Here are David Johnston's programme notes from the game against Peterborough Sports on Tuesday night

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the game.

Thanks to three wins in our last four league matches, we now have a great chance of climbing the table over the next week, with three straight home games.

None of them will be easy of course, and the players must continue to work hard for each other, just as they did at Kidderminster a week gone Saturday. They gave everything for the team; they kept going right to the end and were rewarded by Matty’s late goal.

I thought we played very well in the last home game against Worksop and scored some very good goals. It looked very clear that the players are working well as a team, so hopefully we can record our third successive home win tonight.

It was disappointing to go out of the Trophy last Saturday, but we still created plenty of chances and on another day, we would have scored enough to take us through to the next round.

You will have noticed that many non league games kicked off at 3.03pm last Saturday, as part of the National League’s 3Up campaign.

It took a long time for the Football League to accept automatic promotion and relegation with the Alliance Premier League – in 1986 – and then another 16 years before a second place was created via the play offs.

Every league in the country has at least three up and three down, except for the EFL and the National League.

It’s a simple, fair system based on what happens on the pitch. But between League Two and the National League, the door remains half closed — two up, two down — despite the quality of football and the professionalism at this level.

Since 2003, newly promoted clubs from the National League have finished, on average, around 11th place in League Two the following season – top half. Eight clubs have even achieved back-to-back promotions, going straight into League One. That’s not luck or novelty – that’s proof of strength.

The message is simple: football should reward success, not protect status, which is why Darlington FC is supporting the 3Up campaign.