As the title says who would your next signing be??

For me it is imperative that the next person we sign is Roy Carroll, imagine last night without him

This is from sky sports news.
 

Despite bossing the match and wasting numerous chances, Rovers were almost beaten by a wonder strike from Magpies veteran Alan Smith, whose early 30-yarder struck the bar.
 

But Clark's initial failure to send off County striker Kwame Thomas at the death, for giving him a second yellow for time wasting, resulted in a chaotic melee at the death which saw Notts boss Shaun Derry ordered to the stands and Thomas eventually being shown the red card, which meant sub Billy Daniels had to return to the dugout.
 

"It was a fiasco from start to finish," said Rovers boss Paul Dickov. "I feel sorry for the lad who was sent off and for Shaun [Derry] as well as the ref should have dealt with any bit of time-wasting a lot earlier than that.
 

"Rather than talking about the referee I would rather talk about my team getting another result."
 

County assistant manager Greg Abbott had sympathy for Clark, adding: "To be fair to the ref if he had realised it was his second one he would have come over and ushered him off without showing him another card.
 

"I have never seen a sending-off like that. Once he had shown the yellow he had no alternative but to show him the red."
 

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9654580/dickov-it-was-a-fiasco

 

Striker Balint Bajner looks set for a spell out on loan in League One with Notts County.

Bajner, 24, has had limited opportunities since joining the Blues in the summer, his sub appearance against Southampton on Wednesday was his sixth game from the bench in addition to his one start against Fulham on the opening day.

Lee Johnson was keen to sign the Hungarian himself but says the Magpies made Town an offer which would “blow us out of the water”.

Link to - BREAKING STORY

I especially like the comment 'blow us out the water' but would this signing come at a price? Despite the 24 year old having played some top teams, plus been loaned to some. He doesn't have a record as such when it comes to goal scoring, however there fans which rate him within Europe.

Thoughts?

 

Scott Burns of The Daily Express is reporting that Rangers forward Nicky Clark may be the next player to leave the club.

Supposedly, Notts County have made inquiries to secure Clark on a loan deal for the rest of the season. The English League One side is currently scrapping for a play-off spot.

 

After a strong start to the season, Clark has been brushed aside for the likes of Kenny Miller & Jon Daly.  Ironically enough, besides Nicky Law, no other Rangers player has scored more league goals this season.  Of course, the tally is only four – but Miller has the same amount of goals in roughly 400 more minutes, while Kris Boyd has a putrid total of two goals in 1200+ minutes. You could also argue that even though Boyd wasn’t scoring, his play was much more effective when he played alongside Clark & has been quite poor while playing with Miller.

 

Regardless, Clark has fallen out of favor with Rangers management & has only made two starts in the past 13 matches.  The 23-year old may be faced with a scenario in which he just may have to leave to see regular first team play.

 

Another curious tidbit from Burns’ report was that Hibs actually put in a bid to sign Clark last week but were turned down by Rangers.  Good thing too because his quickness & work rate would fit right into Alan Stubb’s vision for the team

Link to Story - Here

It seems from reading the comments Rangers want to keep him but I wonder if we really need another striker? It seems that we are being liked with many decent players within this window but I do feel we are bordering our limit with the amount of loan players we bring in.

No doubt I'd take him, thought it mean Thomas goes back to Derby? I can't see us playing all these strikers, even if we don't sign Clark.

Thoughts?

Here's a view of what the general census of the Crewe Alexandra fans think.

Before the Game

Dickos1; Said "Win on Tuesday night and were more than likely in the playoffs, not a bad place to be halfway through the season. With all the chaos we had in the summer. Dickov is doing a smashing job"

Dutch Uncle; Said "Although my head says draw at best I have a sneaky feeling that County's and Rovers' fortunes are changing - I am going for a lucky win!"

Bristol Red Rover; Said "win - sorry late, but was what I'd say"

Derby Viking; Said "No Wellens even on the bench. On his way out?"

uros predic; Said "Jesus, normally people's first thought would be injury!"

BillyStubbsTears; Said "Looks like we've already sold Razak as well. Bloody sh*te Bramhall!"

