By Martin Walker
Darlington will head to Chelsea's plush training ground in Surrey tomorrow en-route to the South coast for their Blue Square Bet Premier clash at Eastbourne Borough on Saturday.
Quakers midfielder Paul Terry, scorer in Darlo's last two games, tapped his little brother John for the favour as Mark Cooper's men prepare for their 330-mile trip to Langney Sports Club.
Darlington will train at Chelsea's Cobham base in South-East London tomorrow afternoon before heading to Eastbourne in attempt to have the best possible preparation for Saturday's match.
Quakers assistant manager Richard Dryden today said: "We've trained well today, we'll leave early tomorrow morning and luckily we're going to use Chelsea's training ground tomorrow afternoon, thanks to Paul Terry and his brother!
"Then we'll head off to our hotel in Eastbourne so we're doing it properly, and we're looking forward to the match.
"There are no excuses. It is a long trip but we'll prepare as best we can and get down there as early as we can and get some rest overnight, do some light work Saturday morning so there are no excuses for the game."
Dryden was disappointed Darlo didn't take all three points at Barrow on Monday night, but feels the fitness of the squad is starting to show now.
"We took heart from the performance," he said. "We were extremely disappointed we didn't win it, especially after going 1-0 up, but the game ended so openly in the last 20 minutes it could have ended up three or four each in the end.
"We've upped the work-rate in the last two games, especially against Barrow and Gateshead. We think they're fit enough to have a right go from the first minute to the last and I think and hope that will reap the rewards as the season goes on.
"It's a league where the beautiful game sometimes isn't played beautifully, we've got to earn the respect from other teams before we can get the ball down and play, but I think we've done that pretty well and against Barrow we played some great football and their goalkeeper got man-of-the-match."
