Firstly, I will declare as a pro-Trew-ite. We have good honest owners but I must say that the decision making process leaves a lot to be desired. 

I feel so disenfranchised from the club at the moment. In the deepest of hearts, I knew Chris Kiwomya caretaker to manager was a mistake ( and Chris came over whilst talking to him as a thoroughly nice person, perhaps too nice). A good footballing cv in terms of the clubs he played for, being what I describe as footballing clubs. However one needs more than that, the ability to "take" people with you on the journey to success. Jamie presumably came over well at interview, probably more to do with the analysis on what was going wrong ( I think we all could have given that to a lesser extent). However what makes a good manager is the forward vision, how football is to be played and making the best of the resources available. Jon Coleman at Accrington is a master of making good teams out of scarce financial resources.

The appointment of Jamie was akin to saying to your customers, sorry but the Coca Cola football of Ricardo, plenty of fizz will be replaced by an own brand supermarket cola. We all know that all colas are basically the same but it's the "perception" of the customers which is important here. If I am in the Wheelers Suite. only Pepsi is available which i will decline to have. On that basis, the board have appointed a guy whose career has been at a high level, Premier League French league, similar to Derry's footballing cv...but the final product is hoofball? What is it with these people with such good footballing education, to serve us such a "dish" to us supporters.

Confidence to portray what they know they are doing? Jamie was given ample opportunity to fully explain the Stanley situation and failed comprehensively. Supporters are not stupid... they can see that Noble should be central midfield, Smith shouldn't be near the starting 11, and Stanley should be in the squad at least. Jamie was talking pre Accrington about a team square pegs for square holes...perfect for Accrington so he then puts Noble round peg in a square hole. Unbelievable.

There was a lot of criticism when Aileen was made CEO...but never from me. Actually I think its an advantage having a non footballing CEO as a barometer of common sense, especially financially. I am yet to be convinced about the merits of the "invisible" Julian Winters. Where is the effort to significantly raise the profile of this club and to interact with supporters? Rodwell was bad, but this guy is an invisible man. With his footballing experience, perhaps the question was never raised as to how Jamie's teams had played in the past. Rumoured twitter posts from an ex Bolton loanee raised serious questions at the time.... and seemingly have been proved right.

So we are in a position where the "congregation" of the "church" of Notts County have questioned their own faith. Good people like Stanley on the verge of leaving, I too question where we are heading for? Unfortunately I appear to be staring down to the abyss and not looking up to the heavens. This saddens me deeply.

Here endeth Piethagoram's gospel of today

According to Uncle Colin. CS says he's going to ask JF directly after the game. I feel sick to the stomach

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Game 32 - Stanley (A)

Team: Accrington Stanley

Date: 23/02/16

Where: Crown Ground

What line-up should Jamie Fullarton 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.

Today we can welcome two new users with interesting names. I take it @yelobeli is from Lincolnshire. And would @electric be Electric Steve of The Pie fame? Hope you enjoy the site, feel free to get involved!

Care to tell us a bit about yourselves?

Please join me and welcome @thillier our latest new member to PoN.

https://twitter.com/nathand3

a neighbour for Tarqs maybe, albeit '000's miles in between

Good evening fellow Notts fans. 

Link below to the LeftPie-On review of February, incorporating last weekend's match with Leyton Orient and associated hullabaloo:

http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/title/left-pie-on--february/id/8055

COYP

welcome to pon @LeftPie-On.

would you care to tell us a little bit about yourself? are you actually a notts fan? hope to see you joining in.

Would we be better off with new owners?

I have no confidence anymore in the Trew's handling of ON field matters. Off the field they have been fantastic for the club IMO.

However, it could be out of the frying pan into the fire if there was a change (Charlton are the latest example of this).

What do you think?

It seems Blair Adams was surprised by the booing which came from supporters, I don't know about anyone else but the game had an horrible feel well before Orient had scored. I would say it crept in around the 35th minute mark, that's when I started to hear discontent from our own support.

