Welcome @kop666, it's nice to see you've made your way onto our site. You should find the mobile skin quite flexible but you can always use the full version, it's pretty nifty of tablet devices.

I hope to see your input around our community, glad you joined mate.

How's that for a pair of signings?!

Welcome to the community @DamoMarshall and @4everapie, nice to see you both take the dive and join us. I really think you both will be big assets for our promotion push here, no matter how often you visit. I hope you both enjoy the site and I look forward to seeing you around and discussing NCFC with you.

Why not tell us a little about yourselves? COYP!

Sorry but it not enough, a striker was needed.

I thought you might all like to have a read of this.

The amount of workers with ATOS who have left and spoken up on their policies grows weekly.  Yet still this company receives a vast amount of money by the government...with extensive bonuses for everyone they decide is fit for work.  How is this a fair assessment on who can and can't work, and how long before even more end up homeless or living well below the poverty line before something is done about their practices?

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/nurse-makes-heartfelt-apology-after-1340838

The results in Div 1 went Notts way last night.Not only do Notts need to get results but at the moment they could do with teams around them in the table losing too.What are your thoughts?

1. Do we think we will bring anyone in today?

2. Who do you think will be the big movers and shakers in the Championship and below?
 

3. Big spenders in the PL?

For me, its 

1. No.
2. No idea - Sheff Utd, QPR, Leicester, maybe?
3. Man City.


Anyone heard any good gossip/rumours?



 

Anyone making the trip to Preston? I really want to go, mainly to support a friend and of course Notts but I don't think it's sensible really. It's a game I would have loved to have gone. I haven't been to Preston before, until last year I hadn't gone anywhere really. Hartlepool was my first away day.

Now's the time to cough up and let the PoN community know if you're going.

COYP!

Ps. Don't forget to add your thoughts here, especially if you do go - Match Thread.

Nothing as of yet's been confirmed with regards to Elliot Gibbons the Non League player who tweeted this.



Roberts, although he doesn't feel me with confidence - He did give a good interview, it's uncertain how he will fit into our squad and even he sounds to be a little unsure but he did say he's joined because of injuries and he's here to cover. His experience might help some of the youngsters we have, so there's that at least and if he was to help out as a coach, something he's denied it would also be an added bonus because we're short in this department. Poor Greg does do a lot of training/coaching!

Mullins, I am happy with but it was said we wouldn't be signing any more loan players and for me it strikes as a sign. I do feel that we are panicking a little but it's important we get signings.

How do you feel about these signings?

Spanish side Racing Santander's players have walked off the pitch refusing to play their Copa Del Ray quarter final against Real Sociadad in a protest over 4 months of unpaid wages. The ref blew for kick off but the Santander players just gathered in the centre circle. The ref asked if they were going to play, they said no, so the game was abandoned. Crazy scenes!

Man City released their financial statements yesterday as part of their annual report

http://content.mcfc.co.uk/~/media/Files/Annual%20Report/MCFC_AR.pdf

I thought I'd pick out some of the interesting facts from the report

Please note these are all as of 31 May 2013

Revenue

Match Day £39,615,000 14.6%

Champions League TV £24,144,000 8.9%

Other Broadcasting £64,250,000 23.7%

Other Commercial Activities £142,991,000 52.8%

Total £271,000,000 100.0%

Only 14.6% of Man City's revenue is from a matchday

Expenses

Total Operating Expenses £369,353,000

Salaries & Wages £233,106,000 63.11%

Wages account for 64% of Man City Group's costs.

As of 31 May 2013, the accounting estimate for the price of the players registration is £428m

Staff

Football Staff (Including Players) 222 49.44%

Commercial/Admin Staff 227 50.56%

Total 449

That is a lot of football staff, I wonder what kind of things some of these people do

Profit

Without transfers, Man City Group would have made a profit of £23.4m, but including the trading of players they made a loss of £51.6

Possible Bonuses/Signing on fees/etc

Man City believe they could have to pay a maximum £53.9m "upon the achievement of certain conditions contained within player and transfer contracts if they are still in the service of the Club"

Let me know if you have anything else you might want to know, and I'll see if I can work it out from the published accounts

We have had 4 players out of the club,  and up to yet only 1 deffo in and 1 possible. We are still going to be short if we get any more suspensions and Injuries. Still time for more though, so let's wait and see.

