At 11:13 this morning, Hinckley United Football Club was officially pronounced dead. Very sad but not unexpected news, the supporters said their goodbyes on Saturday. Yet another club that was not protected against greedy and incompetent owners. Another club allowed to die without a care in the world for the supporters.

I truly hope they can re-form and start again. There have been many great examples of fan owned clubs working. They had a very nice ground too.

I truly fear for the future of grass roots football. While the rich get richer, the poor continue to get poorer and there's very little light at the end of the tunnel. Hinckley won't be the last club to go to the wall.

Typically, absolutely no coverage on Sky Sports News. They're more interested in talking about £70million players, the very transfer fees which have gone some way to helping destroy the game.

R.I.P Hinckley United. As the motto went: Hinckley United - proud to be average

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Sport/Football/League+One/Notts+County

Check out this article above...I found it whilst looking for something re tomorrows game. It's in the bottom right of the page in a column entitled top stories last 24 hours. The article itself is FC Kansas City transfer Scott to Notts County.

The reason I thought some might find it interesting is that we apparently 'paid a significant fee' for her. I wonder what sort of money we're talking about for a female player?

By the way, I haven't highlighted this just so people can say 'huh, Ray won't pay for a transfer to the mens team'. I'm wondering if having a ladies team in the superleague, if they do well particularly, might benefit Notts County as a whole

Sorry, it wouldn't let me link the actual article page so I've had to put in the directions above, but below is a c and p of the article...

FC Kansas City and the NWSL complete transfer to Notts County FC

A section on racial abuse in football. Jonno talking about it outside ground. Recording it as Hull v Brighton on itv4

i would love to see kasper back at notts county he was one of the nicest players loyal and help notts county to league one all while taking a pay cut not being payed bonus and so forth i would love to see him back at county

Does anyone know what they are there for, don't even have a flag or owt. Must be getting paid a decent amount. Are they allowed to make descisions.

I'll start talking to myself if you're not careful...

Rumours will start...

Allegations will abound...

Small wars may start...

You have been warned...

When I was 16 my dad opened an account for me with the TSB .This served me very well over the years as there was a branch in my home town,Alfreton ,and a branch just down the road from where I worked. Some time during the 1990's the TSB merged with LLoyds and eventually became LLoyds TSB.. No problems at all for 40 years.Then last summer I received a letter saying that LLoyds and TSB were to become separate banks again.Last July I was asked to go to the Low Pavement branch (This has been my named branch since about 1965)  of Lloyds TSB so they could update me in person.So I went down a few days later and was told that this branch was reverting to TSB but that my local branch in Aspley was changing to Lloyds.They told me I would be receiving a new  temporary VISA debit card but would be able to continue using the card at both TSB and Lloyds branches.My accounts were split between Lloyds and TSB.This was all fine with me. A week or so later I received the new card which was still Lloyds and a covering letter saying I would get my TSB card sometime in the next 6 months or so.Everything carried on as before until I tried to pay Tesco online. I got in touch with the bank who said everything should be OK and it must be Tesco's fault.Tesco told me it must be the bank's fault.I tired of phoning the bank and Tesco's so decided to wait for my next new card to arrive.In the meantime I've been transferring funds weekly to Joe and Cheeky's account and using their details to pay Tesco. I could still withdraw from the cash machine locally,that is until just after christmas when I tried to make a withdrawal and was refused.I went inside to make a withdrawal at the counter and was told that I would soon no longer  be able to use Lloyds facilities unless I transferred my account to Lloyds. Anyway to save anymore waffling I'll just explain that I went to the local Lloyds bank branch and they arranged for all TSB accounts to be transferred.Last Saturday along with 3 Gas letters I received 2 letters from TSB .One letter told me my accounts were being transferred to Lloyds.The other letter contained a new TSB VISA DEBIT CARD..WHY? I'm pleased to say Tesco accepted my new Lloyds details and the cash machine  paid out today too. Why couldn't TSB have been up front from the start and saved me all this hassle.

The new series of the Midlands football show Late Kick Off begins on BBC1 next Monday. What would you like us to talk about? And would you like the chance to be in our studio audience in Birmingham - sorry we have to be somewhere?

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Notts (5th) v Hartlepool (4th). An opportunity to go fourth if they could win - an achievement in itself after their usual poor start to the season, winning only one of their first eight games.

Notts were dealt a blow when regular keeper Harry Andrews went down with an injury before the game to be replaced by the under 16 keeper.

In an even first half, Hartlepool, playing with the breeze scored twice while Notts squandered their chances to go 0-2 down at half-time.

The second half saw Notts doing more of the attacking and goals from Brad McGowan, a header from a corner and two from top scorer Colby Bishop completed a very entertaining come-back for the young 'Pies.

I've just noticed this feature at the bottom of the forum, you can see who today's top poster is, before I started this thread I was level with @notts-joe so now I should be ahead.

Ok, hands up all those who like to share things on Facebook, you know the sort of thing.

Share this if you have the best daughter in the world.

Share this if you hate cancer.

Click on this picture and share and see what happens.

Then there is the one where it shows a sick child, possibly deformed or something and it says that the parents can't afford treatment and if you share or like Facebook will donate a certain amount to the child's treatment.

The one that asks you to share advice about if you are mugged and taken to a ATM at knifepoint or whatever you can put your pin number in backwards and it will alert police that you are being robbed and they immediately send a squad car round. What a load of b*ll*cks!

A lot of these things make you feel guilty if you don't share, well don't feel guilty and don't share because it is making money for scammers. Read this.

