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To be fair, Salford have cherry-picked some of the best players at National League North level. They have signed Michael Nottingham, who won the league with Solihull, Bradley Barnes from Flyde, Craig King from BPA and then signed Matthew Warburton from Curzon Ashton. Also signed Phenix from...

I think that you've mis-interpreted my post. I was actually sticking up for Halifax by saying that I couldn't believe what Morley was saying. Very surprised to hear that Halifax are paying wages of up to that much for part-time lads.

I wonder what Halifax fans think of this?: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3757843/Salford-City-managers-claim-no-friendship-Gary-Neville-Class-92-target-Conference-North-promotion.html "Morley is again on hand to ram the message home. 'We're looking for value,' he says...

To be totally honest I cannot see past either Flyde or Halifax for the league. Chorley were the best side we have faced so far. They had plenty of possession but just failed to make it count. Second half they committed bodies forward but each time we repelled their attack. Excellent...

Yes, the FA cup gets priority over our games, however league games don't as we play in a higher league than Bishop Auckland. Hopefully not too many of your fans will be out of pocket. 75 Kidderminster fans travelled up to Darlington the last time we played in 2011 (and that was with a link to...

Can't be helped. It is down to Bishop Auckland having a home tie in the FA Cup on that date. The FA Cup has to take priority, so therefore the game has had to be switched to the night before. Can't really see what more could have been done? Looks like as soon as the draw was made the clubs...

Fair bit of weirdness/trolling on this thread already. Do sense some jealously amongst certain individuals.... Anyway we beat Gloucester 2-1 today with 267 Darlo travelling down to Cheltenham, which is an absolute fantastic effort.

The Academy idea was a whole smoke-screen for the take-over. No sooner when the owners said that they wanted to invest in youth did they sign Danny Webber on £800 per week and sign half a team from Ramsbottom. The whole Sadiq El-Fitouri situation was a PR stunt too. Young right-back who got...

There was some sort of animosity there in the programme. As if whoever wrote the article had a huge chip on their shoulder about something. Curzon beat us to the title fair and square that season - and I think 99% of Darlington fans will admit that. Up until last night we'd only played them...

I felt as though Darlington were a cut above Curzon for large periods of the game. The game should have been killed off. We took the lead, and then had a number of chances to make it 2-0 in the first half, with Beck being denied with a fine save from Curzon's goalkeeper. We started the...

Some seriously poor attendances in the Conference Premier today; Braintree 1-3 Macclesfield: 703 Dover 2-0 North Ferriby: 726 Guiseley 0-2 Dag & Red: 680 Solihull Moors 1-0 Bromley: 756 Southport 2-1 Woking: 702 Can't remember attendances ever hitting those levels across so many games, unless...

Quite surprised at Gateshead's attendance yesterday - 730 home fans with no Newcastle or South Shields at home (South Shields regularly pull in crowds of 1,000+) The owners will want to hope that Aspin can put them on a play-off charge this season, because if not they'll struggle to pull in...

Watch the highlights of Salford City v Manchester United (U21's I think it is) this pre-season. There is a bloke stood behind Salford's goal with a Salford City top on that celebrates when United score their 3rd or 4th I think. Weird club, ran by a backward Chairwoman in Karen Baird who will...

To be totally honest I don't know much of that squad back then. But yes, we had all of those players mentioned above. The skinny lad would have been Neil Wainwright. I first started to support Darlo in our 09/10 season, when we were relegated from League 2. I could remember most of our...

They were, and would have been in our relegation season but instead Staunton refused to play Foster for a certain amount a games as a clause said he would be due a contract extension for the next year at the time. I'm not saying we would have stayed up, but it would have helped to have Foster...

Yes, the *Alan White* who has played for Notts County, Colchester, Boston, Leyton Orient, Luton etc. Born in Darlington. Had his first spell with us in 2007-2009. Came back to us in 2010 when we were relegated from League 2. Then re-joined the club in 2013 where he helped us to 2 promotions in...

Looking forward to this next season. Not too sure what to expect from any of the sides barring Salford. This season should prove a greater step-up than the Northern Premier League with some full-time teams. We've recruited relatively well so far. In has came Mark Bell (33), who won promotion...

Thank you for the reviews on Mark Beck, lads. He doesn't seem to have set the world alight but we'll see how he gets on. I'm just pleased to be posting in the FL/Conference Forums when looking for an opinion on a new signing. It's been a long time since I've been able to do that, most signings...

Thank you for the reviews re.Mark Beck Wrexham fans. He doesn't seem to have recieved glowing reports by all means, but I'll reserve judgement until I've seen him play in the Conference North. A step down may do him some good and he's still only young so plenty of time to improve. To be totally...

Yes, I noticed that he didn't really do too well at Wrexham. To be fair, he is still only young (22), and maybe dropping down a level will do him some good? We're going to need him to play that 'target-man' role though as we don't really have one.