If I'd seen more of Notts I'd have a stronger opinion, but at the moment I can see both sides of the debate. The way we respond to this is very important - a couple of wins would see us surge up the table and Friday would be (almost) forgotten.

"Who'd want to join us if we sacked Moniz" is not an argument - it's still one of the top 92 football jobs in the country. We never have any shortage of candidates, and we wouldn't this time either. Many managers would see a squad with potential and a chairman with money to burn as a chance to boost their CVs.

I'm not a fan of the "sack a manager a season" approach, they should be allowed to make their mistakes and correct them. RM wasted a lot of money in the summer, but I think this is something he'd acknowledge now. And let's not forget that since we've tightened up at the back, we've started picking up points away too and have moved to within 4 points of the play-offs. A manager who isn't likely to be replaced in the next few months probably has a lot more authority in the dressing room too.

It's always darkest before dawn. Remember the defeat against Mansfield in the season we spent in administration? It felt like a humiliation, and we looked like going down. But we held on to our manager, went on a decent run and easily stayed up with weeks to spare, while Mansfield went down.

However, I can't help feeling that we're papering over the cracks at the moment. Sheehan is only on a three-month loan and Edwards has come out of retirement (again) to shore up our defence. Where will we be if one gets recalled and the other injured? We have plenty of talent in the squad, but are wasting it. McLeod is the most obvious example, he should be the most potent striker outside the Championship. If you're going to play one centre forward, one of McLeod or Stead needs to be on the bench. Then there are the bizarre decisions - the nine changes at Orient, just when we were starting to get into our stride. The decision to spend 90 minutes lumping the ball towards the corner flag at Salford instead of holding on to the ball and bossing the game, and then refusing to change it when it was quite apparent it was going to go badly wrong.

Point proven but with us not playing this Saturday and Crawley Newport and Barnet right on us this say they could overtake us we could go to 17th-18th

So that could be a bad choice alone to cancel this week especially when we have decent replacements then a lose to Northamphton we could easily be 20-21st

Audel isn't as good as Adams despite Adams not the best in the world he's better then Audel Edwards should be doc using on fitness cause the rest clearly aren't.

A centre back was No1 but instead we did the opposite we get a loan in but not a CB a winger we've got good wingers just chooses not to play them.

Then plays the loan winger as a full back the last few home wins havent been amazing Pompey Carroll saved a lot more York gifted us the win.

Bristol rovers away believe me we were extremely lucky to get a point I mean that they could of had 2or 3

Smith is no were near as good as Curtis is and Curtis offers more energy and determination Noble always try's the smartes pass possible even against Salford when he could of put McLeod in he tried the clever ball.

Stanley is far better up the pitch cause he is the only creative ball player we have De Silva is like moniz more interested if his hair is okay an in check.

Stead isn't a winger so play Burke or Snidjers not rocket science Jenner send him to the Trent and shove him on a boat .

Bennett been quality for Newport but guess none of us noticed how good he was as he only has one game

Adams is doing good up the road but hey he ain't good enough either is he

I'm sure he also picks the team by what mystic meg predictes cause neither of our wingers can cross a ball Burke can but hey he's been benched lately hel be another soon a bench warmer.

If I was Valencic Snidjers amervor id look for a loan in league two cause this clown ain't going to play em and Snidjers would do any team a good job so would Valencic.

As for who would come in if we sack him well I'm not bein funny people would apply a can gaurentee you most league two managers would love this squad decent players in it.

potential is there just not bein managed properly I'm sorry but if we fall to 17-18th this weekend it's no were near good enough you can't survive just on home form.

Sooner or later teams around us are going to start wining home and away were already miles of the top 2

this weekend we could be 7 points off playoffs lose to Northamphton and they all win 10 points if we lose touch with play offs we have nothing for the money he's wasted.

Does anyone know which county players have been called up for international duty this weekend?...wycombe have a friendly at home to leeds on friday evening....

I applaud Moniz for offloading rubbish & recognising he's signed some tripe. Credit to him for that. (I have never drooled over him, I've been patiently waiting to see what he is made of. Sadly, the evidence is now quite convincing).

However, the effect is that he has reverted to Edwards & Smith as first choice selections. He continually ignores Thompson & persists with Stead, the latter played in any but they most obvious role!

Tactically, the bloke got it right against Portsmouth but invariably gets it wrong. We have been abject more times than we have been decent, we can't buy a win/point away from home & we sit in an uncomfortable position in the League after a third of the season. We got dumped out of 2 Cup competitions by being atrocious.

There is precious little to suggest that the manager is going to improve matters.

I simply ask, where is this optimism springing from?

You say we can't buy a point away from home but is that correct? We have got two draws in our last two away matches. We did get knocked out of two cup competitions, but we also lost against Aston Villa in a cup match after playing well which was no disgrace. I wouldn't say I'm an optimist or a pessimist but I have paid for a season ticket, and the football at home - with the exception of the Mansfield league match - has been better and more entertaining than pretty much every match under Derry and Kiwomya.

Does anyone know which county players have been called up for international duty this weekend?...wycombe have a friendly at home to leeds on friday evening....