Quote

"I think the boos did surprise me, yeah. I think we did pretty well."

At half time no end of people told me we was playing well (I don't knock this), it's just that in my opinion the more the game progressed the further we went out of it.

I don't remotely think they played well at all.

The players seemed disjointed all over, whilst I acknowledge the defence did well - I only believe this is more so because Orient didn't put their foot on the accelerator. I stand by my thoughts that they seemed nervous about us countering but myself, I was more nervous about conceding.

What are your thoughts on this? Would Blair say the same if he had sat in the stands??

Let's assume that a lot of us Notts fans would like to protest at the way the club is being run, on and off the field. How though?

1.  Boycott the matches?

2.  Leave 10 minutes early en masse?

3.  Get into the ground but stay below the stands until the 5th minute?

4.  Face away from the pitch?

5.  Boo?

6.  Chant and sing at the board/manager etc.?

7.  Give out leaflets outside the ground?

8.  Bring in large banners and display them - is this allowed in England?

9.  Get enough signatures together to call an EGM and then pass a motion sacking the board - oops - can't go that in England?

I'd be genuinely interested to hear people's views in terms of:

Which ones would fans support?

Which ones would do any good in the short and/or long term?

Which would be a waste of time?

Which might do more harm than good?

Welcome to PoN @Furious Greg.Good to see you're already posting.

Title speaks for itself, I'm interested in who is your favorite notts player of all time and why!

As many will know I haven't supported notts for 60 odd years so I have very few players to choose from so my player will be much more recent.

If you hadn't already guessed its good old Stanley Aborah! He almost always gets out of trouble even after receiving the ball with men around him, he is always so calm and composed and after his first goal (I can't quite remember the team) but you could see his passion and joy to score for us!

Firstly where credit is due, the set up away from home has all in all been a success.

However the set up at home is poles apart from Ricardo's. Jamie made great play that he has seen Notts prior to his appointment and also commented in his first days of the job, that the most difficult thing is scoring goals and from what he had seen, that didn't needed fixing.

I still cannot reconcile his thought process which allows the return of the immobile Smith at the expense of the central midfield berth for Noble?

The whole balance of the side founders on this when we play at home. There is no momentum in taking the game to the opposition.

Frustrating thoughts for a Monday

http://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2016/feb/21/cheltenham-town-attempt-complicated-free-kick-routine-and-fail-video

Number 95 - 20th Feb 2016

Gladbach 1-0 1.FC Koeln (Dahoud 9)

Gladbach 51 wins, Draws 20, Trying to forgot 24.

Not there this year unfortunately, made the terrible mistake of being at ML today instead.

Did anyone see or hear anything?

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Saturday's Fixtures:
Fulham v Charlton Athletic
MK Dons v Bristol City
Barnsley v Doncaster Rovers
Walsall v Wigan Athletic
Northampton Town v Wycombe Wanderers
Oxford United v Accrington Stanley 

is anyone else watched it yet saw all the episodes so far gota say it's very diffrent from the old series.

This may be down to mulder and scully gettin on but still good but it's still early days hopefully Itl get better as it goes on still tho the music is amazing love that tune 

Notts lost 3-1 at Orient back in September. It was a bizarre game to say the least. RM made 9 changes to the starting lineup and Notts went in 1-0 down at half time. He made a couple of changes at half time and Notts levelled within a minute of the restart. Notts looked the more likely to win the game but Orient snatched victory with 2 late goals. 

Orient are 9th in the table. They have 46 points (7 more than Notts). They have scored 46 goals (2 more than Notts) and conceded 45 goals (5 less than Notts). In their last five games, they have beaten Portsmouth, Newport & Wycombe and lost to Northampton and Cambridge. They were humiliated 4-0 at home last Saturday by Northampton, which surprised many people as they had been playing well up to that game. 

