Super_Danny_Allsopp

Very, very poor. Notts playing their usual way, too slow, no creativity and no cutting edge. Miller, Enzio, Effiong and Wootton all been poor. Not as poor as Reeves however, who has been dire. Solihull the better side. Get Rodrigues on ffs.

Hope the game is on as it could be our last of this season, or at least one of our last games. Chicksen is an odd one, he hasn't even been mentioned recently. Assuming Brindley is out (which is a shame because he was excellent against Torquay), I'd go with the following: Reeves' form has dropped recently and it could be a good moment to give Wolfe a start.

We don't have any natural goal scorers in this team. So many times we are overplaying or missing big chances. I've said it before and I'll say it again: If Knowles is a goal scorer then either use him or send him back and get another one in who will actually play.

I'm quite worried the direction the UK government is going. Now it seems to want to pursue the elimination method. Somebody needs to tell them they probably should've done that a whole year ago....

Covid 1 Torquay 0 Notts 0 Called off on Friday evening or Satruday morning due to suspected Covid case in Torquay's camp. Notts ask all of the other 19 clubs they have postponements with and none can be bothered playing, all of them already wishing for furlough now the government handouts have stopped. NL is suspended on the Sunday.

Hit the nail on the head.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/01/france-to-step-up-covid-jabs-after-claims-of-bowing-to-anti-vaxxers France has vaccinated 322 people. Nope, there aren't any zeros missing. Three hundred and twenty two people.

Oh dear. The NYT has collectively lost its **** recently, but this is special even for them. The author who claims the UK is now racist and xenophobic, btw, lives in Paris. With all the lack of travel recently, you'd not be alone in questioning exactly how he has gauged this. You can bet your last British sterling that if the referendum vote had gone slightly in his favour rather than the other way around, the UK would be significantly less racist and xenophobic than it is now, by way of magic, fairy dust and pure sentiment. These people that hate Brexit so much and spend countless nights sobbing themselves to sleep over it, really are an odd bunch. They will tell you things like this (which, the author of the above article retweeted): They will claim they have no pride in a nationality, but in the next breath, and without any sense of hypocrisy, will claim to be proud Europeans and stand up for the EU anthem (yes, that's a thing).

Ian Blackford!!! ????

The approval of the Oxford vaccine has been completed. That will most certainly speed things up as it doesn't need to be stored in special facilities due to temperature.

There isn't a great deal to say after that. Notts absolutely dominated the second half, men against boys. It was men who couldn't finish, however. What you'd say of this squad is that it misses a poacher like Dennis and somebody to give Doyle and Reeves some competition, somebody maybe a bit more direct, a box to box type. Wolfe can't even make the subs bench. The officials were terrible, but consistently terrible. If they're giving you nothing all game, don't go down and expect it to change, Kyle. It was just one of those days where nothing really goes for you. What we learnt today? Turner will have a lot of good games, but he has the donkey within him and had another couple of go's at it today before pressing the self destruct and getting himself sent off in spectacular fashion. The officials didn't know their arse from their elbow, but even they knew that was a straight red. It didn't affect the game, as Hartlepool were a spent force in an attacking sense by that point. In fact, it probably helped.... whoever is telling Doyle to drop in to the defence so Turner can go forward and become a playmaker needs to have a word with themselves. Lacey? Yes. Rawlinson? OK. Ben Turner? Hell no. If we need a goal, Jimmy Knowles isn't good enough to be the answer. When Ardley was on about weighing up the loanees, you have to think that Graham, Knowles and Wolfe aren't pushing to start or even be on the bench in some cases. Surely we can do better even permanently or on loan? A pacey striker and a central midfielder are an absolute must, to push this team on.

Correct. Economies of scale. hussein kanji Dec 23 Misinformation from me. From more research, the price deltas appear to be true but the UK ordered 7m of Moderna and 40m of the Pfizer vaccine, whereas the EU has ordered 160m doses of Moderna and 200m of Pfizer doses (with an option to buy an extra 100m).