Copps is Magic; Said "No Husband? Don't tell me we sold him!"

Aftermath

glosttred; Said "Well he's sent two off tonight, does a manager count in those stats?"

Filo; Said "Shocking officials! He let Carrol set the tone early when he whinged about the ball, let Notts County get away with everything, missed a stonewall penalty for handball, and did n't have a clue what he was doing when he sent their player off. Gave 1 minute of added time in the first half when about 3 would have been about right, and the 5 minutes of added time in the second half when it should have been nearer 8"

Dagenham Rover; Said "Absolute rubbish."

watto-drfc; Said "Was that a foul on tyson on the stroke of half time?"

Filo; Said "Also a blatant Handball by Dumbaya late in the second half."

Dagenham Rover; Relied again "100% to me but the ref wanted his Bovril and couldn't be arsed to stay out in the cold, he set out the colours he was wearing very early on"

Filo; Took to insulting Shaun Derry "First class t**t! Along with Roy Carrol and Alan Smith!"

Donnywolf; Said "When the bloke was going off he shook hands with the Ref, showed his appreciation of the away fans 3 times and deffo deserved Booking. Derry must encourage them to behave like that or he would stop it at source."

Scooter; Said "It's always annoying when a goalkeeper does that but can I draw your attention to Sullivan at Brentford? Who complained then?"

Lesonthewest; Said "We should have been in Smith's face more, he's easy to wind up but we just let him break up our play too easily."

I haven't just chosen these.

I'm afraid they don't really discuss 'football' but rather the above type of things, such as Shaun Derry being ...... and of course predictions and pointless comments about the referee.

Which comments stand out to you and why? What are your thoughts?

Credit to 'em. I can't draw to save my life, never mind paint!!!

http://www.smash.com/can-believe-body-paint-proof-dont-need-photoshop-create-stunning-visuals/

It's still dark at the moment but I've had a peep out of the window and it's looks like we have lying snow, I don't think it's too bad though. It's certainly cold, it's times like this I thank God that central heating was invented. My mam had to get up early to make a coal fire and put the kettle on so we could wash (no hot water in our house). My bedroom had ice on the INSIDE of the window and the toilet was down the bottom of the yard, I remember the plastic seat being absolutely freezing.

Sorry I'm rambling.......I hope you have a good day wherever you are and it's not too bad weather wise.

It can't be said that this game will be any easy, in fact if we defend as we did against Crewe Alexandra - Doncaster Rovers will mostly punish us because they're a quality side.

That said having see Santos (first time), Hayhurst, Thomas and Daniels. I think we have narrowed down that gap within the lack of creativity and ability to get the ball forward. Once things settle a bit, I think the attacking will start to connected. Thomas could have introduced more into the game, however this is no negative comment to the Derby lad he covered some ground and his effort was top notice. I would like to see more from Santos, especially with his running.

Doncaster Rovers isn't really a team I expect anyone to dismiss, after all we have played them a lot this season.

I can see the game going in either direction, my heart says win but my head thinks we could lose or draw.

I'll keep it safe and predict another 1-1, hoping that Daniels or someone steals it again.

Thoughts?

Please vote for your Man of the Match, so we can name ours!

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Today marks exactly 10 years since the Belgian left back signed for Borussia. A great club servant, who has been captain of the club for longer than anyone else, even Berti Vogts. Agreed to be the penalty taker until he missed one, which he did last year after 17 goals in a row. Not many 'foreign' players are such good servants in this day and age.

nothing seems to be happening, tho i notice joe and cheeky are busy.

today does not feel like a match day at all, pretty depressing really. where is everyone? aliens? busy at work? i have not even seen @super_ram today.

Taking the grandchildren home last night, they ran on to the drive and rushed back saying the car had gone. "It's in the garage" was my reply, apparently they never use the garage at their house it's a storage area.

This got me to thinking I reckon I am one of the few people who actually use a garage to house the car!

What about you? Anyone else put their car in the garage?

