What a season Will Hatfield is having so far at Darlington FC! 🥅⚽️ Referenced before the season started of his ability to break late in to the box, and the goal additions so far this season do not disappoint!: 👏👏👏

Some service from Rivers from 2019 - 2025. Excellent work-rate but time is probably right now. Those post-Jan Cam Salkeld performances in 23/24 should not be forgotten. Dragged us to safety along with Main. Injuries also robbed Nelson of a career in pro football. Good luck lads.

Love the way this Chester side is balanced. Bainbridge breaking it up to balance out the tempo-setting of Weeks. Murray connecting the midfield & attack. Mottley-Henry sheer pace & Peers who is a physical outlet up top. Got Scunthorpe on the ropes at the min.

🖊📝 Sensible Transfers - Centre Forward Edition - Darlington FC 🖊📝 I’ve taken a look at the possible centre-forward options available to the Quakers this summer as they look to mount an attack on the NLN play-offs under Steve Watson 👇👇⬇️ damnedliesandstatistics.blog/2025/05/18/sen…

I have an idea

Blyth Spartans are having to cut their player & management budget by 55% to just £133k for 25/26. Will likely be competitive at Step 4 but highlights the dangerous cycle of relegation & decreasing attendances.

🖊📝 Sensible Transfers - Central Midfield - Darlington FC 🖊📝 Following the contract renewals of Tom Platt & Will Hatfield, I’ve taken a look at the centre midfielders available to DFC this summer to further strengthen the engine room for 25/26 👉👉👉 damnedliesandstatistics.blog/2025/05/25/sen…

Ben Pearson You've got such a lovely writing style, Ben, if you don't mind me saying. You present your opinions well, but you knit the "stats" with them so that it isn't just purely a list of numbers. Enjoy your pieces.

These two centre-backs. Strong in ground duels & ever-improving in the air. Equally as impressive carrying the ball out from defence & progressing the ball with their range of passing. Strongest DFC centre back partnership since NPL 15/16 Brown & Burgess.

Oldham play-off winners with an ageing starting 11. In general terms, the average age of any squad is an over-rated metric as part of the squad-building process when attempting to put together a side to win promotion from the NL & N/S divisions, with small exceptions.

31 July 2022 & Pools finish 17th in the EFL & close the period with £1.7m in the bank. Fast forward 3 years as they finish 10th in the National League & the bank balance has sunk that low they require a £215k loan from Clarence 18 Ltd to pay May’s payroll bill of £122k.

Louis Storey deal back on then Darlington FC

Just clocked that Alun tried to sign Peter Jameson at Darlo after working with him at Blyth so will likely try again

I’m respectfully looking again….

It appears Hartlepool United Chairman Raj Singh has issued some form of a legal warning against the Poolie Bunker forum.

Gateshead will live to regret not keeping Rutledge permanently. Alun should have pulled the transfer (should have been a loan) but instead Darlo have bagged a centre-forward capable of scoring 20+ a season at Step 2 at just 24 y/o. Unreal bit of business for the Quakers.

Stuart Armstrong + the media team have simply taken DFC’s social media engagement up several levels and well in to the modern era. You love to see it.