It was great to see Jim O’Brien back. Though I miss him as a player, he is starting to look more like a manager now. I know, it’s normal.

I hope we see him back in the future with his job at Sheffield United. It would be good to see our youngsters take on his team. They are probably leaps above our level, but it would be good to see.

Pleased to see Jim and his boy back. He got a good reception, and it was a nice surprise. I didn’t know anything about it. I don’t know if Notts had announced it before.

I like him, he's determined and doesn't press for the ball. You can see it wants it and at times, I did feel he was being overlooked for what would have been an easier pass, but I don't think that was intentional. He does everything so superbly, especially getting stuck in with challenges. Defensively, he's very quick to pick up the ball. Curtis Edwards seemed impressed by how he linked in with the player. I noticed them shake hands after Edwards had released the ball to McGoldrick before being fouled.

@Piethagoram How about we just send Adam Chicksen back when the loan is over, having had both players change their names legally. George Abbott would make an absolutely fantastic permanent addition to our team.

I wouldn't compare him to Ryan Yates, but his importance to our team could be similar. His ability to go for the ball and get stuck in was key to stopping Accrington.

He looks like a strong loan signing, doesn’t he? George Abbott should become a lot more confident with more time to settle and plenty more minutes. I think it will be interesting to see how Scott Robertson fits in because Abbott would make my starting team ahead of Robertson currently. I know Robertson is out at the moment, but even when fit, I would choose Abbott.

so pleased to read about jodi jones being named for another award, its great for him and notts! fingers crossed he can claim another award. ????

Jodi Jones has been exceptional so far this season. It’s a well-deserved nomination. Good luck to him!

I am pleased for Jodi Jones. He works hard and always gives everything on the pitch. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but nobody at Notts can fault his effort.

On 07/09/2024 at 14:15, menzinho said:

A bit from Stuart Maynard addressing the controversy.

Notts County head coach Stuart Maynard defends Jevani Brown signing

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Notts County boss Stuart Maynard says Jevani Brown "is trying to become a better person" after admitting to assaulting a woman last year.

He explains the club's reasons for signing him, it's slightly more reassuring. I hope the statement about him getting help was genuine and not just a token gesture.

I think that comment might relate to him getting help with an alcohol problem. He's not the only Notts player to have had problems there. Hope he moves on and does well with us - if there are any issues, back he goes.

I mean, it doesn’t look good as to what happened. I won’t judge him for it. I think everyone can make a mistake, and I hope that’s what it is. I thought he looked good. His wiki page isn’t the most glamorous, but I guess it depends on where he has played mostly.

I hope the loan turns out to be useful. It’s hard to see where he’ll get regular game time, as cover is what Notts needed most. I hope he’s ready to fight for the team and his career, rather than wasting the opportunity.

I think it's important to tell the fans that the club tried their best to sign new players. We were able to keep two of our most important players. I don't think the rumours about them being unhappy are true. Maybe they are injured, or maybe the manager decided not to play them against Accrington.

As routine statements go, I am not sure it was needed, but I do acknowledge that being clear and insightful is a very good aspect of the club. The worry of losing players should mostly settle until the new year. We just have to see what happens.

I think the club did well to reassure fans and keep them informed. I don’t think many clubs do that, and I hope Notts continues.

@Blake Northampton are a very good side at this level. They will probably be top four at season's end, however the score flattered them a little. 

Two of the goals were immediately after Notts substitutions & Notts had a few good chances to score themselves.

Notts are competing on a level playing field with approx six to seven sides. Those are the sides they need to beat & they've  already won two.

I am sure we will continue to see improvements, it's against the bigger teams where eventually we should see further signs of the squad becoming better. It takes time; nothing is lost if you don't push for better things.

There's no shame in losing the game, pleased for Pies' to get two goals.

i wish the womens pies all the best with their season, losing here and there is just football. i hope they can in time bridge the gap and eventually beat these teams they are currently finding hard. 

why do i get the feeling he hung on to see if a league club would show interest? i dont think it would show all that much commitment. i thought his heads was in the clouds and he never shown any of the promise that came with signing him. will randall should have been much better.

He should do well with them, sometimes there are good players who only excel with smaller clubs or teams with lesser talent in them. It can help lift performances of the likes of Will Randall, when they have the focus and if they don't get it at clubs it can lead to a less focused showing. I mean this with no disrespect, but I believe he's one of those types who like to carry a team and be the main focus.

I do find it a bit funny that it's taken him so long to find a club, I wondered if he would return to Sutton United.

Very average player for Notts, one who looked to have the quality but not the interest to perform well enough to be starting or getting minutes on the pitch. Which, it's a real shame as we offered a platform to head in the right direction with his career.

I think Ebbesfleet is giving this player a chance to prove himself. His time here showed that he wasn't good enough for our team.

On a serious note, I'm still waiting patiently for the Man City 115 charges to be resolved. I think all football would like to see this saga come to an end as quickly as possible, & a fair result found, for the sake of football in this Country.

