Chris

Even after what I said, I hope he manages to continue playing but it's risky for Mansfield because his legs could go at any time. It's very rare for a footballer to be able to slow down the clock, and his playing days are nearing the end. This said, it's a good signing for Mansfield because they need a bit of experience. I won't boo him when we play Mansfield, I have no time for people like this and I hope other fans will just ignore him. It's a bit mindless to refer to him as one of our own, when he means nothing of what he said upon joining us. I do wonder what League One teams he claimed to have been interested in him, as I doubt they would have paid the wages we did for that single season he returned. It might only be slightly less, but I am inclined to believe it wasn't within the East Midlands area or near to Sheffield. Which leads me to believe we would have offered more just to secure his services, which for a League Two team newly re-establishing itself. A little loyality and honesty would have gone a long way, but he's made his decision and we know his true colours now. Red and yellow... NOT black and white.

I watched Crotia vs England, and the second half of England vs Ghana. I thought Ghana were a buch of dirty sods, they did some neat things but I grew tired of seeing the referee who needed shoulder pads to deal with his own intimidation of taller players. I don't want this to seem harsh, he did well in his deicisons but the lack of cards played into Ghana's clinical and dirty challenges. Their game plan was to scare players into mistakes, and if that didn't happen they would kick, push or outright slide in on them. I don't think England were good enough, and I don't think it can be used as an excuse for our own performance, but I do think it's true that Ghana should have tried to play actual football. Their fans came in good spirit, looked a great bunch but their players just wanted to kick and go on late on people. I can't really respect that from a team, and their keeper celebrating like they had won just seemed silly.

I used to watch international football games without missing a match, that's if I wasn't working. 1990 and 1994, they are too early for me to remember. I remember Euro 96's, rushing home from school because the games kicked off at 3pm. I hear me out, I felt encouraged by how England played and I thought losing to Germany was heartbreaking. Those Pizza Hut adverts felt quite cruel to Gareth Southgate, and I think if we had kept Terry Venables on we might have done better in 1998. Glenn Hoddle wasn't a bad choice to takeover, and I do recall feeling confident about us winning it. The Michael Owen debut is etched in my memory, how he made his darting run and gave us hope. How David Beckham got sent off for tripping Diego Simeone, who naturally made a meal of it. Yet, I felt the same frustration as the players and I think the 2002 World Cup, is where I lost faith in what was becoming known as the "Golden Generation". I do wonder if Terry had stayed on, what he would have gotten out of England. Hoddle seemed stricter, and less focused on game management for me. Venables seemed like someone who could lift a nation, Hoddle just tended to complain from what I remember. I did like Hoddle's time; he did get England to do well enough but he was always too hot headed for me.

I know people who live in warm countries who have visited the UK during heat waves, and they say it's gruelling. I don't like how people are picking on those who complain because it's natural, and it really has been very unplesant the past two days. It's caused me no end of pain, so I now that the warmth and cold impact me greatly. We get no chance to climatise to the conditions; it's just stuffy and humid. I get the frustration, as I would rather get on with it but it does become impactful. I am more opposed to complaints about the cold, and snow. There's not much we can do about either mind. Time to invest in a fridge that produces ice... If only...

We are going to end up with Sheffield Wednesday (A), followed by Stevenage (H), Wycombe (H) and then Reading (A).... If this comes true, don't think I can predict the future because I plucked them out of thin air.

I will be there, with my son, @super_ram, @BigNCFC and @KatrinaPIE. Mark (C) also expressed interest, but Mark (H) has a full car and I did offer to try to find a lift but I think it put him off. He's had a rough past month, and having lost my mum three years ago I know his pain. It would have been nice to have gotten him there, and to catch up as we watched a pre-season game.

