Welcome to Pride of Nottingham, @mexicanpie.

It is good to see new members joining, have fun here browsing the topics and posting your thoughts and ideas.

Just noticed this in the red rag and with us all getting in the Christmas spirit, I thought we should start a collection for @PTID1862 

I'll start off by chucking in £1. 

Any more offers?

http://www.nottinghampost.com/Drayton-Manor-Park-s-Magical-Christmas-winter/story-24874637-detail/story.html

A nice piece on the Notts County website about Zeli Ismail, he has a lot of good things to say about the club, management and supporters.

Best of luck to him as he recovers from his injury and maybe we will see him down the Lane in the future, who knows.

http://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/article/injured-winger-zeli-ismail-has-returned-to-his-parent-club.-2115300.aspx

Time to vote folks after the 1-1 result.

Please vote for November's Member of the Month!

One Vote - Please choose who you feel is the most deserving, if you're in the running please vote for someone else and hopefully this will be fun! Voting ends on the 30th and 7:00, not long after the winner(s) will be announced.

Help share this, so we can get more votes and lets let the community decide!

Special mentions!

@Canadian says "I'd like to Give a Special Mention to @DangerousSausage, Seemed to have grasped the goings here on PON. He brings some good Perspective to the Table". @tonyhateley also gave a special mention to DS - "DangerousSausage (great newcomer)".

I praise @magpiejue - You always engage with us on FB, you help make a difference on the site and promotes our articles. A true all round member who's help only rightly deserves to be highlighted.

@liampie says "@PTID1862, hes introduced a lot of wit, fun and discussions to the community. hes someone i think shines the good things about pon and what we are trying to achieve as a community".

@PTID1862 says "@pie_in_shanghai because I really love the Magnets threads".

@GrannyPie says "@Blackville - It's nice to see another young member contributing".

Thank you to everyone for your contributions! Good Luck!

Please do vote and leave a comment to let us know you have done. You Pies!

Important game! One which if we don't get anything from it could start to be where comments creep in and it won't help the tough run of fixtures coming up. We have to be realistic here, there's no reason why we couldn't win but a draw would be good. I know we have to hope for a win, as this will keep us up but personally I'd like us to avoid dropping down the league.

I know some fans expect this to be the case, I think we might but I also remember last year how we achieved the great escape by believing.

Sheffield United are picking up, though some of their fans aren't happy and there is still an opportunity for us to cause an upset.

Let's forget about Accrington and Yeovil, let's think about games like Barnsley or Coventry and just hope for the best.

I see this being 1-1, hopefully no red cards! Roy Carrol needs to avoid yellow.

COME ON YOU PIES!

Thoughts?

Leigh Curtis column: Notts County striker Danny Haynes should drop down a level or two to regain confidence.

After holding “honest discussions” with Danny Haynes in the summer, everybody hoped Shaun Derry’s pep-talk would help the striker deliver on his undoubted talent at Notts County.

 

But five months on, he has made just two appearances and has just returned from a loan spell at Crewe which was pretty unproductive.

 

A flick through some Twitter comments from Crewe fans were hardly complimentary about his contribution and Derry’s message as the striker headed back was “he has to knuckle down again”.

 

There is certainly no issue with the player’s work in training, but clearly there is a problem with confidence.

Full Article | Here

I disagree, I think he'll naturally either end up with a struggling League One team as a asset or he'll end up as a fringe player. I do think League Two is calling, however will Danny accept anything lower than his asking price? I can't see a League Two team being able to afford him.

I genuinely don't believe confidence is the issue.

At least not completely, I think a succession of injuries and poor moves which haven't worked out are catching up. The fact we know he's a good player sort of suggests it's not his confidence, it highlights that he's past his peak and will find his correct level which for me is this division. I don't think Haynes will score more than 10 goals for any side, I'm not trying to put him down or to be negative. I just honestly feel he's fading.

17 goals in 115 games isn't enough to forge a reputation.

