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I know this won't be of interest to everyone, but the Non-League Paper recently published a full list of all Non-League pre-season friendlies. Considering most of us will now have time on our hands and/or still want our fix of football, I have written a list of relatively local or remotely interesting friendlies over the coming month, plus a couple of others...

Sat July 9th – Burton Park Wanderers V Kings Lynn (A chance to see UCL Champions elect 2011/2012)
Sat July 9th – St Neots V MK Dons
Saturday July 16th – Brackley V Northampton (Maunsell Cup Final)
Tuesday July 19th – Stamford V Boston Utd
Tuesday July 19th – Woodford Utd V England Prison Officers
Wednesday July 20th – Northampton V Nottm Forest (Steve McLaren first game)
Wednesday July 20th – Brackley V Darlington
Thursday July 21st – Cogenhoe Utd V Histon
Saturday July 23rd – Bedford V Luton
Saturday July 23rd – Kings Cliffe V Rushden & Higham Utd
Monday July 25th – St Neots V Dag & Red
Monday July 25th – Corby V Notts County (First game in new stadium)
Tuesday July 26th – Newport Pagnell V Rushden & Higham Utd
Tuesday July 26th – Wellingborough Whitworths V Wellingborough Town (Should be a bit tasty!)
Saturday July 30th – Raunds V Wellingborough Town
Tuesday August 2nd – Luton V Parma (No, that’s not a spelling mistake)
Saturday August 6th – Rugby Town V Kidderminster

Corby have also arranged a game against Rangers but the date of this is yet to be confirmed.

BartonRaz wrote:
Corby have also arranged a game against Rangers but the date of this is yet to be confirmed.

I reckon this is a game of table football in the Rangers Supporters Club on Rockingham Road.

Thanks for the info, my boy plays for whitworths u11's so i may take in that game at the end of the month, and at a bargain price of £2 ;)

Chaps,

One idea that was spoken about (on a thread... somewhere) was doing an 'AFC Rushden and Diamonds On Tour' thing on saturdays this season where AFC R&D supporters go to watch a game, take an AFC flag and posisbly some leaflets (or if the host club are feeling generous collection buckets) and spread the word/generally make people aware that we are still around.

Why not strike while the iron is hot and start now with the aforementioned friendlies?

I went to The Rangers friendly at Ipswich 6 years ago, Rangers brought 5000 fans with them......they are pretty serious!

i'm off football. i can't bring myself to watch any live games yet.
my cobblers supporting mate said they're running coaches from rushden/i'boro. free for 3 matches.

therushden wrote:i'm off football. i can't bring myself to watch any live games yet.
my cobblers supporting mate said they're running coaches from rushden/i'boro. free for 3 matches.

Not interested. Even if I was, £20 for League 2, standard little better than the Conference, is a rip off

Dinky Diamond wrote:I went to The Rangers friendly at Ipswich 6 years ago, Rangers brought 5000 fans with them......they are pretty serious!

The difference is that in Corby there's at least 5000 Gers supporters already living in the Town.
The Rangers Supporters club situated about half a mile from Rockingham Trangle is the biggest outside Glasgow.

http://www.corbytownfc.co.uk/news/2011/ ... with-corby

Corby have also signed Matt Rhead from Eastwood Town who caused us some grief in those two FA Trophy games.
I have already decided that I'm going to watch a few of Corby's games in their new stadium next season since it's only a couple of miles from the village where I live. ;)

What village is that, Trek?

I too am going to take in a few Corby games. Especially with Aynsley being there. They have made some shrewd signings this summer, and with them moving into a new stadium its definitely an exciting time to be a Corby fan ;) .

BartonRaz wrote:What village is that, Trek?

Cottingham. I can see the glow of the stadium lights from my house and it's probably just over a mile as the crow flies but it would mean that I would trespass on Rockingham Castle's estate land to get there. :oops:

Gulliver, Burge and McDonald should be on view and I might even bump in to Mrs T. ;)