Guys and girls  can you help me welcome @New2Notts to Pon. 

Welcome to Pon great to have you with us. 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/5718094/notts-county-boss-kevin-nolan-offers-diego-capel-15k-a-week-to-become-highest-paid-league-two-player/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SprnklrSUNOrganic&UTMX=Editorial:TheSunFootball:TwImageandlink:Statement:Sport

https://www.marca.com/futbol/extremadura/2018/08/05/5b6625a7ca4741146b8b461f.html

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but only 8 appearances in 2018....

So I know at the first glance another 4-0 losss don’t look good but like I always ask we can find any positives from the game to take to the next game. 

GK Lee Nicholls (MK)
RB Ryan Jackson (Colchester)
CB Jordan Moore-Taylor (MK)
CB Michael Bostwick (Lincoln)
LB Harry Toffolo (Lincoln)
RM CJ Hamilton (Mansfield)
CM Nicky Law (Exeter)
CM Danny Mayor (Bury)
LM Gevaro Nepomuceno (Oldham)
ST James Norwood (Tranmere)
ST Jayden Stockley (Exeter

It was very difficult to choose a formation and to narrow it down.

Honourable mentions - Josh Vickers (Lincoln), George Edmundson (Oldham), Jason Shackell (Lincoln), Dan Butler (Newport), Harry Pell (Colchester), Lloyd James (FGR), Sammie Szmodics (Colchester), Chuks Aneke (MK), Nicky Adams (Bury), Ollie Palmer (Crawley)

So the new gaffer has given a interview with the evening post saying he is relaxed about the January transfer window. 

During the interview he said that “Notts have good players here” he also said that “when i went in to Wimbledon I had to get the January transfers correct”

With Neal feeling that “things are not desperate here and things may have to be moved round to achieve clarity in how we play.”

A very posive interview with gaffer about the transfers in my opinion. 

Whats your thoughts guys and girls. 

The full interview is in the link below

https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport/football/transfer-news/neal-ardley-says-hes-relaxed-2320469

So we have launched our own exclusive PON prints which can be purchased from our online store.

Ranging from some of the current players of the 2018-19 season, the likes of Jon Stead, Enzio Boldewijn, Kane Hemmings, Kristian Dennis and Jamie Turley.

Some of the availible prints come hand signed by the players themselves!

There's also legends, heroes and icons!

Tommy Lawton, Jimmy Sirrel and Jack Wheeler (get both for £25) and the former Notts chairman Derek Pavis.

One question: Which one of our exclusive prints do you like the best?

https://prideofnottingham.co.uk/store/

The latest Pride of Nottingham PONcast is now live!

Join @Chris and @samwatto2008 yet again as they recap the Tranmere game in episode 51!

In this week's episode the PON duo talk about Notts County's recent game against Tranmere Rovers at Meadow Lane. They also discuss how the squads passion lifted after Saturday's game against Tranmere as captured by Dan Westwell.

They also talk about the upcoming games and how they will impact Notts County's form.

Also, sharing their thoughts on the stories about the EFL and English Leagues.

What do you think about the talking points mentioned in this PONcast?

who are your top 5 pundits?

from either local or national, we all prefer people to listen too and i wonder who pon members would say.

Episode 49 of the Pride of Nottingham PONcast is now live!

Join @Chris and @samwatto2008 for the latest news.

In this week's episode the PON duo talk about Notts County's recent game against Carlisle United at Meadow Lane.

They also discuss Enzio Boldewijn's three month injury and how it will affect the club.

Also, sharing our thoughts on the appointment of Neil Ardley as Notts' new manager and Jamie Turley's contract.

In addition we preview the upcoming league game against Mansfield Town.

All this and plenty more on the Pride of Nottingham PONcast.

Have your say this weeks discussions below.

I just wanted to ask what people’s views or thoughts on the checkatrade trophy and the competition as a whole.?

Just something to spark a discussion. I want to know if anyone bets on the football on weekends and if so who do you bet with? I also want to know if you agree with betting companies sponsoring football teams like us with Ladbrokes a few years ago or if you're completely against it. If so why?

For anyone interested I bet with SkyBet but have accounts with Betfair and PaddyPower. I bet every weekend because I think it enhances the football fun on a weekend. It has it's ups and downs and you always have to remember the saying 'There is never a poor bookie'. However I think it's fun and if you're just betting what you can afford to lose then it can become quite fun and exhilarating when you finally land a big winner.

I also agree with betting sponsorship. It's been apart of football for decades and I don't think having SkyBet on the front of a shirt would make me want to bet with them. It's kind of hypocritical if anyone disproves of this because we play in a league called SkyBet League Two. I do see both sides to the story but their is plenty of other sponsors that could cause controversy. I for one also agree with alcohol sponsors. Maybe an alternative sponsor for U18's shirts would be ideal just like Notts did a few seasons ago.

I don't think it promotes the product all that much to be honest. Man Utd's sponsor is Chevrolet but seeing their shirt won't make me go out and buy a Chevvy. I suppose it's different opinions and ideas but it will be interesting to hear feedback and to see if people bet and how often?

Let me know.

Can every one join me in welcoming our newest member @Trish Riley to Pon. 

Welcome to Pon trish hope you enjoy your time with us. 

What is the best and worst performance you've ever seen from a Notts side?

What season was it?

Who was it against?

