The Notts County Courier
Squad21 Aug 2028
29 days out for Simone Gazzola after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Notts County will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match19 Aug 2028
Notts County make home a hard place to visit
13 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Real improvement from Samuele Capolupo at Notts County
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Samuele Capolupo is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Late improvement for Conor Hazard
At 30 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 4 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
No deal for Tropi at that price
Notts County offered $36.0K; Millwall said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Tomáš Souček falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Notts County
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Market21 Aug 2028
Notts County promote Steven Howard from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Steven Howard has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market21 Aug 2028
One of our own: Jack Harris joins the Notts County first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jack Harris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Alexander Ward steps up from the Notts County academy
- Market One of our own: Jack Phillips joins the Notts County first team
- Boardroom A promise the Notts County board did not keep