Yes, great day. Even better, and funnier, to note that the Scum have sacked Dyche today.

I remember leaping in to orbit in the Pavis, then later, hearing the immortal words from Colin Slater, “….. of all people, Charlie Palmer. Meadow Lane is alive….”.

Have a great SCP day.

What a day that was Happy CP Day everyone.

Good morning from the midshires. I was thinking of Sangria to be honest @Fan of Big Tone as it compliments both sun and sea whilst away in sunny climes. If there is something else please enlighten me as my memory is not as good as it used to be. 🤣 My chest is improving day by day thank you, and I hope to return to normality on Monday the 16th of February. Mrs P has now had her second bout of the dreaded Vertigo, not nice, and is off too, once again pills are doing the trick. 👍 The weather here has taken a change for the better as I can see a little sunshine 🌞 whoops it gone. Milder though than it has been for a while. Hey @Fan of Big Tone did you manage to sort the roof? My Osteopath told me that the exercises for arms and legs can be done at home with resistant bands, increasing resistance as you go, if that helps. I hope everyone has a good day. Live long and Prosper. 😎🖖

Hey @Fan of Big Tone did you manage to sort the roof?

We’ve got a man coming round on Friday to have a look at our roof to see what is wrong, then we’ll probably have to wait for a slot when they can sort it.

“My Osteopath told me that the exercises for arms and legs can be done at home with resistant bands, increasing resistance as you go, if that helps.”

Yes thanks we’ve got a resistant band I’m doing some exercises with that too. 👍

Glad to hear your chest is getting better, I hope Mrs. P gets over her vertigo, I’ve had that it’s horrible.

I’ve had a text that I qualify for a lung cancer check because I’m a former smoker, even though I haven’t smoked for 50 years! So I’m going to go along just to be sure I’m ok, they do a CT scan, I think it’s important to have anything they offer, if there is a problem it’s picked up early.

On 11/02/2026 at 12:52, Fan of Big Tone said:

Glad to hear your chest is getting better, I hope Mrs. P gets over her vertigo, I’ve had that it’s horrible.

Thank you @Fan of Big Tone for your kind words from me and Mrs P, she is on temporary tablets for the short term but if it persists a long term version is available. Nice one regarding the lung CT Scan, never had a sniff of that, must be new, is it. Good news with the roof man hopefully sorting things out.

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Derby County 3 - 0 Swansea City

Portsmouth 2 - 1 Sheffield United

Barnsley 2 - 1 AFC Wimbledon

Blackpool 2 - 0 Plymouth Argyle

Crewe Alexandra 2 - 0 Gillingham

Oldham Athletic 1 - 0 Fleetwood Town

Tamworth 3 - 1 Aldershot

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Barnsley 2 v 1 AFC Wimbledon

Blackpool 1 v 1 Plymouth Argyle

Crewe Alexandra 1 v 0 Gillingham

Oldham Athletic 1 v 1 Fleetwood Town

Tamworth 1 v 2 Aldershot

Woking 1 v 0 Altrincham

Derby County 1 v 0 Swansea City

Portsmouth 1 v 2 Sheffield United

Barnsley 2 v 0 AFC Wimbledon (Joker)

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The more I think about the game the more apparent the key is whether Norburn is fit or not, he's the domino that would change the team selection.

If hypothetically he isn't fit then Iorpenda likely drops deeper to play alongside Robertson. This then presents the question of whom do you play as the attacking midfielders presuming we don't change shape. I agree with the general consensus that this perhaps isn't the game for Hall but who do you play instead? Tangen looked really good on Saturday but its 45 minutes, his first 45 minutes in some time given he's come from Norway. Do we really want to start someone in this game who isn't yet adapted to the speed and physicality of League Two football?

Is Grant fit? Is it wise to play Enoru in this game, is it his sort of game or is he in the same bucket as Hall. That's before we address the question of his fitness levels given he is also adjusting to life in League Two.

Lot's to ponder for MP, the key is Norburn for me.

