Ilkeston Town in Financial Trouble

[Bostonshire]

CHEER UP there are a few ex robins playing for us .
Did any of this start when S&H were there?

It has been alleged the year they got promoted from the Unibond under S&H the players budget was £8K a week!!

Apparantly the wage bill for this season was £3K a week

That was still 3k more than they had

[Pride of Bostonshire]

Looking at that table I wouldn't want to be a Hyde F.C. fan right now.

[leicester pilgrim]

Looking at that table I wouldn't want to be a Hyde F.C. fan right now.

There's two ways of looking at this though. If Ilkeston do disappear, then it'll mean one less relegation space at the end of the season. And that will be good news for a poor side somewhere that would otherwise have gone down. I'd imagine that  the likes of Hyde, Redditch, Vauxhall Motors and Gainsborough wouldn't necessarily see the demise of Ilkeston as all bad.

[Lord Cutler Knobhead]

Looking at that table I wouldn't want to be a Hyde F.C. fan right now.

There's two ways of looking at this though. If Ilkeston do disappear, then it'll mean one less relegation space at the end of the season. And that will be good news for a poor side somewhere that would otherwise have gone down. I'd imagine that  the likes of Hyde, Redditch, Vauxhall Motors and Gainsborough wouldn't necessarily see the demise of Ilkeston as all bad.

Like your work!

I would have thought the Hyde fans would just be happy to have a club still, much like Durham I tip my hat to them for limping through the season on minimal costs.  Maybe be if enough do this and live by their means, then some will survive the season and others will take note and follow suit.  That would make non league football a better place.

[John C]

Again this is slightly heartless but does anyone know what happens in the FA Cup? Are Ilkeston still entered? Does someone in the next round have a bye? Or is there a lucky loser from today's matches?

[chris b]

Again this is slightly heartless but does anyone know what happens in the FA Cup? Are Ilkeston still entered? Does someone in the next round have a bye? Or is there a lucky loser from today's matches?

Presumably they'll have to put them in the draw in case their appeal succeeds. So whoever draws them will get a bye if it doesn't.

[lonegunman]

Did they play on Saturday?

check the grassy knoll

[Deeping Pilgrim]

No, their game away to Redditch was postponed.

[Bostonshire]

We seemed to have missed yesterdays announcment but as of 13.45 yesterday the receiver officially liquidated The the football club, The club and ground was both emptied and locked up and itfc as a buisness ceased to exist.(no appeal)

[Carl Newell]

Bad news and a sad day for football.

[Burton Pilgrim]

A very sad day, not least because Ilkeston was one of the closest games to me.  Apart from the FA Cup game, it was always a good ground to visit.

A lucky escape for Worksop too - they could have been in trouble if they hadn't moved their "home" games to Retford this year.

If the Ilson fans can get a new club going, maybe (with all our current connections to the old club) we could play a friendly there pre-season next year?