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| July 2007 | |
| Monday 30th July | |
| Hinckley gain second win | |
| Hinckley United registered only their second friendly win, in a game away at Brackley Town. Jon Stevenson gave Hinckley a half time lead with a lob from the edge of the area before Owen Story scored an individual goal taking the ball past three defenders before firing home early in the second half. Chris Nurse and Colin Marrison scored in the last 15 minutes to round off the scoring. | |
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| Saturday 28th July | |
| Hinckley have antidote for Adders fangs | |
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Atherstone Town were beaten 3-1 by Hinckley United at Sheepy Road as we continued
our pre season build up. Richard Sneekes again played in the midfield but there
were no other trialists until Liam Powell came on as a second half substitute.
Hinckley were a bit lacklustre in the first half and went behind to an Atherstone
penalty, but the equaliser came on the half hour mark through an own goal. Hinckley
had seemed to play within themselves for the first period, but definately stepped
up a gear for the second. Colin Marrison gave Hinckley the lead with an opportunist
goal when he pounced on a loose ball in the area and turned and shot past the keeper,
before lively substitute Curtis Smith made an immediate impact by crossing for Owen
Story to score a third from 12 yards out. Hinckley starting line up: Bowles, Roma, Shilton, Lavery, Birch, Butler, Story, Sneekes, Murphy, Marrison and Nurse. Subs: Piercewright, Stevenson, Jackson, Curtis and Powell. Photos of game here: Atherstone Town in the Photo Gallery |
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| Friday 27th July | |
| New Kit Release | |
| Supporters will get the chance to meet the Hinckley United squad and management team for the 2007/08 season on Thursday August 2nd in Lacey’s Bar at The Marston’s Stadium. The first team are at the ground from 7pm for the official team photograph for the up coming campaign when they will also unveil their new Umbro kit, sponsored by Castle Commercial, for the first time. Supporters are then invited to join the players for a drink in the bar afterwards, which will be open from 7pm onwards. | |
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| Sunday 22nd July | |
| Castle lift drawbridge on shirt sponsorship | |
The raffle draw for the shirt sponsorship was held in Lacey's bar last friday night
and the winner was Leicestershire Property Managers and Chartered Surveyors - Castle
Commercial. The draw was made by Hinckley’s Carnival Queen, and Maids, at Lacey’s
and the Carnival Queen drew out the Hinckley based property firm first. Ashmoors
Headboard Company of Broughton Astley were drawn out second and are the new shirt
sponsors of Hinckley Downes (Hinckley United's nursery club in the Leicestershire
Senior League). NLH Construction of Burbage were third and will be the Youth Team
shirt sponsor. Unfortunately H******* Times were in the draw and pulled out fourth,
so will be the U18's shirt sponsor. Then finally Three Pots Pantry were the last
company drawn out and will sponsors the U16's. Triumph Motorcycles will continue
their association with the club after agreeing a deal to become the rear of shirt
and short sponsors.50 companies took part altogether raising over £20000 in sponsorship for the football club. They will get corporate ticket and meal packages as part of entering the shirt draw 2007 and they are listed below: The companies who entered are A1 Taxis, Ashby and Mann, Ashmoors, TF Bell, Boilercare, Boot Inn Ansley Village, Britannia Buffet Services, Castle Commercial, City Electrical, Copyshop, Coventry Timber Supplies, The Crew Nuneaton, D Drill, Elite Printing, Mark Franklin Accountants, Go Fixings, Hardy and Draper, Heartland Evening News, Joe Higgins, Geoffrey Hill and Co, Hinckley and Rugby Building Society, Holiday Lounge, Jewsons, Kase Hotel, Lester Dixon and Jeffcoate, Logistical Planning, Marstons, National Hickman, NLH Construction, Parkview Garage, Pilgrim and Webster, Premier Bathrooms and Kitchens, Pro Spray, Right Windows, Martin Rumble, Sapphire Glass, Savage Haywood, Sea Band, G Seller and Co, Sketchley Grange Hotel, Spencers Hire, Spira Displays, TFS Systems, Three Pots Pantry, Top Hat Catering, Vacon Drives, and Robert Whowell. |
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| Saturday 21st July | |
| Rain puts Brakes on football | |
| As expected the constant rain over the last couple of days has left the pitch very waterlogged and friendly against Leamington Town has had to be cancelled. | |
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| Tuesday 17th July | |
| Foxes have the bite in front of record crowd | |
| A record crowd of 3079 for the Marston's Stadium saw a very strong Leicester City side dominate and win the friendly match against Hinckley by a 3 -1 scoreline. Leicester, including players such as Bruno N'Gotty, Shaun Newton and Radostin Kishishev, were ahead early on when Jon Haynes curled a shot from the right edge of the area into the far left hand corner of the goal and in off the post. You may see claims somewhere that De Vries got the last touch, but then he would've been miles offside, so Haynes goal it is. Despite Leicester doing most of the attacking Hinckley equalised mid way through the first half when an inswinging corner from Jon Stevenson found it's way to the back post and into the goal deflecting off Alan Sheehan. It was only minutes though before Leicester were back infront. A superb solo run from Iain Hume saw him go past the Hinckley defence, around Bowles in goal and slot home from a tight angle to make it 2-1 to Leicester at half time. The second half was disrupted by wholesale changes by both teams but notable for two bits of action. First was Leicester's third goal, a 25 yard swerving strike from James Wosolowski after the hour mark. Then second an excellent point blank safe from Hinckley's substitute keeper Dave Clarke late on kept the final score down to 1-3 to the Championship side. Almost both sides first team squads got a run out at some point and I expect Hinckley's players were given a sterner test than Leicester's players, but a good match overall, well contested and played in the right spirit. | |
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| Sunday 15th July | |
| Carnaby's play for Foxes | |
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The Carnaby's will provide football fans with some after match entertainment on
Tuesday night when Hinckley United play Leicester City at The Marston's Stadium.
