If they don't get to 50 points (highly possible) then they would have used more players (49 so far this season) than they win points.

Thought was 49 just checked, and your right Elvis

Shouldn't we be more worried about SouthampTON than darlingTON?? I mean, that was before wasn't it??

Then there's Norwich, CharlTON, LeedsTON and all them other cogniscenti we have to worry about. Not little shit clubs like Darlo....

I know they get to play Leeds Reserves in Cup competitions now and again but they get mullered by the youth team.

Leave them behind FFS.

No mate of course you can, I refer you to the comment by Tax Payer earlier and somewhere else.

I answer; can I not say it's not important without war breaking out??

You can have your own opinion, obviously, but your comment sounded more like an instruction.

Personally if I didn't want to read about Darlington I just wouldn't have opened a thread entitled 'A thought about our neighbours down the A66'

Since when did pools start selling their own branded ivory towers?
Do you really think pools are "too big a club" now to even consider us as your rivals?
The reality is that you're also a shit little club, one that's struggling to cope out of the bottom division even with a million quid a season gifted to you.

To be honest I wish I'd never said nowt. I'm more rivetted to the six positions below us than the twenty four below that. That's all I meant.

Sorry if I sounded dictatorial. I'll shut me face, OK??

Whereas Darlington have a priority ticket out of the League and into oblivion.
Shitty little club?

Andy Krap hasn't hacked you account, has he?

Oh yeah, just before I shut me face, when we play you, your rivals, but you haven't been good enough lately. Speaks for itself really. And if we did want to sell home brand ivory towers we could, without ripping a local merchant off and paying 1% of the purchase price. So crawl back in your hole.

go on give him it spender

You throw the "we're better (currently) and you've ripped off businesses" comments and I'll counter with "your club's no bigger and you'd be shafted without IOR so get off your high horse" we'd both be right and we'd be here all day.

I will match that with "we will never play you again", you were correct on that but not the way you thought

I'll give you that it was foolish as in of course we'll play you again, I never sang it BTW

you never sang it?? is that cos you didnt know all the words

I've got all day, it's Chinese New Year. So we haven't got a bigger wages budget, a bigger squad, bigger crowds, bigger turnover, bigger season ticket income, bigger away support, bigger opponents, bigger owt else you care to mention, and we HAVE got IOR, some of the most astute club owners in the league who have recently stated they're here for the long haul so we're not shafted??

Granted, you've got a lovely big stadium but it's a bit like a prostitutes hole, it's useless when it's empty.

Actually I haven't got all day I'm on 1 till 10's so i'll be off after this post

You've got dwindling shit crowds really for a league 1 club, as I said you've got the edge on us at the moment but seem to be on the decline. Over our histories we're evenly matched though you've never won anything I won't play that card.

I hope for your sake that IOR are true to their word, I wouldn't want you to fold unlike some of you want us to. I'll take any lording rights you have with a pinch of salt due to you now having unfair advantage, we're now being run within our means, you aren't.

Toodle pip.

Whether they're dwindling or shit or not isn't the point. They're bigger. And we are run within our means, we owe no-one a bean. Including IOR. That said, we hardly feel a hole in the heart because we never got a trophy for the Fourth Division Championship. It only gives you bragging rights in the err....Fourth Division.

Enjoy your shift.

If "run within your means" means relying on vast handouts then you are right. I dont think any club is run any other way though, even our budget has gone out the window this year with the aftermath of administration.

Paying to run a company you own is hardly a hand out is it?? It's the advatages of owning that company that make it worthwhile. I've explained this until I'm utterly bored with it, but the idea of investment could well be foreign to you.

The GAP is closing every week ..

The gap is now a gaping chasm, which will only get wider as Darlo sink out of the League, and then out of existence.

Anything too complex in there?

you have more chance of getting bitten by a daffodil than Darlo escaping the drop

IOR paying for something they own isnt a handout, HUFC as an entity is relying on that money though so in that case its a handout.

Shut the fook up you tool.

