Hello @BigTom91! Welcome to the Pride of Nottingham, it's great to see you joining in with the community.

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Cork City are set to complete the signing of Republic of Ireland U21 goalkeeper Tiernan Brooks in the coming days.

The 20-year-old shot-stopper is already familiar with Turner's Cross having made his Ireland U21 debut at the venue in the young Boys in Green's 2-1 victory over Iceland back in March.

Notts recently signed keeper Aidan Stone from Port Vale on a two-year contract to move Brooks down the pecking order behind the new comer and Sam Slocombe, who was their first choice netminder as they won promotion to League 2 last season.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-41172685.html

I have decided to post two weekly blogs, with the content first being considered by the gaffer for the front site. Those that don’t make the cut will go here, as I plan to write a lot about the club’s history and do quirky things with ex-players who are open to discussing things.

In the meantime, would you please consider following the blog?

I think I will start drafting ideas and communicating with @Chris about this. If I can reach 10 followers, that would be superb to start with.

I find this horrible on Man Uniteds part. He has a chance of being a first team goalkeeper for a newly promoted Premier League team but instead United are keeping him at the club where he'll most likely being sat on the bench for 95% of the time. 

The De Gea situation is up in the air at the time of writing this but they're also looking at replacements for him. One of 2 things is going to happen. Either De Gea signs a new contract with lower wages to keep him there or they sign a new GK due to De Gea leaving on a free. Either way I can't see Heaton getting a sniff at proper first team football like he would at Luton. 

He'll probably get a handful of games but that's about it. 

It also shows the loopholes in the homegrown rule the Premier League have implemented. 

I'm mostly likely going to be told off for writing this, but I feel like the community needs to know just how much my dad has helped. I stepped away from the site and everything to do with it, I needed that time. When I returned, the site needed so much work, and they required a lot of work. I asked Super if he could help me to renew things, plus finding a new social media tool to use as the last one increased to $20 per month.

It just becomes out of reach, I was bouncing from options to options. I have using Facebook's way of posting to the PON page.

This belief gave me the shove I needed to get back into my 5th gear, fueled by encourage of GP (before) and knowing my dad was right behind me. I slowly got everything back to how it should be, well most. There are a few things still pending but without my dads support it would have been a lot slower. I'm also not sure, if it would've made me want to go that extra mile.

Some of the statuses via PON are hitting big numbers, 150+300. A Tony Hateley post has gone semi viral, it keeps getting 3 5o 5 comments per day. ????

Not only does @super_ram contribute to the site, but he has it's back, and he often says that people care or are interested in him. Many of the members have gotten to know Super, alongside Granny and credit is deserved to be paid forward. It's not just in regard to helping support PON's future, it's about his encouragement, love and enjoyment from being involved in his adopted club.

Thank you, dad. ❤????????

Celebrities are always in the public eye and everything they do gets captured and ate up by the media and fans. But sometimes it can be the simplest things they do, that the average person might do on a regular basis. 

The fact that they say "they're just like us". I get people being big fans but they're still humans just like the rest of us and will do human things that we all enjoy. 

I remember Tom Cruise going to a restaurant and ordering 2 curries, which doesn't seem like a big deal as some average Joe's may do that regularly, but difference is it's actually benefitted and helped a business to gain more customers. 

Is there any celebrity news stories anyone else has seen that you just thought like well what am I supposed to do with that sort of information or why is it even news worthy? 

This is the strangest and laziest news report that I have ever possibly read. Is it about police attending an incident, has a woman fallen over and hurt herself, or is it some sort of advertisement? Only Nottinghamshire Live knows.

I hope nobody was seriously hurt. This extends to those who read this and the reporter. Just perhaps, it was the reporter who fell and ended up forgetting what they were writing?

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/police-statement-after-officers-called-8552892.amp

Since it was announced that Peter Crouch was having a film documentary made about him on Amazon Prime, I couldn't wait to give it a watch.

Although it came out on Thursday, I've got round to watching it tonight and it was fantastic. 

Crouchy has had one incredible journey in Football. A lesser man would have folded with the stick he had to endure throughout his career. So for him to overcome everything that was thrown out him to becoming one of the most popular likeable entertaining characters of all time is something to be applauded. 

100% recommend watching this if you get the chance. It's a terrific watch. 

Does anyone on here play FIFA? 

Was thinking of having a new monthly content like MOTD have on the first show of each month. 

FIFA players upload their favourite/best goal they've scored on the game and create a poll see who gets goal of the month. 

What's everyone's thoughts? 

A nice evening in the West Midlands. It's nice to chill at this time of the year. Good to see some familiar faces from Notts as well. A very nice cheeseburger and some lovely donuts too.

