CHAIRMAN'S WELCOME David Morris gives his latest thoughts ahead of today's match

David Morris CHAIRMAN'S WELCOME

Good afternoon and welcome to The NFU Sports ground for today’s game against Dudley Sports, and we hope their players and officials enjoy their visit to Ashby de la Zouch.

I’ll leave the football comments on last week’s game to Andy, needless to say we didn’t get what we had hoped for from our visit to Nuneaton Griff. Off the field we took a supporters bus to the game to celebrate our bar Manager’s Mark Rowling’s birthday, I have to say it was great fun with a good crowd of supporters and something we will defiantly look to do again. As far as the facilities go over there the ground was a huge athletics stadium and the sight of Jon Emmerson standing in a long jump pit drinking a warm can of Old Speckled Hen is still making me chuckle !

Talking of Mark (and Ginny) you may not be aware that our Knights Bar here at the club is open 7 days a week. We have 6 TV screens plus the huge screen in the marque and there really is nowhere better to watch sport in the town. Last Friday we held a Cheltenham Races afternoon which was a brilliant atmosphere and utilisation of the clubhouse like that boosts the coffers and helps us to keep the club sustainable. We are happy to host parties or other functions etc. come and have a chat if you are interested in booking a future event. To that end we have our legendary Cup Final Day 6 a side on the horizon, I think still there are 1 or 2 spaces for teams if you want to enter and we are also in talks over an exciting charity game for the Summer which I’ll confirm in a future column.

Finally thanks for your support, the attendance at our last home game was phenomenal and hope we can maintain similar numbers as we head to the business end of the season, it really does make a difference so thanks again.

All the best to Andy and the boys today, come on Ivanhoe and enjoy the game.

Dave Chairman

Ps – if you are visiting the ground by car please DO NOT OBSTRUCT the junction to Cambrian Way by parking on the grass/ path verge as this is both dangerous and you could get a fixed penalty notice from the Council and or Police.

Find us at 84 Smisby Road, Ashby De La Zouch. LE65 2JL 84 Smisby Road, Ashby De La Zouch. LE65 2JL. Customer parking at rear of building