So many new members! Welcome @originalKimbopie. I hope you enjoy your time on here,Merry Christmas.

Glad to have you with us @Son of Berti.Merry Christmas.Why not introduce yourself-We're a real friendly bunch(most of the time)

Christmas is always a brilliant time of year if your a football fan, the games come thick and fast. Boxing day is one of the must attend fixtures of the season. So what have been your best memories of the festive football fixtures?

The earliest Boxing Day game I can remember was when Barnsley came to town in 02-03 & were beaten 3-2, that was a good'un. More recently there was that 4-1 win at Burton around Christmas time when Lee Hughes was at his magnifficent best, running the Brewers defence ragged and scoring a fantastic hat-trick within about 15 minutes.

For Weymouth Boxing Day is always a bit special. Non-league clubs nearly always get their biggest gates of the season on Boxing Day, and Weymouth's gate has touched the four figure mark for the passed couple of seasons. Years before four figures would have been guarenteed every week but thats part of the damage our decline has caused sadly

Mrs. H. and myself are going away this year for Christmas. We are spending 5 days on the Isle of Wight, in self catering accommodation. We are taking everything with us including the turkey, beer, wine, all the food and veg etc., we don't want to do any shopping when we get there. I hope the car's suspension is up to it.

I'm just hoping the ferry won't be too rough in the windy weather they have forecast for tomorrow.

So I hope everyone has a great time whatever they are doing and I will see you on my return, I will try and pop in on the forum depending on signal strength, if I don't manage to get on with my predictions can someone do some for me please, cheers all.

Who would you sell, loan out or release in January permitted you could do so?

I might be on my own in this boat, I hope it does not sink like that other member Tony's ferry! I would not get rid of anyone just yet, I would try to loan out a few. Arquin, Labadie, Baucaud perhaps, I cannot think of anyone else.

Arquin is a frustrating player, many clearly want him gone but Shaun seems hell bent on inspiring the players and getting the best out of them. I would like to see what he can do with Arquin, Labadie can go. He does not know how to tackle safely and he puts us in danger, thinking about it Two for One sounds good!

Labadie and Fotheringham!

Here's a clip of the tackle that injured Gary Liddle. You make your own mind up but for me a definite red card and a penalty.

Welcome to Pride of Nottingham, I am sure you will enjoy it here. It would be great to have you join us posting on the forums.

Nice photo

Welcome to our site,glad to see you've already joined in by posting. Look forward to more .

Hi Rob

Welcome to PoN, it's a great place for chat about Notts, football, life in general and a bit of fun and banter too.

Come and say hello, you won't regret it.

It's getting crowded in here, another new member @ivansneck, welcome to the forum mate, good to have you aboard.

Does anyone know if it will be possible to buy tickets for the Notts section on the day?

Okay, We're now asking that each member nominates three members they feel have contributed over the past month and deserve a chance to be named as December's Member of the Month.

Which three have stood out the most for you?

Please do add some usernames into the running, as I will below. You Pies!

Thanks!

 

Has anyone noticed the proliferation (good word) of football players with beards? I was watching football on the telly at the weekend and both on match of the day and on the football league show I saw several players sporting full beards. Not goatee beards or five o'clock shadow but real full on bushy beards. Is it a fashion at the moment?

I know a lot of players are doing Movember but that is moustaches, the players I am talking about have real beards, one in particular is the goalkeeper of a premiership side, I can't remember the club or his name but he has a full black beard and a bald head!! What's all that about? He looks as if his head is on upside down.

Anyone else notice this and more importantly can you explain the phenomenon? (another good word I must stop reading that dictionary).

Not that i'm really bothered (Actually, i'm ecxtatic), but just thought i'd ask anyway. Has anyone seen any post's on that board since the 20th.

WHat an opportunity for PON to take off, and I can see it already with the amount of Welcomes lol

Keep up the Great work

New members coming thick and fast now, welcome @macstop I hope you will enjoy visiting this friendly community, come and say hello.

Notice Regarding festive football fixtures

Just a quick notice regarding the next few rounds. Obviously this time of year is really buisy for football, and that means its going to be really buisy in the Prediction League.