Hartlepool look like they've had the rest and we look slow and tired. Speed it up Notts!!!

The SNP react in much the same way to everything. You have to give it to them though, they must have a great spin-doctor up there. There record in education and drug-related illness and death is beyond abysmal. Their handling of the Coronavirus was even worse than Boris managed, which is quite some feat. Yet come the end of it, they are smelling of roses and the reason why so many people are dying, despite unprecedented devolution, is because.... because..... the English. It's a bad argument, but it's working, for now. One has the feeling that they need this second referendum really quickly, as the disguise is starting to thin.

I generally try to take in quite a variety of sources from different places to establish if it was a good deal or a bad deal, as I'm not an expert in these trade fields, nor I suggest are the thousands of people that are claiming to be on Social Media platforms. When I've taken a look across the board, discounting the extremes that would say pretty much the same thing regardless of the deal, it seems a pretty OK outcome, all things considered. The deal also achieves what many (such as Ed Davey) said was impossible and there is a trade deal complete. It's true that Biden isn't particularly a friend of the UK's, whereas Trump was perhaps more friendly, albeit more incompetent. I am no fan of Boris, but he has used the no-deal carrot quite effectively, convincing many that he would use it if needed, which is partly why the Germans felt the need to intervene and stop the French punishment-Brexit that was forthcoming. I agree that the services side of the deal is hardly covered, but I'd need to look into that a bit further to make any comment on it. Fishing was largely an ideological battle and has relatively no economic impact. However, Boris needed it to save face and so did Macron, which is why it was ever much of an issue in the first place. The SNP are an ugly nationalistic beast. Anything that you despise about Boris and other opportunistic/populist style leaders, you will find in abundance within the SNP. No need to apologise as I haven't been conned. I wasn't a supporter of Brexit and given the choice I would have happily stayed in the EU. It was a massive mistake by 'Dodgy Dave' to gamble our membership just to get rid of Farage and his pals. It backfired, obviously, and I think history will view it was one of the most ill-advised, misguided actions of any UK politician, ever. Furthermore, asking the common man to vote on EU membership and expecting him to be able to understand all the intricacies, advantages and disadvantages, is farcical. None of us have a true appreciation of this unless we study it intensively. This will include the social media brigade, who became experts overnight. There were always negatives in our membership of the EU. The lethargic pace the machine moves and the slow bureaucracy, as shown recently in the EU's vaccination ratification, is mind-numbingly frustrating. Furthermore, the move towards greater unification and the effective abolishment of nation states, with power transfer to Brussels, was deeply worrying from my perspective. I have long held the view that Europe was better with independent states cooperating together as has largely been the case in the EU, even if it meant the slow bureaucracy highlighted above. Other people, however, don't share my belief, and politicians, such as Guy Verhofstadt, want a radically different EU than the one I would envisage. Having said that, I still believed that the UK was better in the EU to counter these types of people, rather than leaving altogether. Guy Verfhofstadt, and people like him, now have a much easier pathway to their vision than before, which is a crying shame. These negatives, however, never outweighed the positives, such as free-movement of people to work and live. I guess you could argue that free-movement is a negative, but again, that depends on perspective. There are pros and cons of Brexit, that should surprise nobody. The debate is really about how much importance you place on certain aspects and therefore if the pros outweigh the cons. For me, the pros of membership of the EU are higher than the pros of Brexit, which is why I didn't want the UK to leave. Anybody claiming that there is no pro or cons for either side, as you have above, has fell into the abyss of the now common-place valley of ideological extremity. This is hardly a new phenomenon, but certainly is a new iteration in common-time and is actually quite dangerous. We've seen it in America over the last few years. Democrats and Republics despise each-other tribally, and they are whipped up with violent rhetoric and ignorance by their so-called leaders. Their are certain factors that come into play with this kind of system, such as identity politics, but that is something for another day. The main factor, however, is that neither side can even begin to comprehend the others' argument and viewpoint, resulting in no common ground and eventually, violence on the streets, as has been seen in America. As mentioned above, it is a very dangerous place that America finds itself in as a result of this ideological extremism, and it needs to begin to rectify it quite quickly. However, we have seen this in Brexit, too, fuelled by Social Media platforms (Twitter is probably the worst culprit) and enraged by media outlets. The outcome is that people are divided into ideological camps and the platform for debate is lost, when both sets feel their logical outcome is the only one and cannot be challenged. You are either a Communist, Anti-British EU-phile or an old, racist bigoted Brexiteer. Herein lies the problem. 99.9% of the population fall into neither camp, but it is that 0.1% that make the loudest noise on media platforms, so you could be forgiven into believing they are in fact the majority. My one great hope is that this new ideological extremity soon becomes a thing of the past, including those that have promoted it (Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Nicola Sturgeon, Donald Trump etc...). Thought, exchange, reason and compromise are far more admirable attributes.

