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I remember going to Hitchin when we played them in a pre-season friendly. Tony Pennock was warming up by the goal and little me went over to get his autograph. He told me I was the first Rushden person he had signed an autograph for <3 His daughter is a similar age to me, and I remember going to reserve games with my Gramp, just so I could play with her. :roll:
Mick Harford was also at the Hitchin game. I remember Dad telling me to go and get his autograph and I hadn't a clue who he was.

I would hope that we would get placed in the UCL prem and not UCL Div 1. When Kings Lynn reformed they were placed straight in the Prem. I have visions of us winning the title away at Thrapston on the last day of the season, i can picture the mass pitch invision and scenes of sheer jubilation :mrgreen:

Plenty of work to be done before that happens though

Diamond_ Wolf wrote:I would hope that we would get placed in the UCL prem and not UCL Div 1. When Kings Lynn reformed they were placed straight in the Prem. I have visions of us winning the title away at Thrapston on the last day of the season, i can picture the mass pitch invision and scenes of sheer jubilation :mrgreen:

Plenty of work to be done before that happens though

Chester were placed even higher up. Who knows, we might get straight into the Zamaretto Division One Midlands.

Putting a club of our 'predicted' support in the UCL Div 1 would just be nonsensical.

BartonRaz wrote:

Diamond_ Wolf wrote:I would hope that we would get placed in the UCL prem and not UCL Div 1. When Kings Lynn reformed they were placed straight in the Prem. I have visions of us winning the title away at Thrapston on the last day of the season, i can picture the mass pitch invision and scenes of sheer jubilation :mrgreen:

Plenty of work to be done before that happens though

Chester were placed even higher up. Who knows, we might get straight into the Zamaretto Division One Midlands.

Putting a club of our 'predicted' support in the UCL Div 1 would just be nonsensical.

True, although it would be nice to win a couple of promotions Im being a bit ahead of myself here but it may be a blessing in disguise that we cant put together a team for this season because if we were put in the UCL prem its likely that Kings Lynn will gain promotion from that division this season. They are a country mile better than any team in that league now that St Noets have been promoted.

you could always move back to Haydons Road and become AFC Rushden and Higham and Diamonds, trips off of the to doesnt it ?

southfields wrote:you could always move back to Haydons Road and become AFC Rushden and Higham and Diamonds, trips off of the to doesnt it ?

In english?

southfields wrote:you could always move back to Haydons Road and become AFC Rushden and Higham and Diamonds, trips off of the to doesnt it ?

??????? :lol:

Diamond_ Wolf wrote:I would hope that we would get placed in the UCL prem and not UCL Div 1. When Kings Lynn reformed they were placed straight in the Prem. I have visions of us winning the title away at Thrapston on the last day of the season, i can picture the mass pitch invision and scenes of sheer jubilation :mrgreen:

Plenty of work to be done before that happens though

As I said in another thread, the thought of Diamonds ever playing Thrapston is absolutely bizarre but it will be great to have an away game literally a 2 minute drive away, the distance to NP for me is about 3 times longer, just hope they can survive their first season in the Prem

I don't think there is much chance of us getting in UCL Premier, our situation is very different to that of Kings Lynn, we will have missed a whole season and be in every sense a totaly new club.
They also continued to have the use of a much higher standard ground. I am sure UCL 1 must be our starting point.

Sid wrote:I don't think there is much chance of us getting in UCL Premier, our situation is very different to that of Kings Lynn, we will have missed a whole season and be in every sense a totaly new club.
They also continued to have the use of a much higher standard ground. I am sure UCL 1 must be our starting point.

I hope you are wrong - but as we are severely handicapped by the ground issue, perhaps our situation is most similar to Scarborough - and their initial Phoenix club Scarborough Athletic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Athletic_F.C. who had to start in NCEL Division 1 which is a step 6 league at a similar level to the UCL Division 1.