Finnaldo

Thinking of strolling down to AP although St Andrews is also appealing…

Could be an interesting summer for non-league in the west of the county. Surely Ginnelly can’t carry on at Barwell who will have to adapt to life at step 4, and presumably lose their best players. Meanwhile question marks over if they’ll even be a Leicester Road FC next season after pretty strong rumours swirling about and talks of playing staff and players all looking to walk now the season is over. Suppose we’ll see, but that’s probably a manager swap made in heaven

Danylyszyn. Don’t know much about the bloke but he seems to be everywhere, and has a bad rap that follows him. From where I’ve seen his name in the wild and a very cursory google search I can tell he’s been in recent years: Rushden & Diamonds, Gresley, Basford, Nuneaton Borough and Barwell. That’s all in about three years too

First season at step 5 on target for Hinckley with a top half finish and reasonably competitive for the play offs but until the last five or six, learning points is that the top three are just head and shoulders above us, both on the pitch and with the funding off it. Mental to think at Step 9 of the English pyramid you’ve got teams spending upwards of £2,000 a week! Three very good outfits however, and even though they’ll likely be favourites I’m still not sure AP will get over the line. Only hope is past Eynesbury it’s a Rugby Borough who have had a very poor second half of the season and a March who aren’t quite their level. Will be behind them as it’d be great to have another Leicestershire, especially within city borders, go up and increase the representation at the right end of non-league, and secondly cos it gets them away from us! Next year could shape up interestingly, Nuneaton all but confirmed, both Rugby clubs assuming AP are up, potentially Atherstone over (but I can see them going up). A few very decent local derbies with good attendances you’d expect, and a good opportunity to up the profile of the club in those games. Will be a big summer too commercially looking to keep progressing as sustainably as possible!

Even a couple seasons ago, they’d just got promoted to step 4 with good gates and were looking up on and off the pitch with a big ground move on the cards as well… but that became a money sink and the managerial choices came to roost. Now the ground is called off and they’re having to fight off relegation to step 6.

I, for one, am absolutely shocked a football agent thinks Rudkin is the best thing since sliced bread.

Disappointed such an obvious WUM got such a tremendous bite

Was looking up a couple early 2010s indie bands and was interested to see their main pictures on Wikipedia were from the old Summer Sundae Festival on the De Monfort Hall grounds, apparently clothe last one 2012 but the wiki article didn’t say why and I can’t find anything else on it shutting up shop, anyone know why? Seemed like it had a pretty interesting line-up of American and English alternative and indie bands.

The more time passes the more it looks like an unceremonious dumping of the club, I’m hoping there’s been time to rally and give the league a go next season. I can sympathise on the money aspect to be fair. Hinckley are a decent-sized team at step 5 and it’s already looking a mammoth task to be going up and sponsorship is a a very healthy level. It’s not helped by the groundsharing costs and loss of earnings around that, at least until any other facilities become available…

It definitely at least used to be M&B, but it certainly feels like a freehouse so I don’t know if that changed…

Live not far from the Black Horse so go in semi-regularly and walk past it to go Tescos- have had a few busy Fridays of note which I’m chuffed about. The deli on the Castle is technically part of the pub, the main room has a hatch in it to serve out. Do some recent pork pies/scotch eggs. Can’t beat a few games of pool in the Cherry Tree, can spend hours in there easily!

Genuinely what do people get out of going? 150 year record of being utter shit broken by us under ownership who have utter contempt for supporters. If you have a season ticket, it’s better accepting its wasted money and doing something productive with your time. If you’re actively buying tickets, then you’re just thick. Leave the ground empty and starve them out. No one can be arsed to lease proper protests so that’s the only option left.

Important to consider this: when you think Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire have Mansfield, Notts County, Chesterfield, Burton (I know Staffs technically but has cross-county support) in lower leagues, then there’s several National League teams. Leicestershire next highest ranked club is Harborough in the 7th step. Then it’s Barwell. Theres very few clubs at this level of football with such a clear catchment area.

Did exactly did run (well, in order Cherry Tree, Castle, Black Horse then Duffy’s due shenanigans) on Saturday Considered doing a summer crawl this year, minus Duffy’s and then Ale Wagon, the Marquis and finishing off at the Old Horse.

Ref collapsed at the Aylestone Park vs Hinckley game yesterday, apparently fine/better now and has contacted both clubs but the game was abandoned. Wasn’t there at the time, thought I’d have a few beers in town and the post-Leicester traffic did us in, shame as it would have likely been a good game.