FA Cup 3rd round weekend, but there are quite a few league 2 fixtures - so 3 FA Cup fixtures & 3 League 2 fixtures.

This Saturday's fixtures:

Barnsley v Coventry City

Stoke City v Leicester City

Yeovil Town v Leyton Orient

Exeter City v Mansfield Town

Portsmouth v Accrington Stanley

Wycombe Wanderers v AFC Wimbledon

Joss Labadie has rejoined Torquay United on a month's loan.

He went to TQ1 towards the end of last season, scoring four goals and helping the Gulls retain their League status.

Labadie will go straight into their squad for tomorrow’s game against Morecambe at Plainmoor.

What do you guys reckon to this development? Can we really afford to be losing a first-team member for a month? Is it part of a larger malaise?

Thoughts please!

"Manny Smith backed to take latest chance at Notts County"

I personally would give him the chance - Sheehan is great at CB and LB, I'd like to give Leacock a rest myself once Sheehan can return to CB. Manny's seemed a little slow getting into games but reliable in my opinion.

Your thoughts?

Hi @Bob Wilson Anchorman, interesting username! Welcome to Pride of Nottingham.

Can I ask where the reference for your chosen username comes from? I feel I should know but don't. Hope you enjoy the site, I will look forward to sharing thoughts and banter.

Welcome @#Luke to Pride of Nottingham, nice to see you take the leap onto our community. I hope you like the site and join in, it will be fun to see your thoughts on all things NCFC and PoN related. Enjoy!

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This reminds me something (avoid my rant below, I warned you)

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Just before Christmas I went to see some loved one's at Wilford Crematorium, after myself and my young family went walking towards Asda. Two cars must have crashed into each other, nothing serious but enough to warrant two big police cars (land rover type) and about 6 officers, the majority of which weren't doing anything at all.

Well, as you can imagine there was a big queue and one officer was allowing traffic from one direction, then other.

A motorbike speeding, stopped on the border of each road's side and then started weaving in/out. Until what I suspect was him fearing being seen, by the end he had barged his way right to the front. Narrowly avoiding crashing into a car and blocking the left turn from oncoming traffic. It's by this point I commented what I thought of the biker, followed by a brief rant to poor @cheeky~k8. To my surprise the officer allowed traffic to come from the other direction, even more to my surprise was the response of the biker. He must of grown impatient because he just starting riding in the direction of the incoming traffic - The cop signalling sort of became scared and started waving (like he had some sort of magic power).

The biker narrowly missed this other officer and his car (parked dead opposite the collision). It's by this point I thought that one of the 4 standing around officers would somehow respond. Oh no, no... It appeared they did nothing!

The community is growing so fast I almost missed you.Welcome to PoN @Sid.I hope you join in posting and enjoy your time with us.

We might be left in a difficult situation come the next few weeks. Mac and Grealish return to parent clubs, leaving holes along side the holes already there.

Possibility of a bid coming in due to his exceptional form do you think?

Sell or keep - you decide!

Notts County are braced for a battle over Callum McGregor and Jack Grealish.

The Magpies are eager to keep the two youngsters until the end of the season.

But they are almost certain to face competition from bigger clubs when their current loan deals at Meadow Lane end next month.

McGregor has been a big hit since joining Notts on loan from Celtic and is their leading scorer with eight goals, while Grealish has also shone in League One on loan from Aston Villa.

Magpies' boss Shaun Derry says he is encouraged by talks with Celtic boss Neil Lennon and Villa manager Paul Lambert about extending their loans until May.

But he is also making contingency plans just in case they end up leaving.

"I feel that Jack has really produced in the last two games and we all know where this club would be without McGregor," said Derry. "I'm having conversations all the time with their managers so you're hopeful.

"But you always understand that if they do produce unbelievable performances then the bigger clubs are going to come knocking.

"You have to make plans for that eventuality if that was to happen and that's what I'm doing."

McGregor and Grealish have both told Derry they are enjoying life at Notts, despite them being bottom of the table.

And he hopes that counts for a lot when their next moves are decided.

"They are on loan to get game time and we're giving them that and they're producing performances," said Derry.

"I've had chats with them and they're enjoying their football and if you are doing that you want to stay where you are. I'm hopeful that's the case with the guys.

"I'm sure they'll have a say on their future and you'd hope the clubs wouldn't push them to somewhere they don't want to be."

"I'm hopeful that come the end of the loan their managers will say 'did you enjoy it, would you like to go back to Notts County?' And I'm hopeful they will both say yes."

Credit to Nottingham Post website.

This must be a done deal, we have the advantage of already having them so we could tie this up. We need to convince the parent clubs that we're helping them develop as players and giving time - I am convinced if we sell the positives and get the players to add their two cents, we will see this play out until end of the season with us.

Only problem I see is if we leave it too late and attempt to tie things up similar to as we did with Montano...

We allowed him to go back thinking we could re-sign him if we required him, when that came in... We battled against other sides and lost out, only to bring him back and the spark he had was lost.

Thoughts?

We are having Christmas this weekend with our eldest grandchildren. One present we bought them is Mousetrap but when we opened it there were no instructions even though it is brand new.

