A good summary of the situation is on twohundredpercent - http://www.twohundredpercent.net/?p=20688
Its interesting to see someone outside of our community beginning to realise that the demise of the Diamonds might have been predicated by Ladak's desire to move into our home.
Desperate measures.....
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Re: Desperate measures.....
Final words by Alan Doyle:-
"I don't know if we will be able to put a team out again. I can't sign any more players, one of them got a knock and one of them said to me he doesn't want to play any more, so that's us down to eight."
"I don't know if we will be able to put a team out again. I can't sign any more players, one of them got a knock and one of them said to me he doesn't want to play any more, so that's us down to eight."
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Re: Desperate measures.....
I just added this comment to the 200% article:
R&DFC and its supporters were played like Stradivarius violins into an early and undeserved grave (plastic supporter tags notwithstanding) by the same type of people who have now done for their successors in the elephants' graveyard called Nene Park.
At the time of our demise - I ought to say that I was the Fans' Chaplain at R&DFC, and I am the Fans' Chaplain at AFCR&D - there were many, many K*ttering Town fans who could not contain their glee, and made their baser feelings known on fans' forums all over the internet, including ours. It would not be an exaggeration to say that barely a day went past without someone gloating about the way twenty mostly glory-filled years ended.
Thankfully for us, we proved that, far from being plastic, our supporters had more backbone than anyone gave us credit for, and began straight away to rebuild a team and a club that we could all be proud of, rather than one to despair about. This isn't the place to mention how successful this endeavour has been to date, but we are immensely hopeful for our - sustainable - future.
In the meantime, those same K*ttering supporters who were gloating at our demise would not listen when we warned them of what was to come if they made the mistake of supporting Ladak in climbing into our deathbed before the sheets had cooled, let alone been changed... and if you think that is a somewhat strained metaphor, look for photos on the 'Net showing K*ttering Town players training in abandoned R&DFC training kit shortly after taking over at Nene Park!
The strains of "I told you so" will no doubt be floating around the pubs of East Northants tonight - along with "7-0, and the dog said no", doubtless - because we did, indeed, tell them so, and they, because of twenty years of bitterness, jealousy, frustration and stubbornness, would not listen, or allowed themselves to be deluded into believing that this time all would be well.
They say that the sign of insanity is to repeat an action and expect a different result: if that is true, then the fans of K*ttering Town - or at least those who made the arduous trip those eight long miles down the A6 - have been suffering from untreated corporate insanity since that infamous Wicksteed Park meeting at which they raised their hands to vote to embrace the vain hope of progress.
All that - combined with the twenty year long bitter rivalry which saw R&DFC showered with success and trophies whilst K*ttering Town draped its wizened one hundred and twenty year old shoulders in the threadbare comfort blanket of their uneventful history - ought to mean that the fans of the re-born Diamonds are tonight taking our own gleeful turn at sneering contempt.
And of course, some of us are, because we're human beings... but the vast majority of us (and how good it is to be building our fanbase to such an extent that the phrase "the vast majority" doesn't mean the three drunks propping up the bar and the taxi driver who takes them home) are calling on true Poppies fans to take this as an opportunity to jettison their recent past and re-claim their history and take back their club from the jokers who combined to deprive them of it. We are pledging our support, if it's asked for, and the benefit of our experience.
It's true, we want them back in K*ttering, much as we want, and plan, to be back in Rushden, for reasons of self-interest. It's time the cuckoo fled the nest.
We want the rivalry back: when you look at the playing record between the two teams since R&DFC were formed, who wouldn't?
Most of all though, we recognise that by far the majority of Poppies fans are people like us: hard-working, ordinary, not particularly well off people from the industrial and post-industrial villages and towns of Northamptonshire. People who have, depending on which way you look at it, have either been royally shafted by the unscrupulous or led astray by the incompetent. People who, like us, are perfectly capable, freed from the manacles of mismanagement by egocentric faux entrepreneurs, of rebuilding a Club true to the original principles of Association Football, a club of which they can once again be proud, a club ready to be hammered once more by the mighty Diamonds....!
Sorry about the last bit of that paragraph, I couldn't resist it...
Come on Poppies, straighten up, square the shoulders, wipe your mouths and walk away. That chapter's over. Time to turn the page, and begin the rest of the story.
R&DFC and its supporters were played like Stradivarius violins into an early and undeserved grave (plastic supporter tags notwithstanding) by the same type of people who have now done for their successors in the elephants' graveyard called Nene Park.
At the time of our demise - I ought to say that I was the Fans' Chaplain at R&DFC, and I am the Fans' Chaplain at AFCR&D - there were many, many K*ttering Town fans who could not contain their glee, and made their baser feelings known on fans' forums all over the internet, including ours. It would not be an exaggeration to say that barely a day went past without someone gloating about the way twenty mostly glory-filled years ended.
Thankfully for us, we proved that, far from being plastic, our supporters had more backbone than anyone gave us credit for, and began straight away to rebuild a team and a club that we could all be proud of, rather than one to despair about. This isn't the place to mention how successful this endeavour has been to date, but we are immensely hopeful for our - sustainable - future.
