This thread is for @Canadian who loves biscuits (I hate the Americanism cookies).

Which is your favourite? I love shortcake biscuits.

Which Jan signings are paying off in your opinion?

Darren Bent seems to have found his mojo having scored 5 from 6, Aaron Lennon seems to be fitting in at Everton and Robert Huth seems to be making a difference at Leicester City.

We hear a lot of 'how good are Barcelona to watch'.

Is it just me that they bore to death? It's like watching a Keith Curle side. Pointless passing for the sake of things. OK, their passes are punctuated by individual brilliance of Messi or Suarez. However, their constant sideways-backwards and forward only to come back - is so boring, you are half asleep by the time you get to see the brilliance.

Which European team do you dislike the most ?

I'm coming to England soon and bringing the lady with me, and as has become the habit we're going to visit a town or city for a bit of a cultural expedition. We've already done London, Coventry, Lincoln and York, and for this time I've suggested going somewhere for a couple of nights, Chester, Durham, Stratford upon Avon, or possibly Newcastle or Birmingham. However, to my surprise she's suddenly developed an interest in going to Liverpool.

Liverpool is one of the places I've never visited. Apart from the "three graces", is it worth visiting?

[media]http://youtu.be/kyVrew0gPEs

Earlier today Notts Youth entertained York City at Arnold Town's ground.

Notts were three points off second place while York, who Notts defeated in October 7-1, were a point above the bottom place in the table so hopefully three points were there to be won.

Although cold, the game began in beautiful sunshine.

Notts were well on top in the early stages with the visiting keeper pulling off save after save tipping shots over the bar and round the post to keep Notts at bay.  But after 25 minutes they finally broke through when Yohann curled a fabulous shot into the corner of the net from distance to go ahead.

Five minutes later a left foot strike from Blaney from 35 yards into the top corner of the goal increased the 'Pies' lead to 2-0 with a shot that must be in contention for goal of the season.

Right on half-time Larty Sarpong went on an individual run past two or three York defenders before unleashing a shot into the far corner for a 3-0 half-time lead.

In the second half Notts continued to camp in the York half of the pitch and the pressure finally told when Larty Sarpong was brought down inside the penalty area.  Colby Bishop stepped forward to coolly slot the ball home low to the keepers left and just inside the post for a 4-0 lead.

It was 5-0 soon after when a quality cross from the right wing was headed home by Colby Bishop.

On 55 minutes, in a goalmouth scramble, it became 6-0 when centre-back Rhys Myers put away the loose ball with an acrobatic overhead kick.

Ten minutes later Reco Fyfe, back from his loan spell at Grantham and on as a substitute drove a loose ball powerfully into the net to make it 7-0.

More chances came without being taken but this was a superb display by the young 'Pies putting a below par York City side to the sword. 

As well as putting out a team to win the game, Paul Hart and Mick Halsall are clearly looking to next season with two under 16 players and four first year scholars in the starting XI.

Bernstein has called for the FA and EU to boycott the 2018 World Cup in Russia, to try and force reform of FIFA. Should we and do you think that this would work? What else could we do to force reform?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30077311

Now I don't think I'm being too negative when I say that we are in a really bad run of form, but why has so much changed from the first third of the season?

Was it loan players going back, the management team losing the dressing room, poor tactics, or simply that we are just playing better teams than us? On a more positive note, what could we do to fix it!

I'd like to hear all of your thoughts.

We've spent the day walking round the NEC at the caravan, motorhome and camping show. We've always been keen on camping in one form or another and have worked our way up from small tents, large tents, trailer tents, caravans (until we had a major accident towing) to Motorhomes (our present preferred camping unit).

The NEC is enormous and there were lots of different sized Motorhomes there to look at, we prefer smaller ones, we didn't buy anything unlike one year when we went "for a look round" and ended up ordering a brand new van! However we had a great but exhausting day, met some friends, had a coffee and a chat.

Anyway that was my day, what y'all been up to today?

just for @notts-joe 

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXuxQNwGgo4

Does anyone know what has happened to players like Daniels and Murray? Considering the lack some of the current first players are showing i would have thought we would see them at least make the bench.

Anyone know??

First star graduates to the pro game!

The NPL Football Academy's coaches and tutors are celebrating their first success story after Romulus star Yohan Rutty-Smith signed for Notts County.

After making history back in November as the first NPLFA student to play first team football for the First Division South's Roms, the 16-year-old has now become the first to progress to the professional game after signing for the League One club.

The left-back, pictured, signed a two year deal at Meadow Lane on Monday only five months after the NPLFA opened its doors to its first intake of students at five pilot clubs - Leek Town, Mickleover Sports, Newcastle Town, Radcliffe Borough and the Roms.

In doing so the EVO-STIK NPL became the first league in English football to launch a youth league and academy combining football with further education. Since then, four more clubs have signed on to join next season, First Division North Mossley AFC the latest recruit in January.