First thing I'm going to type here, I do not want to see a repeat of our away game against them. I'll only accept if we start as we ended that game, 25+ minutes of domination but this time for the majority of the game.

It would be nice to see the flag in the Kop! I loved that at Peterborough and was it Bristol City last?

@sadlad how many Walsall fans do you see coming?

It should be a lively encounter, I like the type of football our opponents play but I think under Derry they will find us more of a match than the last time we played them. Very unlucky not to come back with 3 points but I won't dwell on past games!

Hopefully our resident saddler will tell us all about their threats and he's kindly agreed to do our Opposition View!

Thoughts?

Well done to the women (again)

1-0 to VfB at half time!!

Surprised by Holt though. I though he had potential and with hard work might have made the grade, but SD knows best.

Notts County Football Club can confirm that development squad duo Jordan Holt and Callum Bennett have departed Meadow Lane.

Read more at http://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/article/bennett-and-holt-depart-1292381.aspx#QF2y16sAdPCmWSrr.99

I was searching for a picture of Tony Hateley via google and this page came up.

The chap in the second video looks vaguely familiar.

http://www.mashpedia.com/Tony_Hateley

Rams are at home to yeovil tonight.A repeat of the early season reverse fixture would be nice.Why not listen on Radio Derby.Ed Dawes does the commentary aided by ex-Ram and ex-Magpie Craig Ramage.See how they compare to Uncle Colin.

I expect Notts to lose especially when not doing all that well, perfect example would be this season. Sometimes teams will play a lot better and exploit a team, though it bugs me that 'sorry' and 'apologies' come rather freely. I've read (and heard) enough to last me for the next 5 seasons. Whilst it's nice to know SD feels bad about it, I don't really want to hear something which means as much to me as a naughty child saying it for the sake of it.

Does anyone else expect to see them or want to hear it?

It could be me being grumpy I suppose, though words mean little in football and it's what you do on the pitch that ultimately matters. So we lost 1-5 or 1-6 depending where you look (even the official highlights have it as 1-6) LOL

Only time I would want to hear 'sorry' is if a player seriously let us down, you calling the fans - walking off the pitch etc. It's not like they stopped playing but they just didn't respond to Walsall's goals.

Thoughts?

I should apologise for not letting everyone know in the last round but this next round is taking place this Tuesday 26th January. It is a full programme of Football League fixtures, and there is a round for every full programme. We were meant to play Gillingham on Tuesday but it was moved forward to a Saturday before Christmas as we were both out of the FA Cup.

This Tuesday's fixtures:
AFC Bournemouth v Huddersfield Town

Millwall v Sheffield Wednesday

Bradford City v Preston North End

Colchester United v Shrewsbury Town

Torquay United v Burton Albion

York City v Chesterfield

Premiership;

Liverpool vs Everton

Championship;

Birmingham vs Leicester
Derby vs Yeovil (@super_ram will want the away result correcting or an apology from the club)
Leeds vs Ipswich
Reading vs Blackpool (Life after Ince)

League One;

Two games postponed - Port Vale vs Crawley and Stevenage vs Crewe

Leyton Orient vs Coventry
Colchester vs Shrewsbury
Walsall vs Swindon
Brentford vs Bristol City

League Two;

Three games postponed - Mansfield vs Bury, Newport vs Plymouth and Northampton vs Rochdale

Torquay vs Burton
York vs Chesterfield

I'm surprised so many games have been called off, I'm going to watch the Merseyside derby. It's on BT Sports

I think this has been covered before but does anyone have any particular superstition or ritual that they follow before going to the match or listening to the match.

I would have said I didn't until last Saturday, when I leave the house for the match Mrs. H. usually says "I hope they win" (mainly because she know's if they don't I will be in a foul mood when I get back) but this Saturday she didn't, I got in the car and realised she hadn't said it so I had to go back and tell her to say it in case it brought bad luck.

Not that it did much good, perhaps the reason they lost was because she didn't say it without being prompted.

I hope she says it next time.

What superstitions or rituals do you have?

Notts County can confirm that midfielder David Bell has left the club by mutual consent.

Read more at http://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/article/david-bell-departs-by-mutual-consent-1313309.aspx#C5X5Tyt5TR5UYaMx.99

Looks like Derry is making the appropriate changes to be able to bring people in (hopefully), or at least steady the finances for Ray