Ikeston will get him then as they are Nike too.....and I think they will give you a good game in January and at your place in April as they can pass it around with the best of them.

No money or £3m stand (though the two they already have are more than adequate for Conference Premier Football) but are playing some great stuff and getting better and better. Think you are probably right that you will go up as Champions (backed you in a few ante post bets) but I do not think The Robins will be far behind.

Faxtastic, Actually, im sorry, I take it back, yours looks quite nice actually



re: our owner, I think he just wants a play toy to spend his millions on, but so far he is doing a sterling job. Musnt forget how lucky we are to have such an owner

I tell you who are playing some fantastic football, Drolysden. I was surprised at the football they play.

The thing about us is, we are putting together a squad and not just a team. We have 3 absolute class strikers now. I guess the money helps to do this though.

Ilkeston are my mates outside bet to go up this season and they not looking too bad at the moment.

Ilkeston had them first game and were not prepared for what hit them (lost 2-0) since then unbeaten and are definetly learning as they go and would be more of a threat to them now.

They have good forward strength on the bench but not sure about defensively really but as they are all avoiding suspensions and injuries for now hopefully it will not be too much of a factor as they can not run on as big a squad as some.

Fair play did not think they would do anywhere as well as they have so he made a really good shout.

One thing about this league is how the likes of Moor Green (ok now Solihull Moors), Redditch etc stay in it as they are not much better than Unibond Div 1 sides and have support to match. I guess the crisis clubs help them along the way and things like Kings Lynn's expulsion.

i know its rare that a club in non league has an owner with the amount of money that you say your owner has.

it must be just for the thing of owning a club because with all due respect he isnt going to get much of a return on the money he is investing in the club or make much of a profit if any.

your luck to have him though. if you play some good football then you might get a good fan base.

i know our stadium looks good it would look better with a few more fans.

we dont even use the north stand for the football cause the away teams dont bring enough to be able to afford to open the stand and get the extra stewards.

like i said we have played 8 games in all competitions so far this season and we have won 7 and drawn 1 so far.

we have just reached the 1 qualifying round of the fa cup. only another 4 till we get to the first round



we are top of our league for once



i must say though it is nice being the biggest club in our league we have never really had that before.

And it's only used a couple of games, at the most, for the rugby.

Jesus wept, I thought crashing down the divisions (and going bust) would see you show some humility. How wrong I am.

i like to see the type of football that we have now in our league there is some real passion. its what i like to see some big challenges.

i dont know how teams in our league really put up with these refs in this league season after season. its awful at best. they were bad in the conference.

yes we are at this level cause we went bust but both of us have nice stadiums and we have attendances going up to 1600 at the minute.

i know we need to win the league to get out or the play offs but i really do think that we are too big for the league we are in.

i respect the teams in our league dont get me wrong there all hard working clubs i just think that a club our size needs to be playing Blue square premier football.

good luck to Leigh Genesis this season. i will see you in a couple of weeks down at the shay hopefully for the league match.

Not sure if I'm going to the Shay yet, depends if I can get the time off work.

No club is ever "too big" for a division, simple as that. Clubs are where they are for a reason, and that's especially so when you didn't even get promoted in your first season.

we have started better this year.

York City fans display from the Telford Trophy semi-final featured in the 2018 Woruld Cup [urlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymOJ9QICOVo&rel=1[/url About 1:20 in, looks class.

Also in this one [urlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2AKOdvU9zs[/url right at the start and the pitch invasion at the end.

Interesting to note we are discouraged from doing the displays and got a rollicking for the pitch invasion yet they both feature.

Regarding the AUP, if i have broken the rules i apologise these videos are from the following URL [urlhttp://www.england2018bid.com/youtube.aspx[/url. It seems they can only be viewed on YouTube and as such i thought they would be ok

Absolute F**king joke!!!! ive been ranting to anyone that'll listen today about that. F.A can get F**ked and stick their ty bid where sun dont shine. Hope they dont get it even more now.

Flares and pitch celebration today vs Kettering if they like it so much then yeah?

D**ks!


(yes, i am annoyed

)

Ilkeston stroll to another 4-0 win.....bit worrying star player San Duncum gets two as no doubt more clubs than just Derby are keeping an eye on him by now.

Still after conceding 8 in the first 4 games they have now kept 5 clean sheets in a row and have the best defensive record in the league.

First time in a play off spot and only 2 points off the lead....not bad at all

What did I say about Sneddon? Nice hat trick for the lad today putting us 3rd

Noticed you won again....I don't really rate Corby what were they like today????

naughty stamp from adebayor....

Indeed but I loved his celebration after his goal.

The scoreline flattered them in my opinion. We had so many chances it could have been 8-0.

That said, to dominate in the way we did and still concede 2 is a bit of a worry. There are going to be some tough games in this league

Are you comming across for the Ilkeston game?

Vauxhall never looked like scoring and their keeper made a few fine saves too (and a total howler for the second when he let a nothing cross from about 30 yards drift over his head and go in the top corner). To be fair Ilkeston have got a fair few hard games out of the way already (Droylesden, Telford, Corby away, Southport home). Eastwood always lose in the local derby so there are no fears there so I'd say the only really decent sides yet to play are Fleetwood and Alfreton (and again Alfreton is a local derby though the sides have rarely been in the same division). Next week away against Hinckley will be interesting as they have picked up a bit recently and they are a traditionally strong BSN outfit but there is no reason to fear anyone at the moment.

And to be fair they are dominating without the opposition looking like scoring as the keeper rarely does anything more than pluck out a few crosses now and then.

I am in a real dilema about Fleetwood awa as I've got Tamworth season tickets too and that weekend is Luton at home (I think that is a Sunday game now though), It would not take a lot to persuade the misses to go up for the weekend but she might not be so keen if we rush back to catch the Luton game too (my ideal situation).

To be fair I am watching far more of Ilkeston than Tamworth and if they are up there come April I do not think I will be able to resist a weekend in Blackpool and hoping over for what might be a top of the table encounter and probably give the Tamworth game a miss .

BTW did Corby bring anyone as they get amazingly loud home support (for the size of the gate) but not sure if many of them go away.

There were probably about a 24 seater coach full but they were great fans. Had a good chat with some of them.

Telford brought a $hit load lol and there was a bit of trouble

Surprised you could understand their Scottish accents lol.....going there is so funny as you see loads of different clubs from north of the border's shirts as most of their fans are either Scots or the offspring of Scots who came down to work in the steelworks.


Was at the RL Cup final when Ilkeston played at Telford but they do still think of themselves as a big fish so hopefully they will miss out again and get even more frustrated!!!!!

My non-league team are AFC Liverpool.

Never hear of them these days

What league they in????

Do either of you Conference North fans go on the Non-League Forum (was originally just Conf North until three quarters of us got promoted or relegated!)

Nope

Can you post a link to it please

FC won 3-1 away at Sheffield FC in the FA Cup on Saturday. Draw for the next round (whichever qualifying round it is, I can't remember

) is today at 1pm. Live on 5 Live, I believe.