This weekend will be the final round before Chrirstmas. Round 21 takes place Boxing Day. I will put the fixtures up on Monday so that it gives everyone a few days to get their predictions in.

Round 22 takes place on 29th December and I will post the fixtures for that round on the 27th.
Round 23 takes place on New Years Day and the fixtures will be posted on the 30th.

Round 24 takes place on Saturday 4th January, fixtures will be posted on the 2nd.

Hopefully that all makes sense. Just be sure to keep checking back, thought I'd put a quick notice up as I don't want  people missing out.

Anyway, onto this Saturday!

This Saturday's fixtures:

Burnley v Blackpool

Reading v Wigan Athletic

Preston North End v Brentford

Swindon Town v Coventry City

Hartlepool United v Burton Albion

Scunthorpe United v Morecambe

Good luck everyone

Two teams who would no doubt believe they'd have done better so far this season, Notts have some momentum and the home advantage (get behind them magpies!). Bristol City have the 'new' manager and have yet to really impress them, Steve's first game came in the F.A Cup against Tamworth and they wasn't all that impressive - 2-1 the result but anyone who watched the game would have seen very good chances fell to Tamworth who was somewhat lacking in the final third.

Back to back wins, I'm chuffed to be typing this! Can we make it a third win in a row?

Well, Bristol City are dangerous going forward and can boss the game. We on the other hand have the tools to counter them, the speed of Grealish, JCR and McGregor will cause them problems. Their defence is quite wobbly, so we can rock them further by making sure we send them home with what the UK usually scores in the Eurovision Song Contest! Nil -0.

Let us know your thoughts, it really matters! COYP!!

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This Christmas time please take the time to find those less fortunate than yourself and offer your full support and continued help with their terrible affliction - Supporting Nottingham Forest - we all know that this can be a disturbing illness that leads to ideas of grandeur and wealth. 

All charities both local and in the borough of Rushcliffe would like us all to help them move forward towards a brighter tomorrow, even if that means taking initial small steps in recovery and supporting Derby.

Today is bright, lets us all hope tomorrow is brighter.

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So what is on the menu for you this Christmas?

Turkey, goose, duck, beef, pork, chicken or maybe beans on toast.

We are having turkey, we have tried duck and goose before but there is never enough on it. I love to have the turkey around for days just picking at it and making sandwiches etc.,

What are you having?

Today is the birthday of cheeky~k8-  NottsJoe's wife, mum to Jake(Super_pie),Ellie and Ava.She's also our lovely Daughter-in law.So Grannypie and myself would like to wish her A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY                                                                                                     

 I've been a good boy and haven't called her Katykins,whoops or anything else.We both hope you have a really nice day.

Hello @Catpie,

Welcome to Pride of Nottingham, I hope you find yourself at home whilst visiting and I look to see you around the community. I think you'll find the community to be friendly and very open, so please do consider letting us know a little about yourself.

Enjoy visiting

So what is your favourite Christmas Film?

Mine is Scrooge the musical from 1970 starring Albert Finney as Scrooge. We have got it on DVD (one of the few DVD's we own) and have to watch it every Christmas otherwise it doesn't seem like Christmas.

I also like to read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens every Christmas too, it's obviously the same story as the film but is well worth a read this time of year.

So what is your favourite Christmas film?

There seems to be a bit a of a fad at the moment for Christmas jumpers, they are all over the shops and seem to be popular.

Now, is it me or is this just too ridiculous for words, if I buy an item of clothing I want to be able to wear it for more than just a few days!! I mean you would look a bit silly wearing a Christmas jumper in March wouldn't you?

Waste of money...................bah humbug.

Did anyone else watch Mansfield v Oldham the other night, I was interested to see that Oldham had Michael Petrasso playing for them and he looked very useful, he was linked with Notts not long ago, shame we didn't get him.

He played a major role in Oldham's 4-1 win.

I have to say I don't really understand @Dan, I mean he was acting very strange at Colchester. I picked up my mobile and recorded him for a short while, I consider myself to be lucky because I really obtained an exclusive here.

It's yours to watch, I'm not protecting anyone!

>http://youtu.be/ygqp-VWtpOI