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Again! it is almost every month!

There actually seems to be a bit of a dispute between the SPL and Hearts over whether or not the wages have been paid.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16585391.stm

SPL said:
On January 4, 2012, a sub-committee of the SPL board made various orders relating to late payment of wages due to 14 Heart of Midlothian players.

One of those orders was that Heart of Midlothian should make full payment of January salaries due to the 14 players by the due date of January 16, 2012.

The Scottish Premier League has now received confirmation from Heart of Midlothian that the club has failed to comply with this order.

Hearts said:
The club totally refutes the suggestion made in today's statement from the SPL that it failed to comply with this order.

Whatever happens there are going to be huge cuts at Hearts in the summer.
 
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Wednesday will now see the first leg of the Johnstones Paint Trophy Northern Final between Chesterfield and Oldham Athletic, as the ground conditions caused the match to be put back 24 hours. This match has the makings of quite an interesting match between two League 1 sides, noting that the winners of this two-legged match will go on to play in the national final at Wembley.
 
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So it's been announced today that Leeds are to sell Jonny Howson to Norwich.

Last straw for me with Bates. My season ticket renewel form is going in the bin and i'll shouting for his head on saturday against Ipswich. Had enough. I am fuming right now, fuming.
 

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So it's been announced today that Leeds are to sell Jonny Howson to Norwich.

Last straw for me with Bates. My season ticket renewel form is going in the bin and i'll shouting for his head on saturday against Ipswich. Had enough. I am fuming right now, fuming.

Don't just bin it. Write him a letter telling him exactly how you feel. He will have a lot of reading to do with how many people are sending him back a letter and a shredded renewal form.
 

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Another nice signing for Newcastle with Cisse. Been banging them in in Germany - lets hope he can carry this over in the premisershipp when he gets back.

Cant believe we spent £10 million
 

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Darlington Players are tweeting that the club has closed. THey are i na meeting with the administrator now. It is over.

To all of you who supported us - thank you

To those of you who wanted us closed - you got your wish. May it never happen to you
 

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Darlington Players are tweeting that the club has closed. THey are i na meeting with the administrator now. It is over.

To all of you who supported us - thank you

To those of you who wanted us closed - you got your wish. May it never happen to you

The Northern Echo (updated less than 15 minutes ago) agrees - but still says there may be hope yet.

I hope this isn't it. You have my full sympathy. It isn't the club's fault they are dying.

The administrator Harvey Madden has now arrived at The Northern Echo Darlington Arena where Quakers manager Craig Liddle and his players are waiting for an announcement over the club's future.

Player James Gray has just tweeted 'The club has gone'.

Darlington FC Rescue Group have just told Mr Madden that they have £50,000 to keep the club afloat a further few weeks and he must not liquidate the club.

Mr Madden is currently consulting his legal advisors over the offer.

Frantic discussions had been taking place this morning in a last-ditch attempt to save Darlington Football Club.

They centred on out-of-town developers trying to come to an arrangement with former chairman Raj Singh, who is a major creditor of the club.

Darlington MP Jenny Chapman has been desperately trying to contact Raj Singh to try to persuade him to come to an arrangement - but he has not answered her calls.
 

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So it's been announced today that Leeds are to sell Jonny Howson to Norwich.

Last straw for me with Bates. My season ticket renewel form is going in the bin and i'll shouting for his head on saturday against Ipswich. Had enough. I am fuming right now, fuming.
But he's a good young player, who will obviously want to play at the highesst level. Why is this the fault of the board?
I've lost count of the extremely talented young players West Ham have sold (like Rio Ferdinand), but I know that it's often necessary for the survival of the club.
 

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adminsitrator does a deal with the rescue group - next three games will go ahead IF proof of funds in place by 1500 today!

#stillalive! (just)
 

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There's a theme with the few posts here.

A Leeds fan who thinks that Leeds are still a big club and Darlington who think they're still a League club. Neither are.

Darlo have three more games then? Will anything change? I reckon they should play their youth team for the remainder of the season and hope that they're next home games sell out. We'll see how much people want Darlington to survive then.
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adminsitrator does a deal with the rescue group - next three games will go ahead IF proof of funds in place by 1500 today!

#stillalive! (just)

Have their been supporters making collections to raise funds? Have you donated if there is?
 
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How have I said Leeds are a big club? You really are anti Leeds tigerroar, pretty pathetic to be honest. Surely if we aren't a big club like so many say then why do people like you have a vendetta against Leeds?

Who do you support? One of the many Leeds hating teams? Pathetic really. Quit the digs mate and get over the fact you can't get over Leeds.

