Evo-Stik North Prem

[appletablepenny]

An absolute weapon - that's what he is.

We tore up his contract (very early in) to allow him to join full time football at Darlo. When they subsequently went pop he promised to come back to us, before giving backword and went to Guiseley.

He doesn't seem to last long wherever he signs, and there were rumours of fall-outs when he was at Alty. An absolute weapon maybe, but very good at what he does.

 

[Raymondo316]

Blyth must be devastated

Finish with 99 points and still dont win the league...then lose to Workington who grabbed 5th place on last day of the season

 

[DarkSithLord]

Tonights Results

Blyth 3-4 Workington
Salford 3-1 Ashton United (After ET)

 

[Darlofan97]

The club holding the golden share went bust, that's all that matters. Regardless of stripping assets to a different shell company - which is a definition of what you did.

Otherwise every club could do it, strip assets to a different shell, let that go bust and then have no debts left in the main club. Whether you did it with good intentions and paid back the creditors or not - thems the rules.

Like you say, it doesn't matter to yourselves - but I'll have none of this "we're less reformed than you" willy waving

No, no, no. I don't think you're actually noting any points I'm making.

The football club that owned the 'golden share' did not go bust! Darlington Football Club were taken-over by DFC1883Ltd, who then needed to obtain the golden share from former-Chairman Raj Singh to operate under the playing name 'Darlington FC'. Raj Singh refused to sign the 'golden share' over meaning that we could not use the playing name 'Darlington FC'. That did not mean that the football club went bust, it just meant that the football club had to choose a new name and apply for a new golden share. That did not mean that the football club went bust, it just meant that we had to apply for a new 'golden share'!.

In regards to asset stripping, that is complete utter rubbish. The take-over of the club was completed and we were set to exit administration without a CVA as we had sufficent funds to satify the 'footballing creditors'. Debts totalled £300,000, but we are a new club, right, and new clubs don't hold debts, right? Exiting administration with no CVA would have seen us demoted to the Northern Premier League (Step 3) but the 'golden share' issue forced the FA to recognise us as a new club (through a certificate!) hence why we were demoted to the Northern League (Step 5).

As far as I'm aware, there have been a number of clubs in the past who have used this take-over method of exiting administration with no CVA, the different being they recieved the golden share and we didn't. That does not mean that the football club went bust! It just means that we don't have a certifcate saying our playing name is Darlington FC. Indeed, we use Darlington FC on merchandise, website etc etc, we could not do this if the football club was liquidated.

No willy-waving by me, as I stated in a previous post. To be totally honest though, that post has angered me a lot due to the blatant disregard of the facts.

 

[chipmunx]

looking from the outside at the Darlington situation and being a Barrow fan and having gone through the turmoil's ourselves but remained as the old club having bought everything I would say that Darlington are NOT the old club - BUT would be if they ever did manage to get hold of that golden share.... BUT I would also add that at present they are far closer to being the original club in all but name that the likes of Halifax and Chester

 

[Harrier94]

Blyth must be devestated

Finish with 99 points and still dont win the league...then lose to Workington who grabbed 5th place on last day of the season

Exactly what happened to us a few years ago, pushed for the title until the final day then burned out in the playoffs

 

[chipmunx]

Exactly what happened to us a few years ago, pushed for the title until the final day then burned out in the playoffs

exactly what we did to Telford in 2007/8 got into 5th place in the last week then played Telford in the Semi finals who were very unlucky not to win the league (I think Kettering had won it). We'd already beat them 6-0 aggregate in the 2 league games and beat them 2-0 home and away. finishing 2nd in a close race seems to take a lot out of a team and they rarely win in the play offs. AFC Fylde is another case in conf north last year. they bottled the league (beaten by us) then bottled the play offs.

 

[SRNP]

8th finish for Nantwich town, Cup runs ruined their playoff push with midweek games, but overall a great season for The Dabbers. The 6-4 agg loss in the FA Trophy Semi's vs Halifax obviously the highlight, no shame in the way they went out. Matty Koslyo getting Player of the season as well, Andy white must have been up there also. Hopefully they can kick on next season and go for a play-off push but I fear they'll lose several of their main players in the next few months.

Congratulations to Darlington. Great to see them climb the tables again. In the 2009-10 season (maybe?) I remember Crewe playing them and they were a shambles, the worse team I saw that season and I remember thinking that they were doomed when we stuffed them as we were terrible at the time.

Onwards to 2016-17!

 

[Pliny Harris]

Chuffed for Workington, hope they go for glory now. They've really hit form so there's no reason they can't.

 

[appletablepenny]

exactly what we did to Telford in 2007/8 got into 5th place in the last week then played Telford in the Semi finals who were very unlucky not to win the league (I think Kettering had won it). We'd already beat them 6-0 aggregate in the 2 league games and beat them 2-0 home and away. finishing 2nd in a close race seems to take a lot out of a team and they rarely win in the play offs. AFC Fylde is another case in conf north last year. they bottled the league (beaten by us) then bottled the play offs.

North Ferriby did the same the year before that

 

[genesimmons]

Been a north eastener am dissappointed about blyth, would have been great to have 2 north east teams in conf north for first time in years. Now lets hope workington beat the class of wankers team

 

[TheMinsterman]

Gutted for Blyth, hopefully next year is their year.

 

[DarkSithLord]

Former Red John McGrath has been named as the new Manager of Micklover Sports following the resignation of former Heanor Town management duo Craig Hopkins and Glenn Kirkwood.

John was superb while with us and is a real gentleman. Just the type of midfielder we are desperate for in all honesty. Wish him all the best

 

[AndyPark]

I see Stamford have been reprieved because Cinderford refused promotion.

They looked half decent when we played them at Spennymoor in April. Another long trip for both Workington/Blyth/Spennymoor to travel to, likewise for Stamford's return trips.

 

[Solihull Mooron]

We've signed Jamey Osborne from Redditch. Is he any good?

 

[David Curries Mullet]

Spennymoor going for it. Have signed Jamie Chandler, Rob Ramshaw and James Curtis from Gateshead, Graeme Armstrong from us, and Andy Johnson from Ashington.