I can understand this, but he was a decent pro and wouldn't have hurt to keep him for the rest of the season.

Many leagues are fairly boring were there is a group of or just one team(s). Which league do you think is the most boring? 

http://www.nottinghampost.com/Notts-County-trainee-takes-exciting-project-USL/story-28655331-detail/story.html

@tarquinbeech Maybe your nearest Notts neighbour

Gary mackenzie apparently signing on loan?

http://www.nottinghampost.com/Notts-County-set-sign-Gary-MacKenzie-loan/story-28646336-detail/story.html

Welcome to PON @golden-magpie! Good to see you getting involved. Could you tell us a bit about yourself?

Luton actually have 2 reasons to dislike Notts. In 1991, we beat them and condemned to relegation from the old first division. We were already relegated but it was nice to leave on a high. Then we relegated them out of the football league after they had that massive points deduction. Football is a funny old game......

Notts beat Luton 3-2 at home back in September. Izzy's double had Notts 2 up, but the inevitable last 20 minute collapse meant Luton were level going into injury time. Late drama saw a Luton player sent off for a last man foul and Noble fire in the resulting free kick to give Notts victory. Both managers have since been fired. 

Luton are 15th in the table on 34 points (2 places and 1 point above Notts). They have scored 40 goals (2 more than Notts) and conceded 38 goals (8 less than Notts). They have won 1, drew 2 and lost 2 of their last 5 games. They beat Mansfield away, drew with Portsmouth away, drew with Cambridge at home and lost to Bristol Rovers and Wycombe on the road. They haven't conceded a goal in their last 2 games. Nathan Jones was appointed manager on Jan. 6th and has yet to taste defeat. 

Mark Tyler is the usual GK but he went off injured against Cambridge and missed the game at Mansfield. Justham stepped in and kept a clean sheet against Mansfield. Alan Sheehan joined Luton on loan before the Mansfield game and played at CB. Another ex Notts player Paddy McCourt scored the opener and set up the second goal at Mansfield. 

Jones has made Luton hard to beat. He has 2 midfielders sitting just in front of the back 4. His favourite formation is 4-2-3-1. 3 attacking midfielders sit behind a lone striker. I don't think they will change a winning side so Craig Mackail-Smith will start up front. McCourt, Ruddock & McGeehan should be the 3 attacking midfielders. Ruddock and McGeehan will play in the wide positions, leaving McCourt in the middle. Ruddock and McCourt are the danger men. McCourt is incredible when he is on form. 

I expect Notts to sit back like they did against Crawley and hope to score on the break. I don't think that will work against a side as defensively organized as Luton. We would be better off taking the game to them IMO. Put them on the back foot. My prediction? 2-0 to the home side if we persist with the negative style adopted by JF. It won't trouble decent sides like Luton. 

7am here and I just found the goals on Youtube.......great goal from Stead, did someone "spike" his half-time cuppa?

Saddened to hear of the passing of Terry Wogan.Great on the radio and absolutely brilliant with his Eurovision Song Contest commentaries.RIP Terry.

Just had a look at Facebook to find out that Jimmy Spencer has terminated his contract.

http://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/article/jimmy-spencers-contract-mutually-terminated-2926464.aspx

Thoughts? :s

Good luck Alan at your new club

Under Moniz we signed a lot of players that Moniz clearly wasn't interested in so it asks the question who signs the players is it the manager or is it someone else if so why don't we know. Or are some signed by the manager and some by someone else. Personally I think that we should know who signs the players so we know who to praise and who to blame.

Let me start by saying that Jeremy Corbin is a breath of fresh air in British politics. However 2 recent issues have got me wondering if he is in fact out of touch with the British public? 

1. He favours power sharing with Argentina in the Falkland Islands. The same Argentina who tried to take the islands by force. Plus the Falkland Islanders held a referendum and the result was overwhelmingly in favour of remaining in the UK. The vast majority of people in the UK see the Falklands as British and wouldn't entertain the idea of Argentina having a say. 

2. Mr Corbin seems to be in favour of allowing every single migrant in Calais into the UK. Not only that he seems to be in favour of Britain taking in millions of migrants over the next few years. Obviously Jeremy hasn't been watching the news in Sweden or Germany. Mass migration will only lead to massive problems for any country silly enough to allow it. 

It's hard to see anything but Tory domination if Mr Corbin continues on his ultra left path..........

It is that time again when Honest Tarkers shares his Top Tips.

When going on your hols, consider a wee bit of smuggling......no, not the naughty stuff, something off-the-radar and that is unlikely to get you locked away for a decade with Pablo the serial rapist!!

On a recent trip to Cuba, I had to take a 9 hour bus ride just to get to Mexico airport......when I got there (with barely 30 minutes to spare), Miriam my doctor girlfriend had met a couple of guys in the departure area who were plying her with free drinks and cigarettes in return for filling her luggage with contraband!!

I was obviously very concerned, but after they bought me a few beers, I was slightly more compliant!!

What did we agree to smuggle into Havana??........everyone gets as many guesses as they want.......I will be extremely surprised if you get it......I will post pictures later on of me on the plane opening the packages, then pics of me handing it out to the couriers in Havana carpark........then pics of us getting stopped by the police!!

Apologies but I'm a scientist and have been trained to look at the numbers when making a decision on something. So let's see what the Trews want to watch at Meadow Lane.

What follows is an anlysis of the home league games since the start of last season. Read from the bottom up - the last four columns are the average for points per game, posession, shots for Notts and shots against Notts. I have a season ticket for home league games, i.e. these are the games I paid to see.

