More good news. Though today's statement from the club says Rodders is also out for a bit, so we've not got many fit defenders. Might explain why Aden Flint is training with us. Might be more triallists on show at Alfreton.

Personally I think the squad is shaping up fine. I'm happy the club isn't panic buying or offering crazy money, not that our owners ever would.

Good that Macari has signed, I was starting to think that he hadn't when nothing had been mentioned.

Although gutted that Langstaff has gone to Salford, I don't mind that he hasn't come back to Notts but Salford!

Delighted that Macari has signed a new deal, he deserves it, one of Notts nsung heroes in my opinion, or at least not sung very often.

I have great admiration for Connell Rawlinson. His decision to work with Notts and to mutually agree on his release I believe allowed this to happen. I'm not sure that he would have been Chester bound otherwise. I really hope he can settle down, get himself on the team sheet and help Chester move forward.

It's a great opportunity for him.

This is a positive move for Chester. Rawlo’s addition to the team could make a significant difference. His tall stature could be advantageous. Since his departure, he has quickly managed to get things in order. This swift action leads me to agree more with @Chris’s viewpoint.

Happy Birthday, @Dan. Have a wonderful day, and I hope you get to do something special with Helen and Henry. 🙌

Thanks guys. I’ve only just managed to get on here. It kept saying I didn’t have permission!

Always a good read @ARLukomski

Matty Young Sunderland keeper I would try for

Colchester Utd's Jack Payne

Micah Mbick, from Charlton on loan?

Excellent as always. Mason Melia has bags of potential. It makes sense to send him out on loan to a League 1 side.

Mark O Mahony would be a brilliant signing. Given our style, he could easily end up with 15 to 20 goals.

Disappointed he didn't come to Notts

Probably the standout. County beat the Blades 1-0 at Meadow Lane in August 2010 thanks to Lee Hughes. It was one of the defining results of the Sven-Göran Eriksson-backed promotion season carrying into League One.

I think as me, fans will remember the superb 3-0 away win against Charlton at The Valley in 2011 under Martin Allen. One of the best away performances of that era.

Despite the accidents and losses to our fan base, I am looking forward to Stevenage. I was present when some of our fans were hit by cars, trying to go over the busy road and it was awful. It's a shame because I did enjoy going to watch them, and will do again but that will be in the back of my mind.

The reason I like Stevenage is it isn't difficult to get to, the parking is convenient and most of the games have always been a nice sunny afternoon.

There're not many fix releases that bring back memories; the only other is Alan Hardy banging on about how a certain person was going to go far but has caused multiple relegations. I thought about going to The Nest the other day, but I didn't due to the heat. I do look forward to the fixtures release but not many hold memories for me.

Had a lovely weekend down the smoke as I took Mrs P to see her favourite group. We stayed in Canning Town and travelled to the venue by tube train 🚆 The weather was hot and humid on Saturday but cooled down favourably for the evening performance, we were so grateful. Mrs P informed me that we had clocked 15000 steps on our return, phew 😵‍💫 no wonder my legs felt like jelly 😅

Where did we go?

And who did we see??

Answers on a postcard please 🤠

@Michael D Pie. Take that with a pinch of salt...though I prefer Belinda Carlisle😉, in need of summer rain🙃

100% correct @Piethagoram a revisit to the original 17 years ago with the same lineup, or close to it. Belinda Carlisle opening proceedings, followed by The Script and then Take That. What a fantastic show enjoyed by all.

On 26/06/2026 at 20:50, theAnticlough said:

We won that 0-4 to go top.

It's an early kick-off so if we get at least a point we'll be in an automatic promotion spot!

What a fantastic start. It's a big name, plus it's better to play them before they've picked up momentum. But Leicester, Luton and Burnley in a week is a tough start!

1 hour ago, StarkMallard said:

It's an early kick-off so if we get at least a point we'll be in an automatic promotion spot!

Alphabetic order is their only hope

18 hours ago, Chris said:

For me, it's a good time to be playing Leicester City because they will still have a lot of the negativity about their relegation and some of their fans are still having wobbles about it now. I honestly think they'll start off slow, and potentially may struggle. They still have some good players, and should be able to adapt in time, but I think for us going in confident, organised and showing no fear may give us a boost.

I agree, I actually think it’s better to play the stronger sides at the very start of the season when it might take them a few matches to get into the swing of things. Leicester have a new manager and are likely to have a whole new starting 11, I can seem them having up and down results for the first lot of matches.

Luton away for the first match is another biggie too but October looks the toughest set of fixtures on paper; a run of Oxford, Wycombe, Sheffield Wed, Stockport and Mansfield. Let's hope it's not a winless one!

good draw, i think it could be a good chance to showcase that we can play against teams a level up. we just need to prepare and be organised.

It would be nice to grab an early upset in the League Cup, but the focus more so has to be remaining in League One. Still, it will be a chance to start a few players who could be in contention for the starting XI, whilst allowing more favourable players a chance to get minutes in without things being pressured.

