I had a walk with Jake today, another excuse for him to look for more of those Premier League trading cards he has started collecting. He unpacked a signed Everton player, which is hand-signed and one of x amount. He even gave me one of Ian Wright, as they are including some club legends in the series, and it's a very nice card.

It's proudly in a plastic sleeve and top loader, so it's safe. I never did this when I was younger; I collected them and would look at the cards. I never really cared if they had value; I just liked having them.

It presented the perfect opportunity to pay a surprise visit to Super, and we intended to be there for about an hour, but we stayed much longer as we talked about things and caught up. Leaving just in time to get something that was being cooked back at home. The positives were my legs only seldomly hurting while walking, and I don't feel too bad.

A much more positive week than it had started.

15 minutes ago, Chris said:

It presented the perfect opportunity to pay a surprise visit to Super, and we intended to be there for about an hour, but we stayed much longer as we talked about things and caught up. Leaving just in time to get something that was being cooked back at home. The positives were my legs only seldomly hurting while walking, and I don't feel too bad.

A much more positive week than it had started.

Yes a very nice surprise.I wasn't expecting a visit & it gave me an excuse not to do any weeding or other garden work today.Anyway it wasn't exactly sunny and inviting in the garden.

It’s back to school tomorrow. I’m hoping the day goes quickly and doesn’t feel like it’s dragging. The first day back always seems to move slowly and can be a bit dull. It’ll be nice to catch up with my friends, but for me, the day really starts at 3:15pm.

He still seems to be the same old Ricardo, who loves attacking football and high intensity from the defence which leads to the need to outscore the other team. He's a purist football fan's dream, let alone natural supporters.

Sorry, I was expecting this to be news about him signing for a new club. 🤣

The match is underway

Sheffield FC 0 Notts 0

Half time

Sheffield FC 0 Notts 0

Final Score

A win for Notts Women

Sheffield FC 0 Notts 2

Last word from Manager Adam Dunleavy.

I’m pleased to hear he’s found a club, good luck Curtis.

I wish him.luck at Gateshead. I think he will feature well at that level. I'll keep an eye on him this season.

sam stubbs @Piethagoram 😊

John Sheridan

Chicksen and Adam Campbell for players (albeit on loan for Fleetwood I think)

Nathan Tyson

Remember coming into High Level in the 60s from Grantham with my Dad when we came to Meadow Lane....before my Dad got a car...

The site could have easily been converted to a Tram station using all the Tunnels to easily get access Nottingham & adjoining Towns. Just look at the money that could have been saved instead of the waste that resulted.

I’ve only ever known one train station in Nottingham, and I don’t like what they did to it when they fixed it up. It used to look really nice, but now it feels like they’ve mixed in new styles that don’t match the old building. It looks a bit messy now.

It’s easier for taxis, parking and dropping people off, which is good. But they’ve messed up how the station looks, and that’s a shame. Trying to catch a train there can be really annoying. Sometimes they change the platform just five minutes before it leaves, and it makes everything stressful.

I don’t understand why Nottingham is so bad at this. Other places seem to manage better.

I haven’t got my ticket yet, I’ll wait to see the outcome of the pitch inspection.

Hopefully it’ll go ahead.

The match goes ahead after a pitch inspection, right time to get my tickets.

Official confirmation that the match is on.

Just because Jatta has had is contract extended by another 12 months doesn't mean that the Club won't sell the player at the next available transfer window if another club makes an offer the brothers can't refuse.

All this extension is basically doing is keeping Jatta's value a little higher than it might have been. I still think that Jatta will be very marketable if he starts scoring again, & strikes up a good partnership with Dennis.

I think we've already picked up that the money earned from the sale of players goes into the running costs of the club, such as wages & running costs, & we may even see other players sold if the price is right.

Jatta could still leave in January @Robbie, but this means we're under less pressure to sell if the price isn't right. If he were out of contract in the summer, there would have been clubs trying to exploit that and sign him for a reduced fee in January. Now we can name our price (or just keep him).

I'm disappointed another striker hasn't come in for competition though, especially if we're playing two up top. I'm very happy with Dennis but we'll be very thin as soon as injuries and suspensions come into play.

