I remember the 7-1 game, Barry conlan sat behind us after his sending off- he was livid.
Always saw Darlington to a similar stature as ourselves; what’s the reason they haven’t been able to progress from NLN as surely you have the supporter base for a crack at the EFL?
When the latest bellend Raj Singh (now in charge of Hartlepool) pulled his money 6 months after winning at Wembley, it truly KO’d us. He refused to hand over the “golden share” of the club meaning we got demoted 4 leagues and having to “restart”.
We are still the same club as when we went to the Northern League in 2012/13 we become fan owned and repaid all debts owed from Singh’s era. We had to spend 4/5 years groundsharing 12 miles out of town, finally coming back home on Boxing Day 2016 (the ground we are still at, which is a local rugby club, we aren’t allowed to upgrade the facilities as they won’t agree to it).
So we are stuck here till we get the funding together to get a 7/8000 capacity stadium where we can create our own income.
The fanbase is there, but the viewing points at our current ground is awful for anyone below 6ft.
Hoping for a good 4/500 to make the trip down to Scunny on that Tuesday. As someone who lived in Grimsby for 10 years before returning back to Darlo, I’m looking forward to coming to a game I can enjoy and not as a neutral between you 2 in the Lincs Cup.
