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DISCOVERING your favourite snack has been taken off shelves can be genuinely disappointing.This week it was revealed that soft drinkLiltha

Can you add any other items that have been discontinued that you miss or liked?

With a much stronger Notts County Squad this season, would you like to see a long FA Cup run?

Man City or Man U & Co at Meadow Lane in the 3rd Round would be mouthwatering & a money spinner with the large crowd & TV revenue.

After posing a Question about the Great Jimmy Sirrel. 

I've decided to ask one Regarding Notts County's all time Top Scorer Less Bradd.

That being Do you think Les's Record of 125 League Goals, will ever be Beaten?

I know Macca had a Good Go., in the two seasons he was at the Lane. Les of course scored 137 goals in 398 games for the Magpies. Tony Hateley is 2nd on the list with114 goals in 215 games. Jackie Sewell scored 104 goals one more goal than Tommy Lawton's 103 but it took him 193 matches compared to Tommy's 166. Finally rounding off the Top 5 all time Notts scorers Tom Keetley scored an Amazing 98 Goals in 110 matches. That My Fellow PON Members is one Hell of a Strike Rate. ( All Data from Google Search and Wiki Pedia)

It does make you think how many Goals Macca may have scored, if he'd have seen out the New Contract he signed for the Magpies prior to his Move to Millwall. And you never know, he just Might, Might Return to the Lane One Day.

The only one to make it, now at Northampton

PL clubs are always going on about fixture congestion. They always play their 2nd string in early League Cup & FA Cup Matches.They ensured FA Cup replays were discontinued due to what they claimed was fixture congestion.They prioritise the PL & the big PL Clubs concentrate on the European competitions.

But it hasn't stopped them pushing for a new competition, the National League Cup, which is a 32 team midweek competition, comprising 16 under-21 teams participating in Premier League 2, and 16 first teams from clubs participating in the National League.

Some NL clubs have already pulled out. Barnet, Eastleigh, Solihull & Southend have decided not to take up their places, with Dagenham & Redbridge, Wealdstone, Woking and Ebbsfleet taking their place.

I see this as PL clubs just wanting this competition for the sake of their under 21 teams to give their players more game time, & it strikes of hypocrisy.

I'd rather see FA Cup replays reintroduced rather than this new competition that won't make any money for National League sides, & will add another 4 to 7 games on their fixture list.

When I first started watching Notts they had 11 players & 1 sub only in a game. Pitches became very poor & bare during the winter, & the tackles used to fly in too.

Players became injured but not to the extent that we see today. There could be many reasons for this.

The game is faster now, players do more running around, & they are required to employ the high press, which requires more energy which together, puts strain on ankles, knees, muscles & ligaments.

The game is a squad game now where more players are used in a game. Medical monitoring has advanced where injuries can be detected much earlier, whereas in the past players would play on with niggles & injuries undetected.

There are more games played too, compared to the past. The way the game is played has changed to, with teams employing a passing game, rather than a direct style.

Training has become more rigourous, with players required to be much fitter compared to those players in the past., hence players getting injured during training.

So is it a case that players of yesteryear were much tougher than those of today or are the increase in injuries just down to the rigours of the modern game, the way it is played, what is expected of a player now & the improvement in injury detection?

Of Whom am I speaking? Most PON Members will know or have an idea.

Could Notts County's Greatest Ever Manager Jimmy Sirrel  be a Success in the Modern Game?

If he was alive today do you my fellow PON Members, think the Great Jimmy Sirrel would be able to Adopt to the way the Game is Now Played and bring Promotion to the Lane? Or do you think he was a Product of the Era in which he Managed and Modern Football wouldn't be his Cup of Tea?

Kenneth Cope, died yesterday. He was one of the Stars, (Hopkirk) of the quirky TV series Randall & Hopkirk (deceased)

It was a TV drama/ Comedy series of the 60s, a mixture of drama & humour typical of these TV series in the 60s & 70s.

It was one of my favourite shows being in my early teenage years.

Did you have a favourite bygone TV series or maybe a series that's more modern?

Here's a clip from the first episode of Randall & Hopkirk after Hopkirk had become a Ghost.

So we come to the penultimate game of the County Championship Division 1 season.

Notts are periously close to falling into the bottom two. They certainly need a good result here.

