Is Stu still on here? Tried to DM him on Wednesday but he's not on Messenger now. I know he's still on FB.

OI - yes, and one has. The rights Issue was to help the in profit company to upgrade machinery/software was my understanding.

If we do eventually need to sell down below 50% (as I am pretty sure we will in due course) then having a rights issue where the DT doesn’t/ can’t afford to take up its shares, but the minority owners (including anyone who we bring in in the next “50%+1” phase) do take up theirs, may be one way to effect the transaction.

Laurence- I am not offended, though thanks for the apology anyway - I recognise that you read what you thought I was saying, rather than looking at the context and what I was *actually* saying. To me, Darlington just means a ridiculously big ground and the nonsense when they tried to sign Asprilla- I never really knew about the owner being a crook but if that is your immediate association with Darlington I can see why you jumped on my post. I was slightly put out at the time by you describing my post as “disgraceful”, rather than asking what I was meaning, but it’s all water under the bridge now, as I think we understand where we were each coming from.

Interesting Laurence. I presume we'd do a rights issue of A Ordinary shares and then the DT itself wouldn't be the only big player as most of theirs (ours) are Ordinary rather than A Ordinary. As I said yesterday it would be a NO from me, I value my shares at zero so you couldn't offer me an attractive price. Unless we go the JG route of very heavily discounted I can't see the take up as high, so insurance would probably be prohibitive. I presume the two companies you are involved with do, or at least expect to, make a profit.

Only just read back and regards Nick (W) post @ 8:10:03 I certainly only read it about the Darlington stadium and even replied around this never for 1 minute did I see anything around money laundering in that post so definitely feel Laurence owes Nick an apology if not already been given

OI - Thanks for the nudge - I have been in favour of a rights issue for a few years. The challenge though is finding someone to underwrite it. I wonder though in this modern day and age whether an insurance policy could be taken out to protect the club? Two companies I have shares with have done rights issues recently and both were oversubscribed.

Alan, I might just do that… 🤪😂👏

The Reynolds stadium in Darlington is still there and apparently used by a rugby club. I wonder who pays for the upkeep, the local council?

This is the current Darlington FC set up: Darlington FC @Official_Darlo · 6h Feb YOU DID IT! 🙌 1,409 Darlo fans now collectively own just over 90% of the club. @DarloFCSG set a target to hit 1,400 fan owners by the end of the season, and we exceeded that number with over two months to go. Absolutely sensational! Next stop 1,500 fan owners...

Golden Goal tickets on sale tomorrow will be done by month

@nick. Re your earlier point the Rugby starts at 440 not 345 so that gives everyone much longer in the ground to watch us score our first goal ??

Those tower blocks by PL must be from the 1960s?

A4e care to donate it to the K's, they might find it useful for busking....

Ks make us look really well run!

Ah thanks d4d4 - I wonder what state the flats are in these days.

CW - I’m off to find that tiny violin I got in a cracker at Christmas… 🎻

Given the rumours of our poor and deteriorating relationship with RPV, it is seems likely we will be on the move again next season. Nice to see we are starting early. We cannot keep burning our bridges with our landlords (this isn’t the first time, Casuals anyone?). We are running out of local Clubs (or even, like Tooting, not so local) with a suitable ground who will let us ground share, which puts us in a weak negotiating position when we look to negotiate a deal. Although relegation may mean we have more wider choice of Clubs with a suitable ground grading. And with no evidence of any progress on our own new ground, we will be groundshare sharing for a few years yet (at least until the Wombles money runs out).

Had an aunty and cousin living in Hayesend Trigs, my grandmother moved in with them and eventually passed away in there. At the time it was quite a step up from the state of their housing on Tooting High Street and Selkirk Road respectively.

Thanks Sparty - those towers are key visual memory of my early years at Plough Lane. Always used to think life in them must have been just like Only Fools & Horses.

England U19 lose five wickets for fewer runs and in 30 more balls than the 14year old Indian opening batter in the U19 ODI final. Look likely to lose by 200 runs!

There is no way we will go back to playing in NLS longterm with our stadium, we are too big to prosper there. There is however an argument that L1 is not great for us, given the significantly increased costs that outstrip the financial benefits.

The finances may have looked good at the time - as Wednesdays meeting revealed, what was a small wage gap between us and other team the last time we were in league one has now grown to a chasm. Wage growth could have outpaced the potential revenue PL would bring during the time it has been constructed. But for all we know that gap could be much greater. We aren’t told the full finances for the main stand facilities so it’s difficult to really put a pin in it one way or another, but certainly the finances for a League One club now are much different to what they were ten years ago.

How crazy is this ,[Link]

Ni increase didn't help the clubs coffers.