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Originally posted by Toulouse Toulouse wrote:

Originally posted by Kimbo Kimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Toulouse Toulouse wrote:

Quite a few players have left DMP. The 2 to Preston travelled over to Darlington from the NW every week and with the reduction in wages it was difficult for them to justify coming all this way every week. A few have shown no loyalty and have just left to try and get more money elsewhere...fair enough.
The talk about ground sharing with Darlington Football clan can never happen. The RFU insist on
DMP having Saturday for fixtures and so do the FA have the same demands for the football club.
Saturdays game against Richmond was a great performance from a severely depleted team. The lads that turned out for DMP played with pure guts and determination. Top V Bottom...33:17.....not the hammering everyone excpected!
It's not beyond the wit of man to arrange fixtures so that both codes can play on Saturdays though.
Coventry City and W*sps did it.
Wycombe Wanderers and W*sps did it.
QPR and W*sps did it.
For example.

(Edit to remove spurious word).
What happened to WASPS?....remind me! not a great example of how good things turn out!
Oh I'm sure you know what happened to them - but that doesn't alter the fact that there are four Saturdays in a month 😉
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Originally posted by Kimbo Kimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Toulouse Toulouse wrote:

Originally posted by Kimbo Kimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Toulouse Toulouse wrote:

Quite a few players have left DMP. The 2 to Preston travelled over to Darlington from the NW every week and with the reduction in wages it was difficult for them to justify coming all this way every week. A few have shown no loyalty and have just left to try and get more money elsewhere...fair enough.
The talk about ground sharing with Darlington Football clan can never happen. The RFU insist on
DMP having Saturday for fixtures and so do the FA have the same demands for the football club.
Saturdays game against Richmond was a great performance from a severely depleted team. The lads that turned out for DMP played with pure guts and determination. Top V Bottom...33:17.....not the hammering everyone excpected!
It's not beyond the wit of man to arrange fixtures so that both codes can play on Saturdays though.
Coventry City and W*sps did it.
Wycombe Wanderers and W*sps did it.
QPR and W*sps did it.
For example.

(Edit to remove spurious word).
What happened to WASPS?....remind me! not a great example of how good things turn out!
Oh I'm sure you know what happened to them - but that doesn't alter the fact that there are four Saturdays in a month 😉

Except when there are five Smile
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Originally posted by JZSmith JZSmith wrote:

Originally posted by Kimbo Kimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Toulouse Toulouse wrote:

Originally posted by Kimbo Kimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Toulouse Toulouse wrote:

Quite a few players have left DMP. The 2 to Preston travelled over to Darlington from the NW every week and with the reduction in wages it was difficult for them to justify coming all this way every week. A few have shown no loyalty and have just left to try and get more money elsewhere...fair enough.
The talk about ground sharing with Darlington Football clan can never happen. The RFU insist on
DMP having Saturday for fixtures and so do the FA have the same demands for the football club.
Saturdays game against Richmond was a great performance from a severely depleted team. The lads that turned out for DMP played with pure guts and determination. Top V Bottom...33:17.....not the hammering everyone excpected!
It's not beyond the wit of man to arrange fixtures so that both codes can play on Saturdays though.
Coventry City and W*sps did it.
Wycombe Wanderers and W*sps did it.
QPR and W*sps did it.
For example.

(Edit to remove spurious word).
What happened to WASPS?....remind me! not a great example of how good things turn out!
Oh I'm sure you know what happened to them - but that doesn't alter the fact that there are four Saturdays in a month 😉

Except when there are five Smile
Touché. Even easier then.
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Originally posted by Toulouse Toulouse wrote:

Originally posted by DMP_fan DMP_fan wrote:

I’ve heard that an announcement is almost imminent. Strong speculation that the current stadium is going to be demolished. Land sold to a supermarket and in return a 6000 seater stadium will be built on the current footprint in return, this will then be shared with the football club. No idea what timescales will be but I imagine it will take a while for planning etc. 
That will not happen. The club would make nothing from the sale as the Council will take 75% of any money from the sale of the land. This was put in the original deeds to stop Mr Reynolds trying to make a quick buck!

Not at all doubting whether this is true but wondering if you have a source for this? Can’t seem to find anything online referencing it? If so that would rather change things with selling the ground/land although 25% of something is better than 100% of nothing I suppose! 

With regards to the Saturday priority my understanding is that this is only a requirement by the FA and that the RFU do not require this, I believe there are numerous examples of where a rugby club play at a football stadium and do not get priority. Brentford FC is one that springs to mind? 
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At the moment, it is not even 100% of nothing. As there is the cost of keeping the current structure safe.
I do not know how that will compare to the cost of maintaining a new stadium.
But that will be shared with the AFC, who are presumably also selling their ground.

I am sure, there have been a lot of discussions as to how to split the money raised and how to share the costs.
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Originally posted by Camquin Camquin wrote:

I do not know how that will compare to the cost of maintaining a new stadium.
But that will be shared with the AFC, who are presumably also selling their ground.

Darlington FC don't own their current ground - they play at Blackwell Meadows, owned by Darlington RFC.
However, they have been looking to relocate since 2022, so presumably they have a source of funds from somewhere.
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The money paid out to football clubs even outside the top 4 leagues is a decent amount unlike rugby who get nothing outside the top 2 leagues and we need to be grateful for it 
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