I am quite happy with the draw, because it's a different team and will be somewhere some of our fans haven't seen Notts play in awhile if at all.

i remember him, i thought he was a coach for mansfield but its good to see him still coaching.

Ah, good old MildenFLAP I wondered what had happened to him. 😂

If I remember right, he's from Swindon so it makes a lot of sense. I stopped tracking him after he retired, so I have no idea about his coaching but if it as a goalkeeper coach there might be better options. Swindon after last season needs to find someone who can improve the back line and get the most out of their keepers.

It's the hottest day of the year in the shade of our back garden. 104 Deg F or 40 Deg C at 3:15 pm.

its proving to be costly, as i am washing clothes every day and having a shower before and after work. i come back soaking because its just trapped heat. its one of the worst heatwaves for the humidity, it just makes me feel dizzy.

Another record high for June.

I will be there, with my son, @super_ram, @BigNCFC and @KatrinaPIE.

Mark (C) also expressed interest, but Mark (H) has a full car and I did offer to try to find a lift but I think it put him off. He's had a rough past month, and having lost my mum three years ago I know his pain. It would have been nice to have gotten him there, and to catch up as we watched a pre-season game.

i plan to go to the game, i dont want miss a chance to see the squad progressing. with the two games in denmark i want to make the most of it.

Thanks, Robbie. I’ve been following Notts for well over 40 years now. It’s very much in the family and I’m glad to say that I’ve passed it on to my two boys too.

A belated welcome from me too @Matt i hope you enjoy being part of our friendly community.

welcome to pon @Matt, its nice to see you on here and i hope we see you active in the community. a lot of good stuff goes into the site, so its great to have you.

At the moment, I do not know who I would personally start in the Notts XI.

I am still a big admirer of what Matt Palmer brings to the team, and I think giving the captaincy to someone else might be a smart move. I don't think Palmer was a bad choice, or that he didn't do well with the armband, but I liked when Rod McDonald had it. I think Rod kept a cool head, and influcenced the form we needed in our final run of games.

Both Lucas Ness and McDonald could claim the middle whilst Matty Platt is out injured.

I would like to see James Belshaw have stronger competition; it would be nice to find a keeper that has EFL experience but is around 22-23 that is happy to grow into the role and understudy Belshaw. The right keeper could even be younger, but Harry Griffiths seems to appear to have too much needed game time. I do like him, but I think a loan to a League Two or National League team would benefit him.

Kelle Roos could do it, but if we struggle I would rather just allow him to leave on a free and make room for someone else to come in.

I would like to see another winger, centre back, attacking central and perhaps a striker but all this depends on who stays, who goes and what movement we make.

I'm expecting our three signings to start. I've seen some people describing Roberts as a squad player but I hope not, he's got the potential to be really exciting for us, a fan faourite, and someone who can take free kicks and corners better than anyone we have currently.

Little change, but time for an update, with Concrete Rod re-committing? I'll go....

......................Belshaw

.........Ness.....McDonald....Bedeau

Tsaroulla..Sanders..Robertson...Jones

...........Roberts......Grant

...................Jatta

Not easy. But RodMac was our play-off winning Captain and IMO played at the highest level of anyone in his games last season...

So Ness or Gibbons? I'll have to be won over by Gibbons....I know he was Cambridge player of the year and in the L2 team of the year, but is he our kind of player? In Ness, Montague picked up a player with the potential to reach a level much higher than Gibbons could. If it wasn't for the inhuries, he might have moved on from Charlton in the other direction, up, rather than get picked up by us as a restoration project. He's kind of a poor man's John Stones...a Rolls-Royce of a defender who can aim for higher than L1 if all goes well. That's my thinking anyway

Anyway, 7 weeks 1 day to the first league game and we can be sure there'll be at least the same number through the door in that time. The team could still change a lot

Good morning we’ve just arrived in Southampton after a fabulous 21 day cruise, we stopped at Cartegena in Spain, Cagliari in Sardinia, Corfu in Greece, Zadar in Croatia, Split in Croatia, Valletta in Malta, Palma in Mallorca and Cadiz in Spain.

It’s been very hot in the ports but lovely and cool on the air conditioned ship.

We’ve got a coach trip home now to a red hot house, it’s 26 degrees inside according to my hive app.

My guess would be Notts County vs Mansfield Town at Meadow Lane. It's a strong local derby, would attract a big crowd, and would be an easy fixture for broadcasters to promote. Bring it on, COYP.

We are going to end up with Sheffield Wednesday (A), followed by Stevenage (H), Wycombe (H) and then Reading (A).... If this comes true, don't think I can predict the future because I plucked them out of thin air.

I guess Leicester City .... what's the prize? 🥳

My earliest memory was the 2002 World Cup in South Korea, that England v Brazil was the first time I felt properly gutted after an England match. I remember going to school extra early as they'd set up the assembly hall with two tv's at the front, the old boxy ones 20 something inches but at the time these were considered big, there were about 100 kids sitting on the floor watching!

