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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So which of the top three teams do you consider to play the best football? Please include the following in your response below, also do add your vote.

• Best against Notts County (so far this season)
  Best Defence
  Best Offensive
  
  Best Overall (Obviously the team you vote above for)

Go on folks, let me know.

Anyone seen the first few episodes of the new series yet? Just watched the first 3 and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I loved the film and wasn't sure how they could turn it into a series and extend the storyline, especially without Pitt and Willis, but so far so good.

Match Report 17/2/15

Rotherham United 3 Derby County 3

Great game, for a hour we were incredible, went 3-1 up & but for a great Lee Grant save from Matt Derbyshire, it'd have been 4, but County came back well & deservedly in the end claimed a point!!

I was talking to @Dripsey3 in another thread about porridge but I can't find it now. Anyhow, probably worth a separate thread, I tried his suggestion of banana in my porridge and it was very good, thanks Dripsey, Mrs. H. gave it 10 out of 10.

This got me thinking does anyone else have porridge on the forum, we usually have golden syrup and we make it with two thirds milk and one third water, it's comes out lovely and creamy, on our recent cruise I had porridge and it had been made with water it was horrible I didn't like it at all but I know that is probably the proper way to have it.

When I was a youngster mam and dad took us for a holiday to Scotland and at breakfast we were served porridge the landlady of the B&B put a pot of salt on the table. My dad asked for sugar and she looked at him as if he had just crawled out from under a stone. Muttering "sacrilege" under her breath she went to fetch the sugar bowl and almost threw it at him. It seems the Scottish people have salt on their porridge as a tradition and woe betide you if you ask for anything else.

So do you have porridge? If so how do you like it? Any Scottish people on here care to comment?

Does anyone think Derry will drop Adams tonight, replacing him with Newton? I am hopeful to see him.

I keep seeing adverts and trailers for it, never watched the actual show but I plan to do so.

Anyone watch it? What's it like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKtgMEKMoiU

Hi,

I'm the pre-match reporter for the Port Vale Fans Forum One Vale Fan.

Part of my role is to contact fans of our forthcoming opponents to ask them a few questions and gain their views on the upcoming fixture between our sides in order to produce a report which we release on the site a couple of days prior to the game.

I wondered if up to three of you have a few minutes and would be prepared to share a few views if you would kindly offer your feelings on the game by answering the following few questions;

1. Tell us a bit about yourself & history as a fan?

2. How are your team doing (current form and in relation to the expectation of fans at the start of the season)?

3. Where you think you will finish in terms of league position?

4. Who should we watch out for (one or more danger player/s)?

5. What are your thoughts on your manager?

6. What are your thoughts on your board & off field club activities?

7. Any views on the current Port Vale team & specific players?

8. Did you attend the reverse fixture earlier this season? If so what were your thoughts on the game?

9. Any views & memories of players / managers that have been involved with both teams?

10. A score prediction (and potential scorers for both sides)?

Please also feel free to include any other information you feel worthy and I will knock it into a report as per the example below regarding contribution from Plymouth fans from our game with them;

http://www.onevalefan.co.uk/site/opposing-views-plymouth/

To enable me to produce this in good time I need a reply by Wednesday and the report should appear on the website a day or two before our fixture.

Please also let me know if you would like me to include your name on the article.

Many thanks for your potential support in this matter.

Best Regards,

REP

....

With there not being a Notts game this weekend, I was wondering if anyone would keep an eye out for any other results? I always keep tabs on our residents sides, whilst including key games which could effect our overall position.

What about you?

Here's the fixtures...

Bristol City v Sheffield United
Chesterfield v Leyton Orient
Crawley v Barnsley
Crewe v Fleetwood
Doncaster v Yeovil
Gillingham v MK Dons
Oldham v Colchester
Peterborough v Rochdale
Scunthorpe v Swindon
Walsall v Port Vale

Have a read of our League One Preview - Here

This Saturday's fixtures:
Huddersfield Town v Cardiff City
Millwall v Fulham
Milton Keynes Dons v Peterborough United
Rochdale v Chesterfield
AFC Wimbledon v Luton Town
Stevenage v Southend United

What is your favourite European team?

I've just noticed that it was @ivansneck's birthday last week(11th) so belated birthday wishes from me.I hope you had a good day.I always enjoy reading your German league posts.

