For the last 50 years I’ve driven a manual car, the other day I tried a brief test drive in an automatic, I found it a bit weird.

My question is have you swopped from manual to automatic? How long did it take to get used to it? Did you regret it?

I’m a bit cautious at spending thousands then finding I didn’t like it, I’m also wondering if Mrs. T would cope as well, she does drive far but she likes to keep her hand in by driving locally.

Congratulations Jodi.

Macca, Dan & Jodi in the League 2 team of the year chosen by the players.

Very sad news.

https://news.sky.com/story/sven-goran-eriksson-former-england-manager-dies-aged-76-13121050

Time to get the crystal balls out again! These games kick off at 3pm on Saturday, and remember your joker!

Middlesbrough v Portsmouth

Sunderland v Burnley

Charlton Athletic v Bolton Wanderers

Lincoln City v Mansfield Town

Cheltenham Town v AFC Wimbledon

Newport County v Accrington Stanley

Rochdale v Forest Green Rovers

Sutton United v York City

As you may be aware, OFGEM are going to raise the Energy Cap by 10% on first of October.

Some good info on this video by Martin Lewis.

"Cup shirts" are yet another scourge of modern football, but perennial Bundesliga strugglers VfL Bochum have managed to take them to a new level.

This summer, Bochum unveiled a special light blue cup shirt with "HG 4630 Bochum" printed on the arm. This was part of a sponsorship with the famous singer Herbert Grönemeyer, who comes from the city. About 4,000 fans ordered the shirts, only to be told they would have to wait until October for delivery.

Last weekend, Bochum played in the first round of the German Cup. As you guessed, they lost. And they weren't even allowed to wear the shirts due to a colour clash...

Lucas looks to be another signing for Notts, where they are looking towards the future.

Director Richard Montague said:- Quote:“Sometimes, in the transfer market, an opportunity presents itself which is too good to pass up, and the board are in agreement that this is one of those instances.

“Lucas is an outstanding young defender who has huge potential to improve over the duration of his contract, so we’re very excited to bring him to Meadow Lane".

China has introduced human like female robots to the World at the Beijing World Robot Conference.

The fact that these Robots can walk unaided looks awesome.

Technology seems to be excelerating at such a pace now.

It could be just a simple gimmick, but it's a very clever one.

is this believable?

@Wheelbarrow repair man

You are absolutely right.

Give a shout-out to these U12s for their success 

Congratulations to our Notts County Women FC Elite Player Pathway U12s.

This is the team they met in the final.

With the sad passing of Sven yesterday, looking through social media, I was reminded that Sven, Big Sam & Howard Wilkinson have all been England Managers.

Three England Managers who all happened to be good Club Managers who, during their careers were also associated with Notts, at different times, over the last forty two years.

Not many league clubs can say that they had three Managers who were also Manager of England.

Over workplace conduct, I wonder what he’s been up to.

Always a quality opponent. 

Sad news for Geraldo Bajrami and Burton Albion. Hope he makes a full recovery as soon as possible.

Nice article & a good read why the team across the road being in the Premier League is good for Notts.

The Notts owners should take lots of credit for taking advantage of it.

So we are in the morning after the evening before. We witnessed a five star performance by Notts, orchestrated by a 10/10 performance by Dan Crowley.

His performance was witnessed by the Sky Sports Cameras too. Dan was trending on twitter. Social media was handing out the plaudits. One wrote that he had never seen such a performance by a player at league 2 level.

Jodi had a great game too, influential as ever, involved in lots of good things last night. Both Dan & Jodi playing at their best at the same time.

There has been much speculation about offers flowing in for both of them in recent weeks. Their performance last night will only add to that speculation.

The question is. Can Notts keep hold of them until the transfer window closes in a week's time? I really do hope so. Notts have to do all they can to keep them. Offer them both new improved contracts is what I would do if I were Montague.

Thoughts?

Notts Women travel to Loughborough to play Loughborough Lightning on Sunday 25th August for their second National League Division 1 Midlands, game of the season.

This will be a tough match for Notts because Loughborough were one of the top teams in the Division last season.

Notts had a good win in their first game of the season against Lincoln United when they won 2:1 at Eastwood.

As I no longer live on our fair isle, I treated myself to an iFollow subscription for 150 quid last season and it was the best money I've spent since the hammock I treated myself to during covid. On top of that, it's money for the club.

This season all I've heard is that Sky is taking over domestic streaming rights, but not the international rights, which are to remain with iFollow. However, there has been no word on whether the service will be continued (or what it will cost); the Football League links to the streaming services of each club, but the link to ours (and most others) only produces a "Page Not Found" message. Of the sites I checked, only Orient and Swindon were offering something (with a price hike of 25% over last season).

Does anybody know anything? If nothing will be offered this season, I'll probably spend it on German third division coverage instead. But I'd rather be watching (and putting money into) Notts...