I wondered if anyone else had it for their kids and could scan the instructions for me, I've searched on line but can only find instructions for the old version of the game but ours is the newer version.

If anyone can help you would make to disappointed kids very happy.

Aged 71 of heart attack. Great footballer of his time.

Link  http://www.london24.com/sport/crystal-palace/crystal_palace_target_refuses_to_play_for_wolves_1_3175091

What does everyone think to this if true?  Didn't he once have a long term injury and Wolves stood by him?  Has this ever happened before, when a player linked with another club outright refused to play, or said they 'didn't want to play', before a proposed move?  I think it's outrageous.  Basically, he's refusing to work for the company that pays his wages.

Stupid too, especially with it being a televised game, where it's likely to be highly publicised.

Of course, it could simply be that he was asked whether he'd prefer not to play, and he answered honestly, 'yes'...and the media have souped it up, but even that is unacceptable in my eyes.

My daughter in law took grandson George to watch Jack and the bean stalk just before Christmas and there was a scene where Jack had to get some pies out of the fridge but couldn't find them so he said being The Pies they must be on the bottom (an obvious reference to Notts), my daughter in law immediately shouted "You Pies" at the top of her voice thinking there might be some Notts fans in the audience who would do the same. Unfortunately much to her embarrassment all she got were some strange looks from the people around her who obviously didn't get the joke.

Needless to say she sat down a bit sheepish and felt a bit of a fool but full marks to her for trying.

Welcome @piefrom69, I hope you like what you see here and find it enjoyable when you visit. It does take some getting used to but with features like the 'New Content' button you settle in and around the site in no time.

Why not tell us a little about yourself? I take it you've been following Notts since 1969?

Nice username! COYP!

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Just playing with my new go-pro type camera

Make sure you play it in HD 

Linked to Reds again: West Brom's Graham Dorrans, shown here in Premier League action against Manchester City's James Milner.

During 2013 The Rams scored 76 goals in 44 league games. That's an average of 1.73 goals per match!!!

i was talking to a friend a moment ago, they told me about something that happened in uniteds game against spurs. it got me thinking of funny things i have seen notts, share one of yours.

a funny moment of the top of my head was a time ck went to kick the ball and slipped, he didnt really fall or anything but just the way he reacted to failing to control the ball. he seemed very awkward and our fans chanted to him about it which made it all the more funny. he did really move around the dugout after that

Which team would you support If there was no Notts County( or whichever team you support.) I guess Sadlad would choose Man U, judging by his posts and I think you can all guess who my team would be.What about the rest of you?

Should Mansfield sack Paul Cox?

I personally wouldn't, I think he needs more time but I am blind to the politics around the club. @Dan's mentioned this a couple of times on FB, though I think he's done well to get Mansfield back into the league and having fans/a dumb chairman who talks about Championship football before the clubs barely walking - It don't help!

Ideas start floating a way.. Bonus poll - They need a striker, we need the wages.

Seems I got chucked out of Notts MAD as well… not sure why, but hey ho… that site seemed to streak to the bottom even faster than our team.  So here we are!  I see a few familiar user names around.

For those that I don't know, my name's Andy - I hail from Toronto, Canada.  Been a Notts supporter since Munto - you could say they inadvertently turned me into a fan.  One little secret though, and please don't tell anybody - but I have yet to see an actual game live.  Hope to make the pilgrimage next season if we're doing better.

Cheers!

Who's the worst ref to oversee a Notts game this season?

Surely a case of Williamson (Walsall - Away) vs Breakspear (Bristol City - Home). I'm torn between the two!!!

We're now two games into the 5 games I wrote about - View of our upcoming games. This is one I have low expectations and I think even lower after our performance against Crawley, It's important we use the home advantage and at least try. Bradford aren't doing as well at the moment, however they've got a talented bunch of lads.

Well's will no doubt be one of their dangermen - He's the type of forward I think many of our fans wished we had. Yet, they don't lack creativity and their midfield is perhaps the strongest aspects of their team.

Notts will need to keep the ball down, play patiently but more direct. I don't want to watch us create space, just to spread the ball out wide and waste it. I hope we go through the centre and aim to control the tempo, we need to run at them and use overlapping techniques to gain the extra advantage but of course the home crowd will be our biggest weapon.

I'm sure Shaun knows exactly how to stop Bradford from playing, I have every faith that he can rekindle the fight. We can't afford 3 defeats in a row, I'm concerned a lack of performance will show us the players think we're down already. We need that fighting spirit, that 'never say never' attitude.

Thoughts?

Where's all this money come from for PSG? I read earlier that a certain Swedish player wants Messi to sign for them, I about fell out of my chair with laughter. I can't see him leaving Barcelona!

However, being slightly bored today. I decided to look around to see if any games was being played, I noticed PSG vs Real Madrid.

Pretty good game, certainly end to end but PSG are extremely wasteful. Going forward they play some great creative football, although woeful finishing and awareness as prevented them. Real Madrid haven't looked like 'world class' but they have made their chances count, despite missing some sitters and hitting the post/cross bar.

Did anyone else what the game?