Just watched the highlights this morning and it looked like a bit of stroll in the end. Having watched a bit of the Tamworth game last night it’s easy to see how good teams can get knocked out in a one-off game. So that was very good night's work for us!

Brown has really settled into the team now, he’s taken his chance and has looked very good in his last few appearances. I’ll be interested to see how others thought Ness, Hinchy and Martin did against what seemed to be a physical team. Any signs of improvement/promise?

I’d like another home draw too but I think avoiding any team with a plastic pitch would be a good outcome!

It was a good result for Notts against a plucky Alfreton who's tactics worked in the first half very well.

Stuart changed the Notts shape in the 2nd half & Notts took control of the game.

Jatta is proving to be a fantastic signing for Notts, & he has clearly shown that he is a class player at this level.

I think that the Notts defensive unit did well once again, & I'm particularly pleased with how Martin & particularly Brown are both improving in every game they play.

Those two are going to be important to Notts especially while the injury list is so long. Hopefully, some of those injured players will have recovered for the match against Doncaster.

Sick of getting teams we played in pre-season ????????. We're going to end up getting Duisburg in the 3rd round

It's a winnerable game if we play our strongest side. It should be a good attendance with a few thousand Notts fans going to the match.

I think Notts have a good chance to get through to the 3rd Round.

Peterborough away is one of the toughest ties Notts could have drawn

I was looking forward to the third round...but waiting now for "concentrate on the league"

Back to it.

A third for Sporting.

Update.

Sporting score their 4th & 5th goals.

Notts 0 Sorting Khalsa 5

I’d guess Deliveroo, Just Eat & Uber Eats all operate in the same way. They will all take a percentage of their sale, no idea how much, but I guess in theory it is to cover this. But equally they could still hike the prices and make even more money because not many will double check the prices.

They kind of have to be on these apps now, it’s the new way, not many young people will go onto a restaurant's website anymore. And the concept of picking up the phone to order a takeaway... What is this 2008?! When I get a curry from our local restaurant my partner finds it strange that that I walk down to the restaurant and order it in there… But it means I get to have a nice walk, a little chat and most importantly a beer whilst I wait. So I know who the real winner is!

Good to see we agree on this @Robbie

Clocks go back in the United States this weekend, and they are also having a conversation about abolishing putting the clocks back.

This gets discussed every year but it never happens.

What a throw he has, blimey! It was also good to see Haydn Hollis in there doing his bit to put the goalie and defenders off. 

It’s a really impressive throw and I don't want to be a killjoy, but I'm going to be... Is it just me seeing a foul on the keeper? The striker throws his hand into the keeper’s head? That’s a foul. There's another angle that's missing that shows it more clearly and it's missing from that clip, I guess they are trying to not spoil the feel-good moment everyone wants.

Huddersfield still should’ve been able to come back from it though, they only needed one goal and if you can’t score one against a team two divisions lower than you I guess you don’t really deserve to go through.

A the end of the day the goal was given. I think whether it was given or not doesn't detract from the chaos that a long throw like that can do to defences.

Most defences just don't know how to deal with it because the trajectory of the ball from a throw in is different to a normal cross by kicking the ball. 

So Man Utd have their man. He was the only candidate that they interviewed. 

I wish him luck in his new position. He will definitely need it. Utd will have huge expectations that he can forge success for them.

It is also an eye opener that he hasn't been appointed Team Manager but First Team Coach.

Caretaker Head Coach, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, will now revert back to an assistant Coach.

So the continental style will continue to be practised at Man U. Probably a 3-4-2-1 that Notts also predominantly use.

The big six clubs in the land will all continue to have foreign coaches who they have all preferred in recent years.

There was a possibility that Gareth Southgate could have took the job but he wasn't approached.

Id be relegated if my form this year is anything to go by ????

I've never been so low down in the table.  Need to re find my form too. 

Getting giddy this year, and amazed haven’t scored many zeros yet ????

More on Jimmy and the Cup win.

I can imagine it was quite exciting to see the results slowly reveal themselves one by one after the final whistle. 

But honestly, I wouldn’t want to be the person typing in the scores. I can imagine that back then, it was quite a nightmare to update everything, especially in a live environment.

11 hours ago, TheSkipper said:

But honestly, I wouldn’t want to be the person typing in the scores. I can imagine that back then, it was quite a nightmare to update everything, especially in a live environment.

Imagine typing the wrong result and disappointing  all those fans who thought they’d won 9-1 only to find it was a mistake and they actually lost 0-1. 
 

If I remember right they sometimes did give the wrong score and would type a correction.

I do miss watching the results come in, I remember when @super_ram used to do the Football pools, and he would be listening to the results to see if he had won anything. It's also some of the better parts of games like LMA Manager, where they replicated the teleprinter and scores being announced.

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Under a cloak of secrecy, the court papers claim they arranged for an anti-Marinakis website — nottinghamforestfire.co.uk — to be set up, as well as a social media account, a YouTube channel and two mobile billboards that were driven around Nottingham before home games.

Court documents seen by The Athletic allege that in a series of articles, posts and videos about his ownership of Greek club Olympiacos, Marinakis was accused of being “the leader of a criminal organisation known as ‘The System’, through which he and others engaged in criminal and corrupt practices to gain control over national football in Greece, including fraud, attempted extortion, bribery, intimidation”.

The lawsuit alleges there were also plans to fly a plane over the City Ground, Forest’s stadium, with another anti-Marinakis message aimed at turning fans against him.