I wish they had included a dig at Forest, the West Ham reference was very funny! The whole skit was, but how can you not poke fun at them? They also overlooked mocking Spurs. 

that is funny, was that the real ed sheehan or the look a like? paddy power did well. love the comment about telling him not to sing and to put his guitar away.

I would have given it to Jacob Bedeau, take him out of the squad, and we would be quite weaker in defence and pushing forward. Curtis Edwards had a perfect game. I think he is proving that he's not a squad player but someone who is fighting to play as often as possible. David McGoldrick put in a steady performance and was quite involved, but take away his goals, he wasn't involved as much as Bedeau.

i thought curtis edwards class throughout the game, he would have been my choice.

It's a shame when a signing doesn't work out, but it happens to the best of clubs. Hopefully Notts can learn from the mistake of signing players like this but good luck to him in the future. 

I remember the sending off and thinking it was very softly given, but aside from that, nothing. He doesn’t appear to have done much since.

If he had left Harrogate, I would have been surprised as at 33 he needs to be fighting to remain as their first choice keeper.

I think Forest Green Rovers will have regrets about letting him go.

Fingers crossed he can see out his career in League Two.

I've seen footage of the opening, and it's strange to think that Juventus invited Notts County out of all the teams that could have opened their ground. I think from the footage, they might have been easy on us. It's a great part of our club's history!

It was a great game and day for Notts County. I don't want to repeat myself as I have said this a few times, but I watched the game whilst away with my family. The opening ceremony was amazing!

I have always been very proud of the connection and friendship forged with @Italian Magpies.

Talk about a storm in a tea cup. This one has been whipped up by people who are obsessed about "free speech" when it comes to using racist language - but when Lee Carsley exercises his own freedom not to sing a song, the sky is suddenly falling down. Good on him for sticking to his guns and annoying all the right people.

It feels as though it's the same as those fans using Stuart Maynard's previous full-time position as a BT Technician against him.

Lee Carsley is entitled to sing if he wants, or not.

People really need to stop jumping on things because when the same lot complains the world has gone mad, political correctness this and that - well they're part of the problem. The only thing I care about is signs we are good enough, along with results.

I really don’t care. I find that a lot of people who get upset by things like this aren’t very royal-minded. They’re just people who complain about anything and everything.

Never worked out for him at Notts.

Hope he has more luck and game time at Solihull Moors.

It was a wasteful signing, one I think Luke Williams wasn't committed to trying. I think Williams preferred more senior players in defence, as Lewis Macari wasn't always given a fair chance, which is fair enough it's a different style, but the loan move just proved to be pointless for us and Ollie Tipton.

I wish him all the best with kick-starting his career, I hope Solihull Moors proves to be a good fit for him.

What on earth has he done to his hair? It’s a mix of Messi and some Spanish player I can’t quite name.

Honestly, I thought this was a more American thing.

At least until I reached year 10, when my PE teacher Mr Wilson pulled out these very old ropes and showed us how to climb them. I had no issue with doing that; coming down is what I feared. If you weren't careful, not only would you get rope burns from holding tightly, but have them on the way down. I'm not a fan of heights, but I move very slowly and akwardly coming down from the top. One of my friends, just refused and I wished I had.

Mind Mr Wilson, it was the same person that told me to get up when I suffered a dislocation to my right knee. That wasn't a pretty sight!

Luckily not! Otherwise I'd probably be dead.

The main memory from my PE lessons in the 90s were the cross country runs. We just walked for most of it, but broke into a jog when the teachers turned up in their cars to check on us. It also involved negotiating a farmer's field with bulls in it - I ran that bit!

I’d rather do this than any kind of running. It’s tough being made to run around a field with no purpose. In some sports, you have to, which I don’t mind.

I nearly died when I noticed this. I was worried you might give credit to an outfield player!!! Michael Kelly, aka Aiden Stone's brother, does deserve to be mentioned! I thought he was outstanding, saving Accrington Stanley from a very embarrassing outcome.

Nelson Khumbeni, I think is the god awful player that could have hit the target in the first half for Accrington but seemed to shoot away from goal and more towards where I sat. He seemed to blame his boot, though it was like he saw the ball move much slower than what it did because the connection on the effort wasn't very good. I thought he did some decent running, but I wasn't impressed with any of their outfield players.

That's the end of competition for Paralympics 24. Just the closing ceremony to come.

Team GB surpass their Tokyo Gold & Medal tally 

Final Medal Table 

Good morning, I woke up too late to go to the Park Run but it’s matchday, I’ll be there with grandaughter Chloe, I’m hoping for an entertaining match and obviously a Notts win.

I’ll set the England match to record then watch it when I get home.

I hope everyone has a great day.

A great ending to a dreary day with a win for Notts.

Morning all it’s nice weather for ducks. 

