Spanish Seagulls
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It would be nice to see the North Easts bigger clubs use Darlington to blood their younger players using the experience they gain to develop them. Just a thought.
That's fantastic. Cheers for that.
They will, but there will be no club to conduct the rehabilitation, so any player with a serious injury would end up being treated in hospitals, private clinics and so on, with no day to day contact with other footballers and little prospect of finding a new team. Any of our players getting crocked will be working closely with the club to get fit again, for however many months it takes. There can't be much motivation if you're on your own.
Bloody hell, that is very sad to see.
I feel confident they'll pop up again. Shame to see it happen, I'd feel worse if they didn't piss their money away on a stadium they didn't need, but it's still sad to say any club get wound up.
As a side note, they were responsibly for the dullest football match I've ever seen. Went to visit my sister who lives up Leicester way, had to spend the day with her husband so we decided to take in a football game at any old club. Notts County 0 - 0 Darlington. One shot all game. Our steward had a dead magpie.
Terrible.
I knew they had built that ground but I am embarrassed to say I was totally unaware it had a 25000 capacity. Seriously who would be brainless enough to do build that ?.
Makes you wonder what the future holds for a lot of clubs tbh.
Personally I think that ground sharing would likely be the way to go for a lot of clubs. Not just the small one's either.
I know lots of people don't agree, or like the idea but it does make sense at least financially. Look at the likes of Notts county and Forest. You are literally a stones throw away from each other. That is ridiculous. Not to mention the closest two in Britain being the Dundee clubs. They cannot exactly be flush.
The scousers want a new ground and Evertons is falling apart, and they are Stanley park away from each other. Logic says sell both grounds and build a 70,000 spanking stadium on the park.
Appreciate this would not work for some isolated clubs like ourselves but there are a number of clubs it could work for.
I know someone will no doubt find an "Alternative" angle, but it seems to have worked in Rome and Milan without any problems and theya re not even the small teams. So why not ?.
Although exactly how any of this can help Darlington now, I have no idea unless the Geordies fancy changing grounds and calling it St James Park..... they might be quite happy with that.
How did the club ever get planning permission to build their stadium (it even holds more than the Amex), considering how long it took for the Amex to get the go ahead.
Because the Amex was built on the South Downs, on the edge of a National Park. The Darlington Arena, was built in* Darlington.
*on the edge of
I was there. Gabbiadini was excellent for Darlo that day and even got a round of applause from the 'home' fans after his 3rd which he politely acknowledged. We, on the other hand, were lucky to get nil as they sayFOOTBALL LEAGUE DIV 3 Sa 13Mar 1999
RESULT
Brighton 0 -4 Darlington
HT 0 - 1 FT 0 - 4
Marco Gabbiadini (24, 48, 86)Peter Smith (og 72)
Remember this, went to see spurs play villa at home instead.
Always hope for Darlington, but might take 13 years!
I was there. Gabbiadini was excellent for Darlo that day and even got a round of applause from the 'home' fans after his 3rd which he politely acknowledged. We, on the other hand, were lucky to get nil as they say
The steward sat in front of us was playing around with a dead magpie. He thought it was funny because Notts County are all about magpies. I dunno, they have to make their own entertainment up north.What?
Don't you see a massive contradiction between your third sentence and the first & last?A sad day for football, and I hope Darlington start again in the lower leagues and make a comeback, ala Aldershot and Wimbledon.
I dont want to sound an arse, but this is the third time in eight years that they have gone in adminastration, so maybe its time to let them go.
Personally I get fed up with business writing of their debts, and starting up doing exactly the same thing but with a slightly different name.
Hope the Darlington fans set up a new club, and have happier times.