Yeah, that Jatta could still leave in January is a given.

But the year extension is a massive pressure release which will have knock-on effects to MP's team selection, the media focus, and maybe the mood of the squad

Jatta turns 27 in January, his next contract could be the most important of his career/life. We should have a highly motivated player for the rest of the season/half-season.

I should have written a travelogue some years back, following #Notts to Jyväskylä Finland !

New signing for Notts today.

Welcome Lou Hembrough

Another new face in the building. Welcome to talented midfielder, Claudia Jones to Notts.

I agree @Sir Magpie that Tom Iorpenda played well in that first half. We all thought that it would be hard to replace George Abbott, but it does appear on this first league showing that he has slotted in well which is very encouraging..

He may not be the same type of player as George Abbott but he has a way of playing & style that could be very useful to Notts in the months ahead.

I'm sorry, I messed up. Sometimes I find it difficult to see what I actually write; I believe it's correct, and I could double-check it a million times and still feel that way. It's only when someone points it out. Usually, I run everything past @cheeky~k8, but I haven't done it for a while, so I didn't bother her with it.

It should read:

It should read: "Tom Iorpenda looked right at home for the black and white army, away at Newport County.👊🏻"

😓

We should see Iorpenda back against Tranmere. He's done pretty well so far, but personally I suspect he's a dangerous player for us. That means one who looks the part but won't contribute the goals, assists and wins we need from his position (he's playing in Didzy's role at the moment, to illustrate the point). I hope he proves me wrong, obviously.

I also feel a bit sorry for him. Is he a deeper-lying midfielder or an inside forward? I think the best answer to that is neither - with his energy, physique and athleticism he's more of a classic box-to-box midfielder. Today though, it seems you're either a No.6 or a No.10, definitely the way Notts have set up the last few seasons.

Where would Bryan Robson, for example, have played if he was in the premiership now?

Has Hincy joined the Kelle Roos colourblind Club. ?? or did he deliberately pass the ball to the Lincoln striker???????

I thought Scott Robertson had a good game, although a little overwhelmed at times by the quantity of Lincoln players surrounding him, just like the alamo.

Alot of positives can be taken, as mentioned by @Robbie utilising Academy and fringe players to give them opportunity and giving players coming back from injury game time.

Despite the Guardian TV review headline, from watching the programme, I don't pity the footballers involved.

The choice of the individual is to pay the tax the tax due, not look for schemes being touted by financial advisers which may come back to bite you at a later date...where in fact it has!

The initial "tax break" money has been spent. They could have put it in a bank account as a "provision".

And here's the first lesson. Kick it long or drop kick it long my son. It's a lot safer & it's a lot smarter.

The great Goalkeepers of the past, Bonetti, Sprake, Wilson, Banks, Clemence & Shilton kicked it long most of the time.

Professional football at its finest!🤬

Thommo knew the game. He didn’t get the success he wanted as a coach, but he earned respect. He gave everything to the job. It’s a real loss to football and to those who knew him.

Rest in peace, Steve Thompson.

I played cricket against Steve a few times back in the day whilst he played for Collingham, always insightful and still had the insider knowledge on the happenings at Notts (before his return). A good bloke who will be sadly missed.

As a side note for anyone that doesn’t know, he used to play for the same cricket club as (then starting out) referee David Coote.

Rest in Peace, Steve Thompson.

I was pleased to see the club put the statement on the OS, usually these events pass us by. 😥

Blackburn Rovers 2-2 Norwich City

Watford 1-0 Southampton

Barnsley 2-0 Huddersfield Town

Wigan Athletic 1-0 Stockport County Joker

Barnet 2-1 Colchester United

Bromley 2-0 Harrogate Town

Hartlepool United 2-1 Boreham Wood

Morecambe 0-0 Woking

Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Norwich City

Watford 3-1 Southampton

Barnsley 0-0 Huddersfield Town

Wigan Athletic 3-1 Stockport County Joker

Barnet 0-0 Colchester United

Bromley 1-2 Harrogate Town

Hartlepool United 0-0 Boreham Wood

Morecambe 2-0 Woking

The results:

Blackburn Rovers 0-2 Norwich City
Watford 2-2 Southampton
Barnsley 3-1 Huddersfield Town
Wigan Athletic 1-1 Stockport County
Barnet 1-1 Colchester United
Bromley 2-0 Harrogate Town
Hartlepool United 0-0 Boreham Wood
Morecambe 0-2 Woking

Congrats to @4everapie and @JustLikeJuve , who top the leaderboard this round!