I woke up this morning trying to remember why I felt happy then I remembered we won again yesterday, isn’t it a nice feeling?

Today as it’s wet we are going to get in the loft and try to sort some stuff out to either send to the charity shop or the tip, I won’t be doing any heavy lifting though as my arm is too painful.

At least with us having bungalow with a bedroom in the loft the storage part is easy to get to, it’s just a door from the bedroom, so we don’t have to pull down a ladder or anything which is a bonus as we get older.

I used to believe wearing away shirts at home was unlucky, but then I found myself buying more of them and this eventually faded. I used to have a home shirt I believed was lucky, as I didn't watch Notts lose wearing it, but it stopped fitting me years ago. It was a medium, there's no chance that would now. ???? I did think about trying during the season where we were relegated, but I just opt towards bringing Ava (@CutiePie) with me.

Every game she has attended we have won, including all four games she made during the same season I mentioned before.

Jake didn't believe me, though even he ended up trying to convince Ava to come to more games when surprisingly for him, we won. Tranmere, Mansfield, and Grimsby are 3 of the 4 she made. Considering how we did that season, they proved to be big wins.

That was the last season Ava actually went to see Notts, getting her back these days isn't remotely doable.

I don't have any rituals as such now. I can remember back in the days when the Jimmy Sirrel stand was open to us and it was a case of pick your seat cos of how unpopulated it was, I never used to sit in an odd number seat except for number 27 which I would actively seek out (cos that's my birthday day). And if we we're losing in games I would also switch seats to a higher number because that was obviously going to make a massive difference to the on field result! I was only about 8 or 9 so it made perfect sense to me!

I have to be picky, the video quality is awful and reminds me of when I used my Nokia 5310 Xpress Red phone. It's very whitewashed, which takes the enjoyment away from actually seeing it. There are cheap drones on the market that can capture better footage.  

I think that the view of all three grounds from the air is so iconic.

Those three grounds & the clubs that play there all have something in common, both football clubs at one point in their history played their matches at Trent bridge.

Both Football teams in the past had players that played cricket at Trent Bridge too, 

There are family connections that unite all three Clubs.It's not just that the three grounds are close. The close connection goes much further than that.

It’s amazing how close the three grounds are together when you see them from the air, we are very lucky here to have such iconic, historic sports grounds in our city.

I must say if the series is a true reflection of his early life, he must have gone through hell as a schoolboy people are much more accepting now of gays, lesbians etc but back in the 1980s unfortunately people were less so.

I’m not keen on him as a stand up comedian his voice grates but I have a new respect for him knowing what he’s gone through.

@Fan of Big Tone I have been watching it with Kate, it's actually very funny - especially in parts.

Oliver Savell really steals the show, and is a great choice to act as a younger Alan Carr. What makes it more interesting to me, is the balance between his father's relationship and how he coped at a young age for being camp. We're on the second season, having watched the episode where he was sick going into kissing the girl who clearly adored him. The Guess Who part, where Alan explained that it was his only "female crush" and the beret hat was hilarious.

I’m glad you’re enjoying it @Chris we thought it was really good and like you say the young lad is brilliant in it.

It was a good football match. Notts were a bit more patient in building up their play, while Swindon tried to move the ball too quickly. Both teams made poor passes, but that's what League Two is like. What really impressed me was how Notts got back into the game. They played passing football and moved into the right areas. Both of David McGoldrick's goals were well-finished. The game wasn't bad at all. Both teams were fighting for the points and didn't want to settle for a draw.

I wondered if Kevin Keegan had done some sort of event I hadn't heard about, as many of my Facebook friends managed to get their photos taken with him. Impressively, he seemed very friendly and was all smiles.

Now it all makes sense. It was interesting to see him at Meadow Lane.

The memory club is a very good idea.

It's fantastic that the club is recognising Rotherham United for starting the memory club. This shows how football can unite people.

i remember reading about a non league team that used caravans as a way to allow teams to get change. i have tried looking it up but i cant find anything, it was a very low down team.

not the same thing but this is interesting, it shows unsual football grounds.

Unusual football stadiums | FourFourTwo

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Featuring crocodiles, moving pitches and a man in a little boat

Why not? It's quirky and it repurposes an old bus. A lot of non-league clubs have parts of their stands taken from sheds and other building materials. I forget what, @super_ram told me about Alfreton Town's stand(s). It's something along this line, that one of the stands was made up of something re-used nearby.

That bus could take the supporters home afterwards. 

he was mentioned in the opposition view, he did well and looked like one of swindon towns best players. they have been having issues where they have not given players all that long in contracts, most previously would need renewing. thier owner has been making a lot of poor choices.

a fun thing i learned by speaking with some of their fans, they own 50% of the stadium and that means it prevents the owner or club from doing silly things with it.

Yes, when I posted in a banter group on Facebook asking for Swindon Town fans to answer some questions. He was a player mentioned before I had even spoken to anyone, but the fans I did speak with said he was a very good player for them.