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 for this afternoon’s game against Wolverhampton Sporting Community. Welcome to the players and officials of Wolverhampton Sporting Community and we hope they enjoy their visit to Ashby de la Zouch, quite a few of us travelled over to Wolverhampton in January and after a combative game we managed a 2-1 victory, which I’m sure we would take again today.

We had another terrific crowd again last Saturday against Dudley Sports and after today we have just 2 scheduled home fixtures which are Atherstone on 12thApril (hopefully they will have won the league by then and have their feet up !) and in form Heath Hayes on 23rd April so be great if you can give us your support again for those 2 huge games.

I’d like to give a mention to The Knights now being Manager by Shaun Hession. “Esso” has galvanised the group and whilst they are not winning games they have been much more competitive of late and picked up some points against some tough opponents so keep going Esso and the lads !

I mentioned in last week’s programme that we might be hosting a charity game, well that is now confirmed for Sunday 12th June and will feature Miles For Smiles 11 vs a Celebrity 11 made up of Hollyoaks and Emmerdale stars plus Joe Cullen, top darts player with a few ex footballers (Paddy Kenny, Simon Church) also playing, should be a great afternoon for a good cause so a date for your diary hopefully.

Finally all information on the activities at the club are best found via our Social Media channels, Facebook will give you the most detailed information, if you can’t make the game Twitter will give you up to the minute scores and Instagram some nice pictures (anyone would think I knew what I was talking about !) please follow us across those channels and if you can share some of the content too that widens our reach and really helps boost numbers at the games and interest in the club.

Finally as always I’d like to wish Andy and the team all the best for this afternoon’s game, come on Ivanhoe !

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