Darlington fans forum post

overshoot

Let’s make Barrow on Saturday a celebration of the life of Darlington Football Club, not a wake or a funeral or an attack of those who have dropped us into this position.

Go to Barrow and show people around the world how proud we are of our team and our lads. Let’s show people that we still care, that we are still proud of the club and our town. Let’s show people that Darlington Football Club stands as an ambassador for our town and our area and we will not just give it up and slope off home. We will fight on.

Let’s show the players that that shirt still means something, that that shirt still needs to be worn with pride and that it is worth putting on that shirt and running out on that pitch and representing all of us one last time. One last go lads, everything you have got, one last time, 90 minutes of life as a Darlo player left. **** or bust, hero or zero. Go out with a bang and not a whimper.

Use this game to thank them and the legend that is Craig Liddle for everything they have done recently, against so much strife, unpleasantness and uncertainty and tell them that we are so proud that they are carrying on, lets get behind whoever takes a place on that pitch, regardless of opinion, past reputation or performance on the day. Because this might be the last time!

Lets show people what it means to be a fan of Darlo, celebrate those 128 years of existence. Celebrate everything that has gone before, the good, the bad, and the ugly, show people that we although we have been here through thin and thinner, that we have suffered blow after blow we are still not beaten ,we are still not broken, we are still here and we still stand proudly behind Darlington Football Club.

Show them that although we have been on knocked down and might be on the canvas right now we will get back on our feet and come out punching. It will be us who land the knock out blow. Use this day to shame all of those plastics and couldn’t give a damns in the town into thinking about what they could have been a part of, make them see what have been about, what we are about and what we will be about again.

Lets celebrate the good times, the 85 promotion, Boro, the Conference win in 89/90, Welling away, 90/91 champions, Rochdale at home, Knowles, Little, Hodgy Platt, Hodgy (again), Wembley in 96 and 2000 and that sweet moment in May when a little fella headed home from half a yard to win us the cup.

Make everyone who has knocked us or laughed at us over the years understand that today we embrace all of the crap players, the terrible teams, the rubbish managers and the crazy chairman who have afflicted us. Why? Because all of that makes the few good times even better. Because all of those things are what Darlington Football Club is about. Let’s show them what it means to call your self a Darlo fan one last time.

Lets also think of all those people in the Tin Shed in the sky who aren’t able to stand with us on Saturday, think about what the club meant to them and how they passed on that love for the club to you, think about how one day you want to pass that love on to the next generation so that they know what being a Darlo fan is all about. I am sure they will be stood leaning on that crash barrier under the Sunday Sun board with their scarf’s and flasks of Bovril thinking "typical bloody Darlo" - but they would still make the journey if they could! In fact I am sure they will be there with us. Sing that bit louder for them.

If anyone is unsure about going and is able to go they should make the trip, it could be your only chance to say goodbye to the team you love. It could be your last chance to wear the black and white and get behind the lads. Do whatever it takes to get to Barrow, wear your shirts with pride and wave your scarf’s one last time. Tell anyone you meet where you are going and why. Tell them you are proud to support the lads!

And should this turn out to be the last time then lets celebrate all of that, lets support the lads and the manager, lets keep singing up to the final whistle and beyond because this club means something to each and every one of us, it has been part of our lives for so long, it is what makes us who were are, it is what makes us better than everyone else and it might not be there for much longer. Let’s make this day one of the greatest moments for this football club.

If it is to be the end lets go out on a high, all guns blazing giving it everything we have got and not for one minute forgetting that we are Darlington Football Club and we will bounce back!

linky. thought id share but some of ye may have already seen it. a great write up of what a football club & all its history means means, wish em all the best

dreamers75

Thats a lovely stadium.

Gavin "shels"

overshoot wrote: »

linky. thought id share but some of ye may have already seen it. a great write up of what a football club & all its history means means, wish em all the best

It's the kind of thing you'd wish people in Ireland could understand, the Man Utd, Liverpool, etc... fans who think it's just a game they watch on the TV every Saturday. To a lot of those Darlington fans that club probably was a lifestyle more than just a team.

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Good man Gav!

*popcorn gif*

gimmick

TBH, I hate those rousing calls to arms which are designed for other posters to say "great post" and other such smoke up the hole blowing. You are a superfan. We get it.

overshoot

in all fairness he is just trying to drum up some support. its their last few weeks going by the administrators statement. its a sad world where people get blasted for trying to draw up support to save a club. sure it sounds tacky, but you you rather your club slip quietly into the night?
im guessing there may not be the option of folding and emerging debt free as has been done by some, but to me at least it is never the same club that reemerges

Kess73

gimmick wrote: »

TBH, I hate those rousing calls to arms which are designed for other posters to say "great post" and other such smoke up the hole blowing. You are a superfan. We get it.

True. But thankfully those threads calling for people to go to LOI games seem to have died down. :pac:



*checks guide to see what footy I can watch from my armchair tonight* :P

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Kess73 wrote: »

*checks guide to see what footy I can watch from my armchair tonight* :P

Liverpool don't even get to play on thursday evenings any more.:p

DOC09UNAM

Gavin "shels" wrote: »

overshoot wrote: »

linky. thought id share but some of ye may have already seen it. a great write up of what a football club & all its history means means, wish em all the best

It's the kind of thing you'd wish people in Ireland could understand, the Man Utd, Liverpool, etc... fans who think it's just a game they watch on the TV every Saturday. To a lot of those Darlington fans that club probably was a lifestyle more than just a team.

We got two posts in before a a sly dig, congrats.

Kess73

Des wrote: »

Liverpool don't even get to play on thursday evenings any more.:p

Never heard of them. :pac:

MagicMarker

Gavin shels wrote: »

It's the kind of thing you'd wish people in Ireland could understand, the Man Utd, Liverpool, etc... fans who think it's just a game they watch on the TV every Saturday. To a lot of those Darlington fans that club probably was a lifestyle more than just a team.

There's more to life than football.

dan1895

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

We got two posts in before a a sly dig, congrats.

Not a sly dig, just stating the obvious from what I can see.

Zebra3

In administration three times in ten years.

They should join the LoI. :pac:

Gavin "shels"

MagicMarker wrote: »

There's more to life than football.

Obviously, family, friends then football! But it's a big part!

Corholio

gimmick wrote: »

TBH, I hate those rousing calls to arms which are designed for other posters to say "great post" and other such smoke up the hole blowing. You are a superfan. We get it.

Or just designed to show a fan's feeling's. Just cos your Mr.Negative if the season just gone by is anything to go by. You'd never think you supported a team that were champion's of a division. But emotion = superfan right? :pac:

bohsman

Why do they support Darlington anyway? There are far better teams in England and across Europe.

gosplan

we embrace all of the crap players, the terrible teams, the rubbish managers and the crazy chairman who have afflicted us. Why? Because all of that makes the few good times even better. Because all of those things are what Darlington Football Club is about.

Administration 3 times in ten years you say?