Orient are using a 4-5-1 formation. Cisak in goal is a decent keeper at this level but he is prone to the odd error. Their defence is suspect. Baudry is the leader in the back 4, but you always feel you can get at him at CB. Hunt is settling in at RB after his move from Mansfield. Brisley at CB has started only 2 games this season. Shaw at LB is decent. They may make changes after Saturday's thumping, most likely Clohessy coming into the defence. He's a no nonsense defender and will actully make their stronger IMO. 

Orient's midfield has 2 familiar names. Jobi Mcanuff might be 34 now but he's still a threat. Of course they also have player/manager Kevin Nolan to call on. He will start, even though Northampton over ran them in midfield. 

Up front they have 22 goal man Jay Simpson. He's a real handful and scored against Notts back in September. 

Orient will come to play next Saturday. It has all the makings of a thrilling game. I doubt it will finish 0-0. I'll go for a 2-2 draw. 

From a few years ago at F.C. Magdeburg who hadn't scored in ages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lastolwvno

Please do browse through, share and like the gallery. Speaking to fans before and after, really enables to focus on the right things. The club has a good heart beat and I know just how loyal many of which are - with us fans we are in this because we keep the club beating no matter what.

I said it before Derry, we are a community.

OK, genuine question.....on the advice of LethalSaveloy, I have perused the Blog section to see if Tarkers Tall Tales should find a more suitable home?

Here is my answer from the "other post"

I think there were a few reasons for me babbling along on the main forum, instead of a blog.

Firstly, it seemed a bit pretentious of me starting a blog..."look at me etc....my life is important".......I am more of a pub guy "You'll never guess what happened to me yesterday....get your pint, and listen to this".....some people move to the opposite side of the bar obviously, hahahaha

Secondly, at my age it's difficult to remember where I've left the bottle-opener, let alone trying to make some kind of order out of my personal blog-space!

Thirdly, as an exile from another site, I was used to everything being on one page, the O/T stuff mixed in with Footie items. It somehow looked "busier", some stuff stayed on the main page for days, some stuff disappeared pretty quickly. I like my desk being messy...it is somehow comforting?

When I joined this site, I thought I might contribute more, as PON does get a bit quiet at times. Being in Mexico, I don't get to ML.....so I try to find interesting things to post....plus it keeps me sane!! I understand that I might irritate a few of the Footie Purists....but I guess they could just ignore my posts?

Lastly, I have given up trying to count the number of times that I have woken up from an inebriated condition, wishing my post from the night before WOULD disappear!!..........."Oh no Tarkers, not the dodgy story about the strip-bar in Kowloon....you idiot"

Having read through a few of the Blogs, particularly @notts-joe........my immediate thoughts are some of the stuff there is actually quite personal and I understand why they are in a "separate personal area". They are available to people who want to deliberately seek them out, but not "general" enough to go in the MLSB pub-chat area. I am not sure if I am making much sense?

All the footie stuff ie "my trip to York".....surely all that stuff should be in the main forum?

My last point is.....how many people on here actually visit the Blog Section?.....I've been here a month and only looked there because of @DangerousSausage comments?

So I put it to a vote......should I start posting in the Blog section....or continue my ramblings in the MLSB?.......be careful, I know where you live!

The whole idea of a Community is to make it BUSY.....get this place buzzing....I used to run/own bars around Nottingham and there is nothing worse than a lonely boozer. Give me 30 people in a bar talking any old rubbish any time....even the odd bar-fight brightens up the evening after a boring day in the office!!

Not sure if this the right forum, looking for a copy  of the Notts v forest 93/4 2-1 win which the club sold a match video of , with that goal by Charlie palmer, had a copy, but lost it when I moved. Anybody who can let me have a good quality copy (transferred to dvd if possible) please mail me. I'll pay  a  £10 for copy. Many thanks

Recently a few clubs have been struggling, Bolton, Northampton and Charlton. Bolton have been spending like a premier league club and carelessly ran into massive debt, Northampton had a crook of an owner.

But what happened to Charlton? I was hoping someone could clue me in as to why their fans have been protesting?