DARLO 0 SUNDERLAND 1

Both Darlington and Sunderland fielded strong line ups with Mark Cooper giving outings to Tommy Wright and Liam Hatch.  Further new signings including Jamie Chandler and Dominic Werling were also on show.  The Black Cats also fielded the likes of Darren Bent, Frazer Campbell, Lee Cattermole and a strange hairstyle wearing Kieran Richardson.

For the majority of the game Darlington matched Sunderland although the Black Cats were the ones creating the chances.   But some solid defending and Sunderland not having the killer touch was enough to keep us in the game.

A late goal though was enough to sink The Quakers but it was a performance to be encouraged by, Sam Russell in goal being a particular highlight.

Photos provided by Les Hodge

DARLINGTON: Russell, Arnison, Werling (Porter 68), Chandler (Hopson 79), Brough, Miller (Cornforth 58), Hatch (McReady 73), Hone, Wright (Smith 68), Senior (Moore 18), Gray (Main 46).

SUNDERLAND: Carson (Mignolet 46), Bardsley (Weir 84), McCartney (Liddle 46), Cattermole (Al-Muhammadi 29), Turner, Kilgallon (Ferdinand 62), Henderson, Richardson (Colbeck 46), Campbell (Tounkara 79), Malbranque (Zenden 62), Bent (Jones 62).

REF: Colin Webster

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hodgie1 - 17th July 2010 20:00:53

what a poor match report, im sorry but it needed to be said

Haji el Maveric - 17th July 2010 20:13:12

Yeah it's a s*** report at the moment - get your finger out Scotty!

darlodave1974 - 17th July 2010 20:16:46

Brief and to the point

uncovered - 17th July 2010 20:26:15

Fortunately I have better things to do with my Saturday nights than write a full in depth report. I spent 45 mins sorting out the photos!

gabbas - 17th July 2010 20:32:30

I was about to stick up for you Scott, I am sure you couldnt be arsed to write a full report at 20.30 ish on a Saturday night and have stuff to do.
Hodgie, I think you were to quick to criticise.

DarloOnTheUp - 17th July 2010 20:41:25

uncovered wrote:

Fortunately I have better things to do with my Saturday nights than write a full in depth report. I spent 45 mins sorting out the photos!

HOW BLOODY DARE YOU??!?!?! We ARE your life!!!!

hodgie1 - 17th July 2010 21:30:49

i wasnt personally criticising scott, just passing a comment, gabbas, no offence meant scott

gabbas wrote:

I was about to stick up for you Scott, I am sure you couldnt be arsed to write a full report at 20.30 ish on a Saturday night and have stuff to do.
Hodgie, I think you were to quick to criticise.

divas - 17th July 2010 22:15:03

uncovered wrote:

Fortunately I have better things to do with my Saturday nights than write a full in depth report. I spent 45 mins sorting out the photos!

Damned right, I would have knocked something together myself but I've been dragged to Glasgow tonight.

Nevermind it's still reads better than flips book

Hilly - 17th July 2010 23:13:45

divas wrote:

uncovered wrote:

Fortunately I have better things to do with my Saturday nights than write a full in depth report. I spent 45 mins sorting out the photos!

Damned right, I would have knocked something together myself but I've been dragged to Glasgow tonight.

Nevermind it's still reads better than flips book

Mee-yow...

Darlo_Pete - 18th July 2010 07:11:50

Scott I see that Les Hodge took the photos, I thought the club had ended his involvement at the club? Anyway I hope that this means that Les is still involved at the club on matchdays.

hodgie1 - 18th July 2010 09:57:32

bit touchy there divas, actually, our book is sold out and has been for quite a few years now, ive always been told that if a jobs worth doing, its worth doing to the best of your ability - and that match report wasnt one of scotts best - also two players names were spelt incorrectly - i you write for the public you have to be prepared to be criticised, and how many books have you written? and had published? enough said

1Superlidds - 18th July 2010 12:24:18

hodgie1 wrote:

i wasnt criticising, just passing a comment, gabbas, no offence meant scott

'what a poor match report' to be fair that sounds pretty clearly example of 'criticising' to me!!....think you maybe jumped in too early flipp?....couple of fosters more than normal?

hodgie1 - 18th July 2010 13:45:34

nah, it was poor, its not personal, like i said, if you write for the public you should expect constructive criticism, for example 2 players names mis-spelt, i was wondering lidds how long it would be before you got your oar in, dog and dick spring to mind lol and no i only had 3 pints all day, so wrong again!

uncovered - 18th July 2010 14:33:57

Darlo_Pete wrote:

Scott I see that Les Hodge took the photos, I thought the club had ended his involvement at the club? Anyway I hope that this means that Les is still involved at the club on matchdays.

Les doesn't work for the club anymore but attends matches to take photos for the newspapers. He has kindly agreed to provide Uncovered with some photos of games when he can this season.

1Superlidds - 18th July 2010 16:55:44

hodgie1 wrote:

nah, it was poor, its not personal, like i said, if you write for the public you should expect constructive criticism, for example 2 players names mis-spelt, i was wondering lidds how long it would be before you got your oar in, dog and dick spring to mind lol and no i only had 3 pints all day, so wrong again!

aah well that explains it....3 pints is more than enuff for you to spout rubbish

hodgie1 - 18th July 2010 17:18:44

nah, if id been drunk i would not have been able to type - anyway, its gone now MOVE ON! lol

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