I see the ex Salford & Chester duo are now installed as joint Managers at Spennymoor Town.

A bit of a distance from their homes near Manchester - must be a decent contract then?

Till they get the call from the North West to migrate back to a club at a lower level
It’s in their DNA.

To be fair to them, looking back they did bloody well with money at their disposal. Since Salford have gone through manager after manager, but your right can't see them being their for years.

The big push for Spenny to get into the heady hights of the "National League"?
Personally i would stay in NLN!

its the year 2028 - Spenny are in L2 - DC is their manager - Our local rivals now become Spenny - we face them in the playoff final. Stranger things have happened !

DC suddenly disappears......and is found like a contented homing pigeon in Chester!

You mean Stockport won't be in the Premier league by then???

In all seriousness I doubt Spennymoor will ever make the EFL

Nah ...they’ll be in the Eurolotsofdosh League then with Spennymoor Goliath’s, Foret Verte Vagabonds and Ville de Harrogate.

well 20 years back who would have thought fleetwood, salford, forest vegans and harrogate would with bury plying their trade below northern league standards. nothing would ever surprise me with football nowadays.

The thing that's missing from that list - and you could go way back further into the mists of time with the likes of Hereford becoming a Football League club - is any team from the North East breaking into the EFL. It feels even less likely than England winning a second World Cup.

Just by getting their League status back Pools were bucking a very long trend. The old Darlo did it too but couldn't hold onto it, and we know where they are now.

It would be great to get a proper Football League derby. Can Gateshead do it even with the handicap of their horrible ground? Somehow I doubt it.

The Brewery field has struggled with segregation in the past, Darlington fans know all too well what I'm talking about. They had York there a few months back and it was pandemonium.

The ground literally has no parking whatsoever. Although they have now opened a nearby wasteland for parking I'm not sure how the EFL would feel about that.

I think If Spennymoor got to the EFL they'd be the least populated town to have a club?

FG Vegans beat them hands down. "The New Lawn Ground is situated on the western edge of the picturesque Cotswold town of Nailsworth."

Nailsworth has a population of 5,794. I live in a village that's almost as big as that!

but they,d be closer to larger towns that the vegans now are and workington in the past. think they,d end up like a lot of these new clubs where things would be fine at the start and continue whilst the club was overperforming. once a struggle starts that would be it as the majority of these fans and clubs do not know what a struggle is and are unprepared mentally as well as financial for that day.

They're so forgettable I forgot they existed

I'm sure I did hear though that Harrogate was the smallest town to have an EFL club. I guess the fact I believed that shows how small they are.

All these hobby clubs have a life span the length of the owner’s interest. You can’t get too comfortable supporting them because they can disappear in a ‘puff of boredom’ on the owners commitment in a very short time....there’s no history, no background to survive with those gates unless copious amounts of cash are being pumped in.

Rushden & Diamonds spent £30m on their ground development in the 90s.

Club defunct 2011

Stadium razed to the ground 2017

Shame that, the ground I mean, what a waste.

Messrs Johnson & Morley.... sounds like a firm of Funeral Directors.

The old Darlo? I'm wondering if you know the full story?

Here we go again You're a phoenix club, Darlington 1883, formed, to quote the BBC, "after the demise of Darlington FC in 2012."

Raj yadder yadder watch out yadder yadder...

Have you got nowt better to do?

I've got lots of things to do thanks very much, it only took me about 7 seconds to write my above 11 words. It would take me probably ten minutes to explain to you why Darlington are not a "phoenix club" but I get the impression that your mind is well and truly closed re this topic.

I wonder who knows more about it though? Me, or you?

Hmmmmmmm.

infidel.....as darlo why on earth are you on this board ?.....apart from that is conducting a vendetta against our chairman ....along with your sad mates....who on earth cares about your definition of a phoenix club......there are plenty around.....one things for certain.....darlo are dead and buried....georgie boy saw to that....l see you like bricks....did you get along to buy any of your feetham bricks this week....nostalgia eh??.....ps it took me 3 mins 10 secs to write this....wow ... and just look at those toilets....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZFQ-nFi_4Q ..... ... toilets at 2.22

I come on this board occasionally to see what's happening at HUFC and I have no 'vendetta' against anyone.

