Pete 🐑😂

Odd that reading are owned by rob cougig, formally Wycombe owner and wanted to buy Yeovil. What is driving successful US businessmen/lawyers to want to buy crappy league 1/2 teams

Got some mates who are Reading fans they are definitely looking up the table at what’s achievable rather than down at who’s behind them.

They appointed Leam Richardson end Oct after their poor start a4e. Since then, they've been in playoff form.

A4E - bet they still water the pitch though!

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It’s very very rainy again this morning, and it rained a fair bit overnight - hope the pitch will be fit for today….. 👀🤞 It’s tempting to say that Reading will beat us, and there certainly climbed up the table since their poor start - but if we could just manage to beat them, they’d only be 2 points ahead of us…

Morning all 0-2 defeat today Reading are easing their way steadily up the table our only ray of hope is a 3-1 loss at Orient on 17th January. To achieve the same we’d have to score 3 goals (obvs) and we’ve taken the last 10.5 home games to score that many. Chances of doing it in 1 game are slim. Morning all and ain’t it a lovely day?

I went to Smallwood primary school (which was almost hit by a V2 rocket during WW2) just behind those two tower blocks and the school is at one end of Pevensey rd where i was born and St George's hospital at the other end. The towers were definitely there in the 1960s and I remember visiting someone who lived there and also playing "run-outs" in and around those flats as a young kid.

First team manager Any chance of playing attacking, entertaining football,rather than the crap of the last 3.5 years please.

Sorry JJ

Im sorry but I have to come on here and say I never said that. And all of those who thought I’d be sacked by now, Bwa ha ha. We’re overachieving and staying up. Hope that sets the record straight

JJ on sky sports 2 at the moment punditing for Charlton v QPR - Says he thinks we should sell the club*

Is Stu still on here? Tried to DM him on Wednesday but he's not on Messenger now. I know he's still on FB.

OI - yes, and one has. The rights Issue was to help the in profit company to upgrade machinery/software was my understanding.

If we do eventually need to sell down below 50% (as I am pretty sure we will in due course) then having a rights issue where the DT doesn’t/ can’t afford to take up its shares, but the minority owners (including anyone who we bring in in the next “50%+1” phase) do take up theirs, may be one way to effect the transaction.

Laurence- I am not offended, though thanks for the apology anyway - I recognise that you read what you thought I was saying, rather than looking at the context and what I was *actually* saying. To me, Darlington just means a ridiculously big ground and the nonsense when they tried to sign Asprilla- I never really knew about the owner being a crook but if that is your immediate association with Darlington I can see why you jumped on my post. I was slightly put out at the time by you describing my post as “disgraceful”, rather than asking what I was meaning, but it’s all water under the bridge now, as I think we understand where we were each coming from.

Interesting Laurence. I presume we'd do a rights issue of A Ordinary shares and then the DT itself wouldn't be the only big player as most of theirs (ours) are Ordinary rather than A Ordinary. As I said yesterday it would be a NO from me, I value my shares at zero so you couldn't offer me an attractive price. Unless we go the JG route of very heavily discounted I can't see the take up as high, so insurance would probably be prohibitive. I presume the two companies you are involved with do, or at least expect to, make a profit.

Only just read back and regards Nick (W) post @ 8:10:03 I certainly only read it about the Darlington stadium and even replied around this never for 1 minute did I see anything around money laundering in that post so definitely feel Laurence owes Nick an apology if not already been given

OI - Thanks for the nudge - I have been in favour of a rights issue for a few years. The challenge though is finding someone to underwrite it. I wonder though in this modern day and age whether an insurance policy could be taken out to protect the club? Two companies I have shares with have done rights issues recently and both were oversubscribed.

Alan, I might just do that… 🤪😂👏

The Reynolds stadium in Darlington is still there and apparently used by a rugby club. I wonder who pays for the upkeep, the local council?

This is the current Darlington FC set up: Darlington FC @Official_Darlo · 6h Feb YOU DID IT! 🙌 1,409 Darlo fans now collectively own just over 90% of the club. @DarloFCSG set a target to hit 1,400 fan owners by the end of the season, and we exceeded that number with over two months to go. Absolutely sensational! Next stop 1,500 fan owners...

Golden Goal tickets on sale tomorrow will be done by month

@nick. Re your earlier point the Rugby starts at 440 not 345 so that gives everyone much longer in the ground to watch us score our first goal ??