Hi Andy,

Welcome to Pride of Nottingham! I'm very glad to see you've joined. I thought another Andy B might have rejoined for a moment but of course I was wrong. We've only been going since last December, so things tend to be quite slow but none the less it's great to see another member.

Really hope you enjoy visiting and contributing here.

Thanks

Just noticed we have another new members. Welcome to our community @jackncfc. Hope to see you around on here mate Look out for the prediction league starting the same weekend as the new season

The last of the friendlies!

After this Ladies and Gentleman the season starts and it all becomes important. We can finally reflect on the football we've seen and hopefully we can share the positives, as I have seen many myself. This game we will no doubt see Chris stick to a side he would have as his first 11.

So most likely less changes during the game or at least, we won't see any until the 70 minute.

Ipswich will be a good test, although I don't not rate them. I really hope we can go into the season having beat them, yes friendlies don't mean much but it can be an added boost. One which might tell our boys to go into Sheffield knowing they can win, which we can. We have to believe we can do this! Isn't this exiting?

I can remember Joe posting a on the PON facebook page a while back asking people if they had any favourite football chants and as I remember it got a fairly good response. Thought I'd ask on here, are there any particular club songs that people like or just chants in general? Dont have to be County related. There are a lot of songs I like.

I especially like a lot of the Glasgow Rangers chants. I think they're some of the best fans in the UK when it comes to atmosphere. Thankfully they seem to have eradicated most of the secterian songs.

I like this chant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3S7wBlp41A

Their pre-match song Penny Arcade is good too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-rDZqFNPIQ

Think my favourite club song is Hibernian's Sunshine On Leith, its beutiful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YXmLE9K-S4

And Sheffield United's Greasy Chip Butty song is great, got to be one of the most creative songs about lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA14bKuuSms

Cant not mention Liverpool's Fields of Anfield Road either:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_BGkFYHG5Y

What do other people like then

A truly magnificent effort during the past week from all friends of Jimmy & Jack.

There are now only 60 plinth names left.

Thanks to all

http://www.jimmyandjackstatuefund.co.uk

Well Done to the lad for earning this!
 

 

Notts County Football Club is delighted to announce that highly-rated goalkeeper Fabian Spiess has agreed a new long-term deal.

It’s a big club and I’ve been here a few years now and I’ve loved every minute of it."

Fabian Spiess, Goalkeeper

Spiess, 19, graduated from the Academy in 2012 and went on to make a big impression during his first professional season.

 

Full Article Here!

47 Years ago tonight I was enjoying the first night of a weeks holiday in Blackpool with 4 of my mates and by this time of night was slightly inebriated along with the majority of fellow holidaymakers.Nothing unusual there,except we all had one very good reason to be celebrating.Yes,England had  just won the world cup .I don't think there are many members old enough to have shared the experience(Tony will struggle with his memory )but just in case there are-What do you remember?

I see Matt Green has signed for Birmingham, that's not a bad move for him, from non league to championship. It will be interesting to see how he fares.

I tend to listen to Absolute Radio rather a lot, I recently heard a song I hadn't for a long time. My father used to enjoy listening to R.E.M, as a child he pretty much drove me crazy with it. I grew up to appreciate his taste of music, especially since it got drummed into us all. Now, I know he will say 'I had to listen to yours', though I tended to use 'headphones'.

Cheeky will back me up on this, I tend to sing it. LOL

This brings back some fond memories
[center]http://youtu.be/Qx9br5ISRpo

After I clicked on this out of interest, we all know how "Youtube" like to keep people playing videos.
[center]http://youtu.be/VYJIaZ19aDY

It appears Krystian Pearce has signed for Torquay.

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/story-19583704-detail/story.html#axzz2aTd1KHLz?4073310729&redirected=true

I had great hopes for Krystian it is a great shame that things haven't worked out for him but I hope he manages to resurrect his career at tbe Gulls.

I was really pleased that so many people said they'd be happy to take part when I first posted the idea of a prediction league a while back. Everyone's starting to get into the football mood now and there are a lot of pre-season friendlies taking place up and down the country tommorow. So I thought I'd have a little trial of the prediction league, our own pre-season friendly if you like.