Robertson and Iorpenda have proven that they can be a dynamic CM partnership - with mobility and physicality in spades.

I think away to Swindon was one such game, but they had a run of a few.

If it comes to that, MP should show them a video of their best game together and say play like that.

I think Iorpenda & Norburn are our best central midfield pairing at the moment, so I back Martin to choose them in the first 11 against Bromley.

Alternatively, Martin could go for Norburn & Robbo together & Iorpenda at number 10 . Hopefully, they will all be available on Saturday.

I think that it is important for Jatta to play. Hopefully he'll be fit, because he's improved his defensive play & is good around the penalty area for Notts against corners and free kicks.

I’ve gone for league one too, although I’d love it to be Championship but that might take longer than 5 years. I just hope I’m still around when/if they make it. At the rate my friends (who are the same age as me or younger) are popping off lately I’d say the odds aren’t very good. 😢

It's L1 with a bullet.

So much has changed since we seemed naturals for the second tier in the 1970s. In the intervening decades so many other clubs that were considered below us at the time have got their acts together - Brentford, Bournemouth, Swansea, Blackburn, Fulham, etc etc. Other sleeping giants now more regularly punch their weight.

In England, football is just about the only thing that has kept on progressing, while everything else has gone to ****.

Just look at the NL, all those historic football league clubs battling it out. Clubs like Salford, Bromley muscling into the EFL and staying there. All boats have lifted, including Notts. Who would've thought in those top flight years with only 8K, or those trust years on 4K that we'd bounce back and regularly get close to 10K? And being based in the 'much bigger than people realise' Nottingham metropolitan area, we have the potential for even greater growth. But 10K is a struggle at Tier 2 these days and its made up of a formidable list of big 1-club cities. And don't forget every decade a number of towns turn into cities because of growth - including Colchester, Doncaster, Milton Keynes, and Wrexham in 2022.

As things stand our natural position could be around 9th in L1. In fact we'd be good candidates to be that club that stays in the same tier for the longest time, and that tier would be L1.

Momentum can take teams up straight from L2 to Championship. But have you seen that league recently? I wouldn't want that if it meant a crushing relegation soon afterwards. The bros model of a consolidating might be the better long-term strategy and over time we might become that big city club that can mix it in the top two levels eventually.

League 1 for all the above reasons so very well explained.

I keep thinking Bromley will fade, just on the basis when they’ve been in the National League, they’ve always finished high in the table but never top 2/3. However, it’s not happening yet, we need to beat them to start a wobble!

I still think MK will finish top 3 just on the basis of insane squad depth (Crowley doesn’t even start for them!) and a manager who’s got two League 1 promotions to his name.

Swindon could go either way with mad Ian Holloway and I think Cambridge will be up there as will, their form since playing us has actually been really solid. Hopefully Salford will fall away like you say, but they always look excellent against!

Barnet would be my team to potentially mount a late charge, I won’t be surprised if they finish in the play-offs but top 3 is probably a tad out of reach now. Walsall look like repeating last season’s drop off except instead of autos to play-offs, it’s play-offs to mid-table this time.

I'd love to think you're right. However, we were 2nd in the league , this time last season, then blobbed it in the Play Offs against a streetwise and physical wimbledon. Then again, we are a more streetwise and physical team ourselves this season. That active ingredient has been been accentuated by Patto, who has players like Robbo playing much more aggressive, breaking up opposition play, and effecting the game. An element which Maynard was missing at this level. But Ihope you are right. I hope we keep this run going, with three points at Bromley next week.

Yes there’s lots of water to go under Trent Bridge before we know for sure but hey we can dream can’t we? I just hope the dream doesn’t turn into a nightmare, at least I think we can be fairly certain we won’t be relegated.

When I saw the title I thought it was a topic about Will Jarvis. 😂

Yeah, we’ve done a will too, I think it’s important then if and when something happens to you the people left behind have less hassle sorting things out.

@Piethagoram i hope you are recovered now and it’ll be a long while before anyone has to read that will.

