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Everything posted by Chris
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Historic Nottingham : South Notts
This is something I would love to go visit in person, and have a look around. See how things have changed; even going on a steam train is a wish of mine. Though, I wouldn't want to see the old 90s green buses because I have nightmares about how horrible and uncomfortable they were. I used to hate that the one line nearest my parents would always have the older buses, even when the other lines had new shinny ones. The older ones, in the right setting, would be brilliant to see in person.
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Snakes on a train....?
It's getting everywhere, and I don't mean snakes! The detection is most likely a good thing, even if it is wrong. At least snakes haven't found their way onto platforms and started jumping on to take a day trip or whatever. Though, I did read recently that mice and rats are repeatedly in higher volumes on planes which I would have thought airlines would have regular checks for. Snakes rushing across the lines doesn't really compare, but best to keep the wild life save.
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Where are they now : Aaron Nemane
I am not sure what I make of this; I hope for Rotherham United's sake they get the player he can be. I think we helped Aaron Nemane find a more consistent performance, which he never seemed to replicate at MK Dons. It's strange that he wasn't able to make a bigger impact, but I hope he does well for Rotherham. He reminds me a lot of Saka, inconsistent but with spells of brillience. The performance he gave against Chesterfield in the National League Playoff Final is the type of performance he should set himself more often, he was class that day and played a big part in tiring them out which led to us getting more into the game. Good luck, Nemane.
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Weekly Chat Monday 6th July to Sunday 12th July
Thanks, Super still isn't feeling great but is resting. I will let him know about the messages, though he may sign on to read the site before he notices what I have said. 👍🏻
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Where are they now : Tom Weal
Good luck to Tom Weal, I hope he gets the move because he's a good coach and I think we were rash to let him go. He seemed a very friendly person, who had the respect of the players and his contributions to our promotion by giving help on where to dive and the penalty training was a masterstroke in terms of success in bringing us back. Everyone played their role, including Tom.
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Weekly Chat Monday 6th July to Sunday 12th July
Unfortunately, plans didn't work out to get to Alfreton. Even worse, Super didn't feel well, so it might have been a blessing. I hope to go over to see him later today, but he should be well stocked with DnB because he already had two the last time I went over and I took another two with me. 😄 I've done a round of bug fixing and optimisation improvements. I didn't realise that the migration had some impact on areas but I have fixed them. I am going through each one by one, whilst unlocking new features. Eventually, there won't be anything to add. One of the people who has purchased apps of mine, he audited the dev site and told me PON is huge. 🤪 I asked, as I hoped to get feedback on the menu but I have been fighting with code to make it work. It's finally fixed, with everything behaving as intended. Fingers crossed it is. I watched Mexico vs England the other night, I hadn't realised until going down for the K.O that the time had been put back. Once the game was underway, I really enjoyed it, and I think nutural fans will have been impressed by both teams. World Cup fever has me inspired to re-write a game like Championship Manaer 1997-98, I have grown tired of Football Manager but I must admit the latest version kept calling me due to it's World Cup mode and the football fever the tournement creates. Some might recall I mentioned when I was back in school, I tried to write a Wrestling Sim and was learning Visual Basic after successfully writing a very basic version in QBasic (which was dos based). Well, I have even revived that idea. Not that I want to be in competition for Promotion Wars or The Wrestling Sim, but because it's been a life goal of mine. Since I am coding so much for PON/others, it's revived my interest in it. I might share updates, if anyone is interested I expect them to be a slow burner because my priority is this site.
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Announcement: Goodbye, and Hello - 26th June 2026
I have made some improvements to the performance of some resources which had issues after our migration, I have seen optimised them for the new server and fixed many bugs within them. Hopefully, I will be able to get the history app live tomorrow. I have been expanding on it, and fixing issues that only came up when in the live environment. Locally, I am very satisfied with the app but very eager for feedback to make even more improvements.