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Big game on Sky Sports 2 tonight from Northern Ireland, as Glentoran host bitter rivals Linfield. Two clubs I visited in the summer, and traditionally Ulster's big two clubs.

This is a big rivalry in Ulster, based not on religion, but on footballing tradition. The two have won the Northern Irish league & Cup more than anyone else, and there's rarely a dull game between the two. There's rarely a game ending with 11 players on each side either!

This season Glentoran are struggling for consistency with a poor home record, and have lost their last 2 matches to 2 of the bottom 3. They're currently 5th and their aim will be to finish in the top 3 for Europa League football.

Linfield are second, 1 point below league leaders Cliftonville with a game in hand. Added spice is that Linfield's manager of 17 years David Jeffrey announced he will retire at the end of the season last week, and he's desperate to go out with one more title.

So give it a watch if your at a loose end, this promises to be a fiesty affair.

By the way, look out for a familier face in the Linfield line-up - Ivan Sproule, played here on loan under Paul Ince in 2011

When you know who changed ours, it took me awhile to 'accept' it. I refused to change the old sites badge, however whilst we was celebrating our 150th year. I was very tempted to change to that, it was very nice in my opinion.

Here's Brentfords...



I don't get the choice of 'white', it's nice but for me it would be labelled under 'doesn't fit the image'. It's not what you'd expect, however despite where I located the news - It's not poorly designed. It's quite slick but it doesn't fit the image of Brentford or their market. Quite a few of their fans are complaining, quite rightly so because I wouldn't like it if I was a fan their club.

Yet for the year I would accept it.

This isn't going on their shirt, so it's not quite that bad. What are your thoughts? Does it remind you of another clubs badge?

This Saturday's fixtures:
Huddersfield Town v Sheffield Wednesday

Yeovil Town v Doncaster Rovers

Brentford v Wolverhampton Wanderers

Port Vale v Crewe Alexandra

Morecambe v Oxford United

Torquay United v Accrington Stanley

Appiah (not sure of his first name) has just tweeted that he has extended his loan at Notts.

Good move?

Welcome to Pride of Nottingham @wacky, glad you've joined us here.

Hopefully you will feel welcome and at home on the site, I look forward to seeing you around. Why not share a little about yourself, such as how long you have supported Notts (or your side if you're a resident fan).

See you around.

Hello @A.Bowden thanks for joining us, you will find we are a friendly community, why not come and tell us a bit about yourself. We are also very nosey.

After the thread regarding the Sir Charlie Palmer Day, it got me to thinking of the other great days I've had as a Notts fan. We obviously have a range of ages across the board so it'll be interesting (unless this thread exists elsewhere and I've just missed it!) to see who gives their favourite memory and for what reasons.

For me I think it would be Don O'Rio scoring against Spurs at White Hart Lane. It was slap bang in the middle of my 'back of a transit' era when we all used to just pile in to the back of an old works van and hope someone knew the way there. Wembley visits etc...great times, but for me when he hit that ball so sweetly it was pure class. To see the look on the Spurs players faces, especially Gasgoine, was superb.

Even better, I was on the tv when they replayed it on the box, jumping up and down like a looney behind the goal.

Joss Labadie is in trouble for biting 2 players in a recent match against Chesterfield.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/20/torquay-united-in-luis-suarez-esque-storm-after-player-bites-two-chesterfield-stars-during-match-4311580/

It's a big word is hate and I always class it as a wasted emotion. We have an inferiority complex were Forest are concerned. They have been top dogs in Nottingham for so long. I am probably one of the very few on this board who can remember a time when Notts was the team that recruited new supporters.

My uncle and cousin (who I was very close to) were Forest mad and if I wanted to see a proper pro game the only way was to go with them to the shi tty ground. But when dad could get the time off work on a Saturday I had the chance to express my real love.

I remember holidaying in Skeggy and kicking a ball about on the beach with Paul (my cousin). These two guys near us were doing some impressive tricks with a ball and eventually they joined us.

We were stunned. One was Ron Wylie (then an inside forward at Notts) the other was his mate, Jack Burkitt (a Forest evergreen). To our amazement these two were pals and had brought their families on holiday together. Being only kids we had assumed that County and Forest players barely spoke to one another and bore feelings of enmity towards each other.

I can't hate Forest. In fact, because I am a Nottingham exile in Yorkshire, I want them to have a good result.

BUT

if they go up it will set us back years. If they advance to the Prem as we slip back to League 2 the consequences are too horrific to contemplate.  

Our relationship with Forest is like two brothers in the same family. One is confident and successful and inclined to arrogance, (known as The Prodigal Son?); the other has a stutter, often screws up, now and then puts in a diamond performance, but usually disappoints his parents.

No, I don't hate Forest, but I have to admit being a bit envious of their fans. I wouldn't mind a bit of that.

http://www.jimmyandjackstatuefund.co.uk/events.html

Anyone here taken up the offer put on by Notts to sell their stock of shirts and selected items?

50%!

Adult Shirt - £20
Children's - £15

I believe some of the other items are included such as the training tops, polo shirts. I kitted out my youngest, Ava and Ellie love their away shirts! Ellie's should be her birthday present but we wanted Ava wearing hers.

after the blades won tonight we are back  in relegation zone and saturday home tie against shrewsberry is now a vital win as anything less would see us having to do the great escape. A win for us and a lost for trammere  crew and crawley  would see us climb out the bottom three.  I don't think i could face the great escape sat there having to check sore from other grounds and starting the prayer I'm alone here or not.

Which Ref do you feel's been the best so far this season?

We've had so many poor match officials, however we have seen a few decent ones.