Notts will Bat first after Kent won the toss and elected to bowl.

Notts need a good start here.

Notts team below ???? 

Several weeks ago I wrote a Piece about the Magpie, the Bird which now adorns the Club Badge of our Favourite Football Club Notts County. That topic touched on the Famous Rhyme about the Magpie, the Birds habits and it's life in General. In this second part I'm going to delve deeper in the Rhyme.

One for Sorrow the title of the rhyme was originally much shorter and in areas where Magpie numbers were scarcer the Rhyme was said of other birds, such as Crows,( the Bird family which the Magpie is apart of) there were only seven and not 10 ten parts of the Rhyme. In a supplement by written by Samuel Johnson and George Stephens about the plays of William Shakespeare in1778  the  One for Sorrow was even shorter, being One for Sorrow, Two for Mirth, Three for a Wedding, Four for Death.

Interestingly there have been similar  Rhymes such as Once a Wish Twice a Kiss, Threes a letter Four is something better, however this Rhyme was based on how many times a Person Sneezed. The One for Sorrow Rhyme didn't appear in print until the 18th Century. In the 16th and 17th Centuries the Rhyme came more to the fore during the Witch hunts of that Era. This was because the Magpie who is an highly Intelligent Bird and people believed the Magpie was thought to be Witches or their Familiar in Disguise.

The Plumage of the Magpie was also a problem. With the White being for Purity and Holiness, while the Black marking stood for Evil  and the Devil which Corrupted the Good White markings. It as also been stated the Magpie never entered Noah's Ark instead in sat on it's roof laughing at the World as it Drowned. In Scottish Folk Law every Magpie is considered Evil and it was Declared every Magpie carried a Drop of the Devil's Blood under it's Tongue. Finally when the Magpie Rhyme came into print in the 1800's  along with the first 7 parts, 8, 9 and 10 were added. Eight for Heaven, Nine for Hell and Ten for the Devil's Own Self.

Yet another shorter version read One for Anger, Two for Mirth, Three for a Wedding, Four for a Birth, Five for Rich, Six for Poor, Seven for a Witch I can tell you No More. To counter the curse of a Single Magpie (I stated this in my first piece0 Is to Spit on the ground or say Good Morning Mr Magpie how are the wife and kids, thus giving the impression of more than one Magpie and his Bad Luck. The Final way to end a Single Magpie's Bad Luck Curse, is to make the sign of the Cross and say I Cross the Magpie, the Magpie Crosses Me, Bad Luck to the Magpie, Good Luck to Me.

Well there you have it part Two of the Much Maligned Magpie. Still Going To Follow Notts With Their Evil Bird Badge?????

One of the best players that every played for Notts.

He was a leader, he was influential, he was a role model he bossed our midfield, he scored goals. Every Notts side was built around him.

He was loyal. He left for pastures new, but he came back.

He played in all four divisions for Notts. He's an Icon, & a Notts County great.

On this day in 1964 Goldfinger was released.

What is your favourite James Bond Movie?

Who is your favourite James Bond?

Please join me and wish @CliftonMagpie a very happy birthday. 

I hope your recent injury doesn't hamper any celebrations, Come on hop to it everyone,

My stand out #22 Reece Welch, on loan from Everton

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So who's your Notts Man of the match against Bromley today?

Give your short list then your winner.

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Good luck to Junior. Hope he gets plenty of game time.

It's almost time until the proper football resumes again but over the pre-season it’s very easy to sometimes just get wrapped up in perceived negatives after losing a few friendlies and equally it’s easy to get carried away with the excitement of all the new signings.

So what are your biggest reasons to be hopeful about next season and equally what is giving you cause for concern? You can have as many points as you like – but just try to balance every negative point with a positive one too! - No massive lists of just negatives, plenty of that on social media ????‍????

So here are mine to kick us off!

Reasons to be concerned:
1. Losing an amazing goal scorer in Macca
2. An injury hampered pre-season could result in a slow start
3. Our attacking wingbacks may still leave the new defenders with a lot of work to do

Reasons to be hopeful:
1. We’ve added 4 dominate centre backs who should make us better defensively
2. Jatta looking very sharp over pre-season and he’ll be even more settled now
3. Palmer and Robbo as a midfield pairing ????

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