FAO darlo pete
-
- Posts: 4284
- Joined: Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:36 am
- Team Supported: Darlington
- Location: London
FAO darlo pete
I've just sobered up enough to make a coherent post.
You said there'd be close to 1000 darlo fans there yesterday. I said you were talking s***.
Can't remember the announcement and haven't read on here, but I'm guessing there was bloody close to 1000 from what I saw. So as promised, I apologise for saying you were full of s*** when you were in fact correct.
In other news, what a fucking day.
You said there'd be close to 1000 darlo fans there yesterday. I said you were talking s***.
Can't remember the announcement and haven't read on here, but I'm guessing there was bloody close to 1000 from what I saw. So as promised, I apologise for saying you were full of s*** when you were in fact correct.
In other news, what a fucking day.
FAO darlo pete
1,072 in the end which was bang on half the attendance and an incredible effort from all concerned.
Even at my most optimistic I would only have said 700-800 would make the trip. We made Darlo proud and the 2,000 there in total made football proud.
Even at my most optimistic I would only have said 700-800 would make the trip. We made Darlo proud and the 2,000 there in total made football proud.
-
- Posts: 14124
- Joined: Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:13 pm
- Team Supported: Darlington
Re: FAO darlo pete
Thanks for that Jazz, it was just a guess on my part, but I thought it was realistic given the response on here over the few days leading up to the game. No hard feelings & cheers again.
-
- Posts: 2803
- Joined: Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:54 am
- Team Supported: Darlington
- Location: A Swimming Pool (usually).
Re: FAO darlo pete
Darlo_Pete wrote:Thanks for that Jazz, it was just a guess on my part, but I thought it was realistic given the response on here over the few days leading up to the game. No hard feelings & cheers again.
You're on a good run of being right at the moment
What the future of Darlo hold?
Re: FAO darlo pete
Unofficially we did have more though, as there were 3 of us who couldn't be arsed to queue so paid in the home end and got transferred through.mikkyx wrote:1,072 in the end which was bang on half the attendance and an incredible effort from all concerned.
Even at my most optimistic I would only have said 700-800 would make the trip. We made Darlo proud and the 2,000 there in total made football proud.
I know of at least another half dozen that did that too, but at the time we didn't realise that KO had been put back ten minutes.
Mullet69uk on Twitter
Re: FAO darlo pete
I think there was actually more from Darlington than the official figure shows. As the queue got bigger and bigger outside the ground, the stewards opened a side gate and allowed in Darlo fans who had the correct amount of cash. Quite a few entered the ground this way and obviously they are not reflected in the turnstile entry figures as the cash was just handed to a gadgie in a green jacket!
Last edited by LoidLucan on Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: FAO darlo pete
Barrows Official Website now has us down as having 922 fans in the away end.
Re: FAO darlo pete
plus the 150 seats they gave us =1072 , possibly
-
- Posts: 14124
- Joined: Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:13 pm
- Team Supported: Darlington
Re: FAO darlo pete
I think there was a few more than 1072, which miraculously was half the crowd. Barrow probably didn't want to admit that the away following had outnumbered the home support.
-
- Posts: 2
- Joined: Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:55 pm
- Team Supported: Barrow
Re: FAO darlo pete
I was that gadgie - when the gate was opened I had a steward stood nearby making a note of how many people came in. I didn't keep checking that he was still around as I was too busy doing the maths of multiple entries but I think he was. Normally I just pay myself in so apologies to anyone if I seemed a bit rusty on the kids/concessions/carers rates. I know it wasn't the smoothest of operations but I volunteered to help out to get as many of you into the ground by kick off as possible.LoidLucan wrote:I think there was actually more from Darlington than the official figure shows. As the queue got bigger and bigger outside the ground, the stewards opened a side gate and allowed in Darlo fans who had the correct amount of cash. Quite a few entered the ground this way and obviously they are not reflected in the turnstile entry figures as the cash was just handed to a gadgie in a green jacket!
Good luck for the future lads and lasses.
- wylam_rangers
- Posts: 4249
- Joined: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:13 pm
- Team Supported: Darlington
- Location: North Riding of Yorkshire
Re: FAO darlo pete
Hear, Hear.Darlo_Pete wrote:I think there was a few more than 1072, which miraculously was half the crowd. Barrow probably didn't want to admit that the away following had outnumbered the home support.
-
- Posts: 103
- Joined: Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:26 pm
- Team Supported: Darlington
- Location: WitzEnd
Re: FAO darlo pete
There were 1072 paying supporters in the away end. I stood behind the other goal to save queuing and to get an alternative series of photographs of the match showing the away support from all angles of the ground ( I was free to wander round 75% of the ground) along with a few other Darlo supporters, possibly as many as 40-50. I would therefore say there was in excess 1100 away fansmikkyx wrote:1,072 in the end which was bang on half the attendance and an incredible effort from all concerned.
Even at my most optimistic I would only have said 700-800 would make the trip. We made Darlo proud and the 2,000 there in total made football proud.
Last edited by polam lane on Sun Jan 08, 2012 6:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- wylam_rangers
- Posts: 4249
- Joined: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:13 pm
- Team Supported: Darlington
- Location: North Riding of Yorkshire
Re: FAO darlo pete
We clearly outnumbered them probably nearer 1200/900 but it would be wrong and ungracious to embarrass such splendid hosts.
Re: FAO darlo pete
And what a fine job that gadgie did! I was able to get one of the last remaining programmes, plus hotdog, plus visit to the executive portakabin bogs all before kick-off. To be honest it seemed like everything everyone did at Barrow was geared towards helping us as much as possible. I can think of quite a few grounds where we would have been treated like cattle and subjected to taunts of "You're going bust in the morning". Such a refreshing change.