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World Cup Thread 2026
I stayed up and watched it with Jake. I thought it was an entertaining game and by far England's best performance to-date in the World Cup. This said, I am disappointed that Mexico seem to have gotten away with attempting to cause disruptions and created noise throughout the night as a means to give themselves an unfair advantage on the match day but interrupting the England teams sleep. This type of behaviour is a major lack of respect, and considering they are part of the co-hosts I do hope punishment if applied in retospective. In the past, other nations have been held accountable by their own support. Russia was threatened to be kicked out of the World Cup they last held in 2018. Russia had threats 3 years before over safety, and other concerns that they might not be able to host it. Mexico were unlucky, and played some brilliant football. I didn't like how they sorrounded the referee all the time. Our red card was correct, but some of the Mexican players should have been given yellows and two potentially could have seen red. The decision against Harry Kane to give a penalty, just because a Mexican player beat him to kicking the ball, seems wrong. It was a difficult decision due to the game but not for what happened. Had Kane made contact and the Mexican followed through I would have considered it to be a fair attempt to win the ball. For me the referee did okay, but he seemed to allow them to contest every decision. He waved Kane away when our captain tried to speak or be around the situation, but allowed them to gang up over every little deicison. Yes, he gave a yellow when a Mexican player pushed and tried to cause a situation (yes the England player did idly elbow him) but they needed to be told to play on. On our penalty, the Mexican keeper should have been given a yellow card. It's disappointing they got away with unruly behaviour over the challenge, that saw a red card but they shouldn't have gotten away with being allowed to get violent. Jordan Henderson got a yellow card, I am not exactly sure why but several Mexican players warming up came onto the pitch during the game, whilst the ball was in motion and even pushed Saka twice. Winning a game with all this feels even better.
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Transfer rumours Michael Mellon
The biggets concern is the injury to his hamstring, but he's a very bright young player and one who is technically very good. At 22, it seems less of a risk to take him on than someone nearer to 30 as the injuries start to impact you far more. Shoulder, back, and knee issues are quite common in sports. Michael Owen had a lot more problems caused due to his sheer pace, that led to him struggling but I wouldn't say it impacted his career all that much. Obviously, Michael Mellon is a different player but I do think he would still be around Burnley had he not been so unfortunate. He's someone I rate, he's always performed well against us and his father was a decent enough player. We are the type of team that can help players, and whilst some might think I have changed my tune. Cal Roberts is the example I started my point here with. However, I am certain Cal will do well for us and if we have good options within the team we can offer him protection. He's a different scenerio to Mellon. I would hope there's truth in the rumours, but I do have faith we will identify the right players needed. It's just imprtant we don't think we can get away with being short in the striker department.
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Langstaff gone to Salford 😢
I wished it had been any other League Two, even Grimsby or Chesterfield would have been better. The thing which I don't like, is that if they have spent money, either on transfer or wages, to the point it matches Millwall. How on earth are they getting away with it? They have been cutting costs, sacked a good manager (albeit he's a k**b) and have lost quite a lot of money which I don't see them being able to recover in any legitmate means in my opinion. That said, it would have been nice to see Macaulay Langstaff return to us but League Two is probably his level in all fairness.
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Hidden History : Phyllis Latour: The secret life of a WW2 heroine revealed
Bless, 102 is a very good innings and I hope the legacy lives on for much longer. Rest in Peace.
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The Trillion Dollar Conman book
I haven't had the chance to read it, but I do wonder how much is fresh and not repeated from other sources/investigations. That said, I believe it was written by a Notts fan, and I wish him all the very best with it.
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Match Discussion: League Two - Alfreton Town (A)
It sounds like we were much more organised than previous encounters with Alfreton, but they are a lot weaker too. It's going to be interesting what trialists if any impress, and how we are going to go about filling the squad in the areas needed before the start of the season. I am pleased for Ryley Reynolds but what ever has happened to James Sanderson? These two seem like a big part of our future for the talent we develop ourselves. It's a good run out, but the result means little, but the fitness levels returning should be coming along nicely.
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Weekly Chat Monday 29th June to Sunday 5th July
Fixing my own mistakes for the most of the day, and helping somewhere the former owner can't resist in being jelous that I am fixing HIS mistakes. I don't mind holding my hands up when I make them, it means more to be humble and honst. Yet to act like Mr Highandmighty just because they inherited a successful website that you gave to someone else due to being out of depth is a little too late to act like something special. In the future, if someone hires my services, then acts like this I am refunding and blocking them. Got to build a reputation and take some of this nonsense first.
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World Cup Thread 2026
Japan have played some of the best attacking football, it's unfortunate that they were happy to defend against Brazil because I said to Jake that they will tire and space will open up between their CBs. Their back line was very impressive, but the midfield chased every pass and allowed themselves to be brought out of posiiton, allowing Brazil to play quicker and place the ball into the crucial areas where chances could be created. First half Brazil was dire, much better in the second half but I do feel Japan were unlucky.