Reading @tonyhateley's post about his follow on Christmas reminded me of a holiday about 30 years ago.We were in Cornwall with @GrannyPie's parents and my father-in-law was driving us around visiting various tourist attractions.Anyway,it was very hot and we decided to stop at a pub  for a drink near St Ives..My mother-in-law and granny went and sat at an outside table while me and my father-in-law went to get the drinks.As we approached the pub entrance we heard music but it was christmas carols.Going in through the door we were met with the lovely smell of christmas dinner and saw that there were christmas decorations everywhere.The bar staff were all wearing christmasy clothes.In fact everything inside the pub was as it would be at christmas but outside it was August and very hot.It was very surreal.It turned out that the landlord had decided to have a christmas themed charity day.We were even given christmas crackers.When we took our drinks (and crackers)to our table the women thought we were having them on.

http://www.timetobreak.com/27211/10-places-arent-allowed-visit/

Thoughts?

If you had one chance, where would you go, anywhere in the world...

It's very cold here this morning with a dusting of snow. It's a day of looking after youngest grandchildren for us with school and nursery runs at various times of the day.

I've got a lot of computer work to do so hoping to get that done at some stage.

What's on your agenda, work? School? College? Or just relaxing in the warm?

Let us know your plans.

Eighteen months ago I upgraded to Girlfriend 1.0 from Drinking Mates 4.2 which I'd used for years without any trouble.

However, there are apparently conflicts between these two products and the only solution was to try and run Girlfriend 1.0 with the sound turned off.

To make matters worse, Girlfriend 1.0 is also incompatible with several other applications, such as Lads Night Out 3.1, Football 2 and Playboy 6.1.

Successive versions of Girlfriend proved no better. A shareware beta-programme, Party Girl 2.1 that I tried, had many bugs and left a virus in my system, forcing me to shut down completely for several weeks.

Eventually I tried to run Girlfriend 1.2 and Girlfriend 1.0 at the same time, only to discover that when these two systems detected each other they caused severe damage to my hardware.

Sensing a way out, I then upgraded to Fiance 1.0 only to discover that this product soon had to be upgraded (at great cost) to Wife 1.0, which I reluctantly agreed to, because, whilst Wife 1.0 tends to use up all my available resources, it does come bundled with FreeSexPlus and CleanHouse2000.

Shortly after this upgrade however I then discovered that Wife 1.0 can be very unstable and costly to run. For example, any mistakes I made were automatically stored in Wife 1.0's memory and could not be deleted. They then resurfaced months later when I had forgotten about them.

Wife 1.0 also has an automatic Diary Explorer and E-mail Porn Filter, and can, without warning, launch Photostrop and Whingezip! These latter products have no Help files and I have to try and guess what the problem is myself.

Additional costly problems are that Wife 1.0 needs updating regularly, requiring Shoe Shop Browser for new attachments and also Hairstyle Express, which needs to be reinstalled every other week. Wife 1.0 also spawns unwelcome child processes that drain my resources.

It also conflicts with some of the new games I wanted to try, stating that they are an illegal operation. When Wife 1.0 attaches itself to my Audi TT program it often crashes or runs the system dry.

Wife 1.0 also has a rather annoying pop-up called Mother-in-Law, which can't be turned off. Recently I've attempted to try Mistress 2000, but there could be problems. A friend has alerted me to the fact that if Wife 1.0 detects the presence of Mistress 2000 it could delete all my MS Money files before un-installing itself.

Any ideas?

I saw this guy live a few months ago and was blown away by his composing skills, vocals and general ability to relate to everything I love in music!!!

Very relaxing, good electronic sound. The Eighties revival continues!

>http://youtube.com/watch?v=AzISUQLKfhQ

>http://youtube.com/watch?v=ty1KJuG0i_k

Yes you read it right, it is for the Hateley household anyway. We are busy wrapping Christmas presents for our two eldest grandchildren who we haven't seen since early December, they are coming tomorrow and we are having another Christmas Day.

Can't wait to see their faces when they see the stack of pressies we have got for them, best one is a Scalextric, Grandad will be busy on that tomorrow.

Sadly it means I won't be going to the match tomorrow but we only see these two grandchildren once a month so we have to make sacrifices.

