Guys and girls can you help me welcome @Ian Rust (Shots) To the pon community. 

From BBC Sport:

Notts County, the world's oldest professional football club, have had a winding-up petition against them adjourned for a third time.

Notts, relegated from the Football League last season having been a founding member 130 years earlier, owe HM Revenue & Customs about £800,000.

The up-for-sale club will next appear in court on Wednesday, 31 July.

Buyers have three weeks to settle the debt, with the club otherwise facing administration or liquidation.

It is the third time in four months that Magpies owner Alan Hardy, who has endured recent financial troubles and seen one of his companies go into administration, has been given extra time to complete arrangements to sell the 157-year-old club.

Hardy had last week said he was "extremely confident" that a takeover of the National League club, who are yet to pay staff and player wages for June, would be completed before their latest High Court hearing.

The Professional Footballers' Association have also got involved over the delay in salary payments.

a question which keeps coming up on social media is who would you switch your loyalty to if notts county did not exist. its a grim idea, before notts as i have written before i was never interested in football.

i do not think i could switch to a local club, it would not be the same or at least i cant see it being the same as notts.

what about you?

https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport/football/football-news/post-says-if-notts-county-3030913


I agree he needs to front up and face the music. Problem is, I don't think we're going to like the answers. 

These are the ten questions that Alan Hardy needs to answer now:

(1) When will staff and players be paid their June wages which they were due last Friday?

(2) In early March you said the sale of the club could be concluded within a month. In early June you said it was imminent. When will a sale be completed?

(3) Why are you still in talks with a consortium that includes a convicted fraudster Alex May?

(4) Who are the backers behind the South African consortium which you say wants to buy Notts County?

(5) Has there been any correspondence with the FA regarding either of these two groups?

(6) What guarantee can you give the 1,500-plus fans who have already bought season tickets for 2019-20 that they will not be left out of pocket?

(7) Will you be able to pay the minimum £250,000 tax bill which Notts County to the HMRC before the deadline of the court hearing of July 10

(8) Have you personally, or any company of which you are the sole director, been paid any money by the club in the past four weeks?

(9) If the club is unable to pay the debts it owes, is it currently trading whilst insolvent?

(10) If a sale of the club is not agreed within the next week, would you be willing to place Notts County into administration in order to save the club?

So according to the evening post the sale of Notts county will have to be halted with the group using Alex May as there advisor. Talks with the buyers who are using  Alex May as a advisor will have to be halted. Alex May recently has been unmasked as a fraudster after Reports surfaced that one of the buyers interested in buying the club was using him as a advisor. Alick Kapitanya was prosecuted for fraud and obtained a criminal conviction before changing his name by depole to Alex May.

for the full story click the link below 

https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport/football/football-news/notts-county-must-immediately-cease-2959269

.... because we haven't paid for the new training kit.

This is starting to smell more and more like admin is around the corner.

In fact, it stinks. I am now thinking admin is the most likely outcome of this whole sorry saga. 

Is it something to do with the Waterside development or is it the amount of debts?

It's been over 2 months now since Hardy accepted an offer? 

I accept things take time but this has gone on too long now

What do we think? Debts? Riverside development area? Anything else?

Apparently leaving at the end of the month , good luck to him , not a shock really maybe the beginning of an exodus . 

Here's the definition provided by Urban Dictionary.

Fair Weather Fan

A fan of a sports team who only shows support when the team is doing well. During hard times they usually bandwagon other teams. They basically have no real loyalty to the team, but still manage to get better seats than you at the game. Strangely they mysteriously vanish at the first sign of trouble.

Seems Kristian Dennis is already weighing up his future with Notts County for next season weather he will or want to play non league football or Notts are deciding weather to cash in on his value only time will tell if he will stay at notts.

Do you think we need him to stay at meadow lane.?

https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport/football/football-news/kristian-dennis-attracting-interest-striker-2957970

Football isn't supposed to be like this, however the last three era's have been nothing but a circus. The Munto year, despite people often moaning about most will look back and wonder how the club actually managed to survive despite all the unknowns. The players must have been playing for each other, as some didn't get paid and that speaks volumes for the likes of Kasper Schmeichel.

Since the mid 90's, it's all been down hill for my generation but despite that the club always felt like we would be okay.

Yes in the 00's there was times where the club's existence came into question, yet the fans and former players rallied together and that made a difference. I find myself just wanting an owner who can keep a low profile, someone who can look at the long term future without quoting to please some fans that there's a 5-year-plan.

Notts County Football Club shouldn't be a media circus, however, it's what it is.