I was lucky enough to go to one of the matches in 2006 when my uncle worked in Germany. It was for a group stage match, Portugal v Iran, Portugal won 2-0 and I got to see Deco, Luis Figo and Ronaldo in the flesh!

1974 for me...so many memories

running home from school (the usually busy streets empty, I must have sprinted out at the bell) trying to catch Yugoslavia v Zaire. Gutted that I was watching highlights on the small black and white telly. Finally the penny dropped it wasn't highlights, it was just Yugoslavia running up a 9-0 win.

I used to watch international football games without missing a match, that's if I wasn't working. 1990 and 1994, they are too early for me to remember. I remember Euro 96's, rushing home from school because the games kicked off at 3pm. I hear me out, I felt encouraged by how England played and I thought losing to Germany was heartbreaking.

Those Pizza Hut adverts felt quite cruel to Gareth Southgate, and I think if we had kept Terry Venables on we might have done better in 1998.

Glenn Hoddle wasn't a bad choice to takeover, and I do recall feeling confident about us winning it. The Michael Owen debut is etched in my memory, how he made his darting run and gave us hope. How David Beckham got sent off for tripping Diego Simeone, who naturally made a meal of it. Yet, I felt the same frustration as the players and I think the 2002 World Cup, is where I lost faith in what was becoming known as the "Golden Generation".

I do wonder if Terry had stayed on, what he would have gotten out of England. Hoddle seemed stricter, and less focused on game management for me. Venables seemed like someone who could lift a nation, Hoddle just tended to complain from what I remember. I did like Hoddle's time; he did get England to do well enough but he was always too hot headed for me.

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@Pies79, I'll try to find out if it featured in the clubs official calendar, and if it does, I will try using my Photoshop magic to make sure it's of a quality worth printing. They used to release the image, but it's something that seems to be saved for official merch sales these days.

Personally, I think people would still buy signed stuff especially on the back of the promotion and would like to see the squad photo shared with us fans.

Good post! The growth is even more impressive when you look a bit further back. Attendances in general have boomed since 1990, but this development completely passed us by - in the early 90s we often got crowds of 5000 or 6000 (when those were still normal figures in the Championship). Thirty years later, little had changed for us, despite the rest of football overtaking us. In the Munto season, with nationwide publicity, we averaged a little over 7000. In our promotion season under Sam Allardyce it was about 5500. Even our last season in the top flight and the bounce under Alan Hardy were brief aberrations. We haven't been well supported since Showaddywaddy were cool.

So our sustained growth in the last few seasons is hugely impressive. It's down to us playing good, successful football, but the brothers have put everything in place to make that possible and completely changed the culture and vibe of the club. It never fails to baffle me when some fans would prefer to go back to the old ways when we lose a couple of matches.

On 15/06/2026 at 10:02, Sheffield Pie said:

Aside from the data it's noticeable that fans of other clubs, managers and commentators, new signings etc. quite often describe Notts as a "massive club".

I think that's partly because of the big crowds we've been drawing, but also partly because we've been knocking around L2 and the NL for a decade. Nobody would say that if we were in the Championship. I'd love to see us punch above our weight some time soon!

The Brothers have took Notts from strength to strength, and got things done at a steady pace, yes we'd like them to splash the cash on very good players and pay extortionate wages, they probably could afford to, but not to put the club into astronomical debt. I say keep doing what they're doing and we'll get there.

The 'massive club' description seems to come more from those outsiders @Chris mentions

Like others on this thread, I think 'ok mate, you carry on believing that'. We're too scarred by decades of 5000 to declare that ourselves.

I think the perception comes from seeing that Nottingham is a 2-club city and, with the exception of Bristol, that usually means 'big'. The irony though is that they're right. Nottingham is a hell of a big metropolitan area, bigger than Sheffield for example (who cannot count Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley & Chesterfield)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_in_the_United_Kingdom

When Nottingham was much smaller, we were getting the 47,000 or so post-war crowds. The dormant fanbase has always kind of been there. I think we have to give credit to all those great-grandparents and grandparents (in my case), who passed on the flame. Maybe it skipped a couple of generations, but I think the great-grandchildren are the ones to pick up their family heritage. It's amazing how young the crowd looked at Wembley. Just 10-15 years ago, It still looked like you needed a cloth cap to be a Notts County fan.

Doesn't really matter now, we have Martin Paterson and he can stay being happy with Derry. Who knows if it was for good enough reasons? They were his, and we aren't exactly missing someone like him.

I can remember being really excited when Will Patching signed, given he’d spent all his time at Man City’s academy and played in the England youth teams, I thought we’d got a real gem.

Just goes to show how competitive it is in the world of professional football, you can be at one of the best academies and be part of the England set-up and still not make it.