David Hodgson is still Darlington manager, but the old adage of there's no smoke without fire still stands.
Hodgson returned from holiday on Thursday to find the club had made a £250,000 bid for Carlisle's Michael Bridges without his knowledge, and is believed to have a number of problems with the way the club is being run since former Boston chairman Jon Sotnick took the Chief Executive role.
Hodgson to the official Darlington site: "A hand grenade was thrown into this club on Friday and blew everything up in the air.. And who is the person to protect people from the shrapnel? Me!
"I had a chat with them before the game, very briefly on what has taken place and tried to put it to bed within the changing room. You have got alot of disgruntled players in there who have come to the club because the manager is here, then all of a sudden the manager could be going, it doesn't help the case you know.
"We have still got some discussions to take place, I am hoping to meet the directors and the chairman on Monday. There are things that I need to have confirmed to me and I need that to be rubber stamped for me."