bowlingcrofty

Anything ITV can do, BBC can do better....

Pivotal we get an early goal. They'll park the bus and if we don't score can see us getting frustrated.

Yakubu suspended for game v NUFC

Middlesbrough doing a bucket collection outside the ground tomorrow. Would be nice if we did the same on Sunday.

Btw he didn't say he wasn't playing, just hinted at it.

He must have been mistaken when he thought his team mates needed two goals in 2 weeks from him.

What did he say? Ben Arfa needs to know what the team needs from him etc....

Would be an appalling decision if we had everyone fully fit and available too.

Pardew interview on Total Sport hinting Ben Arfa wont play. Dear me.

Brighton will stick their first team out with the incentive of a plum home draw in the next round. Theyll do Wrexham with ease more than likely

What a guy http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1358611/United-starlet-intimidated-victim-knifepoint-mugging-spared-jail.html

Owen had a perfectly legit goal disallowed at 0-0 too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16486966.stm Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.

Newcastle v QPR New QPR manager Mark Hughes has got a lot of work to do but this is a great time for him to take over. They haven't won a league game for such a long time that there is no great pressure on him. Going to Newcastle will not be an easy start but we should remember the Magpies have lost Demba Ba to the Africa Cup of Nations and I think a point is a possibility for Rangers. Hughes brings with him a good coaching staff in Mark Bowen and Eddie Niedzwiecki. They are clever boys, who have been watching a lot of Premier League games since leaving Fulham last year. They will have been looking at players and thinking about who they might go for if they get a job with a top-flight side. That's why I think the QPR team you see on Sunday will be quite different to the one we will see in a couple of weeks, because of who they are going to bring in and the way they are going to start playing. Rangers' next four games after this one are Wigan, Aston Villa, Wolves and Blackburn. Those are the games where you pick your points up and I think they will get a decent return. Prediction: 1-1

.co.uk headline written already "Ravel is a Geordie"

Rumours of a late deal to save the club.

Makes the day trip impossible if it's Brighton. Top work, moneymen

Have to be registered by c.o.p. Friday don't they? Would need fees agreed tomorrow and medical friday, so seems unlikely.

Spurs Racists Mackems

no offer as of close of play tonight according to douglas

From a Darlo fan: So that looks like that. The bell is tolling for Darlington Football Club and it appears as though the final whistle on Saturday called time not only on a highly-emotional afternoon, but on our very existence. As the whistle blew there was a moment of sudden reality, a realisation that the club we all hold so close to our hearts was more than likely no more, resigned to be a statistic, to be another ex-football club, to simply be history. But for Darlington fans, if Saturday proved one thing, it's that this doesn't have to be the case. As I looked around I saw what supporting a football club should mean. There I saw the usual faces, pale, dejected and teary-eyed. However, if there was a risk of tears from myself it was soon allayed, for when you looked beyond this desperation, you saw what it meant to support our club. There were arms round shoulders, reassuring words and a sense of togetherness that has been absent for too long. We had found our identity again. The weight had been lifted, we were no longer a safe cracker's ego trip or a cowboy's plaything. For one last time we were simply Darlington Football Club, standing amongst friends and watching the team do us proud. That is what football should be about for every fan of every club. It was then that it became clear that the club can't die because Darlington FC is more than just a name, it's a community. Even if starting all over again remains the only way to maintain this, maintain it we must. And, if we can draw upon a level of togetherness similar to that we all showed as the lady was whistling, we can only succeed. The unity at Barrow showed that if the club ceases to be, then 128 years of history will not be lost. It will be carried forward in the hearts and minds of the people that make the club what it is. The biggest myth surrounding our club at present is that it's dying because of finances, stadiums and other factors too numerous to mention. On a literal level this may be the case, but in terms of what Darlington FC represents, the truth is the club died a good while ago. In recent years this club has treated good people badly. From David Hodgson to Steve Foster, to countless other players and people behind the scenes that have worked so hard drive the club forward, too many have been mistreated by this club and its owners in the past decade. What they all failed to realise is they might have owned the club, but the club will never be theirs. It's ours. What we now is an opportunity to rebuild our club, as a phoenix from the ashes baptised by the tears of real football fans. So if Saturday was to be our last call, our heads should not be hung in sorrow, but held high, for it is fans of clubs like Darlington that make football what it is. We will be back some day, and this time we will no longer be a rich man's plaything. The fans might not be millionaires but it is us that are all the richer for belonging to something very special for the past 128 years.

I've seen Ramage put three crosses in tonight and the best one of the three of them sailed out for a throw in with only one bounce.

Didnt bother with Virgin Money patches for the ressies

I was joking there.