Over a a £150000 raised.
https://darlingtonfc.co.uk/news/boost-t ... et-smashed

Closed at £162K I’ve posted this a couple of times you’ve got to take your hat off to them. True supporters especially as they only get gates just a few hundred over the thousand mark most matches.

Darlo have nearly 700 fans able to put in over £230 each to this scheme. For most of them that will be on top of paying to go to matches through a season - half their fanbase.

If Pools was a fan owned club, what proportion of its fanbase would be willing and able to match that, year after year? 1 in 5? 1 in 10?

at least if we found those fans we would be allowed to get promoted. have heard more than once that there ground needs work on it to play in the national league so it seems they are wasting their money till that happens.

I don't think they're wasting their money, it's a case of keeping their club alive in the hope of better days to come and possibly a home of their own without some mad egotist building a shrine to themselves. After the shitty hand they've been handed over the last 11 years you can only really applaud their persistence.

Would not surprise me one bit if Darlo was taken over by a consortium with plenty of dosh. If they get a ground built and could carry the club for a couple of years the fans will be back in good numbers and probably pull crowds of 5000 to 10000. Reynolds had the right idea regarding the potential of the catchment area but built the cart before he bought a horse.

in many ways they do deserve a break and a bit of good fortune. however its difficult to see a consortium arriving any day soon as the first priority would be a new ground and they do not come cheap anymore. as for potential they,d need to get back into the league before they can tap into this and even get the fans back who have walked away and possibly found another club to watch.

Reynold’s ‘horse’ was was a Shetland pony and the ‘cart’ had square wheels…the so called potential of the catchment area hasn’t changed and they weren’t exactly pulling them in back in the day.

Have they produced a list of all their donations anywhere and if so where is it?
The only "recent donations" sample list I read included on the website were mostly between 3 and 30 pounds, apart from the intermittent 100-500 pounds.
My suspicion is that there are a few very big donors putting into this fund.
The idea that your average Darlo is coughing up "£230" each on top of their tickets for next season is for the birds.

Also noteworthy..
"We do acknowledge that the number of donations is slightly down from this stage last season. There are 195 loyal supporters from last season who haven't yet donated, making up £38K of last season's donations."

https://darlingtonfc.co.uk/news/boost-t ... -stat-pack

Sorry to p*** on your cornflakes but your link was taken from a report before the exercise was complete.. it finished end of day on 31st May.
A lot of the Darlo fans enjoy the chase and put there money in on the final day. MOST of the contributions by MOST of the fans are on direct debit and paid in monthy over a year..
But hey, that would give them some credit which you are clearly trying to deny.

Welcome back.

As I've said for years the difference between Pools fans and Darlo fans is that Darlo fans, even after all the crap they've faced over the years, is that they all stick together, while Pools fans have their own cliques. To the point that some would refuse to rattle the buckets, if needed, if another group of fans they didnt agree with used the same colour ones, They'd want different coloured ones

at the moment you are possibly right. over the years their fan numbers have dwindled with far more crap thrown at them than we have had. think if we ended up as a mirror image of darlo the ones that are left would stick together just the same. if they doubled their gates i,m sure it would create a group with a different agenda.

Of course we’re talking the die hard core of their supporters now and they will stick together as a unit, but any success brings the ‘clingons’ back with an alternative agenda to split the unity…..always happens.

Unless the “clingons” buy into the Supporters Club then they’d have zero say. Benefits of being a fan owned club.
Radged trying buying us back a few years ago. Was told point blank “thanks but no thanks”
Some still want the “single millionaire owner” but a: there isn’t any single millionaires out there who support us and b: the supporters don’t want the yo yo of going boom and bust again and being at a single persons whim.

Don’t be naive, people will buy into to the Supporters Club and once inside ‘re-model’ it from the inside if there’s enough of them. .Not nice, but people pull these tricks.

Not saying they couldn’t but it wouldn’t be instant due to the constitution of DFSCG so hopefully the time period taken would weed them out and they wouldn’t get the votes.
My mate is one of you and is a member of us just to cancel out my vote the rotter, but I’m grateful he’s putting money into us.

Trouble is when things look up the deserters turn up to reassert their love for the club….. ….but you have my best wishes at keeping the buggers at bay .

so they just buy into the supporters club. thats the weakness of fan owned clubs. you only need a few with big ideas and louder voices than the rest to upset the apple cart. bigger you grow the more chance of this happening to you end up with a two tier fanbase. the one you have at present and the ones who want something quite different and put all their energy into achieving it. thats on top of those whose only interest is just rolling up to watch a game of football and not wanting any involvement whatsoever.