They've done well in the last 2, but when you stretch that out a bit, it's Notts that are more in form. Interesting we're good at home and they are good away. We are better in defence, they are better in attack. Shapes up for an interesting game, I'm thinking (hoping) 2-0 to Notts. COYP!

The amount of Covid in the national league (in football in general actually) seems pretty damn high. They must be close to achieving herd-immunity soon?! Notts certainly have or are pretty close to it!

There isn't much arguing with that. Even the countries that seemingly did quite well, like Germany in the first wave, are now as bad as most other places. The Eastern European countries seemed well-off in the first wave (probably due to population density or travel intensity, I'm guessing, as it certainly wasn't government response) are now having a real bad time of it. If you'd wind back the clock, the response would no doubt be better, but I doubt many European governments are competent enough (and their populace willing enough) to achieve elimination. Europe was riddled with the virus while China was still murdering its own doctors trying to warn us all. Looks like the U.K will approve the Oxford vaccine too and start vaccinating the elderly and vulnerable with a bit more speed. That should unburden the NHS and allow most people to get back to a sense of normality, even as the virus circulates in the younger, healthy population. Meanwhile vaccinations will be ongoing and hopefully around late 2021 we'll have something resembling herd immunity and normality.

???????????????? Seems 'owd Boris has pulled out a pretty decent deal, all things considered. As usual, the extremities wouldn't have been happy regardless of what he agreed. Strict Brexiteers would have only been satisfied if there was a no deal Brexit and Boris somehow managed to geographically shift the UK further west into the Atlantic, whereas the boring Remainers (SNP included) were always going to scream foul regardless of the quality of the deal, as seen above.

???? Stop it! Please delete this, it doesn't fit the narrative... EU only passed it after the Germans had enough of waiting for them to ratify it too, otherwise they'd be waiting well into the new year.

That is as non league as it comes. Abolsute dire game devoid of any quality from either side. First touches are awful, can't pass to our own players and so many mistakes. Turner started so nervy and calamitous, could've easily given them a goal. Rawlinson not much better. Up front Wotton has the touch of a rapist, Sam even worse. Even Rodrigues had a few bad touches. We're lucky that Woking have been as bad as us. Imorovement needed. COYP.

The game last night was just one of those games. We were dominant for the whole 90, played well and created lots of chances, but didn't finish any of them. Our finishing needs to improve, but as a setup and a performance, it was good. It's games like these where you miss a Dennis who will get you that one goal. Instead we brought on Knowles who didn't contribute anything of note. This is less concerning for me because although the result isn't great, the performance was solid. You play like that and you will win 9/10 games.

Me too. Thought he was probably our best player technically, but then again, looking at that teamsheet, it wasn't too difficult. Can't even remember McMahon!

Steve Thompson the manager still that year? That midfield is a strange one. Ian Ross - an anomaly and Jay Smith - technically there but so small and made of glass.

I see that Myles Weston, ex Notts, plays for the Daggers. I wonder if he is still the same player I remember.... a fast, direct winger more than capable of beating players at ease but couldn't cross to save his life. Still a useful player for us though, he's only 32 so surprised he is down at this level, but looking at Wikipedia he has been here a while.