The 'indie rock' band, who are heavily influenced by Oasis and 60's blues, have
a large following on My Space with a number of labels looking to sign the group
up, will entertain the football fans in Lacey's bar following the match against
Leicester City. Admission to the game against The Foxes, which will include the
free after match entertainment, is £5 for adults and £3 for concessions. Carnaby's Links: http://www.myspace.com/thecarnabys http://www.bbc.co.uk/... /carnabys_the_unsigned_feature.shtml |
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| Saturday 14th July | |
| ... and so it starts all over again. | |
| Pre season began properly for Hinckley with our first friendly game away at Bedworth United finishing in a 2-2 draw. In a rare day of sunshine this summer almost all of the squad had a run out at some stage including the new signings Gez Murphy, Brad Piercewright and Dominic Roma. Along with them were a number of trialists Jon Stevenson (formerly with Tamworth), Aaron Stringfellow (formerly with Rugby), and Greg Pearson (formerly with Rushden & Diamonds). The rest of the squad compromised of Sean Bowles, Tom Birch, Chris Bradshaw, Tony Butler, Leon Jackson, Alex Johnson, Richard Lavery, Colin Marrison, Chris Nurse, Sam Shilton and Owen Story. Neil Cartwright was obviously half way up 'Scafell Pike' at the time, so could be excused this match. It was your typical first friendly of the season type of game, but a good run out for the team, with trialists Jon Stevenson and Aaron Stringfellow particularily impressing. Bedworth scored first early in the second half through their own trialist, I think called Jamie Halloway (not sure), before Hinckley hit back with Jon Stevenson equalising and then Alex Johnson putting Hinckley ahead. Ben Porter equalised late on for Bedworth with an excellent strike beating Bowles from a tight angle wide of the pitch. | |
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| Friday 13th July | |
| Kelly has personal hearing | |
| Leon Kelly attended his personal hearing at the FA today, following his three sendings off last season and also being reported for verbal abuse by an official following the final match of the last season. He was handed a further 4 match ban, but this ban to be suspended and only implemented should he be sent off for elbowing an opponent again this season. Meaning that he would receive the standard 3 match ban for the sending off offence plus the 4 match ban added to that. | |
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| Thursday 5th July | |
| Kelly out for two months | |
| Leon Kelly has been handed a 10 match suspension by the league after an incident at Blyth on the final day of the league last season. Having received his third red card of the season in the match against Blyth, Kelly was handed a 4 match ban. However after the game Kelly approached the referee in the car park and a verbal exchange took place, which the referee subsequently added into his report. Following this, he was handed a further 6 match ban, totalling a ban of 10 games at the start of this coming season. This means he will miss the first two months of league action and only be available for the FA Cup 2nd qualifying game at the end of September. There will also be an FA hearing on the matter, where Kelly will personally appear to discuss the incident, with a possibility of further punishment to be handed out by the FA. | |
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| Wednesday 4th July | |
| Hooray, the fixtures are out | |
| It's that time of year again, and the fixtures have now been released. Hinckley United will open their season on Saturday 11th August away at Leigh RMI, quickly followed by two home games. On Monday 13th Worcester City travel to the Marston Stadium and then Blyth Spartans visit us on Saturday 18th. Christmas and New Year will again be against A5 rivals Nuneatin Borough, though this time Hinckley will be away at Liberty Way on Boxing Day and boro travel to the Marston's on New Year day. Full fixture list will be on the Fixtures & Results page, once I can finally be arsed to do the work. | |
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