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Weekly Chat Monday 29th June to Sunday 5th July
I chose Super over Coca-Cola, along with two bottles of DnB and a pack of corderal with vitamin B, C, D, Iron and Zinc. It was nice to be able to get over to see him, I would have dragged myself in the heat if I had felt well enough but today felt just right. He was very cheerful, and more like himself. Still don't see him as often on his laptop, but we did watch Brazil vs Japan in the first half and rushed home, because Jake hoped to see them beat Brazil. It's been a strange few days, but certainly nice to have stepped out. Sometime this week, I'll be making him various meals and taking more DnB rounds since he's become mad on it.
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Notts v Florist friendly 18th July
Well, I am looking forward to this and I am not that bothered that we have played them not so long ago. I am all for us playing Forest pre-season, as it's good to see how we compare with our neighbours and if we play for the County Cup or whatever it is called these days it would be nice. It's a good thing for the city, despite not liking Forest. I can respect what they have done, and appreciate their genuine fans.
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Announcement: Goodbye, and Hello - 26th June 2026
The service status page now sends alert emails when something is going on, and I will be sure to maintain the page when things do happen. Some new features will be in testing mode on the live site shortly, and others will become the norm like my ehancement to the desktop's navigation and the history section. =) Stay tuned for more updates.
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Fixtures - memories?
Despite the accidents and losses to our fan base, I am looking forward to Stevenage. I was present when some of our fans were hit by cars, trying to go over the busy road and it was awful. It's a shame because I did enjoy going to watch them, and will do again but that will be in the back of my mind. The reason I like Stevenage is it isn't difficult to get to, the parking is convenient and most of the games have always been a nice sunny afternoon. There're not many fix releases that bring back memories; the only other is Alan Hardy banging on about how a certain person was going to go far but has caused multiple relegations. I thought about going to The Nest the other day, but I didn't due to the heat. I do look forward to the fixtures release but not many hold memories for me.
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New signing Darius Lipsiuc
Quite the strong Irish accent, he seems very levelheaded and focused on pushing his career on. Seems to know where the back of the net is, so it is very promising.
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Carabao Cup draw : Burnley away
It would be nice to grab an early upset in the League Cup, but the focus more so has to be remaining in League One. Still, it will be a chance to start a few players who could be in contention for the starting XI, whilst allowing more favourable players a chance to get minutes in without things being pressured. I am quite happy with the draw, because it's a different team and will be somewhere some of our fans haven't seen Notts play in awhile if at all.
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Notts League EFL1 Fixtures out!
For me, it's a good time to be playing Leicester City because they will still have a lot of the negativity about their relegation and some of their fans are still having wobbles about it now. I honestly think they'll start off slow, and potentially may struggle. They still have some good players, and should be able to adapt in time, but I think for us going in confident, organised and showing no fear may give us a boost. The opening games could be literally any team, and I would still feel we'd be fine. You have to make the most of them, and sometimes tough starts can wake teams up. It should be a good game, so let's look forward to hosting the former Premier League winners.
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Where are they now : Steve Mildenhall
If I remember right, he's from Swindon so it makes a lot of sense. I stopped tracking him after he retired, so I have no idea about his coaching but if it as a goalkeeper coach there might be better options. Swindon after last season needs to find someone who can improve the back line and get the most out of their keepers.
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New signing Darius Lipsiuc
Looking forward to seeing how he does, to command a fee and for us to want to bring him in must mean he has something about himself. At 20, there's a lot of players we have that could help him on his journey and hopefully we have unearthed a hidden gem for a good fee. Welcome to Meadow Lane, Darius Lipsiuc. Shall we call him Lipsync for easy pronunciation? At least at first. 🙄
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Weekly chat Monday 22nd June to Sunday 28 June
I didn't, I listened to Kate and Jake who thought it might still be a bit warm for me but I did go to the shop to pick up Super, some DnB and a bottle of Coke. I will take them round either tomorrow or Monday for sure, he seems to be enjoying the warmer weather and seems to be more himself. Aside from that, I have just been coding and finishing off apps to add to this awesome place. PS. I have taken a step back, they'll have to email me if they want to resume because I really don't like the hassle. If they are genuine, their tone should be different, as I laid my thoughts out honestly and well it's not my loss at the end. This type of work could pay me well, and hopefully I can find a way to get back into working without hassle from the government (only issue is if I am sleepy or in pain that I can't be on my laptop).