Derry; No Lack of Confidence. Hopefully the squad can show this on Saturday, do you think confidence is an issue?

Personally I think it's nothing major, it's not exactly @jsrjay type problem. Totally different type of thing but I do think that there are some underlining matters with confidence, if this isn't the case I a little concerned it would then question our ability because we haven't been attacking games how Derry would like us too.

Discuss..

Is it still there? 

It was a part of a PETA dairy campaign and Notts County Football Club requested for it to be taken down because they thought it was too sexual. 

Has it been taken down or not? 

Hopefully the headlines will ring positive news for @super_ram but I do hope whatever the outcome Stuart Peace remains in charge, he's no more to blame for the situation than some of the players are.

A Notts fan mentioned on Twitter he'll be making his way down from London and aims to catch the Derby v Forest game.

I hope he's right about Derby thrashing them, it will either be that or Forests comeback but I am hopeful they will lose. I wonder what my oak @jsrjay will think about watching a real team for once? Joking mate.

Derby!! Derby!!

Here's a view of what the general census of the Crewe Alexandra fans think.

Before the Game

sankeyred; Said "I think were playing these at the right time,another away win 1-2."

crewebacca; Said "Given the current form of both teams we'll hammer 'em 1-0 C.O.Y.R."

BenAlexl Said "Tough one this not beaten County in the last nine meetings, but we are looking stronger in all departments so I will go with 1-2 COYR."

alexmick; Said "Another tough away encounter, although they are all difficult in this very competitive league. Having not won away at County since 1997, perhaps this Alex outfit, with our new look forward line can do the business tomorrow and make headway on the teams just above us. I will go for a hard fought 2-1 victory, with goals from Ajose and Grant."

Crewe99; Said "I'd go with us getting a point today. Not one of our favourite opponents so if we keep adding to our total, I'm happy.

Gone with the same team that won last week."

Aftermath

Ryancrewefan4ever; Said "Ness has just hammered one in to make it 1-1, sounds like were just edging it so far."

alexmock; Said "Not too far off picking up that valuable point today, as their goal was a very late one. I see that they had a man sent off for a second bookable offence. Grant, once again the man to receive the rough treatment."

itwasin; Said "I think Vale have cleaned up a bit since Micky left,however let's hope Vale don't take quick free kicks or corners as Crewe get caught out to often in this department,not to mention late Goals!"

SuperCrewe; said "Another decent performance, game could have gone either way, but for the first time in a few week the result went against us.

Yes Ajose had a couple of chances that he didn't take , but he's a livewire of the like we haven't seen since the Nicky Maynard days!

Lots of optimism, and for me not a question of whether we can avoid the drop, more a case of how high can we finish !"

GSmith; Said "Was at the game yesterday and saw behind me, fans fighting. A lad had a go at a fan for snapping a seat off, so he started on him. And what look like his dad joined in and said he was going to slit the lads jaw. All this because a crewe fan had a go at another person for snapping a seat off. Massive heads gone."

Notts Fans - Aftermath

View what our fans thought - Here [Video]

Which comments stand out to you and why? What are your thoughts?

Who will win the champions league

The things players/managers say but actually mean.... [in this game put what they actually mean!?!]...

Example

Steve Davis - "We have got to be braver" - "We lost a close fought game and were unlucky to leave with nothing."

Steve Cotterill - "Our playing budget probably isn’t as big as a couple of teams in our league. Everybody will say ‘I don’t believe that’, but it’s a fact." and "We have been able to cherry pick our players but if we go into the Championship we would be struggling with what we are on that’s for sure."

Means "Compared to TOP Championship teams we have peanuts despite the fans being thickle and getting above their stations quoting the wealth of the chairman as if it's our playing budget." and "We have to spend careful, I am a bargain buy manager and clubs hire me to look at the cheaper end of players on a limited budget. We may bottle League One if we gain promotion fans will be in for a rude awakening."

Shaun Derry - "People need a sense of 'realism'." - "I want to play down promotion and I think the fans and media should."

Over to you... What do managers say but really mean? It doesn't have to be 100% true just what you think they mean but can't say.