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I am working just North of Leicester at the moment and got a good tip from the locals for Saturday as parking and traffic will be a nightmare due to Xmas shopping plus roadworks on the A453 coming into the city.

The locals said park at East Midland Parkway(just off M1) and get the train to Nottingham it is a 10 minute journey £4 for adults £2 for U15 then the station is 10 minute walk to the ground which will beat the mass exodus from the shops at around full time.

I'll be training it over from Leicester, then into the Fellows Morton to drink until I can face watching us lose at Meadow Lane again.  Of course, if we're were to win, it'd say an awful lot about our season.

When was the last time we even scored there if ever?

EDIT: 2006 was the last time we scored there. http://www.11v11.com/teams/swindon-town/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Notts%20County

I have seen the odd win at Notts....very difficult game to call, their success this season is based on an undefeated away record, at home they're not so good.  However Derry showed at the end of last season, that he'll put out a side who'll try and kick us off the park, and look for cards.

We're definitely a bit better this season at handling that, but are still a bit prone to players getting involved in handbags.

May well be a matter of who the wanker in the black is.  We kind of looked at November as the month of playing contenders, with the idea that December is a bit kinder....but Notts are definitely better than Posh.

I'd imagine that Cooper's MotM, will tilt the balance firmly in Notts favour with Ronan Murray, applying the almost inevitable coup de grace

County do have a JPT game on Tuesday away at Doncaster which may tire them out before Sturday whereas we are fresh from 14 days without a game....or they could be fresh and bouyed from reaching the JPT Semi Finals and we are jaded and out of match practice.

Either way we rarely get results up there and a win would signal that we are indeed a genuine promotion contender.

We have only won there 5 times in 29 games, so not a good record at all with only 3 of those wins coming in the last 50 years.

Interestingly the last 3 times we have won there we have finished in a play off or higher position.

We won there in 2003-04 we went on to finish in a play off spot in L1, in 1995-96 we won the championship of L1, in 1986-87 we won the play offs from L1.

Could be a good omen if we win.

I was at all 3 of those....not going Saturday.

The thing about mid season breaks, is that the benefit is supposedly felt later on in the season, rather than as you might expect the first game back.

I'm sure we won there in 94-95 under Gorman too. Vaguely remember we went top after winning and pretty sure everybody's favourite Joey Beuchamp either scored or set up the winning goal. Sadly that win didn't lead to too much end of season celebration since we ended up being relegated agian come May.

We did have 11 days off prior to the Yokels game earlier in the season, we started out looked very jaded in that match and didnt look lively until the 50th minute or so of the game.

I have never been to Meadow Lane and on Saturday I will not break that record.

Yeah my mistake it was Fjortoft scored in 94....making my last post pointless :D

I seem to remember our record at Posh wasn't so great either.

Put that one to bed

Historical records which are either positive or negative are nothing more than coincidence generally.

What we did at Notts County or anywhere else during 80's, 90's, etc will have zero effect on the players on Saturday

Tell that to Mourinho every time he goes to St James' park :'D

This is true....but all I will say is Cheltenham.

I'm in no doubt, that Cheltnumb's record leading into and after the cup game of P6 W0 D1 L5 F3 A15, shows not coincidence, but the malign work of some localised spawn of Beelzebub, whose influence spreads down the A40 to the Kassam Stadium.

I like going to Meadow Lane - despite recent results - and to the city centre pubs.  Will be 'training' it again on Saturday.  At least County will not have that ass-hole Grealish on loan from Aston Villa diving, cheating and winding people up this time.

Been once before, won't be going again for a while.

Hope MoM curse doesn't strike and we continue this run!

I went last year. That was great fun. >< WE WANT 8! WE WANT 8!

I was there for the 0-0 draw in 1990, and saw what to me was one of the funniest things I've seen on a football pitch. 

The recently-signed Argentinian World Cup star was playing for us and went in a bit late on one of their players. When the ref started talking to him, Lorenzo shrugged his shoulders in non-comprehension and showed with his hands  "I went for the ball". The ref called captain Colin Calderwood over for translation help. After a few words with Lorenzo, Calderwood showed the ref exactly the same "I went for the ball" hand signals. Even the County fans' boos turned to laughter.

You probably had to be there, but it made I larf   :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Most of my long lasting memories of Nestor Lorenzo is him forming the shape of a football with his hands in front of the referee, seems to be all he ever did.

I enjoy going to Nottingham and will be there again on Saturday, played 5 lost 5!

Any idea how many tickets we have sold?

Near Christmas don't think we will take many.
I am going with my two lads. Fairly close to me and not much difference in time from a home game.

Last time i went there was 92 (or was it 93 :-[). Bodin pen got us a point and Hoddle came over to paciify the away fans,as it "kicked off" due to some over zealous stewarding(allegedly)

don't think I have ever seen us even get a point up there.

Hope that changes on Saturday

According to LinkSport, we've several injury concerns in the defence for Saturday.....no left wing back and and Turnbull doubtful  :(

Yeah, Bell and Gruffalo = knee ligaments, Turnbull = hamstring, but Branco back in training according to BBC Wilts

Byrne lwb, Gladwin rwb I'd have probably thought. Seems like we have more depth to deal with similar situations to last season.

Oh bum

Harry Toffolo ‏@Harry_Toffolo 23m23 minutes ago

Gutted to be injured for tomorrow's game against Notts County!! I'm sure the boys will get the 3 points! #stfc

334 sold for this, not brilliant.

Id guess that gladwin will replace toffolo? Think hes played on the left previously this season

Cooper out!

I thought 334 sold was pretty bad but Franchise have sold 225 tickets for their promotion clash at Preston.

That's because they're not a proper football club.  They're a sporting franchise.  Their 'fans' are, therefore, much less likely to travel to see games when it's so much more convenient to watch at home.

I doubt that many of them really get football.

Couldn't they just buy some northern fans for the day. And provide them with a drum, obviously.