Who will win the derby and what will the score be?

Hello @mark, welcome to Pride of Nottingham. Thanks for taking the time to join us, I hope you like what you see here and join in when time permits. Care to tell us a little bit about yourself, such as how long you have supported Notts?

You Pies!

There are so many different brands and flavours of crisps on offer in our local Asda there is a whole row dedicated to crisps and snacks but what's your favourite?

We buy McCoys variety 6 pack from Heron for £1 a pack, they can be double that price in the supermarket. I love the fact that they are thick cut.

I also like those very thin chipsticks but struggle to find them.

Who will win and  what will the score be ?

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hello @SilverEcho, thanks for taking the time to join us.

Good afternoon all, thought I would take the plunge and join the site.

welcome to pon @batonncfc, hope you like and enjoy what you see here.

Trying to talk the other half into a puppy much later in the year. Will be a good companion for our old dog. I fancy a lab. Anyone else got one?

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?

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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.

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