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Out of interest why are some of our fans getting on their high horse regarding Darlington? Shouldn't we be concentrating on our own club?

Quoted from RoboCod

So he didn't have enough to cover? Let me quote Stan_Darlo from earlier in this thread..

You're right, Houghton was pumping money we did't have into the club and we had some brilliant players. Little did we know he all the money he was spending was a loan that he decided to recall when he'd had enough

A loan? Of a finite amount? That is NOT cover for wreckless spending. And IF Fenty ever decides to pull out he still will not have the fact that he was spending money owed to small businesses on more players hanging over his head, nor the fact that his players went unpaid. Bored of repeating this now.

Stan Darlo was talking about George Houghton who spent money he didn't have and plunged us into administration number 2.

Quoted from Quakerz

An embargo is SURELY ONLY to stop said team from SPENDING ANY MORE MONEY, it's surely not about making sure the team is systematically weakened to the point of whipping boys in some bizarre punishment ritual. If a club gets a couple of free loans it is not spending any more money.

My gripe isn't aimed at Darlos present situation, nor particularly at the outgoing money (though you'd be paying these players? ). It just sets up a potentially unfair system. You could (and looks like you do) have the sympathy of giants like Newcastle/Sunderland who will want to help out a neighbouring club in peril. So you get (technically) Premiership players for free, probably ensuring you stay up. Other clubs, whether through size or location may not get that treatment and are down to the usual rummage through the bargain bins, hardly helping them out at all. Again, it's the flaw in the system I'm seeing here, another grey area that could be exploited by some.
For what it's worth, I don't have an answer for this

Quoted from Quakerz

Exactly. We weren't "cheating", we were living "within the means available to us" like Grimsby. Then that funding got pulled.

Bye, haven’t you gone yet, you have a club to save. Bye.

Quoted from Marinerz93

I see there are no appologies coming forward from Darlington fans for verbally abusing a woman at work just because she comes from Grimsby.

Show me the evidence of it happening and I will apologise on behalf of Darlo fans.

Quoted from Quakerz

Exactly. We weren't "cheating", we were living "within the means available to us" like Grimsby. Then that funding got pulled.

Didn't the pulling of said funding happen around the same time that his other interests in land around your stadium got denied/blocked.

Quoted from RoboCod

My gripe isn't aimed at Darlos present situation, nor particularly at the outgoing money (though you'd be paying these players? ). It just sets up a potentially unfair system. You could (and looks like you do) have the sympathy of giants like Newcastle/Sunderland who will want to help out a neighbouring club in peril. So you get (technically) Premiership players for free, probably ensuring you stay up. Other clubs, whether through size or location may not get that treatment and are down to the usual rummage through the bargain bins, hardly helping them out at all. Again, it's the flaw in the system I'm seeing here, another grey area that could be exploited by some.
For what it's worth, I don't have an answer for this

Neither do I.

Quoted from Marinerz93

Didn't the pulling of said funding happen around the same time that his other interests in land around your stadium got denied/blocked.

Yep, he'd decided he'd had enough of putting money in. His prerogative I suppose.

Quoted from Quakerz

Stan Darlo was talking about George Houghton who spent money he didn't have and plunged us into administration number 2.

Yeah, I randomly picked Admin to discuss. Houghton, Singh, Reynolds, they all stung you (though Singh isn't in the same league as the other 2)..but can't be compared to Fenty and his current financial woes. Deliberate wreckless spending over basic mis-management is my point, meet me halfway on this, I haven't mailed the BSP bosses and I haven't wished you out of business.

Quoted from Marinerz93

It will be a new experience for you, getting whipped that is.  You see we had over 5 seasons of that because we were paying our debts whilst trying to compete with sides who just popped into admin when it suited them.  Watching players going through the motions or simply not being good enough was what a lot of our younger fans have had to stomach.  It effects the gates and morale, maybe when you have savoured this you will apprieciate were a lot of our frustrations have come from.

We've had 3 decent seasons in the last 10 or so, my 29 years supportin has been about watching vastly inferior teams to the ones you have watched. Don't tell me I need to know what it's like to watch excrement, uncaring players etc etc, when I've got the T-Shirt mate.