Things are looking a lot tighter this round - @magpiejue is still top, but @Robbie and @super_ram are catching up. But there are still loads of players in touching distance of top spot, so it's all up for grabs still.

Despite it being the international break, there's still a round on Saturday so I'll post the fixtures tomorrow. Thanks for playing!

45 minutes ago, McPie said:

@Fan of Big Tone, that's the good thing about this forum. Here people respect one another's opinions and don't jump on every grammatical mistake that's made.

You are so right @McPie that’s what sets this place aside from others and long May it continue.

That's easy for you to say @Fan of Big Tone, what about the crowd of people who converged on Meadow Lane after seeing your comment? 😉

Another one: our former managers Colin Murphy and Steve Thompson, both of them more popular at Sincil Bank.

53 minutes ago, DangerousSausage said:

That's easy for you to say @Fan of Big Tone, what about the crowd of people who converged on Meadow Lane after seeing your comment? 😉

I’ll apologise personally to each and everyone of them at the match on Saturday. 😂

I'm talking about Paterson. We don't know yet if he's the right man or how it'll all work out but it's clear that he's giving it his best.

Braver selections, substitutions and interviews than we saw from Maynard - fighting back from 1pt in 9 to go 7pts out of the next 9. Being the one to represent the club in all the interviews, handling some probing and awkward questions, which are really for the technical board. Just generally showing real commitment and passion. That's what I mean by gumption. If more players in the squad had the same spirit we'd have nothing to worry about

As @Chris, says, the right players were probably were not available. We have been down the route of panic signing for the sake of a signing and it hasn't worked. I think it's better to manage till January and have a clearer idea what we actually need and make a push for promotion in the second half of the season.

I think that the right players were available but he Owners were unwilling to pay the price.

It does appear to me, although I could be wrong, that most of the transfer profit is going on playing players & Coaches wages

Well done to Matt Palmer. It’s great to see fans voting for different players, and I think the winner was spot on. He’s earned it.

Well done Matt. Richly deserved. He's certainly starting to play like the old Matt we know.

really pleased for matt palmer, this is his second and not third so far right? congratulations matt.

really pleased for matt palmer, this is his second and not third so far right? congratulations matt.

Hello, welcome to the Pride of Nottingham @timperkins. 👋🏻

Hello, welcome to the Pride of Nottingham. It's brilliant to be saying hello to you, @timperkins.

Please do share a little about yourself when you see this.

Hello, welcome to PoN @timperkins.

I know the whole no shots thing first half wasn’t great but at the same time Tranmere really didn’t look a threat either and they only scored through our needless sloppy play.

Our reaction was good though and I thought the second half performance was very impressive. I liked how we didn’t just sit back when defending the lead, we were definitely a lot more pro-active off the ball which I really did like. Even in the last minutes of the match when the Tranmere defence had the ball we had Dennis, Jatta and Grant all pressing hard and they were backed up by the wingbacks and midfield. I think we’ll create some good chances just from making opposition defenders/midfielders rush when on the ball.

Set pieces still make me nervous, I think we got a tad lucky at times. Yes, some good blocks in there and you definitely need that but we still aren’t great when it comes to clearing the ball it all seems a bit panic stations to me.

You can laugh now it’s over but Martin Paterson was getting really wound up at the end of the match about the ref not blowing for full-time. Stoppage time is and has been “a minimum of…” for as long as I can remember, so if the 4^th official displays 5 minutes but 6 minutes are played that is completely within the rules.

Anyway, I seem to be able to find more positives with each passing match now, my optimism levels are growing!

Paterson handled things well after the break, making the right decision to bring Gordon on for Cotter, who had a tough first half. The switch paid off straight away, with Gordon looking lively and finishing with real confidence. Dennis also deserves credit, he’s got a knack for being in the right spot and is quickly becoming a key part of the team. Tranmere did push us late on, but we stayed calm, which hasn’t always been the case in past games.

