With eleven new first year scholars added to the squad, the young 'Pies got off to a slow start to the season with decent performances without the necessary cutting edge with defeats at Doncaster (0-1) and Burton (0-2).

 

Last week in the first round of the League Cup they went through with a penalty from Jack McMillan and now face Oldham at home in round two.

 

Today's game saw Notts face Grimsby at Arnold Town's ground - with both teams looking for their first points of the season.  Notts were 'out of their blocks' the quicker of the two teams taking control of the game right from the off with some neat passing football.  The first goal came after only ten minutes when Notts' striker Montel Gibson was put through 'one-on-one' with the keeper before scoring.  Ten minutes later Notts improved their lead when a loose ball in the area was hammered home by Yohan Rutty-Smith.  On 33 minutes Jack McMillan put Notts 3-0 ahead with a fine right foot shot from about ten yards and that remained the score at half-time.

 

It was a very different story in the second half though with the visitors changing their formation and putting five players in midfield which put Notts under more pressure than they had been in the first half.  After a couple of errors in the Notts defence, they were forced to hang on for the last ten minutes to finally secure their first league win of the season 3-2.  Overall a good performance with almost half the team made up of first year scholars and one player from the under-16 team.

 

 

 

  

Yay!! Well done to the young pies!

Hopefully this will give them the morale boost to push on, however losing and winning are big learning curves for sides at youth level.