[AndyDarloFC]

Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg wrote:

Christ, you guys have had it rough. I remember the Reynolds arena when that was built back in the early 00’s. What a white elephant that turned out to be

How are you doing with funding the new ground ? I’ve just had a look at Blackwell Meadows and that is nowhere near adequate.

It’s a shame the Darlo game is a Tuesday, you were the only club I’d have expected to bring 1000+ this year.

Enjoy it anyway, Fingers crossed both our fortunes can be reversed at some point in the near future

I think we all hated the Arena, was way too big for us and was never going to be sustainable. Was only a matter of time before shit hit the fan. Far too expensive to run.

Funding wise, we’ve not started much of it yet as we are waiting for plans to be announced and council to approve a plot of land (The idea is the same as everyone elses really. Get a plastic pitch to rent out 7 days a week, have shops etc built closeby to).
Yeah BM isn’t the best to be honest, I volunteer for the club and we had our 1st pre-season game on Saturday and the place was a shit heap, Rugby Club hadn’t done any general maintainence over the summer – So we had to clean all that up before the game. Ridiculous.

Yeah, if it was a Saturday we’d have easily brought over 1,000 – We tend to have a solid away following despite some of the distances in this “regional league”.

[AndyDarloFC]

Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg wrote:

I remember the 7-1 game, Barry conlan sat behind us after his sending off- he was livid.

Always saw Darlington to a similar stature as ourselves; what’s the reason they haven’t been able to progress from NLN as surely you have the supporter base for a crack at the EFL?

When the latest bellend Raj Singh (now in charge of Hartlepool) pulled his money 6 months after winning at Wembley, it truly KO’d us. He refused to hand over the “golden share” of the club meaning we got demoted 4 leagues and having to “restart”.

We are still the same club as when we went to the Northern League in 2012/13 we become fan owned and repaid all debts owed from Singh’s era. We had to spend 4/5 years groundsharing 12 miles out of town, finally coming back home on Boxing Day 2016 (the ground we are still at, which is a local rugby club, we aren’t allowed to upgrade the facilities as they won’t agree to it).
So we are stuck here till we get the funding together to get a 7/8000 capacity stadium where we can create our own income.

The fanbase is there, but the viewing points at our current ground is awful for anyone below 6ft.

Hoping for a good 4/500 to make the trip down to Scunny on that Tuesday. As someone who lived in Grimsby for 10 years before returning back to Darlo, I’m looking forward to coming to a game I can enjoy and not as a neutral between you 2 in the Lincs Cup.

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