Why we play Rolls Royce

[jimmyisgod]

Notts County Pathway Academy

This is a partnership between Notts County FC, Rolls Royce Leisure and North Notts College and offers a 2 year full time education and football development programme open to footballers between the ages of 16 and 18. It would appear to be based at Rolls Royce.


Hopefully this will enlighten Trickytreesreds as to why we play this fixture. In fairness to tricky he appears to be more intelligent than the average Forest fan which could explain why he visits this sight and unlike most Forest fans does not live in the days of past glory.


As for the demise of Rolls Royce Celtic their manager moved to Eastwood Community ( a reformed Eastwood Town ) and most of the Rolls Royce players followed him. As this occurred prior to the start of a new season they were unable to find new players before the start of the season.

[navypie]

Notts County Pathway Academy

This is a partnership between Notts County FC, Rolls Royce Leisure and North Notts College and offers a 2 year full time education and football development programme open to footballers between the ages of 16 and 18. It would appear to be based at Rolls Royce.


Hopefully this will enlighten Trickytreesreds as to why we play this fixture. In fairness to tricky he appears to be more intelligent than the average Forest fan which could explain why he visits this sight and unlike most Forest fans does not live in the days of past glory.


As for the demise of Rolls Royce Celtic their manager moved to Eastwood Community ( a reformed Eastwood Town ) and most of the Rolls Royce players followed him. As this occurred prior to the start of a new season they were unable to find new players before the start of the season.

Thanks for that Jimmy. I disagree with you about Tricky though. Like most Forest fans he's as thick as pig shyte.

[Elite_Pie]

Hopefully this will enlighten Trickytreesreds as to why we play this fixture. In fairness to tricky he appears to be more intelligent than the average Forest fan.

Agreed, I'd estimate his IQ at around 10, which should certainly put him in the 'above average' category among Forest fans.

Thanks for the info jimmyisgod, although I've always loved this fixture anyway and never miss it. It's fairly local for me, heralds the start of the season, and always seems to be played when the sun is shining. Although it's an obvious mismatch, it gave most of the squad half a game to gently ease themselves into the new season. Also, it must be a good earner for Rolls Royce (or whoever takes the cash). I hope it remains a regular fixture to start things off.

[navypie]

Agreed, I'd estimate his IQ at around 10, which should certainly put him in the 'above average' category among Forest fans.

Thanks for the info jimmyisgod, although I've always loved this fixture anyway and never miss it. It's fairly local for me, heralds the start of the season, and always seems to be played when the sun is shining. Although it's an obvious mismatch, it gave most of the squad half a game to gently ease themselves into the new season. Also, it must be a good earner for Rolls Royce (or whoever takes the cash). I hope it remains a regular fixture to start things off.

Any excuse.

[Elite_Pie]

Any excuse.

For what?

[Notts78]

The OP is wrong on a lot of stuff.... Rolls Royce Celtic were a Sunday side that disbanded a decade ago or so. The OP should have left it as Rolls Royce, who were a Central Midlands outfit until Rolls Royce Leisure decided to focus on children’s football and removed men’s football from using the facilities 2/3 years ago and the manager of that side and the players went to Eastwood. These 2 sides were completely separate and the Sunday side was an outstanding side with lots of players that played at very good levels, remember Big Devon White? He had a spell with them.

[countygump]

The OP is wrong on a lot of stuff.... Rolls Royce Celtic were a Sunday side that disbanded a decade ago or so. The OP should have left it as Rolls Royce, who were a Central Midlands outfit until Rolls Royce Leisure decided to focus on children’s football and removed men’s football from using the facilities 2/3 years ago and the manager of that side and the players went to Eastwood. These 2 sides were completely separate and the Sunday side was an outstanding side with lots of players that played at very good levels, remember Big Devon White? He had a spell with them.

Hucknall Rolls Leisure Football Club was a football club based in Hucknall, England. Rolls-Royce Welfare F.C. were formed in 1935 when Rolls's Hucknall factory first opened its gates.

Dissolved and reformed in the 1970s, they were renamed as Hucknall Rolls Royce F.C. in 1991, before a further change to Rolls Royce Leisure F.C. in 2002. The club again dissolved and reformed in 2009,[1] this time emerging as Hucknall Rolls Leisure F.C..

The club played in the Nottinghamshire Senior League from 1991 to 1997 and the Central Midlands Football League from 1997 to 2009, before re-joining the Nottinghamshire Senior League after re-forming in 2009.

In the 2002–03 season, the club reached the First Round of the FA Vase.

They played on the same road, Watnall Road] as Hucknall Town, but approximately a mile further from the town centre.

The club folded again in 2016.

[pravda_plc]

The OP is wrong on a lot of stuff.... Rolls Royce Celtic were a Sunday side that disbanded a decade ago or so. The OP should have left it as Rolls Royce, who were a Central Midlands outfit until Rolls Royce Leisure decided to focus on children’s football and removed men’s football from using the facilities 2/3 years ago and the manager of that side and the players went to Eastwood. These 2 sides were completely separate and the Sunday side was an outstanding side with lots of players that played at very good levels, remember Big Devon White? He had a spell with them.

You seem to be in the know, so a few questions for you:

Who owns the ground / facilities we played at yesterday?

Does any sort of league team play there?

Did we really play Barflys FC ( T8's Wine Bar Hucknall), yesterday?

https://en-gb.facebook.com/Barflys-F...8704507996547/

[Trickytreesreds]

The OP is wrong on a lot of stuff.... Rolls Royce Celtic were a Sunday side that disbanded a decade ago or so. The OP should have left it as Rolls Royce, who were a Central Midlands outfit until Rolls Royce Leisure decided to focus on children’s football and removed men’s football from using the facilities 2/3 years ago and the manager of that side and the players went to Eastwood. These 2 sides were completely separate and the Sunday side was an outstanding side with lots of players that played at very good levels, remember Big Devon White? He had a spell with them.

I'll add to that.
The mens football was booted off by the site management for RR leisure.
RRL had an agreement with Notts that included that fixture.
As the mens teams were gone, they have to fudge together a team to honor it.
They had been twisting Linby colliery's arm due to one of their players having a father connection(not saying who)

The current LCW set up told him to stuff it this year due to their treatment, by RRL and NCFC.
Nothing came their way from RRL and they were made to change in the gym, due to Notts grabbing both changing rooms, like they were pop stars.

That's your truth and the side you played was the best that could be raised.
Bitter comments said, if the truth be known.

There's another maggot for EP to start another argument.

[countygump]

I'll add to that.
The mens football was booted off by the site management for RR leisure.
RRL had an agreement with Notts that included that fixture.
As the mens teams were gone, they have to fudge together a team to honor it.
They had been twisting Linby colliery's arm due to one of their players having a father connection(not saying who)

The current LCW set up told him to stuff it this year due to their treatment, by RRL and NCFC.
Nothing came their way from RRL and they were made to change in the gym, due to Notts grabbing both changing rooms, like they were pop stars.

That's your truth and the side you played was the best that could be raised.
Bitter comments said, if the truth be known.

There's another maggot for EP to start another argument.

So WHO did we actually play???