Tuna Posted 25 May 2019 Share Posted 25 May 2019 Looks like Gateshead will be booted out of the National League, potentially reprieving Aldershot and Truro. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48398640 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox92 Posted 25 May 2019 Share Posted 25 May 2019 Got high hopes for Chesterfield this season now that Sheridan will have a summer and a full season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuna Posted 1 June 2019 Author Share Posted 1 June 2019 Lee Clark has finally found his level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuna Posted 8 June 2019 Author Share Posted 8 June 2019 (edited) Gateshead have been relegated to the National League North, Aldershot Town remain in the National League and Oxford City remain in the National League South. Edited 8 June 2019 by Tuna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuna Posted 13 June 2019 Author Share Posted 13 June 2019 Jon Stead signs for Harrogate Town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicesterpool Posted 16 June 2019 Share Posted 16 June 2019 On 01/06/2019 at 16:31, Tuna said: Lee Clark has finally found his level. To think he was linked to the Leicester job not so long ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemunky Posted 16 June 2019 Share Posted 16 June 2019 On 13/06/2019 at 17:51, Tuna said: Jon Stead signs for Harrogate Town. Love Steady. Wish him the very best there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 3 July 2019 Share Posted 3 July 2019 Bloody hell @spacemunky, you've got a difficult first month. Eastleigh, Stockport, Barnet, Wrexham and Yeovil in the first 8 games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemunky Posted 3 July 2019 Share Posted 3 July 2019 56 minutes ago, Corky said: Bloody hell @spacemunky, you've got a difficult first month. Eastleigh, Stockport, Barnet, Wrexham and Yeovil in the first 8 games. Yeah I got the schedule today so I was having a look. Of course I need to familiarize myself with some of the teams. Don't even know what's happening with the potential sale of our club. Hardy sent an update that really didn't say that much, other than something is in the works. Don't know the lineup or who's managing. Haven't seen any sign of new kits. Should be a fantastic season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jattdogg Posted 4 July 2019 Share Posted 4 July 2019 5 hours ago, spacemunky said: Yeah I got the schedule today so I was having a look. Of course I need to familiarize myself with some of the teams. Don't even know what's happening with the potential sale of our club. Hardy sent an update that really didn't say that much, other than something is in the works. Don't know the lineup or who's managing. Haven't seen any sign of new kits. Should be a fantastic season! Sol Campbell coming out of retirement mate. Player manager 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 4 July 2019 Share Posted 4 July 2019 I know why they do it but the fixture schedule in National League is mental in August. The ‘derby’ festive fixtures are always a sign you are in non-league. Notts County with Maidenhead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemunky Posted 6 July 2019 Share Posted 6 July 2019 Notts at Nuneaton currently. Trying to get some info as to who we have out on the pitch for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemunky Posted 6 July 2019 Share Posted 6 July 2019 2-0 win for Notts. Nice to at least have something positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuna Posted 6 July 2019 Author Share Posted 6 July 2019 1 hour ago, spacemunky said: Notts at Nuneaton currently. Trying to get some info as to who we have out on the pitch for this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wymsey Posted 12 July 2019 Share Posted 12 July 2019 Doesn't sound good at Notts County, still: 'Meanwhile, BBC Radio Nottingham reports that there was anger at a meeting of staff and players at Meadow Lane earlier on Thursday, with Hardy alleged to have walked out when asked when wages would be paid.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemunky Posted 13 July 2019 Share Posted 13 July 2019 1 hour ago, Wymeswold fox said: Doesn't sound good at Notts County, still: 'Meanwhile, BBC Radio Nottingham reports that there was anger at a meeting of staff and players at Meadow Lane earlier on Thursday, with Hardy alleged to have walked out when asked when wages would be paid.' I've been trying to keep up with the drama, but for the most part I have no idea what is going on there. I know from a Notts forum, the supporters there are very concerned about the future of our team and whether or not we will will still have one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jattdogg Posted 13 July 2019 Share Posted 13 July 2019 1 hour ago, spacemunky said: I've been trying to keep up with the drama, but for the most part I have no idea what is going on there. I know from a Notts forum, the supporters there are very concerned about the future of our team and whether or not we will will still have one. You've always got the foxes! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemunky Posted 20 July 2019 Share Posted 20 July 2019 2-1 for Notts today over Walsall. Boldewijn with both goals for us. Roughly, 1000 Notts fans at the Lane and a couple hundred away fans. No news on new owners or anything regards to players and staff getting paid. Still, hoping for some good news this week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jattdogg Posted 20 July 2019 Share Posted 20 July 2019 1 hour ago, spacemunky said: 2-1 for Notts today over Walsall. Boldewijn with both goals for us. Roughly, 1000 Notts fans at the Lane and a couple hundred away fans. No news on new owners or anything regards to players and staff getting paid. Still, hoping for some good news this week! You won, all the good news you need...for now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UPinCarolina Posted 20 July 2019 Share Posted 20 July 2019 (edited) On 06/07/2019 at 12:09, Tuna said: Oxlade-Chamberlain ??