Darlington Football Club's chairman George Reynolds has unveiled his vision for the future of the Quakers, and is asking the fans to back him all the way into the new stadium.

Here is what he told The Northern Echo:

"We all get frustrated at the club and, hand on my heart, it hurts me more than the fans when they lose.

"I feel absolutely terrible when they lose. The fans put their money into the club and I put my money into the club.

"When they pay out £10, I'm paying out £20,000, and I take it personally when they're beaten.

"When I'm driving home and I am thinking to myself I have paid out £20,000, I've sat with the rest of them in the freezing cold, we've lost and I've had a lot of abuse thrown at me as well.

"But I still believe what I am doing is for our club and our fans, and I am building for the future.

"But what the fans must realise is that we are laying the foundations for the long-term future of the club. They will have the best stadium in the land.

"When you build a house, you have to lay good foundations down. We are laying the foundations at the moment with the club and in the new stadium.

"I am working on two sets of foundations and I have to make sure those foundations are right.

"There will be no tickets costing more than £12 at the new stadium, and we are making this a real family club - and the new stadium will reflect that.

"There will also be an offer of two season tickets for the price of one in certain sections of the new stadium when we move in.

"I still believe we will take this club to the Premiership, and if I didn't believe that, I am no good to Darlington FC and no good to the fans.

"I can understand the fans being upset because, over the years, people have come in and raped and pillaged the club

"But I have never taken money from Darlington Football Club. I've paid for every drink I've had at the club, every crisp I've eaten.

"I want the fans to know that I'm not in this for the prestige or the money.

"At the Chesterfield game, I could have been shopping at Harrods with my wife rather than sitting in the cold and getting slagged off, and listening to the manager and team getting slagged off.

"When they criticise the manager and the team it makes matters worse, not better. Some of the younger players can't take the criticism like the older ones. They take it to heart and their heads go down.

"We have to get behind the team and the manager. We cannot continue to break the spirit of our manager and our players. If you whip a horse long enough, you will break its spirit. We must judge Gary Bennett on his long-term record.

"When David Hodgson first took over on his own, we were sixth from bottom in his first season and fifth from bottom in his second.

"At the end of this season, we can compare Bennett's first year against Hodgson's.

"When he walked out at the start of the season, 18 players also went with him, so Bennett has had to start from nothing.

"I am not criticising David Hodgson, but we can only judge on the facts, and let's wait until the end of the season.

"I aim to make this a club for all the fans and I want to see the families back.

"The new stadium will be aimed at bringing the families back and it will be a stadium for the fans, the club and the town."