DangerousSausage

I am @Countyman, I've lived here for a long time and i follow a team in the third division. Used to have a season ticket until the pandemic. Obviously it's been reported on, but they've been threatening to go up for a few seasons already. To be honest, there's some indifference towards this club as they have little history in professional football and no real rivals. There's also an accumulation of unattractive, relatively poorly supported clubs (that realistically won't challenge for the title) in the Bundesliga while traditional giants such as Hamburg, Schalke and Nuremberg slum it in the second flight, making the league less attractive and competitive. But of course that's hardly Heidenheim's fault. @Chris is aware that there are a couple of issues with the forum and is using his computer wizardry to sort them out ????

Sad but not surprising. He's spent three years at the fifth level and it's understandable that he wants to play as high as possible. Oxford is a bit of a surprise, but maybe he's a more important part of their plans than would have been the case at Derby? Good luck to him all the same. Now that Jones and McGoldrick have signed, there's no need to panic buy a replacement. For ask Rodders' quality, I think Cameron leaving would give us a bigger problem.

@upthepies their promotion in 2008 coincided with the creation of the nationwide third division. So they were effectively promoted from the fourth division (the state-level Oberliga) to the fourth division (the new Regionalliga).

This is quite the signing. In my heart of hearts I didn't think it was going to happen, but here he is. Let's hope he fits in well and picks up where he left off last season.

Heidenheim are not really comparable to Luton as they've never scaled these heights before. I started following Waldhof Mannheim in 2007, when they and Heidenheim were both in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. This is the second level of regional football in Germany, so it's more comparable to the NLN than League Two. Both teams won promotion to the newly formed Regionalliga, and I saw Heidenheim's visit in what I think was the first game of the following season. They won comfortably and went on to win promotion again. Crazy to think they still have the same manager! They're a well-run club who have established themselves in Bundesliga 2 for some time and deserve their chance. Good luck to them. However, they'll do well to hold on at that level. @Piethagoram a "Gymnasium" is a kind of state grammar school, but Turngemeinde means gymnastics association. Many German football clubs grew out of general sports clubs, in Heidenheim's case relatively recently. Another one is TSV 1860 Munich - the T in TSV also stands for "gymnastics club".

On a roll now! Wordle 718 3/6 ???????? ???????????? ???????????????????? @Ohh Tommy Johnson, if you're playing it in Chrome, just go to "share" and select "copy text". Then you just paste it. I too used to be clueless, but now i know how to do it, my life is complete.

I only tend to buy coffee to go at the airport now, and I wouldn't say any are my favourite. I've avoided Starbucks for a long time, no taste whatsoever. There's a German chain called Tchibo that's pretty decent. But now I pretty much always make my own filter coffee and fill it into a flask before I go to work. It's cheaper and tastes better.

I hadn't thought of that! To be fair to them, I don't recall them playing together often that season, and Dennis was eventually shipped out on loan. That said, he's a good signing for them. A very good finisher who will get his fair share of goals.

EAT THAT, WORDLE! Wordle 717 3/6 ???? ???????????????? ????????????????????

I'm quietly confident of a spot in the top half. If we want to go further, it'll be all about how quickly we can adapt to a much more intense and competitive league. Also, a number of our star performers have little or no experience of League football, so they still have a point to prove (although I'm confident they have the ability). Even if we fly out of the blocks, the division is already looking very competitive. There are three very wealthy clubs in Stockport, Wrexham and Gillingham, and Bradford and Mansfield will be there or thereabouts. I'd love us to be up there, but I'm not assuming we'll blow the division away.

What's the worst type of monger @Chris? Fish, iron, rumour or war? ???? I partly dropped this in to see if there's any weight behind it, as it's been circulating for a while now. I suspect we'll know one way or the other pretty soon. As for his quality, if any other L2 team signed a player who had just scored 22 goals in the division above, we'd be saying it's an amazing signing. But in a negative scenario you could have a player who's declining and yet feels entitled to a start. We do need to beef up the squad with some experience, but not necessarily in an area where we've already got three players competing for one spot.