What was the score?

yes its early and most likely people will not want to say much, but i think it could be an interesting subject. i think kevin nolan is closer to neal ardley than he is to harry kewell.

i think both nolan and kewell could be very hot tempered when dissatisfied.

the early impressions of neal are good, he seems rounded. he has his way of doing things which seems to be making a positive difference. the players seem to be on a level field with him and attempting to implement the tactics + the instructions. the reaction after the tranmere game was brilliant to see. there was so much positive influence and respect.

we cant get carried away but i would like to see what people think is different about ardley, whats refreshing and if the success nolan experienced with notts is anywhere near to what ardley is currently doing.

i think nolan forgot much of what made him successful and it dwindled down due to pressure.

what do you think?

I have a competition going on Twitter if anyone wants a print.

If you were the manager and if you had to sign a player or two from Ardley's former club, who would you sign?

For me it would have to be Adedeji Oshilaja and Mitch Pinnock 

Welcome to PoN @Carter1862.Great to see you joining in

Okay, so after seeing the Sterling video posted by Rio Ferdinand yesterday and reading some of the many comments that accompanied both that and Sterling's subsequent Instagram Statement, i.e. "what bad grammar, etc.," I'd like to talk about something very close to my heart!

As a young (black) child growing up at school in the late 50's (with only one other black child who'd decided, anyway, that I was "mixed beef"; "a coconut" ('black on the outside/white on the in') and "different" to her because my mother was white and my Dad, Jamaican and therefore 'not worthy' of her friendship and where the white kids regularly told me I "ate cat food"; or was "a ******"; "a Coon"; "a Monkey" and everything else in the farmyard they could think of... but a 'duck!"

I attended job interviews in the old style glass-windowed offices where I was one of two people (the other being a white girl) applying for a job only to hear the Personnel Manager tell his colleague, "black 'uns best for the job, but you know company policy, so I can't offer it her!"

Then there was the time I moved to London and was accosted by a (very) drunken Irishman on a Tube late at night, who challenged me to help him win a bet with his mates at the pub by asking, "I'm right aren't I? You lot don't have the same red colour blood as me, do you?" Of course I assured him that 'us lot certainly do not' and he could happily collect his winnings from him mates because he'd got it "straight from the horses mouth!" He left the tube that night, gleeful at his own 'superior knowledge'!

Then there was the time where my Training Sergeant at Hendon (Metropolitan Police Training Academy) took me in to his office and told me: "See this badge? Well, I'm very very proud of this...and I have to tell you, I just don't want niggers like you, wearing it!" Or the time we were doing scenarios in the yard at the scene of an accident where he was the driver of a 'crashed vehicle'. As the 'officer in charge' I had to ask, "Did anybody see what happened?", only to be told by him, "this big black bastard with long hair came running out and I couldn't avoid him!" I later ascertained the "big black bastard with long hair" was, in fact,... a toy poodle!

Then there was the time I'd taken my (white) P.A., Debbie, to New York (as a Christmas present for all her hard work) and met up with a client: the Chairman of a huge International Company we'd previously done Investigative work for but whom I'd never actually met. In speaking with him in London prior to the trip, it was discovered we were both in N.Y. at the same time and so we arranged to meet there for dinner. At first, he went to kiss (yuck - but it WAS the 80's!) Debbie's hand and she immediately introduced me, to him. He looked visibly shocked! At dinner, he wanted to know how I 'felt' being Debbie's 'boss and did I realise how unusual I was...A black woman running a big company with a white P.A., etc.,?' His tack carried on throughout the Starter and on to the Main as Debbie and I became more and more deflated and uncomfortable by his rudeness and obvious racist, vile comments: so, for the first (and last ever) time in my life, we both went to the loo...and did a runner from the Restaurant...and him!

There are many stories I've had in my lifetime similar to this but now, with Sterling's recent and very public 'experience' I want to talk about something that affects EVERY ONE OF US IN THIS FORUM...

That is, I'm hearing reports of a Notts fan screaming from the terraces at a recent match - to one of our (black) players - that they're "going to stop his banana supply" and of another screaming that he's "a black cnut!" 

I'd just like to make it very clear and very plain, that if I see or hear any comments of this nature, whatsoever, I will have not one second of hesitation in calling a Steward or a Police Officer to report what I've heard; nor in making a written Statement direct to the club. I will also be more than willing to attend at Court and give evidence against that person, if necessary.

It's 2018. There is absolutely NO PLACE for this anywhere in our society and I truly hope that anyone else who hears anything of this nature from our terraces, will have the cojones to do exactly the same as me.

I believe that only when this is totally unacceptable to us ALL and people are ready, willing and able to come forward to report it, will there ever be any change in this totally unacceptable behaviour.

I think we're so much 'better' than this at Notts...or (at least, for the benefit of my 2/5 year old grand kids I'm bringing to matches), I certainly, HOPE we are!

Thanks for reading. Loz x

Guys and girls can we welcome to pon our new member @Greenfly.

welcome to Pon great to have you on board.

Guys can you join me in welcoming @Kayleigh Swaby To Pon. 

Welcome to Pon hope you enjoy your time on Pon. 

i just went on twitter before heading here and i noticed that the pon gaffer had been mentioned by none other than corina turley!

this portrait of jamie looks amazing! its very much like him.

i really like how genuine and kind the turleys are, they both deserve a lot of credit for their interactions with the fans and hopefully the success will continue. what a very nice message it is tho!! i bet @Chris is too humble to say anything but i wanted to share it.

well done mate! ????

Welcome to PON @Philip Weston

Neal Ardley has admitted it can’t wait for his Meadow Lane bow on Saturday as Notts prepare to take on Tranmere in his first home in charge of Notts. 

So Neal Ardley delivered a home win in his first home game in charge can we now start to be Optimistic.? 

With Grimsby next up only a few spaces and points in front and Macclesfield at meadow lane next but a hard game away to Bury is it time for us to be optimistic.?