8 goals from 51 is poor.

As is 9 in 34 games (at least for a striker considered to be a goalscorer/Championship player).

Midfield or not, the vast majority are as a striker. He's done well to attract higher interest, as his overall record suggests he's been punching above his natural place.

271 games played and 46 goals.

Confidence? I'd try accepting things for how they are.

Thoughts?

Utterly appalling tragedy. For him, his family, his teammates and the bowler.

Boy oh boy would I love to be in this car with him

Pity they don't teach this on an advanced driving lesson.....

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qanlirrRWs

Gary Johnson: Yeovil Town's Nathan Smith has bruises to prove Notts County challenge.

Yeovil Town’s Nathan Smith has the bruises to prove he had been hurt by a hefty challenge at Notts County, according to manager Gary Johnson.

 

The athletic full back was felled in the first half by Magpie Gary Jones, referee Stuart Attwell harshly deeming the challenge to be worthy of a straight red card.

 

Although the official acted before Smith had received lengthy treatment, he was subsequently booed whenever he touched the ball thereafter, with the away dugout also receiving a rough ride from a boisterous crowd.

 

Smith has since been subjected vile abuse on Twitter with individuals labelling him a “cheat” and a “disgrace”, with some even hoping he receives a career-ending injury. His Wikipedia entry has even been altered to document his role in proceedings.

 

Jones’s red card has since been rescinded on appeal and Johnson said his Jamaican left-footer had the character to weather the backlash.

 

“Everybody that understands football that saw it realises that if you look at the pictures of our technical area, none of us threw our hands up in the air or got involved,” said Johnson.

 

“Smithy was obviously hurt. Judging by the mark on his leg, he was obviously hurt, but none of us were brandishing imaginary red cards.

 

“If a player’s hurt, he’s hurt and it’s up to the referee to do what he wants to do. He (Smith) wasn’t trying to con the referee by any stretch of the imagination.

 

“If the crowd decide to take it out on the player, he’s got to be doubly professional and to be honest he was. He didn’t make any comment or say anything back, he just got on with the game.

 

“It was important that he and the team stood up and played cleverly – one mistimed tackle could have been disastrous.”

 

Johnson continued: “When people are disappointed after losing a game that they were hoping to win, little things always come up through their disappointment.

 

“I felt that we deserved to win the game with the way we played, whereas their manager felt that they deserved to win despite going down to ten men - differing opinions. We have had a good look at the review and the DVD and we’re very happy with our performance.”

I find this quite funny, it's like someone telling a teacher after being caught bullying that they was self defending themselves to avoid being told off, despite the teacher having seen and witnessed it.

The bruises could have been caused by him flopping to the ground or rolling around. LOL

Thought?

Who scored pon's goal of the month?

"Is this the real life, is this just fantasy" starts some Queen Song.

Following Saturday, it is a question I too pose of Notts County 14/15 thus far.  Patchy start, Long unbeaten run followed by another patchy run.

Which is true and which is temporary?  What can we hang our season on, and what is blips / peaks?

So, onto Brammall Lane on Friday night, and a club surprisingly still plying its trade in these "depths" last coing so near a couple of years ago.  The day we won at Wycombe, Stevenage drew with Sheff U.  A result that proved to be costly for both us and the blades; we missed out on GD to the 'newtown lot' in that years playoffs; and Sheff U were left to rue dropped points as they missed out on the autos - their City rivals Wednesday.  Anyhow.

Links - plenty here of both managerial and playing variety; I'll try to go with a couple of slightly offbeat examples, and here's to this being the largest MAGnet thread thus far....

Paul Rodgers (brought in to replace Peter Butler!) and Tony Battersby ("the new Alan Shearer").

Not really but you never know Just imagine.....

http://home.bt.com/news/world-news/november-26-1983-brinks-mat-robbers-steal-26m-from-heathrow-warehouse-11363946099597

In my mind, I can already see Rodders on his way down the M1 armed with a pick and a spade. 

