I'm going to be driving from Birmingham to Gillingham, so if anyone needs a ride from my neck of the woods, then let me know!

Good Morning everyone, I have heard that the Swindon plan re the use of players is that they plan on playing a near full strength team tonight against Colchester and then an under strength team against Leyton Orient on Sunday.

 

 

 

 

Remember Spencer Weir-Daley? To be honest it wouldn't be a surprise if you dont, his time at Notts during the Steve Thompson/Charlie Mac days wasn't exactly memorable.

These days he's playing for Corby Town, and he'll probably never have to buy a drink in the town again after he scored twice on Saturday including the winner in their title showdown with Poole to cinch promotion to the conference north/south.

Sadly Weymouth's title challenge collapsed long ago - and it came down to 90 minutes between Poole Town and Corby Town on Saturday. Both sides went into the game on 91 points, and Corby needed to win the game to win the title due to Poole's superior GD.

It was a tight & nervy first half, but Weir-Daley opened the scoring less than a minute into the second half. And two minutes later the steelmen were in dreamland when top scorer Greg Mills converted a penalty to double the lead.

But back came Poole - Luke Roberts netted a brace to haul Poole level and leave it in their hands.

But ten minutes from time Weir-Daley was there again to poke home from close range to seal the title for Corby - to the delight of most of the southern premier league, including Weymouth! (Poole are not exactly popular...)

Congrats to him and his team mates, and indeed the whole club. To achieve what they have with such a small squad and far from the biggest budget in the division is quite remarkable.

If you want to see highlights from the thrilling climax to the season, here you are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC0drROZfgM

Who says the premier league is the best league in the world?

Oh how they have fallen, I guess you could say that it was written that once Ronnie Moore went to Hartlepool that they would end up relegated.

 

I wonder how the Chairman feels now after sacking him and then watching him go on to work miracles at Hartlepool, more importantly how must their fans feel now.

Saturday's Fixtures:

Fulham v Middlesbrough

Millwall v Derby County

Preston North End v Swindon Town

Rochdale v Milton Keynes Dons

Cheltenham Town v Shrewsbury Town

Southend United v Luton Town

Welcome to PoN @Chris_77.Please join in and enjoy yourself.

Welcome to PoN @theMagpies.Enjoy!

Hello @Harryduncan98, welcome to the Pride of Nottingham mate!

Pleased to see you arrive, I might be able to do an unveiling of the latest signing to the PoN ranks tomorrow if you go to the game. In all seriousness though, I hope you join in and have fun.

Alrighty, another sixpointer and for once it literally is if we can beat Doncaster and Gillingham.

I hate saying it, as every games been labelled this but these two games really are and to be openly honest I am not confident about either. You all know how much I love Notts, unless your fairly new and there's no change in my level of support but I have accepted relegation, as many other fans have.

Doncaster are very unpredictable, decent side on paper but they struggle with consistency.

On a good day, I can see Notts actually winning and I hope we can but I don't see it happening. I would have this labelled as a draw personally but I honestly think they will sink us and for that reason I won't predict the same. I will say, I think it will be almost like Preston but without the positive.

Survival is pinned to the hopes that we can win both, it's not exactly unrealistic but hard to see.

I hope I'm wrong!

What about you? Thoughts on our opposition? Score predictions?

What does being a family club mean? Does anyone else see this being our best recruiting system?

I personally feel quite proud that we have a strong family 'feel' to Meadow Lane and Notts, I know the majority of clubs also respect this because it really is imprinted into the Black & White way of life but some feel it's just a 'gimmick', which I completely disagree with because without being 'family friendly', we would have fewer younger fans and for me this is our best recruiting system.

The club offered free season tickets to certain age groups and the u16's pretty much paid for themselves if you consider the free programme each home game.


 

Today is our 'Meet the fans'  presenters birthday so please join me and wish Cobby a very happy birthday.I hope you have a good one.

So, who do think should be named in the running for the MOTM?

I'll give this two/three days, before I put up a poll. Please name 4-6 members who you feel deserves to be named the 'Member of the Month'. Who do we start with? Please do have a go at naming some of our finest contributors.

If possible as early as possible.

Thanks folks!

The NCFCOSA have raised £1,300 for the NCFC Academy.

Quite the sum to help progress the development of the youngsters progressing through the ranks. It will no doubt help enhance and help the Academy, so this is great news for Notts fans. What do you think?
 

"Over the course of the 2014/2015 season we have been actively raising funds, just like we did last year for the Notts County Academy. I am pleased to inform fans that the Official Association has managed to raise over £1,300 which are finalizing with the Academy before handing over a check on the 24^th of January ahead of our home game against Peterborough United".

Link to the story - Here

Discuss folks - @Northants Pie @shepshedpie

Art of Football have released a new range of Notts designs and T-Shirts folks!