Things to take from the game 

- Dan Crowley and Aaron Nemane's link up play was excellent in the first half and both had a hand in the first 2 goals. O'Brien basically stealing Crowley's goal ????. It's what we've come to expect down the right, with the deeper lying CAM, linking up with the wing-back. DC also produced some nice crosses and is technically astute. 

- Riley Reynolds looked promising. Chased lost causes and had a good effort tipped over by the Nuneaton keeper. Agile player

- Geraldo Bajrami looked calm in the centre of midfield and I think that's where we see him long term. He said before that he prefers it in midfield and I'm not surprised. Looks comfortable there.

- Aidan Stone was calm in possession and vocal as well. Always on his toes to chase a loose ball and looks to distribute quickly, which suits us. One moment in the 1st half where he kicked quickly out of his hands and almost ended up with Macca through on goal.

- Cedwyn and Didzy look sharp. McGoldrick with some elegant turns and dips of the shoulder. Cedwyn's pressing was good and finished well after swivelling his body. He was also passing on advice to Charlie Gill who had a decent game and ended it with a mazy run, taking on about 3 players and getting into the penalty area.

- Lucien Mahovo looks assured in possession and looks to be on a good path to spend more time with the 1st team in the near future. He's strong and most importantly an athlete. He's built well and has that calm assurance on the ball, to bring it out of defence and overlap his wing-back, something we do often.

Mansfield CEO has left his position, Notts are actively seeking a CEO……coincidence?

Sorry, it's been a few weeks since I wrote a Weekly. Life hasn't been  exciting recently, just busy with work. 

It's been a fun week this week apart from working. 

Tuesday I went out with a few people from work for breakfast, which was nice. It was lovely to speak to colleagues, that I don't normally work with. 

Friday, I went for a pamper morning and went and got my nails done, which I don't normally get done. In the evening, me and @ARLukomski went out in Nottingham into the evening with a couple of friends, who we've not seen since the season ended. It was lovely to catch up with them. 

How was your week? 

https://gerritforward.wordpress.com/2023/06/16/the-c-word-how-notts-are-putting-the-cult-into-culture/

PSF - The Boro (A)

Team: Nuneaton Borough

Date: 05/07/2023

Where: Liberty Way Ground

What line-up should Luke Williams opt for? What will be the key areas for the Magpies to get a victory? What do you think the final score will be?

Have your say below, join in with the Pride of Nottingham match discussion.

Not much of a glimpse at the new design though, we know it hasn’t got a collar.

Looks like it might be broad stripes too.

Sometimes, I check for news as I browse PON using Google. I have never come across the site making it into Google’s feed before and I was pleasantly surprised to see it.

In most cases, I read the news after coming off. I’m glad I hadn’t, as most likely I wouldn’t have seen this.

So what are we all planning to do with our time over this weekend, or if your reading this late what have you been up to? Anything exciting (or mundane) happening in your life? 

For my part, it’s Friday so we are having a curry, Mrs. Big Tone is an excellent curry maker but for a change we are having a takeaway.

Tomorrow it’s Park Run Day so I’ll be doing my usual 5k jog around West Park along with around 400 others.

Sunday I’m not sure what plans we have yet.
 

I'm awaiting the delivery of my nice shiny new Surface Pro. I have a PC desktop but I don't always use it. Most of the time, I am using my phone. I use Chrome on both my mobile and computer. They're synced to share my history, searches etc. I just find Chrome to be the easiest to use.

As for me, I am a search engine and do not use browsers. However, many people use different browsers such as Windows Edge, Firefox and Opera. Opera is quite decent and offers quite a few features catered to certain situations, such as gaming and lightweight browsing.

Have you tried any of these browsers? What browsers do you use?

Morning all. Anyone into cricket? The ashes starts today, I used to love watching it when I was younger but not so much now, I may try to catch a few overs on the telly if I can.

Will you be watching it?

@Chris has asked me to resurrect this feature again, so I will do this for every game Notts play.

On Tuesday 4th July, Notts start their pre season friendlies with a trip to play Nuneaton Borough.

It may be quite tough to find a link but the idea is to try and think of as many players/managers/ coaches etc. that have played for both clubs (tea ladies don’t count) 

I’ll start you off with Duane Darby played for Notts 1998-2000 and Nuneaton Borough 2006-2007.

Ok over to you who else has a MAGnet link to both clubs?

I've kept my eye on Vigouroux for a few seasons now and what I've seen from him, I've been really impressed. Stepping up to the Premier League is a big step but moving to a newly promoted Burnley side might be a good move. 

Speaks volumes about his ability when he's been voted Orients player of the season 3 years in a row. That's impressive considering he's a goalkeeper.