Darlo Uncovered

In amongst all the horrible things to have hit this club in the last 18 months, this is by far the strangest. So let's play rank your Darlo weirdness! Here's my top five 1) Tino Asprilla 2) Billy Bubbles 3) This 4) When that magician came and started trying to hypnotise the team in the 70s - I love ...

Don't know about the training ground, but that's a belting Lancashire accent right there.

Fordy mentioned last night all eight of Davey's signings will be staying.

Now, I've got Russell, Jack, Senior, Werling, Wright and Chandler.

Thompson we can probably assume is another.

Anyone fancy some idle speculation? Or even know who the other one/two are?

Completely agree. At least this has happened before pre-season training, and the new man still has a chance to get the squad together, impose the right work ethic on them and drill them to play his way. I bet our new captain marvel Mr Miller is on the phone to the lot of those players right now tell...

'Personal reasons' meaning 'personally, I can't wait to move to Hereford'

That's very weird. The whole rumour emerged from a Hereford M/B, everything pointed to him leaving for Hereford, and suddenly turns out that he IS leaving, but it has nad all to do with Hereford. So is it just a coincidence? It just seems absolutely baffling at this moment in time.

Possibly. Maybe Thompson (in which case, like Jack, I retract my previous statement dismissing both) and another? Bit of a slip by Fordy there perhaps?

Eight? I'm stuck on six. Go on somebody, give me a hand, I've been out walking and I'm a bit dozy.
I've got Russell, Jack, Werling, Chandler, Senior, Wright.

I wouldn't be too bothered by losing Jack, to be honest. I always had doubts about Thompson as well. One thing's for certain, we need to move very, very quickly to get things ready for next season now. One criteria for a new manager must be a good contacts network so he comes in already knowing who ...

I'd like to see Penney back, but I think I'm in a minority and don't fancy our chances anyway. Cooper would be the other obvious choice, but how likely it would be I don't know. Hodgy is a non-starter, as is Southgate, Liddle I think has had us playing really good, up-tempo football in his caretaker...

I feel physically fucking furious.

If we're not blaming Davey, then he'd better have a bloody good reason why not, and he'd better tell us what it is. From where I'm sitting, this looks like absolute cowardice from a man who'd talked the big talk and promised so much more.

If this is true then it's absolutely shocking from Davey. We've put up with a lot in the last year or so, and he had bought into the idea we were improving. He talked the talk, claimed to be pursuing players and to have a plan for next season. If he was going to pack his bags at the first hint of an...

I'm getting a VERY bad feeling about this.

I didn't think it was anything too bad, and nothing to get worked up about. The first game tells us very little, really, and we should still win the group given the poor quality of the opposition. That said, USA had Jonathan Spector, Jay Demerit and Carlos Bocanegra in their backline, all players wh...

People are saying with equal confidence that Martin Ling is going there though. I think the club do need to move quickly to stamp this out if it's not true. Time for Davey to speak up to deny this. Even if he's away, since he and Kidd seem to work as a partnership then Kidd could come out and stamp ...

You might well be right there. But if Davey were to go the whole wave of confidence and positivity would just collapse instantly. I already feel a bit deflated to be having this conversation. It feels like we should all just pack up and go home, as fuck all is ever going to go right for us. I'm seve...

All the big candidates from when Davey came in have been snapped up now. Nobody springs to mind who would be an improvement on either Penney or Davey.

Really hope this isn't true. I was getting to really like Davey.

Dial L for Liddle?

This sounds very worrying indeed. It sort of adds up, what with Davey's recent silence, Hereford's proximity to south Wales, and the general lunacy that's gone along with Darlo in the last two (130?) years.

Time to dial P for Penney?

Darlo Saxon! Coming to pillage your town and take all your points! Raa!

Yeah, I can go with that.

Happy Days is a great idea. It would be completely unique, and no song on earth is going to make that stadium seem like a fortress. However, I would quite like to know that Darlo are about to come onto the field when I hear the opening bars of Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen belting out the sound s...

http://www.darlington-fc.net/page/NewsDetail/0,,10339~2067685,00.html Interesting piece on the main site. 800 ST sold, more than Raj was expecting at this point, offers on the table for three players, Raj says "I'd be excited if we got two of them". Presumably meaning any two of them rather than two...

The Moore question concerns me too. He has looked quite tricky and seems to connect with Arnison, but just how good he is remains to be seen - bear in mind Davey came in about three weeks after he was given an 18 month contract, and the only other Staunton survivor is Gareth Waite. I have to say I d...

We traditionally sign a Boro cast off during the pre-season and so Davey has decided that this year the role will be played by DANIEL HAWKINS who plays centre forward. I'm also one of those people who can only come up with rumours involving players who have played for us before and so have plucked ...

I'm tired of seeing the same three or four names/ex-players linked with us, and am bored with nothing else to feed on. So feel free to use this thread to pick out players we could conceivably sign, but when you have absolutely no reason to think we will or even should. I'll start. I have heard a com...

It's an interesting one this. I don't see him as a target man in the sense that Thorpe was designed to be, bringing other players in, but if you get a keeper with a decent kick on him (hmm.. let's think about that one. What about.... Sam Russell) he's going to have a better chance of dropping the ba...

Such as the healthy rivalry between Manchester United and Cardiff foryour fickle affections? I'm afraid claiming to support both completely invalidates all your opinions. For the record, I don't much care whether Cardiff play in the English or the Welsh league, they've been doing it long enough to b...

Are they in the welsh league like?

I'm hugely pro-Conlon. I'd have him back. TDK1 to thread... What's this? A thread about Bazza? Go on then. He's been doing it in L2 for absolutely years. He'd murderate the conference, while filling the role I believe every team I support should have of occasionally venting my frustrations by proxy...

David Raven is a good but injury prone fb from Carlisle, Lenny Pidgely has gone as well, looked decent at Chelsea but has been on the wane for years, and Scott Dobie will surely be moving downwards while wanting to stay in the north - I wouldn't be inspired if we signed him, but he's a solid bench w...

That's what I mean. If you add three decent strikers in, the whole squad looks better than it does now. It adds a certain gloss to the midfield and defence when you see their names alongside those of a couple of players who you associate with scoring goals. Add, for the sake of argument, Liam Hatch ...