I can hardly believe what’s just happened, absolutely gutting.

Our injuries are hurting us. Notts continue to have problems from corners and free kicks into the box, but Bromley & MK Dons drew, we are still in fourth place. We are nine points ahead of the team in eighth place. We will go again on Monday against Newport at ML.

@menzinho

I was gutted when the final whistle went, but the other results have again helped Notts. We still have all to play for. A win against Newport would be massive for us.

MK Dons away at Oldham, Cambridge away at Cheltenham, Salford away at Crewe, Swindon at home to Walsall & Cambridge away at Cheltenham on Monday.

Still struggling to find the words - but still seething about the clumsy, ineffective contributions from Dennis & Jatta. Lack of urgency, control and application from both and complete lack of interest from Dennis.

Hall will wish he’d never come in, missed a sitter from 4 yards and then fell asleep leaving Butcher with the freedom of Salford to slot home the winner.

Overall, a fairly gritty and combative contest but we lacked sharpness where it mattered. Superb goal keeping performance, back 3 improved after shaky 15 mins and Ness gave a commanding display at the heart of the defence. Bottom line - we lost, threw away a hard earned point and it is a real blow to auto promotion hopes.

Today only served to reinforce that Kouhyar, despite all his energy and effort, isn’t good enough. Hall is nowhere near ready for a L2 battle and we’ve taken the confidence and goal scoring prowess outbid Dennis! Jatta has always been an awkward, clumsy lump who knocks a few goals in, but he remains a technically poor footballer and he was totally out jumped, out muscled and outplayed again today, as usual.

if we’d had a decent striker on the pitch, we’d have won that. They had Graydon - and they did.

I know @Robbie , it’s just that is the worst way to lose a match of football. At least if we'd have been 2-0 at half-time I'd have seen it coming!

I did think Salford were the better side overall, we got totally overrun first 15 minutes. Palmer, Grant and Iorpenda were all too far apart but once we got Iorpenda back with Palmer and switched back to a 3-4-2-1 we just about managed to get into half-time. If not for Belshaw we probably would've been 1-0 down.

Second half shape wise was much better, we looked a lot more solid but in terms of us getting a foothold in the match it never really happened. I know we played direct to stop Salford because they usually press and trap us in so effectively, but the number of times Belshaw kicked the ball straight down the middle was so frustrating. Especially as Salford would play diagonal ball’s that actually turned our wide centre backs and made it hard for us! I thought we'd cotton on to that and try it ourselves, but no we enjoyed playing to Salford's CB's strengths!

The injury time goals were crazy, I’m not sure if I’m more annoyed by the fact we conceded both goals from corner’s or that once we scored, with 30 seconds left to play we were not switched on at all.

11 hours ago, YoopEyes said:

complete lack of interest from Dennis.

Sums it up for me. It was just like playing with 10 men. Salford's winner still hurts

That felt like a kick in the gut. The game exploded into life after 90 mins. Luckily we have a woeful Newport side coming to ML so a bounce back is mandatory.

Definitely a game where we threw away at least a point. You are always vulnerable after scoring, and we sure we're, too busy thinking we had rescued a point, then bang back to square one.

Monday the 6th and get this train back on the tracks against Newport. COYP.

That was really galling. We spent the first half chasing shadows and should really have been at least two down by the break, so we can't really complain about losing it. Belshaw with two incredible saves - the low header he clawed out of his left post was Banks-esque. He didn't deserve to be on the losing team.

The second half was much better, up to stoppage time I thought we looked likelier to score. We certainly had the best chance of the half until then with Hall's miss (more on him below). Then of course stoppage time was wild. The Salford keeper's ridiculous playacting was deservedly punished for our equaliser but as we know events took a different turn.

Regarding the Hall social media pile-on - yes, his miss was bad, and for Salford's second he saw and reacted to the danger far too late. Somebody should have been throwing themselves at that loose ball. However, the point of PL clubs sending us players like Hall on loan is for them to learn - the parent club gets a more complete player back, and in return we benefit from a player is is potentially much better than League Two quality and can turn matches for us. But the flipside of that is that they sometimes make mistakes that senior pros don't. He likely cost us points on Friday, but he'll win us points another day if we don't immediately turn on him. Maybe his finest hour in a Notts shirt is yet to come.

Positives? Salford away is over and done with and we haven't lost too much ground. Five wins and we're up.