Darlorich - The reason that Jonny, Beckford, Kilkenny, Johnson and Gradel have left Leeds is because of the boards failure to offer decent contracts and to negotiate new contracts in good time. We have lost all the above players for less than 3 million quid combined which is just pathetic. While all this is going on, the board has spent our only decent transfer fee (7-8mil for Delph) on building new exec boxes in a stand that already had excellent facilities. The new boxes are not being filled and so at the moment it's completley wasted money, no money has been re-invested with players, be it new players or improved contracts for our best players.

And Tigger, Leeds may not be in a massive club but show me one team in the Championship that can take 6,700 on a crappy away trip to Coventry! Our away support is better than most in the Premier League, never mind the Championship. A fact many of the haters seem to miss.

Good day.
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Leroy Rosenior said that 20,000 Leeds fans made Nazi salutes at him when he played there.

I forgot about this cracker tigger posted a while back

Plainly not true in the slightest. Further proof of an anti-Leeds agenda.....get over it mate.
 

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Darlorich - The reason that Jonny, Beckford, Kilkenny, Johnson and Gradel have left Leeds is because of the boards failure to offer decent contracts and to negotiate new contracts in good time. We have lost all the above players for less than 3 million quid combined which is just pathetic. While all this is going on, the board has spent our only decent transfer fee (7-8mil for Delph) on building new exec boxes in a stand that already had excellent facilities. The new boxes are not being filled and so at the moment it's completley wasted money, no money has been re-invested with players, be it new players or improved contracts for our best players.

You can always buy Darren O'Dea permanently from Celtic now. :lol::lol:

One of the worst centre halves I've ever seen.
 

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There's a theme with the few posts here.

A Leeds fan who thinks that Leeds are still a big club and Darlington who think they're still a League club. Neither are.

Whilst I cannot disagree on the Darlo argument, Leeds *are* a big club. They are what might be termed a "sleeping giant"; a club that should be at the top of the game but for whatever reason is not. As much as we non-fans [of Leeds] might like to beleive otherwise, even when they fell into the relative obscurity of League One they were still a big club. The only issue with Leeds is that many of the people associated with the club are delusional, and believe that they deserve to be pushing for the Europa League at the very least, without any solid ground to build this claim on - not that anyone here springs to mind of course!

Even if my claim was inaccurate - which I promise you, it isn't - you would still have to consider that we have the most popular and almost certainly powerful second level league on the planet. Most clubs in our Championship would walk into the average top flight.
 
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Michael Brown apparently.

They set up their "studio" in the corners away from the action, so Brown must've done it deliberately.

Whilst it may have been hilarious that it hit Keown or may have been aimed for Robbie Savage it could've also easily hit the woman presenter. Seeing her hurt, humiliated and crying on live TV would've been "hilarious" I'm sure.

Brown should be fined heavily and banned.

Really? Is that because he plays for Leeds United? Oh dear....

So Leeds booted the ball at Keown on purpose, naughty Leeds. And Leeds fans are all racist! Classic...
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You can always buy Darren O'Dea permanently from Celtic now. :lol::lol:

One of the worst centre halves I've ever seen.

He's one of our best centre halves...........which tells you what the rest are like (apart from Tom Lees)
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Whilst I cannot disagree on the Darlo argument, Leeds *are* a big club. They are what might be termed a "sleeping giant"; a club that should be at the top of the game but for whatever reason is not. As much as we non-fans [of Leeds] might like to beleive otherwise, even when they fell into the relative obscurity of League One they were still a big club. The only issue with Leeds is that many of the people associated with the club are delusional, and believe that they deserve to be pushing for the Europa League at the very least, without any solid ground to build this claim on - not that anyone here springs to mind of course!

Even if my claim was inaccurate - which I promise you, it isn't - you would still have to consider that we have the most popular and almost certainly powerful second level league on the planet. Most clubs in our Championship would walk into the average top flight.


At the moment we are an average Championship team and will remain so until Bates shows some ambition and starts to slowly build again. The PL is many seasons away at the moment at best.
 

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Who do you support? One of the many Leeds hating teams? Pathetic really. Quit the digs mate and get over the fact you can't get over Leeds.

Gloucester City I believe. He has campaigned on here in the past to get us to vote for one of their players in a poll :roll:
 

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Gloucester City I believe. He has campaigned on here in the past to get us to vote for one of their players in a poll :roll:

That same all-powerful Gloucester City that are known to be a West Brom -esque yo-yo club...

...in that they change constantly between Conference North and Conference South.
 
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you would still have to consider that we have the most popular and almost certainly powerful second level league on the planet. Most clubs in our Championship would walk into the average top flight.