I will post SIX fixtures which are all taking place tommorow. All's you have to do is post your predictions for the results on this thread.

Scoring system example:

My prediction for a game: Notts County 2-1 Rotherham United

Correct score (game finishes 2-1 to Notts) - 3 points

Correct result (Notts win, but not by a score of 2-1) - 1 point

incorrect result (Notts draw or lose) - 0 points

Hopefully I've made it clear enough. So here are the six selected fixtures for tommorows prediction league trial:

Alfreton Town v Burton Albion

Bohemians v Derby County

Bournemouth v West Ham United

Doncaster Rovers v Motherwell

Mansfield Town v Nottingham Forest

Nuneaton Town v Coventry City

All games kick off at 3pm, All predictions for those taking part must be submitted by 2:30pm

Please do get involved, weather you are a regular poster or a floating visitor. The more people we get taking part, the more fun it will be!

http://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/article/fotheringham-earns-magpies-contract-938392.aspx

This is a good signing. I was very impressed with him against Galatasaray.

Weymouth played a pre-season firendly away to Exmouth Town tonight.

When the teams were put up on the clubs facebook page, they were posted with this photograph from the ground, and you just have to laugh..

Only at non-league level eh? Needless to say, there were plenty of comments saying "whats *insert player name* doing there?"

I met a young lad at Rayo, he came and sat next to me and he seemed very shy so I started talking to him. I noticed he was holding his autograph book, it reminded me of myself when I was younger. I asked him who's signatures he was after and said that I would call them across if I can. He smiled and said that would be great!

I actually helped him and before I knew it he was helping me, he seemed to grow in confidence.

Today I spoke to him and we had a laugh, he took on the kindness I shown him and helped several young magpies around us to get their own signatures. It was great seeing a young fan wanting to help others like this, so I asked if I could take a photo of him with his shirt and said I would upload it to PoN's wall if that was okay with him and his dad. He told me it was fine and so I did this but he didn't stop caring about helping others, I though it was refreshing and the type of young support our clubs needs.

The Media Team have made me even happier, although I hope they can try to track him down. I asked them on twitter "This lad is a credit to the club and it's great to *see* a fan happy. Make his day and try to contact him." - following with "'I'm sure you could feature him in the mag and help him meet liddle. He helped many young shy fans today, great lad." and they've responded by saying "Would happy to if you want to our pass our details on.".

This is why I love Notts County because the genuine people you meet are very inspiring and humble, I hope they can find him and fair play to the Media Team and Club. I'm sure @super_ram will agree, this lad deserves it.

I said I would never do this but today I have subscribed to Sky Sports.

We have BT for our phone, Broadband and TV, so I noticed on BT Vision you can order Sky Sports for a month, no yearly subscription, just pay for a month then cancel. So I bit the bullet (much as I hate give money to Rupert Murdoch) and ordered it for a month so I can watch Sheff Utd v Notts. next Friday. Yes I know I should go but I'm not really keen on travelling away especially for a night match.

Anyway it was £15 for the month and I reckon that is a lot cheaper than travelling to Sheffield buying a ticket and paying for diesel for the car. The other option was to go to a pub somewhere but again I don't really fancy that I can never concentrate on the match and the sound is invariably turned down or it is so noisy you can't hear the commentary. This way I can enjoy the match with a few glasses of homebrew and a curry in the comfort of my own armchair.

So that's it I have confessed, apologies to my former print union colleagues, I feel I have let you down but I will cancel after a month honest and I will NEVER EVER buy the Sun.

I have had two notifications today that I was mentioned I'm someone's tweet, one was a tweet by PoN. When I looked at the tweets it was a list of names with #FF in front. What does it mean? Do I have to reply or anything. Please help.

Yours concerned of Nottingham (twitter Dinosaur)

I see Preston have given Kevin Davies a two year contract at 36 years old.

I think he could be very useful in this league but is a two year contract a bit much? Would you have signed him for Notts?

Just for a bit of a laugh me and my Mum have been having a look at famous people who share birthdays with family members:

I share mine with a certain Pele and Martin Luther King. Incidently if I had been born two days earlier I would have shared mine with Paul Ince! Lucky escape lol

My mum shares hers with Tim Berners Lee (creator of the WWW) among others; my Dad with Chris Gayle (captain of the West Indian Cricket team) and Liam Gallagher; my Grandad with Prince Phillip and Carlo Ancelotti; my best friend with Elton John; it goes on and on.

