Game 29 - The Glovers (A)

Team: Yeovil Town

Date: 19/01/19

Where: Huish Park

What line-up should Neal Ardley 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.

So on this day 18th January 2009 where was County in the league.? 

Who remember this season.? 

Based on a mean of 5

Schofield 5 Difficult to judge on his League debut. Barely troubled, one good save in the first half, beaten by powerful header

Barclay 5 Gives the impression that Brighton take Hall back on proviso we give one of their other centre halfs a go. Nothing spectacular / average

Duffy 5.5 Always give a vocal performance

Bird 5 Some poor distribution first half but he does tackle. Should he have been marking Cambridge's goal scorer? Need to see the goal video

Hewitt 4 Not a full back, not even a wing back. Offered nothing offensively and cambridge targeted his lack of aerial ability

Evina 5.5 Some really good overlapping runs first half but one is never certain for the quality of the final ball

O'Brien 6.5 Better first half, faded in second but at least he offered some drive in central midfield

Milsom 4 Is fitness a real issue? Seem to go missing for long periods

Alessandra 4 A ten minute purple patch in the first half , but then goes anonymous... One begins to see why both he and Thomas were relegated with the 'pool

Dennis 5.5  One real turn and shot from a tight angle but little  else of note

Stead 5 Not given anything from the ref, consistently being held...but in truth offered nothing in terms of goal scoring threat

Subs

Thomas 3 What a waste of a free kick when we needed it most

Etete 4 Found it hard to make an impact

Why no 3rd sub? Unbelievable given the lack of impact by this team

Saturday's Fixtures: 

Ipswich Town v Rotherham United

West Bromwich Albion v Norwich City

Barnsley v Bradford City

Sunderland v Luton Town

Bury v MK Dons

Swindon Town v Lincoln City

Mine: 

Ipswich Town 1-0 Rotherham United

West Brom 2-1 Norwich City

Barnsley 2-1 Bradford City

Sunderland 2-0 Luton Town 

Bury 2-0 MK Dons (joker)

Swindon Town 1-1 Lincoln City

So Notts have acquired two new players defender Ben Barclay from the Brighton seeing Ben Hall return to the Amex. 

Then Notts acquired exspirenced midfielder Jim O’Brien with the gaffer heaping on praise saying he never stops. 

keston Davis returned to his parent club and ended a season long early by Mutual consent. 

So my question is so far in the January transfer window are you happy with the business that Notts County have done.?

So Notts are away to Yeovil on Saturday .Who’s making the journey to Yeovil to see the magpies in action.

So the transfer market is open but we know that Notts are over spending on players we have the biggest team in league two and one of the biggest wage bills for me in order for Neal to sign we have to let players leave either release or sell. 

Im just hoping it not Jamie Turley whom I’m told his contract runs out this month. 

Which players would you be happy to see leave meadow lane in January in order for Neal to bring in fresh players in.?

Jamie Turley, says his goodbyes, as a new agreement can’t be reached , sorry to see him go was better equipped in my opinion than many others for the dog fight we are in , gave his all , good luck to him as a free agent in finding another club , and thanks for your efforts while at the Lane . 

Rumours suggest Forest have ripped up the loan deal of Jorge Grant who is on a season long at the hatters Luton Town. 

Apparently Nottingham Forest have triggered a recall option on the midfielder who has made 22 appearances scoring just 4 for the league one side. 

Forest did the same last January with Ryan Yates while him and Grant was also on loan with Notts.

Forest then sent Yates out on loan with a higher league side. Rumours suggest that is what will happen with Grant. one thing is for sure he won’t be heading to meadow lane according to Alan Hardy.

for the full story click the link below. 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nottinghampost.com/sport/football/transfer-news/nottingham-forest-rip-up-jorge-2412104.amp

So Notts county’s fixture against Cambridge on Saturday at meadow lane will be rocking as ticket sales have now reached 13,000 and 2,000 away fans with seats in the Derick Pavis especially the central part are selling out fast with the KOP also following suit in selling out fast.

 last night I brought a ticket in the KOP and availability was very limited.

I started running about 18 months ago, I’m 65 and had never done running before, in fact hated cross country at school. I was worried about my weight and fitness so I started gradually with an app called couch to 5k, which is a nine week course to literally take you from being a couch potato to running 5k.

Before I started I couldn’t run 100 yards without collapsing in a heap, now I regularly run 5k at least three times a week. I’ve started doing the organised park runs, today I competed with over 350 other people of different levels of ability, I came 233rd and 2nd for my age group, I beat a lot of people years younger than me and did a personal best for me of just over 30 minutes, I felt so proud. I’ve lost over a stone in weight and feel physically and mentally a lot better than I did.

I can recommend it to anyone who is physically able it’s great fun but start with the couch to 5k programme which starts you off very gradually with short runs followed by a walk to get your breath back and then gradually builds up your stamina and confidence until you can run 5k.

Game 28 - United (H)

Team: Cambridge United

Date: 12/01/19

Where: Meadow Lane

What line-up should Neal Ardley 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.

RIP Notts County FC. Born 1862. Died 2019. Murdered by Alan Hardy. Accomplices - the current squad of talentless, lazy, overpaid wasters. Funeral to held at Swindon Town FC 4th May 2019. No flowers.

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Alan Hardy has been back on twitter and letting fans know that signings are on the way and departures will happen all in the day of a life for our chairman. 

But he said in a tweet the gaffer is working hard and that we can exspect a couple more signings before the transfer window closes. 

Gaffer Neal Ardley has given a interview with the evening post and has said in the areas he would love to strengthen all areas of the squad.

He also revealed that Ben Hall returned to the Amex to make way for defender Ben Barclay after Hall has struggled with injury. 

Hall went as far as to talk to Barclay to hell Ardley land his man. 

He revealed Keston Davis went back to Swansea to free up funds to make way for another signing. 

The full interview with gaffer is in the link below.

https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport/football/transfer-news/neal-ardley-reveals-would-like-2403919

Would you give Jamie Turley a new deal?

There's no talk about the contract discussions yet, however his deal will soon expire and unless it's actually done and dusted behind the scenes - it's not looking promising. However, I am a big fan of Jamie's approach. He deals with threats quite well and is miles better than Richard Duffy (Turley actually tries).

In this league he's someone I would have in the squad any day of the week.

What do you think?

So forest have sacked there manager while first are in 7th and only lost 5 games like Norwich and Leeds th top two. 

Got to say think Fawz has lost the plot here. ????????

Who was your Man of the Match for Notts County's League Two game away at Colchester United?

Notts County are to announce the next signing at at 130pm today. 

Alan Hardy Has revealed that 12.000 tickets have been sold for Saturday’s £2 game against Cambridge at meadow lane and that space is limited in the central part of the Derick Pavis stand. 

Also Cambridge will be bringing over a  1,000 supporters to meadow lane this Saturday. 

The atmosphere this Saturday is going to be amazing.!! 

Are you ready to be the 12th man this Saturday.?

Terry Hawkridge has departed meadow lane for pastures new. 

For the full story click the link below.

https://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2019/january/terry-hawkridge-departs-100119/

Alan Hardy as hailed and thanked the Notts County fans for making this Saturday game against Cambridge the most remarkable as the Notts County supporter have come out in force with 13,00 tickets sold for Saturday. The meadow lane faithful are set primed and ready to be the 12th man and cheer the magpies to a hopeful three points against fellow strugglers Cambridge. 

Notts county have given defender Cedric Evina a contract exstention until at least the summer. 

Thoughts guys and girls 

Although Notts County’s current season attendance is down on last season We have still have managed to achieve a top 5 average attendance this season.