Majority of fans who have spoken to me don't see where we will score, though I hate to lift expectations as I do think we shouldn't inflate players, yet I do hold hopes that perhaps Bajner could score his second goal for us. We do have some players who do look likely to score even when the chips are down, however I do agree that it is hard to see us doing so at the current rate of play but knowing Notts we are extremely unpredictable.

Also, most see this as a game whereby we will punished by a considerable amount of goals. I think it will be tighter than that, I think it's possible they could score several goals but I have 1-2 in my mind.

For me it's about how defend and how set ourselves up, if we play to limit them - It will limit us. If we setup to be attacking minded or defensive - this will leave us wide open in my opinion. I think we should be more content with building slowly, until we get into positions where can step on the gas. It's more about being caught out with possession and then being outnumbered within their attacks which concerns me. Will we see Hollis return? I think so, I hope he will put a stand-out performance in and do everything right.

So yeah, I hope for a draw - If we can score early and prevent ourselves from conceding we will grown in confidence.

Prediction - 1-2 to them.

What about you? Score prediction and thoughts?

Apparently a new study has found that after all these years of giving up butter and full fat milk we needn't have bothered because it isn't bad for us after all!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2946617/Butter-ISN-T-bad-Major-study-says-80s-advice-dairy-fats-flawed.html

I weaned myself off butter and started using margarine years ago, same with full fat milk we went on to semi skimmed because we didn't want to die of a heart attack. However to be honest I don't think I could go back now as it would make me feel sick to lather my sandwich with butter or drink a glass if full fat milk.

Do you prefer butter or marg, full fat or semi-skimmed milk?

Morning all, I hope we are all well and looking forward to Tuesday night.

It's a bit cloudy but a reasonable day and not too cold, we've got nothing special planned for today, leisurely breakfast, might have a walk or a bike ride, we are trying to get fit and lose some weight. We'll have our dinner at tea time, it's lasagne today, we don't always have a Sunday roast these days. The rest of the day we'll probably relax and get ready for tomorrow it's half term so we'll have a busy three days looking after our two terrors of grandsons.

What you got planned? Do you have a Sunday roast? Lunch time trip to the pub? Anyone still have Sunday papers?

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Right then, bottom of the league, having been purchased by Becchetti, they now have the fact that they are to be the subject of a reality TV show in Italy, that will give young Italians the chance to win a pro contract...

Really? The whole thing is to be shown on the TV channel that Becchetti owns.

Now, this has got to be another case of eeejit being allowed near a football club... or can you see it benefitting Orient?

For me it's a definite facepalm moment...

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/leyton-orient-to-become-subject-of-italian-reality-tv-show-that-will-give-the-winner-a-professional-contract-at-the-club-10043597.html

Add this into the mix, and the future does not look good for the Londoners...

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/leyton-orient-are-struggling--fabio-liverani-is-well-out-of-his-depth-and-players-are-taking-the-team-talk-in-the-tunnel-10044684.html

It's half term in Notts this week that means we have our grandsons to keep occupied although G is going to a YMCA camp where he stays for the day and does all sorts of fun things.

Have you got children/grandchildren on your hands this week? How do you keep them occupied?

What about @hissingdwarf is it a busy time for you or quieter? I know when we were childminders people thought it was easier for us but actually it was harder work because the kids we normally took to school stayed with us all day!

Happy Valentines Day everyone.

So what have you got planned for today with your loved one? A romantic evening in? A lovely meal at a restaurant?

In the Hateley household it's always Valentines Day so we don't plan anything special in fact we don't bother with cards or presents either. Is that sad?

I think it's very much a younger persons thing and as you get older you get more and more cynical about the cost of flowers this times of year, the constant bombardment of adverts for valentines gifts/cards etc.

What are your thoughts?

That this is the start of the end, that the premier league is going supernova. Sky customers who have a package including sports are to see prices increase... not as much as they should IMO, but by 4 pounds per month initially.

So here is the thing....

Can we expect that the customers will just continue to fork out month after month for Premier League football?

Will the fact that ticket prices constantly rising will mean less in the grounds?

I think that if and when any of this starts to happen, then the sponsors will also start to question the money they put in...

Today there are two articles on the new deal, in the first one Arsene Wenger questions the rises, and in the second Munich fans have their say...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2953989/Sky-Sports-customers-hit-10-month-price-hike-meet-rising-costs-5bn-Premier-League-deal.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/bayern-munich/11413510/Bayern-Munich-fans-stage-anti-Premier-League-protest.html

your thoughts?