The rest of your post is just infantile goading and not worth bothering with, apart from noting that you don't know what a capital letter is used for.....

oh my...capital letters.....is that the best you can do ?????.....your puerile response confirms my impression you would be the type to appreciate a little infantile goading....so you come on here "occasionally to see whats happening at hufc" ....but you've posted nearly 100 times pal ....surely you can do better than that bs......

To cut a long story short, darlo uncovered is now so dead they have to come on here to get conversation.

yeah.......sad and lonely like his mate loan star???

Well i've just burst into tears..turning on the poor loids and so near to xmas as well

Any hufc 2022 diaries going spare so we keep an eye on raj ,poolie1?

Personally I usually find Loan Star to be quite a fair & reasoned poster. There are odd exceptions of course !

I personally find Loan Star quite a fair & reasoned poster, most of the time. There are odd exceptions of course !

Oops ! Double post, sorry !

It's buzzing? lots of new posters..dneyxx,xty1z,nnefdd3,xhgg4.

They're so forgettable I forgot they existed

I'm sure I did hear though that Harrogate was the smallest town to have an EFL club. I guess the fact I believed that shows how small they are.[/quote]
question. anyone know what the largest town in england is without an EFL team or one in the higher part of the non league pyramid. must be either castleford or keighley.

It's an age thing Jon

Getting worse an all, Mick !

If you read back on my posts, you’ll see no goading or vendettas going on with me, so you’re either mixing me up with someone else or supplying ‘banter’ because that’s the way you roll.

Originally I came on here to communicate with someone called (I think) pjpoolie, who was being a knob on here and on our message board too. I think he’s been banned from this forum now but I could be wrong.

Anyway, the point I made above was that DFC are not a phoenix club, that’s all - Christmas greetings to you

question. anyone know what the largest town in england is without an EFL team or one in the higher part of the non league pyramid. must be either castleford or keighley.[/quote]

Would Stockton qualify??

its just they lost their ground unlike chester and halifax who were in a similar position didn,t. can go back further and if my memory is correct didn,t the boro and bristol city both pack up and then re form under new ownership but kept their league status. none of these clubs actually had a gap in not playing any games at any level.

Wakefield has a population of 99k (2011), that's more than Hartlepool.

Guildford. Big place, no football club to speak of.

Bit like Darlington then???

Indeed. Although knowing someone from there I'd be shocked if It ever will have one.

It's just a place that isn't a football place. Although, I once had that same view about places like Cheltenham and Harrogate

The thing with Guildford is that you’re just a short train journey away from multiple top level clubs.

Just cheated and googled it, seemingly Basingstoke. However like Guildford, too much local competition.

Looks like Gateshead goin up to National League.
For a 202500 population support is abysmal.

So? Support your local club. Too easy for some ‘flexible’ supporters...”now which shirt am I wearing today in the pub?”

Think that's got a lot to do with their matchday experience being abysmal. Gateshead Stadium is an athletics venue. It's useless as a football ground.

The only thing I can think of that was as bad is the Shay at Halifax when there was a dog track around the pitch.

I hate the place, a god forsaken windswept experience, bit like playing football on an airfield. They need a ground, mind you, when the Geordies have infected your fan base it could be an uphill struggle. Trouble with Gateshead is the neighbours overshadow everything you do, bit like Salford with Manchester.

1375 crowd at Salford yesterday.
Not going to plan for the ex man utd players.

A lot of people say Gateshead will never attract a large fan base with Newcastle so close, yet South Shields is just as close and manages fine.

I've spoken to many Gateshead fans, and even the most ardent of supporters admit the International Stadium is far from perfect. Despite the large capacity it definitely holds the club back.