Then we looked at my uncle Darran, and I wouldnt call the first name that popped up famous. More infamous. My uncle shares his birthday, with Benito Mussolini

Actually a right good laugh looking up this sort of stuff. Anybody on here share their birthdays with anyone famous?

Apparently we had 60 people on line on July 15th, wish some of them had put a few posts on.

I somehow injured my back at the weekend putting on my socks would you believe? An excruciating pain shot up my leg into my back, Mrs. Hateley thought I was having a heart attack.

I have been taking pain killers since then and have hardly moved from the sofa, it's starting to get me down now, how ridiculous one minute I'm as fit as a fiddle the next I'm laid on my back unable to move. I think its just a matter of resting up until it decides I've had enough torture and gets better, I'm sure if I went to the docs he would say I was doing the right thing, pain killers and rest.

The most disappointing thing is I won't be able to go to the game tonight, even if I managed to get in the car to drive there I wouldn't be able to sit in one position for 90 minutes. So cheer the lads on for me, I'll try and keep up with the score somehow, is is on magpieplayer?

So any hopes of making it out of the Europa League stage has now been dashed, although an impressive performance by the lads against Galatasaray means we have a share of optimism ahead for the new season. I hope to see scenes like against them, fans cheering and singing the lads on and of course the clapping. Very encouraging!

Rayo aren't a side to be dismissed easily, although some might not be fimilar with some of their squad players. They do have a couple of power-houses who can punish us from long range or close.

Not really bothered about the outcome, not for this one. I hope they have some traveling fans tho!

Think we can win, though a good performance would be the icing on the cake.

I've seen things like this before, although never this good. Quality deserves to be shown and shared - So I decided to share this on facebook. I'll sharing on Twitter briefly.

hahah @super_ram

The following extracts are from reports submitted by australian pilots to the aircraft ground crew following each trip to alert ground crew to possible problems. entries marked P are from the pilot and entries marked S are from the ground crew.

P: Left inside main tyre almost needs replacement.

S: Left inside main tyre almost replaced.

P: Test flight OK, auto-land very rough.

S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.

P: Something loose in cockpit.

S: Something tightened in cockpit.

P: Dead bugs on windshield.

S: Live bugs on back order.

P: Auto pilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent.

S: Can't reproduce problem on the ground.

P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.

S: Evidence removed.

P: DME volume unbelievably loud.

S: DME volume set to more believable level.

P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.

S: That's what friction locks are for.

P: IFF inoperative in OFF mode.

S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.

P: Suspect crack in windshield.

S: Suspect you're right.

P: Number 3 engine missing.

S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.

P: Aircraft handles funny.

S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right and be serious.

P: Target radar hums.

S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.

P: Mouse in cockpit.

S: Cat installed in cockpit.

P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.

S: Took hammer away from midget.

Notts have signed David Bell today, he's a creative midfielder who started off in the lower leagues to end up playing much higher. I know a little about from his time with the Foxes and Coventry, hope we judge him on the pitch though.
 

 

Notts County Football Club is delighted to announce the recruitment of creative wideman David Bell.

This follows the mutual termination of his contract with former club Coventry City, where the midfielder has spent the past three-and-a-half years, after signing for an undisclosed fee from Norwich City. 

 

During that time, Bell made 98 appearances in a Sky Blues jersey and scored six goals, including a halfway line strike against Doncaster Rovers that won the 2008.09 Goal of the Season. 

 

The 29-year-old incidentally played his last game for Coventry against Notts in an entertaining 2-2 draw at Meadow Lane on the final day of the 2012.13 campaign. 

 

On that day, Bell was a constant threat to the Magpies’ backline and hit the post with an effort in front of the Family Stand. 

This probably won't interest anyone other than @super_ram http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-23225105

It will be great to have a pint of good old Shippo's, it was a bit like marmite you either love it or hate it. For my part I loved it but it had to be kept right by a good landlord otherwise it was rank.

Anyone else remember Shippo's it was brewed at Basford and bit the dust in the 70's I think.

Welcome back old friend.