My personal conclusion is that the Board are either very stupid (unlikely), very gullible (possibly), very impatient (probably) or want to destroy NCFC (I don't believe this to be the case).

So, my message to Ray Trew is please bring back Ricardo Moniz, and then stop choosing the manager for NCFC.

My Hacienda is painted red....roja......why?

A few years ago, a Mexican film company....Bandido Films, contracted my property to film a narco production here on the Altiplano.....El Infierno

Here is the film......................................children should NOT watch.

It has a lot of humour.....but some of the scenes are pretty scary......now you know why I log into PON....my "sanity" connection.......enjoy.

http://www.primewire.ag/external.php?title=El+infierno&url=aHR0cDovL21vdnBvZC5uZXQvb2JkMDc0eW84ZWN3&domain=bW92cG9kLm5ldA==&loggedin=0

Welcome to the Pride of Nottingham @Alex West, thanks for taking the time to join us here - would you tell us a little bit about yourself?

http://www.nottinghampost.com/Notts-County-column-Jacob-Daniel/story-28614578-detail/story.html

Maybe a fair reflection of most people's concerns. Sincerely hope Jamie does succeed

How many of these dinosaurs have you heard of?

As my television is currently showing the documentary about the recently discovered dinosaur, I decided to do a little further investigation as I have always been fascinated by them. I found this video quickly within my search and I'm surprised by how many of them I have never even heard of.

So I thought I would put it to the community.

Technically I have only heard of 1 LOL

PS.. I super challenge @super_pie.

.... was the attendance for me.  I regularly have a go at predicting the crowd for home games, and I'm usually within 15% of the actual figure.  I was way out on Saturday, I thought we'd struggle to get 4,000, but there were at least 1,000 more home supporters than I expected.  The trouble is that how many of those who paid £24/22 will be tempted to repeat it after the pathetic display we rewarded them with?  If the games are reasonably entertaining and we are flirting with the play offs we can still manage gates of 5,000+, which is good for League 2 and passable for League 1.  As usual we shot ourselves in the foot by playing as badly as we did.

Okay, please take the time to vote for one member per category.

Help our community decide which members deserve praise for getting 2016 off to a great start! Voting ends on the 29th - Please do comment to say you have voted. Many thanks to all those who kindly took the time to take part in the nomination process, we now move onto voting.

Good luck to all the members named. You Pies!!

http://www.nottinghampost.com/Notts-County-boss-Jamie-Fullarton-ruling-signings/story-28619047-detail/story.html

I feel sorry for him in a way, always seemed a player to play in a number of positions but one could never say he could be classed as an out and out specialist in any, when compared to other squad members he was competing with.

As the title suggests, what would your ideal team and formation be from the current squad? I don't think it's as easy as it sounds as other than defence we actually have a quality squad. 

I would go for at home

                       Carrol

Hewitt     McKenzie   Bennett   Milsom

                      Swerts    

Snijders    Aborah    Noble     Valencic/Campbell 

                     McLoed

Away from home the back five would remain the same, I would be inclined to go a little more narrow and play Spencer / Stead alongside McLoed with either one replacing Snijders.

Quite a lot more difficult than I first thought!! ha ha

I know I'm supposed to wait for the match thread to appear in the forums, but I can't wait. No doubt a virtual punishment awaits me....I can take it.......

We lost 2-1 at Wimbledon back in September. Hayden Hollis gave us the lead but 2 goals in the last 5 minutes meant a deserved victory for the home side. Hayden gave an interview where he said he had a plan to deal with The Beast, but it clearly didn't work as The Beast scored a last minute winner. Not too many can handle The Beast so we'll forgive Hayden....

Wimbledon are 8th in the table, 8 places above Notts. They have 39 points (6 more than Notts). They have scored 38 goals (same as Notts) and conceded 32 goals (12 less than Notts. They are on a 5 game unbeaten run. They have dispatched Cambridge, Exeter and Mansfield in their last 3 games and have looked mighty impressive in doing so. 

Wimbledon have been using a 4-3-3 formation but they abandoned that at half time against Mansfield as they were 1 down at half time. They went to a 4-4-2 formation and dominated the 2nd half. I think they'll go back to 4-4-3 at Meadow Lane as the wide pitch will allow them to get the ball wide and get crosses in or diagonal balls to open Notts up. They are dangerous because they have options. They could go down the long ball route to take advantage of Notts defensively. That worked back in September. 

Wimbledon's main creative force is Tom Elliott. If it is 4-4-3, he'll play on the right side. His ability to pick a pass is something Notts have to be aware of. Their main goalscoring threat is Lyle Taylor. He has 10 goals so far. He's full of confidence at the moment. If Wimbledon go 4-4-2, expect Azeez to start. He's a pacey player and knows where the goal is. He will make an appearance at some stage if he starts on the bench. George Francombe is injured which is good news for Notts. 

Wimbledon are a well drilled side. They are difficult to beat. Playing at Meadow Lane won't faze them. It's up to Notts to make it uncomfortable for them. The Beast destroyed Notts back in September. Hopefully he starts on the bench. It will be interesting to see their line up. If The Beats starts, expect a direct approach. If he doesn't, they'll attack us out wide. It should a fascinating battle. Who'll win? I haven't a clue. It's 50/50. I'll sit on the fence and go for 1-1. 

I was interested in hearing peoples stories and tales about notts!

This gentleman was telling me how he would always see Pedro Richards after matches and Pedro would give him a cigar that another player had given him, but one match we weren't playing very well in the first half, so this gentleman sees Pedro after expecting a cigar like usual, only for Pedro to turn around and say he had smoked it at half time after such a stressful first half!