Roos made a vital save near the end, and the back line looked more settled than usual. All in all, it was a solid showing away from home and should give the lads a boost going into the next set of matches.

I would say it was the best performance so far this season. Tranmere were quite happy to allow us to play, and it felt more like a League One game. I did think they were very poor defensively, but on the break, especially those quick counters where they outnumbered us, it made me nervous. At least until they had two or three attempts and blasted them into the away end, nowhere near the goal.

Until they took the lead, I honestly thought it would be us who would score before anything came from them as a serious threat.

It was a sucker-punch moment, which seemed to drop the lad's head, but despite this, I thought we ended the first half somewhat encouragingly with how we played. I also can't stand Josh Davison. His attempts to fool the referee were very frustrating, and a lot of Tranmere Rovers players tried to play the dirty side of football. Relentless pushing, aggressive diving, and careless elbow jabs. I was pleased that we gave it back when we could, I think it was Jacob Bedeau who left a little on a challenge he faced, which caused the tackling Tranmere player to rethink that antic.

In the second half, Notts played some beautiful football, and we did look keen to get on the scoresheet.

While it wasn't perfect, it was a huge step forward in terms of performance, and having seen the majority of games, I thought if things had clicked, we could have thrashed them. I do give credit to Tranmere for keeping the pressure on us; their final 10–15 minutes made it difficult viewing.

Jake also said to me, "We are awful at time-wasting," and we really are. I don't condone it to the point where you look like Newport, or some of the sides we have seen this season, but sometimes you have to take the pressure off defending by running the clock down.

Upon the whistle blowing, my first thoughts were to upload the full-time match graphic and then look around to see the fans reaction. It does become a bit depressing when you see fans unhappy or those who let frustration get the better of them. It was great to see the celebrations and the players returning to properly celebrate in front of us, especially with the Tranmere players watching.

Yes, there is an excellent channel on YouTube called "Well, I Never."

It's a horrible story, and this is how I learned about Fanny Adams and the background of the saying.

This Excellent Channel is also where I got the Majority of my information from for this thread. Along with other sources. It is a Gruesome Tale, but I found it interesting , so I thought I'd share it on PON, I Didn't Know it had already been covered by @Chris .

I mentioned it in passing in a YouTube discussion; it was a while ago, and there's no harm in a topic focusing on the story. I only shared the video to give some context to how I learned about it, plus it's just an awesome video.

hello, @John B. welcome to the pride of nottingham. i hope you introduce yourself and join in.

Hello, @John B. Welcome to PON. It's great to have you registered and as a member of the community. I hope you like discussing Notts.

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Feel free to tell us a little about yourself.

hello, @Chrismabbs. welcome to the pride of nottingham. i hope you introduce yourself and join in.

Hello, welcome to the Pride of Nottingham @Chrismabbs.

If you need help with anything just reach out, a lot of members and the team would be happy to assist you. I hope you join in.

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Feel free to tell us a little about yourself.

Good luck to him, he earned that - making the play-offs is something on his CV, to go with what he did at Wealdstone. I hope him and Alves do well.

I think his strength is, as he says, on the tactical side - he does seem to have a good understanding of the game. Doubling down too much on this strength was his undoing at County IMO. He became too clever with his team changes and too much focus on game tactics seem to neglect all those other things which make for winning football - the psychological side, the aggression, the toughness, earning a shirt and the right to keep it.

Everyone is on a learning curve with what they do, so maybe he'll find this balance at York and get them back in the EFL. That will definitely be their target and expectation.

I've been looking further into this appointment, and Stuart certainly picked himself one Hell of a Challenge. Apparently according to York City Fans their Owner, buys players without conferring with his Head Coach, which seems the Previous Coach Didn't like and one of the Reasons he left, or was sacked sounds like a situation not unlike what's going on over the other side of the Trent. Good Luck Stuart, seems like you're gonna need it.

Stuart Maynard took on a tough job. He stepped in after a head coach who had led Notts back into the Football League. That was never going to be easy. He did what he could with the squad and the situation. I hope he does well at York City. He deserves a fair chance.