| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... 23:01 - Jul 28 with 3801 views | loftboy |
The Rangers FC
Can't see them keeping their history if they are a total new set up. |  |
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| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 13:42 - Jul 30 with 597 views | Mr_Foxy |
Nene Park is a League Two standard ground easy with plenty of space for a much bigger stadium if required...problem is its in the middle of nowhere in an area without much of a footballing heritage.
Kettering are still playing there at the moment, but they've been demoted to the Southern Premier for next year and whether they'll be able to keep paying for it much longer without going bust themselves I'm not sure, they came very close to it last year.
It was a daft decision by Kettering's chairman at the time Imran Ladaak (one dodgy character) to move, based on logic that all the RDFC fans would start watching Kettering at Nene Park (which unsurprisingly completely failed to happen). Its my understanding from people I know in the area that Nene Park costs 6 times as much to run and maintain as Kettering's previous ground Rockingham Road did (a ground which is currently still standing but in terrible disrepair at the moment and will probably be gone in the next 5 years). |  | | |
| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 13:59 - Jul 30 with 582 views | Monahoop |
Seems like Northants is a hot bed of footballing disasters.What with Rushden & Diamonds demise from the league, Kettering on the brink of oblivian and I believe Wellingborough went under years ago. Northampton Town have had numerous problems in recent years too. Doesn't seem that many years ago that they could not afford to print out any team programmes and were saved from extinction as we know it at the 11th hour. |  |
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| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 14:03 - Jul 30 with 572 views | MrSheen |
Effing weird place, Corby. Imported thousands of Jocks for a steel works that closed in 1981, it still has the largest Rangers Supporters Club outside Scotland and Northern Ireland. "The Steel-work's over, why don't you go home?" |  | | |
| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 14:06 - Jul 30 with 567 views | eastside_r |
| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 14:03 - Jul 30 by MrSheen |
Effing weird place, Corby. Imported thousands of Jocks for a steel works that closed in 1981, it still has the largest Rangers Supporters Club outside Scotland and Northern Ireland. "The Steel-work's over, why don't you go home?" |
"The Steel-work's over, why don't you go home?"
Weirder still there are guys born and brought up in Corby who have Scottish accents. |  | | |
| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 14:15 - Jul 30 with 556 views | Northernr |
| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 13:42 - Jul 30 by Mr_Foxy |
Nene Park is a League Two standard ground easy with plenty of space for a much bigger stadium if required...problem is its in the middle of nowhere in an area without much of a footballing heritage.
Kettering are still playing there at the moment, but they've been demoted to the Southern Premier for next year and whether they'll be able to keep paying for it much longer without going bust themselves I'm not sure, they came very close to it last year.
It was a daft decision by Kettering's chairman at the time Imran Ladaak (one dodgy character) to move, based on logic that all the RDFC fans would start watching Kettering at Nene Park (which unsurprisingly completely failed to happen). Its my understanding from people I know in the area that Nene Park costs 6 times as much to run and maintain as Kettering's previous ground Rockingham Road did (a ground which is currently still standing but in terrible disrepair at the moment and will probably be gone in the next 5 years). |
The problem was one of Ladaak's previous wonderful ideas was to sell Rockingham Road and lease it back, and that lease was due to expire soon. Kettering wanted the leaseholders to basically give them it back and then took their bat and ball home when the idea was laughed at. |  | | |
| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 14:17 - Jul 30 with 554 views | Monahoop |
| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 14:06 - Jul 30 by eastside_r |
"The Steel-work's over, why don't you go home?"
Weirder still there are guys born and brought up in Corby who have Scottish accents. |
A touch of inbreeding there by the sounds of things. | |
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| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 14:53 - Jul 30 with 542 views | mikeygunn |
| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 14:17 - Jul 30 by Monahoop |
A touch of inbreeding there by the sounds of things. |
I'm from Corby and I can confirm that I'm not inbred, I just asked my Dad/Brother. |  | | |
| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 15:04 - Jul 30 with 531 views | Northernr |
Lived in Corby for nine months.
Very strange place. Woken up one Saturday morning by an orange order march going past the door. Which was nice. | | | |
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| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 15:43 - Jul 30 with 517 views | Mr_Foxy |
| Didn't realise Rangers are now called.... on 13:59 - Jul 30 by Monahoop |
Seems like Northants is a hot bed of footballing disasters.What with Rushden & Diamonds demise from the league, Kettering on the brink of oblivian and I believe Wellingborough went under years ago. Northampton Town have had numerous problems in recent years too. Doesn't seem that many years ago that they could not afford to print out any team programmes and were saved from extinction as we know it at the 11th hour. |
Wellingborough Town did indeed fold in 2002, but happily reformed in 2005 and currently play in the UCL Premier where they've been for a few years now. About their level but its good that they're still around as the original club was founded in about 1869 and was (and possibly still is if you count the current club as a continuation...) the 6th oldest club in the country (I think!) | | | |
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