You can read about it - Here

Additionally, they have provided us with two t-shirts! I will be giving one a way via our social pages, the remaining t-shirt will be given to the winner of our community contest.

Two medals which belonged to the famous Iremonger brothers are set to be auctioned on June 11.


Does anyone else think Notts having a museum would be a great thing? Or perhaps safely kept around the inside of the Pavis Stand?

Here's the link to the article - Here

http://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/article/ricardo-moniz-notts-county-2417761.aspx

He sounds a much change person since he has arrived at meadow lane, his english has improved a lot. I think, at least I, I believe so. 

Welome to PON @mahamiprosper Introduce yourself & Enjoy the Site

 

#Ibelieve

http://prideofnottingham.co.uk/community/blog/17/entry-88-ireland-report/

 

First attempt at the blog thingey so hope it all works ok.

 

I will put the rest of the photos and spell check it tomorrow as I've written it while listening to the painful thing called the Notts Commentary!

 

 

Thanks for taking the time to join us here on Pride of Nottingham @Countyman, pleased to have you on board and as a part of our community.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/tables

 

From Scunthorpe to Colchester, any of these 8 teams could still go down. Here's the fixtures for next Saturday:

 

Coventry vs Crewe. Neither side is safe. Coventry need at least 1 more point so they will be going for it. I don't see Crewe getting anything from the game. 2-1.

 

Fleetwood vs Colchester. Fleetwood have nothing to play for. Colchester need a win, I don't see them getting it. 1-1.

 

Leyton Orient vs Sheffield Utd. Sheffield Utd will want to finish 5th so I can see them going for it here. Leyton Orient were one of the favourites for promotion at the start of the season. A draw me thinks. 1-1.

 

Notts County vs Doncaster. Donny are gone on their holidays already. Home win. 1-0.

 

Peterborough vs Crawley. Posh have nothing to play for but who knows which Posh turn up. I think it will be bad Posh. 1-2.

 

Scunthorpe vs Gillingham. Scunthorpe are almost safe, but Gillingham will show up even though they have nothing to play for. Still think the Irons will prevail. 2-1.

 

Yeovil vs Port Vale. Yeovil are actually playing better since they were relegated and I think they will continue that trend here. 2-1.

 

So by my reckoning, Notts will be out of the relegation zone going into the last game.

I thought it was interesting what Jimmy Spencer said after the match, he said he was 100% certain we would get two wins and stay up, no shadow of doubt. (Not sure about that Jimmy!)

More interestingly he said it wasn't nice in the dressing room, people were throwing bottles about and arguing and it shows they care.

What do you think about this is it good they are arguing amongst themselves? Or does it show dis-unity.

It looks like our owners landed himself in a spot of trouble water, £600 is hardly much to a man of his standard.

What do you make of this? http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Ex-Lincoln-City-board-member-Ray-Trew-fined-600/story-26325560-detail/story.html

I was going to start a thread on League Two, but scrubbed it. We'll have plenty of time to think about that when/if the time comes. We have three more matches, the next two at home. Time to roar on the boys, in the hope we can muster enough points to limp over the line.

 

I've found a good calculator for predicting the remaining games - http://www.thefishy.co.uk/calculator1.php - give it a go, and be honest. Will we stay up? How many points will be enough?

 

I had my optimistic hat on, predicting two draws in the next two games and a final day win at Gillingham, but with my prediction even 52 points has us on our way to Exeter

 

 

Bristol City

46

50

96

MK Dons

46

49

91

Preston

46

35

90

Swindon

46

22

83

Chesterfield

46

15

72

Sheffield Utd

46

13

70

Barnsley

46

-3

63

Peterborough

46

-4

63

Doncaster

46

-3

62

Fleetwood Town

46

-3

62

Rochdale

46

11

60

Bradford

46

-2

59

Gillingham

46

-2

59

Scunthorpe

46

-11

58

Oldham

46

-11

57

Walsall

46

0

56

Coventry

46

-10

56

Leyton Orient

46

-9

54

Crewe

46

-33

53

Port Vale

46

-10

52

Notts County

46

-15

52

Crawley Town

46

-24

51

Colchester

46

-21

46

Yeovil

46

-34

43

 

I am Andy, life long Notts fan.

My lad has also joined the site, he's @NCRichie. We have finally joined on the recommendation of Joe

Hi all. Just a quick hello to start off with.

Great holiday in Ireland. One of the best in fact. Will do a full report later in the week and post a few pics. 

Glad to see the magpies are doing well in my absence. Not.

 

Absolutely knackered though as driving from West coast of Ireland through the day to ferry, then Holyhead to Nottm is tiring to say the least!

 

When I'm fully with it i'll update all.

 

Nice to be back and hope all is well with everyone.