In this game of locking horns with a stubborn Barrow side, having a definite disrupt at all cost attitude, I thought Bedeau was an example to his team mates, Leading from the front. I agree with @YoopEyes Matty Platt is now firing on all cylinders and was a contender. My vote goes to Nick Tsaroulla, like @Fan of Big Tone says he was superb all over the pitch, giving and making options for himself and others.

Lots of really good performances again, particularly in the second half. I went for Macari, I agree with @McPie he’s actually been really good for a few weeks and yesterday he got forward really well and made a number of important last-ditch interventions.

The Poll has closed.

We have a draw for the Pride of Nottingham's Man of the Match this week between Nick Tsaroulla & Jacob Bedeau. Well done to both.

Birmingham 2-0 Leicester🤡

Wrexham 2-1 Millwall

Wimbledon 1-1 Reading

Mansfield 2-1 Exeter

Gillingham 1-0 Tranmere

Walsall 0-1 Barnet

Altrincham 2-1 Yeovil

York 2-1 Forest Green

Birmingham 2-1 Leicester

Wrexham 2-0 Millwall

Wimbledon 0-2 Reading

Mansfield 2-0 Exeter

Gillingham 2-0 Tranmere Joker

Walsall 1-0 Barnet

Altrincham 1-1 Yeovil

York 2-1 Forest Green

The results:

Birmingham City 2-1 Leicester City
Wrexham 0-2 Millwall
AFC Wimbledon 3-2 Reading
Mansfield Town 0-0 Exeter City
Gillingham 2-1 Tranmere Rovers
Walsall 1-3 Barnet
Altrincham 0-1 Yeovil Town
York City 2-1 Forest Green Rovers

Well done to @william1984, who wins this round!

@super_ram is now two points clear overall, @william1984 moves into second and @menzinho is in the top half!

And that's all for this round. Saturday's fixtures are coming up on Wednesday - until then, thanks for playing and have a good week!

22 minutes ago, DangerousSausage said:

I don't think Barrow were a bad side at all. The last few minutes aside we always looked likelier to score IMO, but they played some good football and didn't look like relegation fodder.

I agree, after a pretty even first half we had a really good spell second half and played some really slick football at times and dominated up until the last 5/10 minutes when we basically had a make-shift midfield. We had the chances to give ourselves more than just the 1 goal lead, one team is going to suffer a 3 goal defeat soon surely!

I was impressed with the first outing of Tangen too, probably not even match-fit but looks to have the ability to play in the tight spaces.

Given that Roos got so much stick, it’s only fair to now give a bit to Belshaw because his attempt at a 1 handed punch almost cost us a goal, luckily, he was bailed out by Bedeau (and lack of goal-line technology).

6 from 6, all in the space of 3 weeks is mightily impressive though, thank god we’ve got a free week now and hopefully no new injuries.

4 minutes ago, menzinho said:

Given that Roos got so much stick, it’s only fair to now give a bit to Belshaw because his attempt at a 1 handed punch almost cost us a goal, luckily, he was bailed out by Bedeau (and lack of goal-line technology).

Good point, if you rush out to punch the ball you've got to make sure you get decent contact on it. It was hard to tell on PiesPlayer, but it looked to me as though Bedeau was slightly behind the goal line. Having said that, we should have had a penalty a few minutes earlier when Bedeau was held back, so maybe things evened themselves out.

Enjoyed the game on Saturday, it made a change for it not to be completely freezing!

Regarding the actual football, I can't say I was ever especially worried that Barrow would score an equaliser. When you take the emotion out of watching the game and look objectively at how the match unfolded then Notts were in control. There were tired legs and there was some of the natural back and forth of League Two football but only one counter attack actually hurt Notts. The data from the game backup how much control Notts were in throughout even after all the changes MP had to make.

Really liked the look of Tangen, excited to see his progress.

COYP!