There seems to be a lot of talk about David McGoldrick returning to end his career at Notts. Some folk swear blind that it's a done deal. What do you all think? Personally I'm not sure at all, he just doesn't fit our recruitment strategy and would surely be in demand in League One at least. The bloke was playing and scoring in the Premier League two years ago and just scored 22 times for Derby, so he still has it. I'm not sure what effect it would have to have a "star" in the dressing room, but then Ameobi was a similar case and did well for us. But now we have Langstaff - who would play? Would we change the formation to accommodate him? Or is he the replacement? Thoughts?

They're very bombastic indeed! That one is actually a cover of a Gary Moore song, maybe that's where you heard it. Here's some more epic while we're at it (they do normal length songs too though!): Oh and ska! I lived in Coventry for a while and it's compulsory to like the Specials there.

I listen to a lot of stuff, from rock and metal to pagan folk. But I while back I fell into the Nightwish rabbit hole and never returned. They've had three lead singers, which is careless at best, but that also means their output is pretty varied and there's a lot to discover. They rule! I'm also keen on the Levellers and some German bands such as Faun and Die Ärzte.

How do you share your results like that? I'm standing on the hose, as they say here. Took me five goes today. Is it me or have we had a run of really hard words?

I saw this, cracking goal and absolute scenes! It never ceases to amaze that seasons spanning several months often go down to the very last seconds. As we know...

Good move for him, he should get the regular football he needs to kick on.

Chesterfield will be there or thereabouts if they can keep their discipline, and I think one of the traditional non-League outfits will step up too. Possibly Boredom Wood or Woking. Hartlepool also now have a manager who's been successful at NL level before, I could see them doing a Grimsby. Who i WANT to go up is a different matter. Games against Chesterfield can have that bit of spice that Boredom Wood and co. will never offer. I'd rather have teams coming up that can properly establish themselves in the League rather than doing a Rushden & Diamonds.

You defend as a team, and in his second season we didn't. We weren't working hard enough off the ball and we had a liability in goal. No wonder he lost his confidence. But the season before he'd shown himself to be a steady enough defender, and will hopefully do well at Alfreton.

When i first moved, I was mostly limited to reading, but live commentary, streams and highlights are much easier to come by than in the past. I really enjoyed the NL stream, and I'll definitely treat myself to an iFollow subscription next season. With online communities like PON, you can stay in touch and share your thoughts wherever you are in the world, this is one way that the Internet can bring us all together. Oh, and I particularly like crowd footage and photos posted on YouTube and elsewhere, it brings the matchday experience much closer. Thanks to everyone who shares ????

@TheSkipper the text of your post and the title don't match up. I'll respond to the title - the rest is a MUCH longer discussion! I don't travel away often, but the best was probably at Lincoln in early 1998. We were gunning for our ninth consecutive win and were really starting to pull away from our rivals, so we took a strong following - about half of the crowd was made up of Notts fans and the atmosphere was great. Sincil Bank is a great little ground too. We won 5-3 after going 3-0 up and then letting Lincoln come back and equalise early in the second half, just to keep things interesting. The worst (Wembley 1996 apart) was a trip to Cheltenham in about 2006, it was Gudjon Thordarson's only season in charge, we were plummeting down the table and couldn't buy a win. Cue a spineless 3-0 defeat setting up a final day showdown against Bury. Luckily we stayed up thanks to results elsewhere, but that day I thought we were going down.

All the best to you and your wife @Fan of Big Tone. It shakes you up no end, but it's good that it was identified and she's getting the best care. My weekend? I should really be getting some things ready for my forthcoming visit to Robin Hood country, but I'm just too lazy.

He has no trouble finding these jobs, but never stays anywhere for long. As much as it pains me to say it, the common denominator is him. He's either really bad at getting along with his superiors, or is not very good at choosing his clubs.

Yes @4everapie, he says they did want to keep him (which is logical as he was a regular). I hadn't read the interview when I wrote my first comment.

While he has a right to a private life, it's clear that this wasn't a relationship between equals. If one word from a more powerful person could end your career, how easy is it to get out of it? It's quite easy to imagine a situation where you feel you HAVE to say yes, however enthusiastic you were at the beginning. That's why relationships like this are dubious and a potentially sackable offence, especially for someone who has cultivated a squeaky-clean image. A part of me is dreading Gordon's tell-all interview ???? Just try not to speculate too much please!