In the meantime, those same K*ttering supporters who were gloating at our demise would not listen when we warned them of what was to come if they made the mistake of supporting Ladak in climbing into our deathbed before the sheets had cooled, let alone been changed... and if you think that is a somewhat strained metaphor, look for photos on the 'Net showing K*ttering Town players training in abandoned R&DFC training kit shortly after taking over at Nene Park!
The strains of "I told you so" will no doubt be floating around the pubs of East Northants tonight - along with "7-0, and the dog said no", doubtless - because we did, indeed, tell them so, and they, because of twenty years of bitterness, jealousy, frustration and stubbornness, would not listen, or allowed themselves to be deluded into believing that this time all would be well.
They say that the sign of insanity is to repeat an action and expect a different result: if that is true, then the fans of K*ttering Town - or at least those who made the arduous trip those eight long miles down the A6 - have been suffering from untreated corporate insanity since that infamous Wicksteed Park meeting at which they raised their hands to vote to embrace the vain hope of progress.
All that - combined with the twenty year long bitter rivalry which saw R&DFC showered with success and trophies whilst K*ttering Town draped its wizened one hundred and twenty year old shoulders in the threadbare comfort blanket of their uneventful history - ought to mean that the fans of the re-born Diamonds are tonight taking our own gleeful turn at sneering contempt.
And of course, some of us are, because we're human beings... but the vast majority of us (and how good it is to be building our fanbase to such an extent that the phrase "the vast majority" doesn't mean the three drunks propping up the bar and the taxi driver who takes them home) are calling on true Poppies fans to take this as an opportunity to jettison their recent past and re-claim their history and take back their club from the jokers who combined to deprive them of it. We are pledging our support, if it's asked for, and the benefit of our experience.
It's true, we want them back in K*ttering, much as we want, and plan, to be back in Rushden, for reasons of self-interest. It's time the cuckoo fled the nest.
We want the rivalry back: when you look at the playing record between the two teams since R&DFC were formed, who wouldn't?
Most of all though, we recognise that by far the majority of Poppies fans are people like us: hard-working, ordinary, not particularly well off people from the industrial and post-industrial villages and towns of Northamptonshire. People who have, depending on which way you look at it, have either been royally shafted by the unscrupulous or led astray by the incompetent. People who, like us, are perfectly capable, freed from the manacles of mismanagement by egocentric faux entrepreneurs, of rebuilding a Club true to the original principles of Association Football, a club of which they can once again be proud, a club ready to be hammered once more by the mighty Diamonds....!
Sorry about the last bit of that paragraph, I couldn't resist it...
Come on Poppies, straighten up, square the shoulders, wipe your mouths and walk away. That chapter's over. Time to turn the page, and begin the rest of the story.
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Re: Desperate measures.....
Nicely put.Red Dragon wrote:I just added this comment to the 200% article:
R&DFC and its supporters were played like Stradivarius violins into an early and undeserved grave (plastic supporter tags notwithstanding) by the same type of people who have now done for their successors in the elephants' graveyard called Nene Park.
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Come on Poppies, straighten up, square the shoulders, wipe your mouths and walk away. That chapter's over. Time to turn the page, and begin the rest of the story.
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Here, here.Trek wrote:Good luck to you with K*ttering FC and I look forward to day when we meet on the green stuff. ;)Red Kite wrote: I look forward sometime in the future when KFC ( who won their first game on Thursday) meet AFC Diamonds, but take no pleasure in the Poppies downfall. We are way behind you and have a fraction of the support you have. But from small acorns........Red Kite out
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More delusion from the Poppies fans, the club keep on signing players and not paying them, that's why they've reached their limit and now have a embargo in place, its in the Southern League's best interest to stop them from signing players with no intentions of paying them.From what I can gather, we are going to appeal to the FA and Southern league tmrw as to whether or not we can sign some more players on so we can continue to play games.
Surely its in the Southern League's best interest to allow us to do so is it not.
Hopefully the embargo will remain, the game won't go ahead and the Poppies will be thrown out of the league :lol:
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I wonder if they'll take notice of the mistakes the Conference made with Chester City. They too were put under a transfer embargo for failure to pay football creditors (in Oct 2009 - http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009 ... ion-threat ) but were allowed to limp on playing even more games that were evenutally expunged, with expulsion in Feb 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010 ... NETTXT3487
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The talk was that posh would play at np whilst their ground was upgraded
Still Say that Van Der Veldan had the most amazing ball control of any player at our club.
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Re: Desperate measures.....
The “Away” Moy’s End terrace at London Road is due to be knocked down shortly, and converted into an all seater stand. This was originally due to have been completed by now, but I believe this work will start in the near future. The same will then happen to the “Home” London Road terrace during the following year once the other end is completed. This will make it an all-seater stadium.Olly wrote:What's with these rumours on poppynet about Posh & NP, is there any truth in them does anyone know?
Peterborough supporters are not aware of the rumours, and just expect to be moved around within the stadium. The capacity should be reduced to about 12,000 while the work is completed, but they don't normally get that many anyway.
I don't believe the Posh support would be best pleased if they were asked to do a 54 mile round trip for home games.