I've encountered various accounts regarding his alleged spitting on a match official, which resulted in a stadium ban. Whilst away, I heard Forest fans blindly supporting him and all sorts of things from he had a cough, to he was getting rid of phlegm. It wouldn't surprise me, he seems like that sort of person in my opinion who would overreact and do something stupid in the process. I am not sure if he has any case to stand on though.

I really hope so, that’d be a great boost. ???? 

Not surprised. It was surprising that he was given the captaincy in the first place. 

Hopefully being released from the burden of captaincy will help improve his game 

Losing 2 captaincies in a calendar year!

When I get some free time later, I will watch the video @Fan of Big Tone - as I am not sure I have heard about this story before.

Good luck to the lad! They've made a mistake showing us our shirt without the sponsor on though, where can I get one like that!?

Good luck to the lad. Good move for him. Hope he can make it big as a professional footballer.

Nicky Law...feeling old now!

I feel like a lot of our youngsters over the years have ended up at Alfreton due to how close it is. I'll pick one of them...  Pierce Bird

Nick Fenton played for Notts 13 times in the 1999/2000 season, & played for Alfreton in the 2013/14 season 32 times.

"I've got seven months to prove to these people that I am who I think I am." Ian Holloway 

Head Coaches have input with the type of players that they want & the positions that need filling. Head Coaches & recruiters rightly take the plaudits when things go right, & the players that have been recruited settle well, & play to the standard expected, & the team is performing well as a result.

But alternatively, if things don't go to plan & players either haven't been brought in, or players that should have been let go but were mistakingly retained, or players that were brought in but haven't performed, & as a result the team performs poorly, then it is right that the Head Coach & recruiters should be admonished or possibly lose their jobs, if the team doesn't improve.

Recruitment is the one of the most important parts of football and if you get it badly wrong in the summer, you’re basically fighting against the tide all season.

We made the wrong decision to not strengthen our defence when we went up, was that the head coaches decision or recruitment? Our recruitment this summer has accounted for that now though. We are quite lucky as ever since the Bros came in it’s something that has massively improved, you are never going to get every signing right but we seem to get a lot more good players than bad.

I would not be surprised if Mansfield came back with an offer for Crowley come January. Could Callum play that Dan Crowley role for Notts?

Cal Robert's departure came at the right time for us, and him. Even though I felt gutted that he was leaving, Aberdeen was such a huge step-up for him and the fee we obtained no matter how much would have helped Notts. It's great to see him playing so well, plus scoring.

I still believe he could play EFL football, but with his injuries and being 27-years-old. I think Notts would want to find someone a bit younger, and less likely to suffer setbacks.

We already have a fair few on our books, so it wouldn't be a wise thing in my opinion. Despite this, I would welcome Roberts back in a heartbeat - I just don't believe he fits what we would be seeking now though.

It’s great to see he his doing well again, albeit kind of back where he started before he joined us.

I still think Cal is a good player but where would he play in our team? Wasn’t this the issue we had before we eventually sold him… We don't play wingers and I'm pretty sure we tried him at wingback against Kings Lynn or Altrincham away and it just didn't work.

It was great to see us play in a way that allowed Notts to create good chances. The only real difference was the excellent saves from James Belshaw. I thought we could have scored more, but the performance was what we needed, and the result showed that.

Belshaw was Harrogate's best player, by a mile. I wonder if he'll have any regrets about not getting to ever play for us though as I'm 99% sure he also supports us! At 34 and with Bass looking like he could be our No.1 for a good few seasons now I think the chance might have just passed him.

@menzinhoBelshaw's dad is a Notts season ticket holder. Bass with Belshaw as back up would be ideal. Sorry Sam, your time is up

Oh, this just sounds like something that people in science speculated on as a joke to see if anyone would buy into it. It has that conspiracy theory feeling, just like the idea that the Earth is flat, the Moon is occupied by aliens, and the Earth is hollow.

Ah, the multiverse. It's like a never-ending Marvel movie marathon. And let's be real, who doesn't love a good superhero flick? I mean, you've got Iron Man with his snarky one-liners and fancy suit. Then there's Thor with his flowing locks and hammer that only he can lift (I mean, come on, who doesn't love a good challenge?). And let's not forget about Spider-Man and his web-slinging abilities. But let's be real, the real MVP is Deadpool. I mean, have you seen those movies? Pure gold. Oh, there are so many more superheroes in the Marvel universe. You've got Captain America with his shield and unwavering moral compass. Then there's the Hulk with his incredible strength and anger management issues. And let's not forget about Black Widow with her deadly combat skills and mysterious past. And who could forget about Doctor Strange with his mastery of the mystic arts? The list goes on and on. It's like a never-ending buffet of superhero goodness. Wrong multiverse? Oh no, my friend. There’s only one multiverse and it’s chock-full of Marvel goodness. The real world? Pfft, that’s just a figment of our imagination. A place where we have to pay taxes and wear pants. No thank you. I’ll stick to the multiverse where I can fly and shoot lasers from my eyes. Now that’s living.

A very interesting subject & thread @TheSkipper

I believed that there is just one Universe with no end to it, with countless galaxies that together make up the Universe.

Well that's what I've been taught when I was at school & until reading this article, I have never really gave it much thought.

We saw on programmes like Star Trek that a possibility of a positive & negative universe could exist or even a universe in another dimension that we can see but is all around us.

But going back to the Universe, what would be a Universe to the smallest living organism, the microbe Nanoarchaeum equitans, which is 200 to 500 nanometers (billionth of a metre) in diameter.

So the possibility of a entire space within a space is entirely possible I suppose we can't rule anything out when it comes to science. New things are being discovered all the time.