for them to allow us to build the bloody stands. Essentially they are just getting a payout for just agreeing to something.

I don't think the line "in each season" is very clear. That should say that the club should achieve cat.B in THAT season or before the end of the season. I think a lot of clubs (like us) are under the impression that providing they have planning, they have until 31st March (the next season) to do th...

Here's an idea similar something Singh did a few years back for shirt sponsorship. Get local businesses to pledge £5k For opportunity to have name rights to the new stand on the far side for 5 years. A raffle is held and the drawn out business gets the name rights, the others as runner up get 7ft ad...

I think this would be a plan heading towards FL status https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/6donq132H.jpg 1. Build up the seated stands and add sections to either side. We know we can do this, as the stands are similar to those on the Stadium Solutions site, which states they allow for adding additional secti...

The original approved plans for BM did have 500+ covered seats as this image shows - towards the open end of the ground. https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/68jf2zRVO.jpg Presumably, to get out of this league - we just need to buy and install this second block. I don't have access to the finer details of thi...

https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/5L32U0l5d.png Version 2 with terrace at the open end similar sized to old Polam Terrace. You've got some of the figures wrong. Tin shed holds 902 with 8 rows. The seated stand holds 269. So that's 112 people per row in a terrace. You only have half the open end to develop...

https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/5L32U0l5d.png Version 2 with terrace at the open end similar sized to old Polam Terrace. You've got some of the figures wrong. Tin shed holds 902 with 8 rows. The seated stand holds 269. So that's 112 people per row in a terrace. You only have half the open end to develop...

Version 2 with terrace at the open end similar sized to old Polam Terrace.

Don't know why we'd go for 3,000 seats like? The difference is the type of structure we have. Old Trafford / Anfield are purpose built stands. We have an off the shelf module of seats, fixed to the ground with a roof over the top. I suspect the next stage of development is the extra seats alongside...

Here is my attempt at how to develop BM without knocking down the club house, moving the pipe, or moving the tinshed. I have had to guess on the hard standing by working out people per row in the tin shed and using 3-4 people deep on the standing areas. People say you can't extend rows on to the sea...

I don't understand people saying you cannot remove the roof of the current seats and extend them with more rows. Surely this is only what most Premier League clubs do - Man Utd, Liverpool, Man City - all added tiers and new roofs to existed seating stands?

http://darlingtonfootballclub.co.uk/statement-by-the-board-of-directors-of-darlington-fc-relating-to-the-national-league-north-play-offs/ Well, firstly that is a much better statement than the one a few days ago, and answers a lot of questions. Clearly the mistake was not working to the correct gro...

Some people on here really ought to have a think about what they are saying. Owners of the past were 'incompetent' and idiots. People like Houghton and Singh who shafted this club well and truly - all whilst taking a hefty wage and driving around in flash cars and pretending they cared for the club ...

Is the 500 seats a new requirement brought in or was this an oversight by us? I'm sure someone would have spotted this when it was decided not to install the second bank of seats?

There isn't an easy way to get around this situation... the only way really would be to finish 6th or lower and not make the Play-Offs at all. With regards to the planning - the original plans showed that the current seated stand was twice as long - and ran right down to the open end didn't it? So p...

Just look at Monday's opponents FCUM - with a much larger fan base than us it has taken them much longer as they've had to build from scratch like us and prioritise getting the infrastructure in place. We have, as a collective group, obsessed about promotion after promotion but the infrastructure i...

We only take our flag to away games these days. Don't really see the point of our flag at the home games. The idea being that it makes the ground feel a bit more like home. They could be put up before kick off on the open end fencing - and taken down afterwards. No need to wind up the Rugby club, j...

Watching the highlights of yesterday's game i noticed the banners behind the goal which the Tamworth fans brought. They looked really good. I wondered what people's thoughts would be on arranging some Darlo banners which could be put up for every home game? Their could be 4-5 which could be great al...

Has to be Noel Whelan, although Lee 'no goals' Nogan was also a player I really did not like.

On the subject of Dave Mills - if anyone has an email address for him could they possibly DM me it?

There will be sponsorship clauses that televised FA Cup games have to have specific advertising boards around the ground. That why Sutton suddenly had those flashy boards up. As for the shirt sponsorship changing for one cup game - it would be a bitter pill to take for the current sponsors, but lets...

Spyman wrote:That would leave is incredibly light in the middle of the park. Turnbull wouldn't have a hope!

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Good point. Maybe Falkingham in there with Turnbull

Drop one of the men playing behind Beck,but don't ask me who....