Conference Reply

I disagree strongly. From the reply I got from the conf they are going to protect the integrity of the league for those clubs playing by the rules above those trying to manipulate/find loopholes. So it was worthwhile asking questions. However I totally agree with your statement let's concentrate on us n forge ahead full steam!! UTM.

Quoted from twitterman

In the end no matter what the Conference are doing we've still got to win the fixtures to get as far up the table as we can this season.Complaining about what other clubs are doing is clutching at straws in my opinion as nothing can be done about it so lets up all our unused banter sod thats going on and get behind Town
TBH complaining about it to the Conference is llike pi$$ing in the wind and trying to catch it

I just think it should be a level playing field - or as level as possible.

The bigger problem may be Kettering..

Find it funny that so many are quiverring their chins and stamping their little feet and crying "it's just not fair!"

If any team can get a premiership player on loan - good luck to them. If that premiership team's loan is free, so what? Would we complain if we had a friendly premiership team loaning us reserve players? No - I'm sure everyone would probably think that we deserve it, but yet for some reason Darlington don't.

For crying out load - the game isn't fair. Get over it. We don't have any billionaires funding our club. Why not write to the league and demand that this be put right immediately?

Agreed Kettering are plodding on n full respect to them! How bad were Lincoln to lose to a side in such a mess. Luckily SnH prepared us well n focussed on winning whatever Kettering said or did pre match!

Quoted from marinerjase

The bigger problem may be Kettering..

There is something we you can do about that one:


Kettering Town FC have still not received over £200,000 in outstanding sponsorship from DRC Locums - overdue since last year.

As a result our players and suppliers have not been paid and many people are being evicted from their homes. The club faces a winding up petition on 6th February and after 140yrs history the club could be liquidated.

If you have the opportunity please:

1. Sign the online petition urging DRC Locums to make payment:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save ... g-town-fc/ and/or

2. Forward this email to your friends, work colleagues and other football lovers and/or

3. Post a thread on your fans forum and/or

4. Paste to facebook/twitter

5. Call DRC Locums on 01908 545999 and ask why a £60m company is not paying their debt


Many thanks in advance for your assistance. It may help save our club.

daveyboy

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Wrong petition came up?

Quoted from Trawler

Jase - it's the principle for me - if Darlo are operating outside the rules or rules are being bent to keep them alive then in my view the wrong doing should be exposed and they should go - it's fairer to every team in  the Conference. We'll all know where we stand and we can concentrate on what we're doing.  A line will have been drawn in the sand.

I feel sorry for their fans but their team has had one too many reprieves for my liking - while our executive management has played within the rules, done everything to avoid admin and racked up huge debts doing so.

Good on Ticker I say - keep bugging the Conference.

Kettering have been able to bring in a couple of players because unlike us they didn't register their youth team.

Our squad on Saturday contained ten teenagers. If you compare the Kettering line up to the Darlington line up, theirs is vastly more experienced. We have effectively been punished because we registered our youth players in order to fulfil our fixtures, something that Kettering haven't done.

Also if Grimsby have racked up "huge debts" who are these debts owed to and why haven't they been called in? Grimsby fans cannot complain if you are spending more than you earn.

Lastly, what do you lads hope to gain by trying to screw us even more? We beat you, and if we get weaker and weaker we are more likely to get hammered more and more by other teams which is hardly playing to your advantage.

Quoted from ticker_1610

Wrong petition came up?

So it is! This one is the correct one I think:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-kettering-town-fc/

Quoted from ticker_1610

I had my say after someone posted the conf contact details. We shouldn't have to face Darlo with them fielding Chship/Prem loan players, York didn't have to n Darlo did enough with what they've got to earn a draw. I respect Darlo for grinding that result out n that's demonstrated they don't need an influx of quality players others can't have or afford! It's purely on principle of fairness I complained to the conf.

Whoa, wait a minute, we might loan odd players off Boro like you might loan them off Hull, what's the problem?

Bottom line is we have MASSIVELY reduced our wage bill, with only 9 pro players left (3 of these are 19 year olds on peanuts), and nobody can say we attempted to hold on to well paid players during administration.

It is now getting to the point where we cannot field a decent team (despite the York result), exasperated by injuries, and the integrity of the competition is being brought into question.

How is it fair on teams such as yourself who played a full strength Darlo team and lost, if we are going to end up getting tanked 6-0 off all your rivals next month?  

I think you're cutting off your nose to spite your face.