As a fan, I firmly stand behind ensuring the club has a future. People are different, some won't and others have valid reasons. I'm keen to understand where most stand with the situation, what they hope and think about the current situation. I don't think for a second that the club will be allowed to die, I just hope a good buyer can come in and build slowly.

https://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2019/july/2019-20-fixture-release-030719/ 

The talk over on the Facebook page is of a protest about the current state of the club. An open WhatsApp group has been set up to discuss the details, so maybe we'll see something concrete over the coming days.

While it helps to have a specific demand during a protest, a demonstration of feeling surely wouldn't be a bad thing. Maybe something creative like a wheelbarrow march? Let's face it, us fans have been silent for too long and it's about time we made our voices heard. Also, if the worst happens (heaven forbid) we're going to have to pull together to get the club up and running again in some form. So getting organised isn't such a bad thing.

What do you think? Are any of you going?

From BBC Sport (full interview here)

Former Northern Ireland goalkeeper Roy Carroll has revealed he feared he was going to "end up dying" at the height of his battle with alcoholism.

The ex-Manchester United stopper opened up about the problems he faced as he drank heavily to deal with depression.

Speaking on Radio Ulster's Summer Club, the 41-year-old recalled the moment he realised he needed to address his excessive drinking.

"The drink had taken over my life, I didn't care about anybody," he said.

"Things were piling up and all I was worried about was when my next drink would be. I'd lost my wife and kids because I had to move out of the family home.

"About two or three years later [in 2011, after a spell in Denmark with Odense BK] I just woke up one morning in an apartment and said 'what am I doing, I'm going to end up dying here'.

"So I went into a hotel and stayed off the drink. Mentally I was strong enough to look after myself and get out of it.

"I got a call from a Greek agent asking me to go to Greece and I went back to my wife, who found out I had been off the drink for a couple of months.

"We went to Greece for a week, signed a contract for OFI Crete and I haven't looked back since."

Very candid interview, he's been clean for eight years now after falling into it following a long-term injury earlier in his career, and he wants to help others who may be going through similar struggles as what he went through.

Fans can argue with me as much as they like, 2009-2010 was the season that could have fuelled changes for this club. A football team that had been stuck in the mud since the last time it was relegated from what was the third division of the Football League. It was an amazing season, one which saw the club ride the wave of the fictional owner and despite the money not actually being there the club was crowned champions.

A lot of people have been pointing the finger at Alan Hardy for it all, that seems to be the easiest route to blame.

The club has been in turmoil for many seasons, however the Trews had the chance to bring happier times. As much as AH has failed, why are people not accepting that they have a portion of the blame for sending the club back down to League Two.

My point is, lessons hasn't be learnt. Why is that?

Do you think most signings will be loans?

I have this feeling that the majority of signings will be made on loan, this wouldn't be a bad thing but it depends on the quality that comes in. I do really believe that the club will be desperate and should stay clear of signing free agents for the sake of it.

7-10 days? Nope

Sale imminent? Nope

We're still trying to negotiate with a group involving a convicted fraudster. Thank goodness the NCC are on our side

We've got just over 50 days till the season starts and under 30 days till the court hearing. 

We've got 16 players. 1 centre-back. Club is on it's knees. Utter silence 

As quoted by the Nottingham Post:

“Under current rules, fans have no means of redressing their grievances.

“Fans such as those of Blackpool or Coventry or Bolton Wanderers have been treated abysmally, with their owners at fault. There has to be a mechanism to provide fans with an outlet to redress their grievances because at the moment they have nowhere to go.

“I am aware that the majority of football club owners are committed and passionate about their clubs. They recognise that fans are the pulse that keeps football clubs alive. However, too many clubs are being driven to the ground with no mechanism in place for fans to flag up misconduct.

“The Football Supporters Association’ have highlighted that this is not an isolated issue, it is happening across the country. Dedicated fans watch helplessly as their treasured clubs crumble from lack of investment or financial exploitation by dodgy owners.”

So here are some key dates for diary as we prepare for next season In the national league. The dates include the all important fixture release date and the first game of the new season among others dates. 

Former Notts player Shola Ameobi returns to Newcastle United in a new role as new loan player coordinator.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/9246413/newcastle-cult-hero-shola-ameobi-returns-to-club-after-five-years-as-new-loan-player-coordinator/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=sunfootballfacebook070619&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1559941277

If we can't pay £195 then this is getting seriously worrying

Respecting confidences be it legal or other contractual things which cannot be touched...if you would like to submit questions, I will try to ask....... GO