DangerousSausage

I kind of understand players wanting to make the step up. It's a short career and he might not get another chance. But by going public like this he's burning his bridges and attempting to force Brentford to accept whatever Spurs are offering. It undermines Brentford's negotiating position, and that's a shabby way to treat the club. These things should be said behind closed doors, not to the media. Also, I thought personal terms were only discussed once a transfer fee had been agreed? Wouldn't this be an illegal approach?

I can usually take or leave international football, but I'd have made an exception for this to see a Notts player in an England match! Sadly I was already back in Germany, so I only saw the highlights. There was a big article on Jones in yesterday's i newspaper too. He's a gem - if we treat him well, he'll treat us well.

That's fair @Chris, we've experienced hands-on owners quite a few times, and they're the reason we plummeted four divisions. So maybe I'm scarred! It's hard to say exactly how involved the brothers are from the outside, but my impression is that they largely stick to the financial side. It's certainly worked well so far. Chances are they've learned a lot from Jason Turner over the last four years. Maybe they've added a potential successor to their contact book over that time?

I've been logged out too. I just go back a step and select PON from my shortcuts, and I'm magically logged in again. It's a fairly simple workaround while the devs perform their exorcism.

I don't really agree with @Chris that the brother's need to be more hands-on. Until now they've set (and stuck to) a strategic direction, brought competent people in who can make it a reality and left them to do their job. It's been a recipe for success so far. I'm sure they'll find an experienced football administrator who fits the ethos of the club and is a good communicator with staff and fans alike.

@AmericanPie HSV got relegated to the second division five years ago (prior to that they were the only team to have played in the Bundesliga in every season since its creation in the 1960s). Since then they've become something of a promotion escapologist, finding increasingly comical ways to mess it up right at the death. This season they missed out on automatic promotion thanks to their rivals scoring in the tenth minute of stoppage time on the final day, and lost the playoff against Stuttgart. Hannover have been treading water in Bundesliga 2 for a few years and are more likely to go down again than up.

He was a first team regular at Stevenage, and they're in League One next season, so prising him away from them would have been quite something. No idea if there was any truth to it, but he did sound like the kind of player we'd be interested in.

I am @Countyman, I've lived here for a long time and i follow a team in the third division. Used to have a season ticket until the pandemic. Obviously it's been reported on, but they've been threatening to go up for a few seasons already. To be honest, there's some indifference towards this club as they have little history in professional football and no real rivals. There's also an accumulation of unattractive, relatively poorly supported clubs (that realistically won't challenge for the title) in the Bundesliga while traditional giants such as Hamburg, Schalke and Nuremberg slum it in the second flight, making the league less attractive and competitive. But of course that's hardly Heidenheim's fault. @Chris is aware that there are a couple of issues with the forum and is using his computer wizardry to sort them out ????

Sad but not surprising. He's spent three years at the fifth level and it's understandable that he wants to play as high as possible. Oxford is a bit of a surprise, but maybe he's a more important part of their plans than would have been the case at Derby? Good luck to him all the same. Now that Jones and McGoldrick have signed, there's no need to panic buy a replacement. For ask Rodders' quality, I think Cameron leaving would give us a bigger problem.

@upthepies their promotion in 2008 coincided with the creation of the nationwide third division. So they were effectively promoted from the fourth division (the state-level Oberliga) to the fourth division (the new Regionalliga).

This is quite the signing. In my heart of hearts I didn't think it was going to happen, but here he is. Let's hope he fits in well and picks up where he left off last season.

Heidenheim are not really comparable to Luton as they've never scaled these heights before. I started following Waldhof Mannheim in 2007, when they and Heidenheim were both in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. This is the second level of regional football in Germany, so it's more comparable to the NLN than League Two. Both teams won promotion to the newly formed Regionalliga, and I saw Heidenheim's visit in what I think was the first game of the following season. They won comfortably and went on to win promotion again. Crazy to think they still have the same manager! They're a well-run club who have established themselves in Bundesliga 2 for some time and deserve their chance. Good luck to them. However, they'll do well to hold on at that level. @Piethagoram a "Gymnasium" is a kind of state grammar school, but Turngemeinde means gymnastics association. Many German football clubs grew out of general sports clubs, in Heidenheim's case relatively recently. Another one is TSV 1860 Munich - the T in TSV also stands for "gymnastics club".

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I only tend to buy coffee to go at the airport now, and I wouldn't say any are my favourite. I've avoided Starbucks for a long time, no taste whatsoever. There's a German chain called Tchibo that's pretty decent. But now I pretty much always make my own filter coffee and fill it into a flask before I go to work. It's cheaper and tastes better.

I hadn't thought of that! To be fair to them, I don't recall them playing together often that season, and Dennis was eventually shipped out on loan. That said, he's a good signing for them. A very good finisher who will get his fair share of goals.

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I'm quietly confident of a spot in the top half. If we want to go further, it'll be all about how quickly we can adapt to a much more intense and competitive league. Also, a number of our star performers have little or no experience of League football, so they still have a point to prove (although I'm confident they have the ability). Even if we fly out of the blocks, the division is already looking very competitive. There are three very wealthy clubs in Stockport, Wrexham and Gillingham, and Bradford and Mansfield will be there or thereabouts. I'd love us to be up there, but I'm not assuming we'll blow the division away.

What's the worst type of monger @Chris? Fish, iron, rumour or war? ???? I partly dropped this in to see if there's any weight behind it, as it's been circulating for a while now. I suspect we'll know one way or the other pretty soon. As for his quality, if any other L2 team signed a player who had just scored 22 goals in the division above, we'd be saying it's an amazing signing. But in a negative scenario you could have a player who's declining and yet feels entitled to a start. We do need to beef up the squad with some experience, but not necessarily in an area where we've already got three players competing for one spot.

There seems to be a lot of talk about David McGoldrick returning to end his career at Notts. Some folk swear blind that it's a done deal. What do you all think? Personally I'm not sure at all, he just doesn't fit our recruitment strategy and would surely be in demand in League One at least. The bloke was playing and scoring in the Premier League two years ago and just scored 22 times for Derby, so he still has it. I'm not sure what effect it would have to have a "star" in the dressing room, but then Ameobi was a similar case and did well for us. But now we have Langstaff - who would play? Would we change the formation to accommodate him? Or is he the replacement? Thoughts?

They're very bombastic indeed! That one is actually a cover of a Gary Moore song, maybe that's where you heard it. Here's some more epic while we're at it (they do normal length songs too though!): Oh and ska! I lived in Coventry for a while and it's compulsory to like the Specials there.

I listen to a lot of stuff, from rock and metal to pagan folk. But I while back I fell into the Nightwish rabbit hole and never returned. They've had three lead singers, which is careless at best, but that also means their output is pretty varied and there's a lot to discover. They rule! I'm also keen on the Levellers and some German bands such as Faun and Die Ärzte.

How do you share your results like that? I'm standing on the hose, as they say here. Took me five goes today. Is it me or have we had a run of really hard words?

I saw this, cracking goal and absolute scenes! It never ceases to amaze that seasons spanning several months often go down to the very last seconds. As we know...

Good move for him, he should get the regular football he needs to kick on.

Chesterfield will be there or thereabouts if they can keep their discipline, and I think one of the traditional non-League outfits will step up too. Possibly Boredom Wood or Woking. Hartlepool also now have a manager who's been successful at NL level before, I could see them doing a Grimsby. Who i WANT to go up is a different matter. Games against Chesterfield can have that bit of spice that Boredom Wood and co. will never offer. I'd rather have teams coming up that can properly establish themselves in the League rather than doing a Rushden & Diamonds.