"this is a sad day in the long history of Darlington Football Club," chairman George Houghton said of the decision in a club statement.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 909576.stm

Keep up John!

and deducted 10 points

for gods sake. admin can we combine all of these threads or delete some or something?

just seen it is old news!!! ha

to be fair i've just woke up





walkies

John is PiN, not NP!

I just need those 3 numbers!

They never did get into the Premier League did they?

And they never will.

Is that you Mark? Have you moved back to the promised land?

Such a shame . . . . . . . . NOT !!!

Luton might overtake them in the league now.

In that case and seeing as how it is your first post, fook right off!

Ok so we all have a laugh at Darlows predicament, but at the end of the day its another lower league club like Pools that could go out of existance and another sorry day for football at our level - whatever we may think, that they brought it on themselves, do we really wish that on a club, any club - at the end of the day it could have been us and how would it feel if we were in their shoes -

it makes you even more thankful for IOR

Agreed. So why do you criticise them?

sad all round for lower league clubs when you see the prem creaming all the coin in
they did say on the news tonight that they had some interest in Darlo thirty minutes after the announcement
hope it works out for them

its very simple for me. if you are a chairman or owners of a club, you have a certain amount of money you can afford to spend. Houghton went in knowing the financal situation and simply didn't have enough money to sustain it. That smacks of bad business to me. He took a risk and failed miserably. We are lucky we have IOR, they are aware of the financial implications of running a club like ours, and don't overpay or try to go too far too fast.

If you can only afford to sustain a club at league 2 level, then don't try and overstretch yourself hoping you will attract thousands more people than you normally do.

The clubs who are struggling now are the clubs who try to get more money by spending it wrecklessly by over paying players etc.

They deserve to be in the predicament they are in, however i do feel sorry for some of the fans at these clubs.

Aye, and another 3 after them for all the headache pills and to keep the White Elephant Echo Bowl Arena afloat eh

Quite frankly, I couldn't give a shiny shite about 'Loids, or any other club come to think of it

After Gibson fooked off, we had to pay every bounder back, and the vultures stripped us bare, so fook the lot of 'em

What would you do with the 9.99 change ???

What would you do with the change???

What would you buy with the remaining money?

does this mean they will be deducted points, possibly next season or even this season?

still hoping
mind it might be the BLUE SQUARE PREMIER LEAGUE

adminisDARLOWtration

yeh there chairmans always say we want premiership football they cant even afford to run a team in league 2 never mind the premiership

I think their decline into their current predicament can be dEFIONed as starting with our only visit to that Monolith in Neasham Road.

Thankyou Mr. Williams
Our loss was Jarrow Roofings gain

It's the real fans I feel sorry for.

There must be some Loids as daft on Darlo as I am on everything POOLS.

Some of the die hard 2800 must be feeling very let down and wondering what the hell is going to happen to their club.

I know I would be feeling as though my heart was being ripped out if it was us going through it.

Yes I am guilty of a chuckle or two today,but on reflection I do feel for the genuine Loids that are going through the mill at the moment and must be wondering why us.

After all I hope they survrive and get our derby game back one day.

I am going for a lie down in a darkened room now.

I am going for a lie down in a darkened room now. [/quote]

Just like the Darlo fans when the floodlights go out 'cos they haven't paid the bill

You'll probably have some money left over. Why don't you use it to go for a pint?

Interesting to see it is only the football club up for grabs as the ground is staying with the current owners(whoever that is).

Er I havent ? Some of the players yes, decisions, yes but IOR as owners never

Sounds like someone wants the bunker to be reorganised. Will this involve loss of jobs. Its norra bank y'know

Whats the odds the club is sold within days, and that Indian Bloke and Houghton, are part of the consortium that buy it?

And thats the problem I have with the loids, because they will all party, and gloat that the good days are back again, even though they will have all been fleeced by the two neckenders.

No.

We can't.

We aren't the flaming British Library.

I would have said that the title pretty much held the clue to what was in the thread like.

There's an interview on the Northern Echo site. The ground & surrounding land is owned by George Houghton, so possibly the only thing he's lost is the unpaid rent he's been charging them. He talks about losing £60k a week; that survival is possible if 4/5 investors put in £200k/300k each; Pools crowds are 5000! What an out-of-touch-with-reality, so called, business man.

One thing he did get right is the fat-cat Premiership clubs who couldn't care less about the Coca Cola Football League

Fully agree. So before all the clamouring re-starts about buying the ground & splashing out on players, let's keep that in mind. Didn't West Hartlepool Rugby Club splash the cash on players & end up paying the penalty? Maybe IOR have seen from this what can happen, or not happen, in the town

I think there is a danger that a LOT more clubs will be facing a crisis over the next 12-18 mths, hopefully IORs tight financial grip will pay dividends in as much as we do not become one of those clubs.

Tony Parry mentioned earlier about some divisions becoming semi pro, well I think we will see the first semi pro teams in our leagues in the not too distant future.

Semi pro teams in the Northern League Division 1
Coming to a stadium near you

But at least the premiership players and teams will survive

I refused to throw anything in Bournemouth's buckets too - did they give a rat's arse about Pools??
Course they did....................

No WHRFC were shafted by their chairman over land, not for buying players

aye but their dopey supporters still tried to blame Pools for not letting them take the dressing rooms away.
Yeah, right.
Couldn't give a toss about them either. Rugby fans are stuck-up c-unts

Cheerful this morning Mr Parmo?

of course

Something smells funny about all this (not just the Darlo fans!).

Administration usually follows warnings the from the Chairman, pleas for increased support, unpaid debts, players not getting paid etc etc.

If you'd told me to guess the League 2 club going into admin this week, Darlo would have been low down the list.

I think it was reported that the Asian director feller walked away a couple of weeks ago.

At the outset, I think George Houghton said that he was in this till 2010 he has gone a season earlier, having got the ground and surrounding area for development which he still holds. The credit crunch came and crunched him, also the Darlo council have been dragging their heels on planning permission,
I said some time ago that it is a great conference centre with a lovely garden in the middle.

has he walked so him and houghton can buy the club debt free,it said on the news that houghton can buy the club back ala ken bates

Yes West did splash all their cash and assets on the playing side. They gambled absolutely everything and it was lousy business. But they didn't have anywhere near the same resources as the Norwegians. We're talking magnitudes of difference.

I somehow can't see Larsen mortgaging oil platforms to buy new players and pay their wages.