No, No, not us...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30180206

I wonder......

I hope they have still got Mr Big under lock and key.

Harry Beautyman came in for some rough house tactics as you can see.
 
OUCH

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2848582/Harry-Beautyman-lucky-didn-t-leg-broken-against-Halifax.html

I have read alot more in the past two years since I purchased my kindle. Now moved onto the hdx version and really enjoy reading all sorts.

Does what you read represent the person though?

I've just (15 minutes ago!) finished the Marco Pierre White autobiography. Now I have the choice of going Sci-fi again or the new Roy Keane book from a few weeks ago.

Thinking about it i'm going to go Sci-fi. In fact I've really enjoyed reading 'young adult' novels recently such as the hunger games trilogy and am going to plump for Divergent now. Not sure why they are termed YA though as they seem fine for old adults too!!

Just read the report that this pm he has left by mutual consent.

Can understand their fans reactions that they were lucky to have him two years ago to get promoted, but they've not moved on at all since then.

Just shows how all managers fall on their swords eventually, regardless of achievements. 

Who should replace him at the helm at Field Mill?

Notts County teenager Colby Bishop has signed his first professional contract with the club.

Keith Curle: Handed Bishop his first contract

The 18-year-old striker, named on the substitutes' bench for the first team on five occasions, has put pen to paper on a two-and-a-half year deal.

Bishop signed a scholarship deal with the club's academy in December last year and will now work towards making the step up to the first-team squad.

He will be available to play for County's youth team for the rest of the current campaign before joining the first-team squad full-time ahead of next season.

Thoughts?

It's a cold, frosty, foggy morning here today. We haven't got any grandparent duties to perform until the weekend so we were presented with a choice.

Should we go away for a couple of days in our campervan or should we bite the bullet and start the decorating that we've been putting off for weeks? We chose the decorating, so today we will be stripping, papering and painting.

What are your plans for the day, work, college, school? Or just a lazy day keeping warm? Let us know.

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People are already putting their decorations up, what is going on!?!?

First thing this month the shops started their pursuit in profit, I hate to moan but this is what ruins the festive period. People celebrating early!

Am i alone?

So, at six we are still looking good right? I'd say so.

The Table;


A run down of our fixtures;

Sheffield United (A), Swindon Town (H), Rochdale (A), MK Dons (H) and Bradford (A).

Big fixtures huh? Questions is where do you see Notts being in the table after this run?

Ignoring Yeovil, in my article "Is all really lost?" I predicted 9-11 points (which would mean 3 wins and 2 draws at the most) however realistically I said 7. Simply that would be 2 wins and 1 draw from the 5 fixtures. I think we will be 5th, I think we'll drop out of the play offs after playing Sheffield United and Swindon Town but come back against Rochdale and the others.

What about you? Thoughts?

I meant to ask this after the Yeovil match, at a point during the game lots of people put lights on, I think they used their phones but I wasn't sure what if anything it was all about, nobody round us seemed to know. Can anyone on here shed any light (if you'll forgive the pun) on this matter.

....................has been recinded.

Still had a big influence on the game though, they should take the 3 points of Yeovil and replay the game.

Full story http://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/article/gary-jones-red-card-rescinded-on-appeal-2104291.aspx

Well, having fluffed the first of my prediction league selections, I thought I would share this, hoping for a much better outcome.

Last season the bet from a few of the natives up here, was that they would do us and finish higher in league.

What a happy day I had this May collecting all of those pints.

It did however somehow mess with my already cotton wool brain, by enticing me to make another...

This season then, the bet is that Notts will finish higher in our league, than the cumbrians will finish in league 2.

First thing the next morning I was regretting this thinking, crikey its a no brainer, of course I am going to lose...

The table looked good for sooo long, and then along comes Curly Wurly...

COYP... or her indoors will have a dicky fit at the size of my bar bill