DARLINGTON Football Club is facing a third spell of administration in nine years, reports emerging from the club this afternoon suggest.

Sources claim the club will be put into administration today by chairman Raj Singh.

It is understood the players will not be paid tomorrow when their monthly wages are due.

Players have reacted on Twitter.

Jamie Chandler tweeted: "Why man!? Did we really deserve this? One month was all we needed... Oh dear."

Aaron Brown said: "Bad News but predictable..."

Adam Rundle simply put: "Gutted."

John McReady, who was with the club when it went into administration in 2009, said: "Only 19 and already experienced admin twice. To say I'm gutted is an understatement."

No official statement has yet been made by the club. However, club chairman Raj Singh who took over following the previous spell in administration is believed to be in meetings this afternoon following his return to the country late last night.

a 'lovely lovely person''s trick if it's simply to stop a takeover... but that's assuming there really is going to be a takeover.
Maybe he's calling their bluff to make them agree to his own terms in a very short timeframe

It's one way of getting them to take a pay cut.

Not sure in what he actually owns, and what is involved with the ground.

Don't the Conference have some rule about clubs going into admin twice being booted out (e.g. one or more of Scarborough / Halifax / Boston) ?

Darlo fc founded in 1883 .. in the same year' Buffalo bill 'Cody staged his first wild west show,and the British empire abolished slavery..

Dead in 2011, the same year as the Chimp off the Tarzan fillums.....

Well, with Neale Cooper back at the helm, and the Loids destined to crash into oblivion, I'll raise a glass of rouge to a FANTASTIC 2012 before it's even begun

Very childish. To wish to beat Darlo is perfectly reasonable, to laugh at their demise is crass in the extreme.

To be honest, I would laugh at almost any teams demise

Most of the couldn't of given a tuppenyfuck about us and 'Fans United' day rammed it home to me



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Show some compassion Talbot..Drop that guard you old goat..

We should be telling you to drop the goat

I just don't get it, Anth.

I can only remember enjoying one derby game. And even then only once 2-0 up and cruising. I felt so stressed and fearful for a week leading up to the games and during them. No game in the last 5 years has had the intensity of a Darlo game and I want them back.

In my dream world Darlo are always in our division (losing fiercely contested derby games by 4 or 5 goals twice a year).

I take no pleasure whatsoever from their decline and end. Without IOR (and that day will come) there but for the grace of god.............

To lose Darlo would be like losing a twin brother who you hated but had to get along with for family reasons....It would be a very very sad time for real football fans at our club to wish Darlo out of business because no matter how we do in the future we will NEVER get a REAL local derby again....and that includes ALL north east teams.. I for one hope to hell Darlo survive because I miss them games more than anything other games can offer.

Some of you need to get a bloody grip.

I have no wish to see Darlo go bust, but oh how I love to see them suffer. A lifetime of suffering for them is just about perfect.

And yet some of you seem to want them to become successful and get back to back promotions and be on the crest of a wave.

I cannot believe for one second that any Newastle fan wishes any success for Sunderland, Celtic for Rangers, Bristol Rovers for City, Arsenal for Tottenham and so on.

Yet some of you daft gets actualy want them to do well. If they DID do that well, they would join us on a massive up, and probably hammer us, and have bigger crowds, and become a bigger club, and could probably make good use of their ground.

Unless of corse you want us to go down to league two and for them to go up to league two, and for the nromal service of the 1970's to resume.

Only in Hartlepool. You couldnt make this up.

Happy new year

I'll give you your bite you crave........so here goes hope it's what you wanted..

Real fans love real football matches and derby games are proper football matches. Of course Rangers fans would miss the old firm, jesus how shyte would that league be without them, and any north london fan i have spoken to loves their derby too. Yes they may talk about wanting the worst for their rivals but they would soon miss it much like some Pools fans are missing the intensity of the derby fixture now.

Mackems and Geordies glory in their rivals relegations etc but soon wish them back for the following season to savour the unique build up and feeling you get for derby games. We will probably never experience that again and it is a massive shame IMO

I think I am with the Colonel on this one, feck em, they are an irrelevance and now way beyond a joke or any semblance of rivalry.

Sure I miss the derby games, but really only those when we won. How fitting then that what looks like our last ever meeting was at their (let's not deny it) super if oversized stadium and our victory and by default their humiliation was so complete, capped off by one of the few goals I'll never tire of seeing again.

The Darlow "we'll never play you again" chants during the Reynolds era have a certain sweet resonance these days.

I can't believe that any true football fan would relish the collapse of any football club. I hope that Darlington survive their latest crisis and eventually get back into the football league. We have been in a similar position ourselves ,on a number of occassions, and the thought that Pools could have gone out of business gave me sleepless nights.
What this episode does show is that small clubs are being squeezed out by falling gates, high wages and the rise of the mega clubs.

Imagine if you will the current economic survey into the impact of the football club on the towns economy proves that the club has little or no impact on the overall prosperity of the town and the council decide to retain the ownership of The Vic.

What do IOR do? Keep pumping millions into the club in these prevailing economic conditions, and oil prices and stocks remaining volatile? or decide enough is enough and it was fun while it lasted but feck them if the towns people don't care about the club and the council don't we'll just leave them to it.

What happens then???? How far away are we from Darlo's predicament??

There by the grace of Hod i say and thank you IOR.

Listen lads, I think we'll be liquidated. If that happens, we'll just start again, simple as that.

You can put the derbies on hold for a long time, maybe for ever, though.

The squirrel will more than likely be proved right.

I wouldn't be too hasty. Maynell and this consortium (back by Alan Noble and a few others) are waiting in the wings.

The sums don't add up kiddo, and never will.

And thats why I think you'll go into admin followed by another phoenix.

Either way, you've got to get rid of that millstone from your neck.