A dissapointing end to Notts regular season with a defeat to League 2 Champions Doncaster, who thoroughly deserved their victory today. Congratulations to them.

Notts now go into the playoffs where they will play Wimbledon at ML in the first leg of the semi final next Saturday, 10th May, kick off 8pm.

I have chosen the first 11 plus 1 player off the substitutes bench for you to choose your PON Man of the Match from.

Those players are:-

Bass, Bedeau, Platt, McDonald, Jones, Abbott, Palmer, Gordon, Whittaker, Grant, Jatta, Macari.

I’ve voted for George Abbott he was the best player by a country mile, he was all over the pitch, he’ll be a great premiership player one day.

George Abbott. The only player that looked bothered 

On my shortlist for Man of the Match today was Matty Platt, Lewis Macari (when he came on), George Abbott, & Alassana Jatta.

In my opinion George Abbott was head and shoulders above any other Notts player, so he's my Man of the Match.

Not a tough one today, sadly. Abbott for me too.

The Poll closes at 9pm tonight!!

I thought the team just didn't have many players performing at their best, but I am surprised by George Abbott being voted for as I felt Matt Palmer put so much into the game. Whereas Abbott wasn't bad, but he was guilty of giving the ball away easily. He had moments where he could have been carded, again I noticed his fiery side, and one day he will see red for it.

Kellan Gordon made an effort, yet the results were undeniably disappointing. Alasanna Jatta wasn't in the game at all.

Jodi Jones seemed scared of the ball, which is understandable, but this is exactly why I feel he's not match ready. As a sub, it's different, but starting it really wasn't working. Defensively, we weren't at our best. No defender has earned my vote. Charlie Whitaker put a lot of effort in but wasn't able to do much. I don't think it was a case of being bothered, Doncaster were much more physical and very aggressive from the kick-off. Notts didn't man up to them, in fact it played to their game plan and we played poor passes which normally wouldn't have been attempted.

Resulting in many stray passes, but I still don't believe Abbott was at his best or performed well enough. That's just my opinion.

The poll has now closed.

I'm pleased to announce that Pride of Nottingham's Man of the Match v Doncaster is George Abbott.

Well done George.

 

20 hours ago, Chris said:

I still don't believe Abbott was at his best or performed well enough. That's just my opinion.

I’m really surprised to read your thought @Chris I genuinely thought Abbott had an excellent game, to me he seemed to be performing far better than any other player. It just goes to show how different people view the same match.

At the end of the day it doesn’t matter who was man of the match because we lost the game sadly.

22 hours ago, Fan of Big Tone said:

I’m really surprised to read your thought @Chris I genuinely thought Abbott had an excellent game, to me he seemed to be performing far better than any other player. It just goes to show how different people view the same match.

At the end of the day it doesn’t matter who was man of the match because we lost the game sadly.

I'm pleased for whoever won, and you are right, we all see things differently at times.

I thought if Will Jarvis had longer on the pitch, he would have warranted more praise in this, and in the short time he was on, I thought he did much better than most of the squad. Unfortunately, Notts fell into Doncaster's game plan in the first half, which was aimed at making us stray passes and lose the ball. I thought George Abbott did okay, but he did lose the ball a lot. I mean, I can remember him winning the ball well, and from nothing, but then passing upfield straight to a Doncaster player. It was just an off day in terms of the players shining with their quality, as a team they did okay and were much better in the second half.

Notts greatly felt the absence of David McGoldrick, as his presence and leadership elevate the entire team's performance and motivation.

I thought Austin did well when he came on. I think Notts missed him during his injury & he was playing very well beforehand too.

I hope Austin will be fit enough to start against Wimbledon. He could make a lot of difference for us.