Hailing the production of their first graduate to the professional ranks so quickly after the NPLFA's foundation, a spokesman said: "We are delighted at this news and very proud. Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine we would get our first professional graduate five months into the programme which just shows how successful it has been in it's short time.

"Our aim first and foremost is to give our students the best educational package available to enable them to have a successful working career and we are also committed with our expertise to producing young footballers. Firstly for the first teams of the clubs involved but also to give those youngsters a second chance or even their first chance of becoming a professional footballer.

"Credit must go to Richard Evans and his staff at Romulus FC who are running a very successful programme there as shown in their educational and football results. It's another player to come through the system at The Roms and they are obviously delighted and proud of young Yohan."

He added: "Everyone at the NPL Football Academy wishes Yohan the best of luck in his professional career and hopes he can continue his studies that he has worked hard for so far this season."

A proud Romulus spokesman added: "The academy is gutted to lose such a great young talent, but, on the other hand and more importantly, we are all delighted that he has been given this fantastic opportunity with professional outfit Notts County."

Hopefully he can progress further with us.

Which ex pies have you not liked in the past 10 seasons and why?

Mine, Karl Hawley having only seen highlights it is hard to explain but his talent often seemed wasted. Alan Sheehan for the way he departed last summer, Paul Moyo I just did not like.

Ok put your ear plugs in, Tony is going to have a rant.

This makes makes me really angry, I got my house insurance renewal and just as a matter of interest I thought I'd get some quotes online from compare the market, my existing insurance company was one of the quotes and it was £40 cheaper for exactly the same cover that they had sent a renewal for.

So in other words new customers are treated better and get cheaper quotes than existing customers, how bleddy annoying.

A warm PoN welcome to @Danish.I hope you enjoy our site.

What do you think of this, good thing or bad thing? Taken from ITN News:

19 February 2015 at 3:57pm

Burger King trials home delivery

Burger King is trialling a home delivery service in Yorkshire, Essex, Cornwall, Lincolnshire and London in a move that has seen those lucky enough to receive the service celebrating their good fortune.

Social media lit up at news of the three-month trial, despite it only taking place from eight restaurants in Northampton, Romford, Truro, Hornchurch, Gants Hill, Hull, Skegness and Hayes.

Those keen on having a Whopper and fries delivered direct to their front door can enter their postcode on the dedicated Burger King Delivery website to find out if they are eligible.

However the company said the trial was a test of the service ahead of a national roll-out later in the year.

Matthew Bresnahan, marketing director of Burger King for Northern Europe, Russia and Africa, said: "Burger King is firmly committed to delivering great-tasting food at affordable prices to all of our customers.

"We are extremely excited about this Home Delivery service trial so customers can continue to enjoy the perfect combination of taste, at great value prices, now delivered straight to their homes."

The news was met with reactions ranging from joy to despair on Twitter.

@GreyMCMLXXIX wrote: "Burger King now deliver. What a momentous day this is," while @hpd1998 added: "Burger King start to deliver in the UK, the beginning of a new era?"

But those not eligible shared their grief, with @NotFaulty writing: "Burger King doesn't deliver to my postcode. All life is pain."

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@super_ram will be happy to know that this year is the year of the Ram maybe it's an omen?

Have a watch folks, leave a comment - it would be appreciated. You Pies!

>http://youtu.be/ThUHewoVT_c

I'm not really a gardener we sort of inherited our garden when we moved in and I have noticed that the Spring flowers are starting to pop up. We've got snowdrops, crocuses and daffodils showing themselves, the days are getting longer and the birds are being more active so it looks like Spring is on it's way, roll on, I'll be glad to see the back of this winter.

Are you a gardener? What's happening in your garden?

Anyone had pancakes today and if you did what did you have on them.Marmalade @PTID1862?

Please join me in welcoming @ABessant to PoN.I hope you join in and enjoy your time with us.

Despite them doing better than us, having probably a stronger unit and confidence to match. I think we can go there and win provided we play smooth passing forward which actually supports whoever is on the ball, this of course includes Bajner. I fail to see how he will score when he gets 3 defenders quickly on top of him.

I mean he does well but his chances will always be limited and we can't rely on set pieces.

Fleetwood do have many cracks within their play, as do we but the good signs are for us we are improving. The defence looked better against Sheffield United (Not good enough still) but we actually marked and put in challenges.

If we prevent Fleetwood from running at us (same can be said for any side) we could easily go back to drawing games.

I just wonder where the fire power comes from and for me, we need to be calling upon these players who have go A.W.O.L or unheard of. Either stick Bajner upfront with Murray or G Thompson.

I think the game will be a draw myself, I fear us losing but confidence is our play would prevent that. 1-1 from me...

What are your thoughts?

Welcome @mightymccourt hope you enjoy chatting on our friendly football forum.

Please tell us a bit about yourself.

We went for a romantic walk in the country this morning and I thought I'd share some of the lovely sights to behold.

In one short stretch of path I counted 8 dog poo bags hanging from trees like some grotesque ornament, a used nappy, a beer bottle wedged in a tree and a pile of beer cans. How delightful!

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