Have they specified the direction of the stripes though? Am I going to have to try and fit my head through a sleeve to get the horizontal stripes! 😄

I think it’s a sign that the recruitment is going in a slightly different direction. We have tended to sign young talented players with technical skills that have a sell on value. While that is still the case in some instances, they realize that to get out of league 2 more is needed. While we have signed Luke Browne our defensive options are strong so he has time to bed in. Whereas Lee Ndlovu and James Belshaw are ready to make an impact. Beck-Ray Enoru is probably somewhere in the middle.

Totally agree @McPie . I feel MP has shown he has significant influence on the technical board. The signings of Ndlovu and Belshaw are clearly designed for the now in Division 4, while the others are a nod to the near future. In the case of Enoru and Tangen perhaps the not too distant future.

Shame it didn't work out for him here, he was clearly a very talented player who sometimes did eye-catching things, but too often a passenger with little impact on games. Hope things work out better at his new club.

4 hours ago, Fan of Big Tone said:

heard whilst away that a dear friend passed away after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in October, that’s 3 friends in the last few weeks that have passed two with prostate cancer. I sat and cried in the hotel bar when I heard of the latest one, so very sad, I’ll miss my catch up pint with him putting the world to rights RIP Jim.

I think I’m going to ask at the docs about a test, according to my medical records that I’ve checked online I had one a few years ago but I think they recommend every two years, I’ll see what the doc says.

My condolences @Fan of Big Tone it's never easy losing anyone especially a close friend. Prostate cancer is a silent killer and takes no prisoners. My father (God bless him) insisted that from the age of 50 i should approach the doctor regarding a PSA test, as my Grandad and Uncle had it and passed away. In March 2017 I was diagnosed with the Cancer, what a shock. In November that same year it was removed, in and out again in 3 days. Unfortunately I fell ill after being home for one night (SEPSIS) blue lighted back in and 17 days later returned home, the rest is history. I cannot reiterate enough how important it is to get tested.

Sounds awful @Michael D Pie. i hope you are recovered now.

Still bubbling after the Notts win yesterday. Barrow played well & it certainly looks like their current league position doesn't represent how good a team they are.

Yes, he was 91 according to reports. I just remember him from the early 60s watching with my grandad from Spoon Kop.

George Smith, Ivan Hampton, Bert Loxley, Gibson era seems to ring a bell. Need to dig out the old programmes again 🤓

On 05/02/2026 at 13:00, Mapperley Pie said:

Yes, he was 91 according to reports. I just remember him from the early 60s watching with my grandad from Spoon Kop.

George Smith, Ivan Hampton, Bert Loxley, Gibson era seems to ring a bell. Need to dig out the old programmes again 🤓

Yep that the era I started watching Notts, I remember Gerry Carver very well.

RIP Gerry.

17 hours ago, Robbie said:

He probably likes Nottinghamshire @theAnticlough

Looks that way, maybe the Abbotts have moved into Newstead Abbey

I do wonder why he left Wycombe... Have you ever been there? The stadium is OK but what a terrible location....at the back of an industrial estate which is by the side of a retail park, off a slip road on a b-road in the middle of nowhere. Makes Field Mill seem like a prime location

2 hours ago, theAnticlough said:

Looks that way, maybe the Abbotts have moved into Newstead Abbey

I do wonder why he left Wycombe... Have you ever been there? The stadium is OK but what a terrible location....at the back of an industrial estate which is by the side of a retail park, off a slip road on a b-road in the middle of nowhere. Makes Field Mill seem like a prime location

I can hear the crowd if I'm in the back garden when they score. We are about 3 miles away from the ground.

He said in an interview he was glad to be back in Nottinghamshire because he can see some of his friends at Notts more often. He spoke fondly of playing for us.

Not sure why they’ve included Salford City amongst those teams, did they feel like they just wanted to join in. If that’s the case, I’m almost certain Stafford Rangers would be interested in signing him too! It is intriguing that all the clubs mentioned are in and around the north west, makes me wonder if the ‘big six’ team is one of Liverpool, City or United.

I would say moving to a ‘bigger’ club at a young age is no guarantee of success though, get him on the phone to Kion Etete at Spurs, no wait St Mirren or Jack Bearne at Liver.. Oxford City, might help sway his decision making.