Darlington v Chorley Match Thread

[AndyPark]

Update here.

[woody58]

1-0 Darlo, penalty Terry Galbraith scores

[lo36789]

Where is that post from last season about taking Galbraith off pens because one was saved and one was missed!?

[woody58]

Seems to be all Chorley at the moment ?

[woody58]

Half time. Darlo 1 Chorley 0

[Darlobaz79]

2-0 Burgess

[Darlobaz79]

or maybe Terry?!

[woody58]

2-0 Darlo galbraith the scorer.

[Mr_Tibbs]

Get in - Galbraith now on a hat-trick which will do him the power of good after his O.G. at the weekend.

[woody58]

Darlo sub Marrs off for Hunter.

[woody58]

Darlo Sub Liam Hardy OFF Nathan Cartman ON

[AndyPark]

Attendance? I missed it...

[Darlobaz79]

1543

[Darlobaz79]

1543

[Comfortably_numb]

Excellent crowd

[woody58]

Darlo sub Portas for Thompson

[Mr_Tibbs]

1543

Hah! viewtopic.php?p=389726#p389726

I was actually 8 out in the Prediction League - I'm sure I put 1535

[Neil Johnson]

Some hard games coming soon, but what the hell a fantastic start in a harder league.

[don'tbuythesun]

Absolutely brilliant start to the new season, good crowd and great radio coverage! Thanks lads. And we're on the scores section of the BBC footie site with tezzas goals shown.

[notgnilrad]

Are we top of the league?...

I think we are, superb start.

[don'tbuythesun]

Yes by two points.

[Makka Pakka]

We were dominated 1st half, 2nd half we were in it a bit more, but we kept them out and took our chances when they came along. Happy days!

[QuakerPete]

Chorley were a tough side who had a lot of possession but didn't make much of it in the last third. Really happy with how the lads battled and competed so hard. Would have been upset at that penalty decision against us. And do we now have the 2 best crossers of a ball in the league?

[Makka Pakka]

This is now our best points tally from the first 5 games of a season under Martin Gray. I thought we were supposed to find it tough this season!

[poppyfield]

Excellent win , tough game, Chorley are a good team. Main concern for me is Jameson, he is clearly not fit, got to carrying some sort of injury, surprised he played the second half.

[Mr_Tibbs]

Always nice to see - even if it means nothing (though it's starting to look promising)

[Feethams 1966]

We rode our luck tonight; Chorley controlled the play, can't remember us having a shot in open play during the first half. Most of our tactics were breaking up attacks and hoofing the ball downfield back to one of theirs. I'd like to report we were the best team tonight but we weren't. Chorley had left their scoring boots behind luckily for us. But our second goal was brilliant, straight after the second half kicked off; looking forward to seeing that one on the highlights.

[Darlo_Pete]

Galbraith is a star and his contribution to the team across the park is excellent. Chorley had lots of possession, but the defence was determined to keep a clean sheet, with Jameson pulling off some great saves especially in the second half.

[HarryCharltonsCat]

Think you'd class us as a dour side. Not pretty to watch but effective at what we do, which is make the most of set pieces. Don't think BedaleDarlo will approve. Certainly wouldn't suit Chris Moore.

Chorley had a fair few chances first half which thankfully they didn't take. Not sure why we left Jameson on - he couldn't take even the simplest of catches, punching everything, and can't have done his injury any good. Can't be long before we are saying goodbye to Nightingale- never made the bench again, Gray obviously doesn't fancy him after all - this season's Rob Youhill.

[Darlo_Pete]

The stats said we had 6 shots and they had 14 and we had 1 corner to their 4, but what a corner, even I could have scored that one.

I think calling us dour is a bit harsh. When we get in front, then the opposition are bound to chase the game. But when we got the ball we did look a more threatening going forward. We're not going to dominate games this season from start to finish like we have done in previous seasons.