Or win the SPL by 10 pts;):lol:
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Darlorich - The reason that Jonny, Beckford, Kilkenny, Johnson and Gradel have left Leeds is because of the boards failure to offer decent contracts and to negotiate new contracts in good time. We have lost all the above players for less than 3 million quid combined which is just pathetic. While all this is going on, the board has spent our only decent transfer fee (7-8mil for Delph) on building new exec boxes in a stand that already had excellent facilities. The new boxes are not being filled and so at the moment it's completley wasted money, no money has been re-invested with players, be it new players or improved contracts for our best players.

Would agree with most of that, especially as we dont even own Elland Road, gutted Howson is going but who can blame him. Not sure why everyone puts Kilkenny in the same bracket as the rest of those players though, id have happily drove him to Bristol myself.
 
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Another nice signing for Newcastle with Cisse. Been banging them in in Germany - lets hope he can carry this over in the premisershipp when he gets back.

Cant believe we spent £10 million

couldn't believe it either - is this still ashley's club?! we really did need another striker though, so great move. and they seem to be doing things on the quiet, maybe so as not to alert the competition..... i'll be interested to see how cisse does here. and it's about time we had a #9 again, so nice to see that done. cisse had better live up to the shirt though!
 

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Yep, Worcester.

I'm impressed at that other guy looking up all of my anti-Leeds posts too, but I really couldn't care less about them. I will add though, that that was true about what Leroy Rosenior said.
 

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There's a theme with the few posts here.

A Leeds fan who thinks that Leeds are still a big club and Darlington who think they're still a League club. Neither are.

Darlo have three more games then? Will anything change? I reckon they should play their youth team for the remainder of the season and hope that they're next home games sell out. We'll see how much people want Darlington to survive then.
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Have their been supporters making collections to raise funds? Have you donated if there is?

Yes Tiger - i have contributed. A substantial sum of my available cash. Would you like to contribute? Here is the link (via paypal) if you do: scott@ukrivals.net

(it is run via the site owner on this site: http://www.darlofc.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=2 )

Please feel free to come to the game on Saturday if you are in the area.

Not sure who thinks Darlo are still a league club. We were relegated becuase we were crap. Dont really understand your point. Sorry.

The DFCRG have bought three games to bring in some more cash and to try and put the deal that was on the table back together. This link should explain what a strange day it has been!

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/9478104.Quakers_Latest__town_rallies_round_stricken_club/
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balne-wonderer - i havent said anything about Leeds have I? I am confused (see #2412)
 

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Whoever thinks that paying £900,000 in wages IIRC has ideas above their station, that's over £20,000 per week over a 40 week season. We're in the league below and we pay just over a tenth of that.

And no, I'm not contributing. NL clubs who spend money they haven't got don't deserve help.
 

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The budget isnt (or wasnt) £ 900k! It was c.£500K. That is still a great deal of money but a great deal less than suggested! That is c.500k split between 27 players (which is far too many!) giving an average of about 18.5k per player. Hardly a great deal as a yearly wage.

Most of the players were on 1 year contracts ad are youngsters. We have a few senior pros who i expect are on more than the average.

The level of wages IS NOT the reason the club is in adminsitration.
 

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Wrexham v Brighton has gone to extra time, wrexham could have and perhaps should have won it
 
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Yes Tiger - i have contributed. A substantial sum of my available cash. Would you like to contribute? Here is the link (via paypal) if you do: scott@ukrivals.net

(it is run via the site owner on this site: http://www.darlofc.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=2 )

Please feel free to come to the game on Saturday if you are in the area.

Not sure who thinks Darlo are still a league club. We were relegated becuase we were crap. Dont really understand your point. Sorry.

The DFCRG have bought three games to bring in some more cash and to try and put the deal that was on the table back together. This link should explain what a strange day it has been!

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/9478104.Quakers_Latest__town_rallies_round_stricken_club/
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balne-wonderer - i havent said anything about Leeds have I? I am confused (see #2412)

Sorry Darlo, I was referring to tiggeroar in my posts who seems to have a major chip on his shoulder when it comes to Leeds.

I honestly hope Darlo find a solution to continue. I can't imagine what it would be like for a loyal fan to lose their football club, it must be devastating. I've been up to Darlo twice a couple of years ago in the Carling cup, big bad Paul Huntington scored for Leeds in one game and even bigger and badder Enoch Showumni scored in the other. I hope the club pulls through.
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Wrexham v Brighton has gone to extra time, wrexham could have and perhaps should have won it

I'm watching that game as well. I gave up on Wolves v Birmingham although i'm tempted by El Classico as well. So much football on tonight, great stuff!
 

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