The person who helped finish the migration has been assisting me with blocking bots. We are experiencing high numbers of these and have started to restrict their access. However, the dev site seems to have hit an infinity loop in one of the apps I have coded. I run a local server using a program called XAMPP, which didn't have this issue although I am trying to be painfully careful but it would seem to have played part of it. All resources will go through a final hardining and optimisation stage, although I have fixed the new apps which are yet to make their way here. I will be monitoring the server closely, and will ask my friend to check some of the things I have noticed if he would be as kind. I would like to say thank you to Rolland for his amazing help. It's a kindness that is very much appreciated.

Just a quick update for everyone: the Pride of Nottingham server has been experiencing some random periods of downtime and general unresponsiveness. I’m actively looking into the root cause and working through each possibility to narrow it down. At the moment, I can’t confirm the exact reason, but the ongoing heatwave may be contributing. I’ll know more once I’ve completed a few checks and will keep you all updated as soon as I have solid information. Thanks for your patience while I get this sorted.

@Pies79, I'll try to find out if it featured in the clubs official calendar, and if it does, I will try using my Photoshop magic to make sure it's of a quality worth printing. They used to release the image, but it's something that seems to be saved for official merch sales these days. Personally, I think people would still buy signed stuff especially on the back of the promotion and would like to see the squad photo shared with us fans.

I have made my feelings on David McGoldrick perfectly clear. He speaks what people want to hear and doesn't mean a single word of it. There's nothing wrong with wanting to protect your career, or by extending it. Yet words of wanting to retire here, being a Notts fan and other things just prove at the end of the day he follows the 'gold' in McGoldrick. There's probably plenty of ex-Notts players who consider themselves a fan who have moved to Mansfield, I have no disappointment with the likes of Neal Bishop. Just one player, for example, but for someone like Didzy. I find it annoying how our fans will still continue to worship him but call players like Jorge Grant, or George Abbott. They signed for Mansfield to attempt to enhahnce their careers, Abbott probably had little choice but signing for Mansfield won't bring a single critism for the likes of him. It's time we forget him again, as I say, If he really wanted to come back to Notts to help then he would have done it sooner than he did and if it wasn't about money, he would have stayed and been a team player. I'm personally glad he left, because it meant we didn't have to rely on him and as for him coming back, that door shut when he left to join Barnsley.

It's horrible isn't it? When I told Cheeky, she asked if it wasn't normal. She copes with a lot more and on a daily basis, here's me complaining about a few days but until it happens you don't realise just how impactful it is. Thanks for the advice. I'm going to book an appointment to see my GP to have my hearing checked (if they still do it).

I’ve had a rough few days but I’m finally feeling better. It started with constant tearing from my left eye that turned red and puffy. A cold flannel brought out a bit of sleet that was causing it. Then my right ear started acting up, likely from water and trapped wax. Yesterday was the worst with earache, balance issues and my hearing cutting out, but the ear drops are helping now. With Cheeky experiencing ear issues, she's very good at looking after people and I can't praise her enough. Although, she does tend to make me worried with what she says at times.

Alan Hardy did well to lift gates, but he would hand tickets to his various company employees to help with this. The Reedtz have managed to do it solely based on pure footballing reasons, and whilst there is an element of 'football' at our levels being affordable and trendy to go watch. Nobody would come to a team that doesn't have ambition or feel like we are on the up. There's a lot of non-Notts vloggers who bring attention, some of these I really dislike for using the club's popularity to increase their own channel. I find it bemusing that someone who supports a different team will attend our games to get views, rather than to view their own team. It does have a knock on effect by promoting the club, and it does help to bring in younger fans and people unassociated. I just think the biggest increase is how Notts is focused on making match days a celebration and getting the atmosphere better. The preparation leading to games, the various points where fans can mingle all play a big role but it's the team on the pitch that brings the most eye balls.

Doesn't really matter now, we have Martin Paterson and he can stay being happy with Derry. Who knows if it was for good enough reasons? They were his, and we aren't exactly missing someone like him.

I still feel disappointed by how he ended his Notts career, by not celebrating when we scored goals and isolating himself just because he knew he would be released. I still would wish him well, as on his day he can be a very good player.