Let the dog see the rabbit....Right, for pure hypocrisy, the ramblings of our sullen loid 'contributors' is beyond parody. We ALL know for a fact that if they had financially astute owners prepared to finance the club properly with our record of achievement since they arrived, they'd switch sides quicker than a windscreen wiper and be loudly extolling the many virtues of their brilliant owners with a barely disguised impersonation of old 'Loadsamoney'.
Even now as they enter the terminal phase of their stay in the League, as yet again they have to endure the drop into Conference, they stand defiant, even still going on about their tedious burger-carvery as though there's points to be gained from having one, doubtless they'll announce their arrival in the Conference by bragging they have the biggest ground in the division .... which is akin to a tramp in a squat wearing a monocle and believing he's Lord of the manor, you're tenants aren't you?

If these Loids who go on about 'handouts' knew how well respected our club is in the Football League for how well it's ran I actually think they'd start crying.

Post of the month for me, like......

You are arguing your first point with your last IOR own HUFC and are happy to pay money into it to keep it running. I work in biologicals and people do this all the time its called a loss-leader basically giving stuff away at a loss in order to utalise the options that that brings. In IOR case to own a football club and use it to open doors to clients.

I'd give up Mr Compo, it's like explaining why you have to breathe......

I want see an example of any football club in the bottom three divisions, or even the Premiership who are completely self sufficient!? One who wouldn't be royally screwed without investment....

Wouldn't Darlo be totally fooked without Raj Singh’s money? Or has the carvery had an upturn in trade?

They're totally screwed WITH Raj Singh's money. Do you think he's in love with football or has found an angle??

For those that think I reckon that Darlo dont rely on handouts either. You accuse us of not understanding this whole IOR thing but whether they own HUFC or not, the club is run as a seperate part of their main business. Therefore it is relying on the rest of IOR making money to fund it, in other words a handout! Just as Darlo rely on Singhs other business interests to fund it. No matter what you think its still a fookin handout!!!! Im not on here to cause a row but some of you lot are as blinkered as you accuse us Darlo fans of being!

For what its worth, yes I'd sooner be in your situation than ours but that doesnt change any of the above, a handout is a handout no matter hows its giftwrapped.

Let's face it, Darlo don't appear to have owners as such, just a series of financial airbags, they absorb the initial impact but they're still sat in a write off.

The subtle difference between us, is that we see it as an investment, you as an 'handout'...the attitude is in the words used.

Amazed to see Darlo brought so low. Surely relegation certainties.



Massive stadium for the conference!

Have a look in the conference at all the previous league clubs and consider what Mr M John has said in the past about the politics of the big 4 etc and don't gloat about anyone else's fate.........

How many clubs are in administration these days and it seems it's not by accident.

I can see no way Darlo could be sure of a quick return to Div 4.

And this is to assume they actually survive as a club.

Surely there's only so many times you could flog a dead hoss?

.... just once, in the 'Carvery'.... with horseradish sauce of course.

Just out of mild curiosity, which ground, Victoria Park or the White Elephant, can accommodate the most people for pre match meals?

having sampled the carvery at folly farm it was a big restaurant and i would presume other parts can serve food as well so probs there

Cheers Mr Bus. Having never eaten at either I just wondered. Particularly as we seem to keep adding to the capacity, but possibly only in relatively small numbers.

realisticly we have the centenary and the ck so wont hold great numbers and having sampled both i would say the cyril knowles carvery is the better of the 2 and you dont have to go outside to the toilet block

Our capacity for hospitality areas is 350 on a match day, the White Elephant might be able to accommodate more but I doubt it ever has, we did the last time we played.

This is why I asked the question originally, I suspected that despite the Loids claiming superiority over ourselves with their 'carvery', that we in our understated way actually had better facilities available as a 'match day experience'.

Are Darlo the only club ever to have fans who get more aroused by the catering facilities than the team .... and are proud of it? Do they have team pictures replaced by illustrated menu's ...? When asked for their capacity, do they instictively quote the seating in the Carvery .... it's a sad reflection that even when their team is enduring such a prolonged period of failure, the only thing they can grasp at in this sea of despair is the standard of food in the .Carvery' and then use it as a perverse bragging point... ..... a sure sign that if they ever did enjoy a mere touch of success, they would be totally insufferable.

Another balls-up today - 2-0 up with 9 minutes to play and lost 2-3

(Darlo, not us)

We won 2-1

Lizard ? or back scttler ..