♂️ Edited 20 July 2019 by UPinCarolina 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 20 July 2019 Share Posted 20 July 2019 6 minutes ago, UPinCarolina said: Oxlade-Chamberlain ??♂️ His brother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UPinCarolina Posted 20 July 2019 Share Posted 20 July 2019 2 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said: His brother Did a few double-takes before confirming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross-Kemp Posted 20 July 2019 Share Posted 20 July 2019 I know Dion, he’s a good lad. Handy at that level. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemunky Posted 20 July 2019 Share Posted 20 July 2019 21 minutes ago, UPinCarolina said: Did a few double-takes before confirming. We can't afford to pay people as it so don't be adding Alex Ox into the mix 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemunky Posted 21 July 2019 Share Posted 21 July 2019 For those interested on the Notts situation: England’s oldest football league club, Notts County, are now just 11 days from ceasing to exist. A mountain of unpaid debts mean they face liquidation, 157 years after they were formed.It is entirely possible that the 3-1 defeat by Swindon on the final day of last season, a campaign that saw them relegated to the National League for the first time, will be the last time their players kicked a ball in anger. Technically, it’s a tax bill of a mere £250,000 which is seeing them dragged before the High Court once again. But the problems are a lot more serious than that.The players and staff of the club have not been paid since May — and so are entitled to walk out as free agents before the next season begins. It is quite possible that the club will not be able to field a team to fulfil their league fixtures, and so expulsion awaits. County’s — er — colourful owner, Alan Hardy, is up to his neck in debt. His company, Paragon Interiors, was plunged into administration earlier this year, owing at least £13.5m. Mr Hardy has been trying to sell the club — for in excess of £5m, which would be steepish for a lower-level Championship outfit, let alone a club in the National League. The new owners would, of course, cop all of Notts County’s debts on top of the extortionate asking price. At the end of June, Hardy assured fans and players alike that they had no need to worry, a prospective buyer was in place and all would be sorted out by July 10. Unsurprisingly, you might think, nothing at all was sorted out by July 11 and still nobody has been paid.You may or may not remember Hardy’s previous claim to fame, which was to send out a tweet to fans of the club showing him with his old fella flapping about in the breeze (“an honest mistake”, he explained, somewhat red of face).Hardy put the club up for sale in January and seemed to have found a suitable buyer quite quickly in a consortium led by a chap called Alex May. This foundered a little when it was discovered that Mr May previously went under the name Alick Kapikanya and had been sentenced to six years in prison for his role in a £3.5m mortgage scam. Kapikanya’s modus operandi was to steal the identities of elderly homeowners and consequently nick their houses before re-mortgaging them and then pocketing the dosh.Even by the Football Association’s somewhat lax standards, it is hard to imagine Alex/Alick passing their fit and proper test. According to Hardy, there are new prospective buyers, but he won’t tell anyone who they are (it is whispered that they might be “Danish”). Frankly, anyone who would pay the sort of sum Hardy has been asking would fail to pass my “fit and proper” test, unless it was a “fit and proper” test to gain entry to the nearest booby hatch.Lilian Greenwood, the MP for Nottingham South, has at least been doing what she can to find out what is going on at Meadow Lane. At prime minister’s questions she called for an investigation into Notts County’s affairs by the Football Association, the Football League and the National League. As a consequence she is meeting the FA in Westminster on Tuesday. But both supporters of the club and the Nottingham Post have been serially frustrated by the failure of any of the footballing authorities to take much of an interest in Notts County’s plight. The Post forwarded to the FA a secret dossier supplied by a club insider concerning Notts County’s financial issues. But having been told that the FA would look into it, nothing more has been forthcoming. It is heartening, mind, that Nottingham has both an MP who takes an interest and a local paper prepared to do a bit of digging and campaigning.If Notts County go into liquidation, as seems highly likely at the moment, then the best fans can hope for is its resurrection as a “phoenix” club, perhaps owned largely by its supporter base. That would mean a change of name and relegation several divisions down to the Evo-Stik Premier League.What is the cause of Notts County’s parlous state? The short answer is that they spent beyond their means. In the 2017-18 season, in particular, they were heavily fancied as favourites for promotion from Sky Bet League Two, the consequence of a large squad and generous individual salaries. As a gamble, this almost worked: they finished fifth in the division only to lose in the playoff semi-finals to Coventry City.But almost was not good enough and it may prove to be the death of them. Added to which, of course, is that old truism — that the only people who would wish to own a lower-league club are the very people who should never be allowed to run any sort of business. I repeat, buying Notts County for five million, or even five grand, does not make much financial sense. It is a minor miracle that so many of these smaller clubs are still in existence.Maybe Juventus can bail them out. They have an historic link, based on relative antiquities and similar strips. It would be cheering if someone did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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