I'd imagine Carroll to sit on northern Ireland's bench Hewitt at Wales under 21 on bench and amervor for Tongo I believe and we have replacements for all 3 aswell

You say we can't buy a point away from home but is that correct? We have got two draws in our last two away matches. We did get knocked out of two cup competitions, but we also lost against Aston Villa in a cup match after playing well which was no disgrace. I wouldn't say I'm an optimist or a pessimist but I have paid for a season ticket, and the football at home - with the exception of the Mansfield league match - has been better and more entertaining than pretty much every match under Derry and Kiwomya.

are you suggesting our away performance is improving 😂😂 Bristol rovers outplayed us and should of had 3 or 4 luckily Easter came on near the end otherwise he may have had a few exter we had a few chances they nearly nicked it.

At home yea I suppose it's decent football but let's be real Mansfield could have 3 or 4 aswell Plymouth we couldn't score for our lives York we couldn't score til they gifted us a goal we threw a 2-0 lead against Luton to marginally win.

Accrington we had about 1,000 shots and still drew I read a statistic not long ago that we have the most shots per game in this league and we only win games at home by the odd goal.

I mean how long can we go on at home he is just getting lucky same thing happens to Derry il be honest last year when we was flying in 3rd and eventually we got found out just like we will at home soon.

One thing Derry had was motivation and passion one thing moniz doesn't have especially in local Derbyshire I don't think I saw a slight ounce of passion against stags or Salford .

If we lose next 2 at home I wonder how long itl be til you all start saying he's clueless unless you're going to be in denial this is my view only I to like you am a season ticket holder.

And I've not seen one game were we are super clinical and look like we are a team that's going to just slice teams up.

Il give Pompey credit they came here and cut through us like we weren't there had wingers with pace and creativity and you can see why there up there there winning away and not losing at home.

We win at home so far against average lower half teams lost to 2 top 7 sided teams and beat one team in top 2 by a extremely fortunate free kick.

Itl be interesting how we do against a good Northampton side in form and a very physical Barnet side to see how good we are .

To me though I don't think moniz has enough knowledge of this league what's required and what's effective.

I mean it's a very physical league I still believe we would of been far better off with a English manager who's managed this level before with success becuase this squad is good.

Even Paul cook said we shouldn't be were we are with the players we have money we've spent and he's damn right.

Like I said we don't play this Saturday others beneath us win we go 17th-18th and teams even Lower can close the gap so no danger really is there bein 17th.

Halfway through November if they all win that is could be 16th at least tho think about it are you happy to just say oh he will come good.

This season to me didn't really seem to be planned out thought out no strategy or structured plan .

Transfer panel buying there own types of players manager arguing wid branston over strikers etc etc then going public to cause more petty arguments the signs were there from day 1 it's like painting a wall with cracks.

You can make it look shiny and pretty on the outside but under the surface the same crack remain only growing as time goes by and that's how the performances are at times sometimes great sometimes apailing

I could guess those were the 3 but no confirmation from county perhaps ive missed it.Obviously no 1 from wycombe has been called up as they have a friendly friday night....whats going on????

I could guess those were the 3 but no confirmation from county perhaps ive missed it.Obviously no 1 from wycombe has been called up as they have a friendly friday night....whats going on????

We're the ones who cancelled not Wycombe I'd imagine it's due to those 3 and Wycombe have probaly arranged a friendly as this was announced a while back.

Not sure why we have cancelled tho as we have the replacements and if others win we drop further down

@[member="Notts26"] huge contradiction in saying about being lucky when you previously stated that we average the most shots per game? If anything it's unlucky really and Moniz can't help his strikers being unable to finish. We can't blame him for most of our losses but Salford and Oxford were atrocious and both his fault imo, give him until the end of the season and then see where his future lies

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@[member="Notts26"] huge contradiction in saying about being lucky when you previously stated that we average the most shots per game? If anything it's unlucky really and Moniz can't help his strikers being unable to finish. We can't blame him for most of our losses but Salford and Oxford were atrocious and both his fault imo, give him until the end of the season and then see where his future lies

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Just because we average a lot of shots doesn't mean there clear cut does it ? I could have 40 shots in a game from say 25-30 yards there not clear chances are they.

teams have come here like Accrington and had 2 shots and got a point there is a difference if we're averaging say 10 shots a game and getting 1-2 goal.

All that tells me is someone ain't doing there job in shooting coaching

@[member="Notts26"] huge contradiction in saying about being lucky when you previously stated that we average the most shots per game? If anything it's unlucky really and Moniz can't help his strikers being unable to finish. We can't blame him for most of our losses but Salford and Oxford were atrocious and both his fault imo, give him until the end of the season and then see where his future lies

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Okay so let's say you're right yea so let's say it's the players fault.

So is it Jon steads fault he's on the wing defending ?

Is it Izale Mcleods fault when he's told to drift out wide aswell?

Also is it Izales fault when we boot the ball to him upfront on his own and when he gets pissed that's his fault to cause its the players fault ain't it ?

And I suppose it's not the idiot who players stead as a winger Barmby as a left back or the idiot that instructed hoof all at Salford can't be moniz fault.

Or how about the time we need a fresh pair of legs to bring some energy and bite to the midfield and we bring Julian Jenner on who's knackerd already that must not be his fault either.

I think moniz is to blame for this as much as anyone I hate to argue against you but he's the skills coach apparently

@[member="Notts26"] Izale got put out wide for half a game then got moved up top for the second half, but as for Stead I don't think he should be in the team at all let alone on the wing, but either Campbell or Burke usually take that spot anyway. Izale has lived off lofted through balls for the past 5 seasons now so why is he not performing consistently when we give him that service? I think really that despite the childish attitude that Moniz can sometimes have we have played nice football and been unlucky with results. If he gets sacked we'll likely appoint some masochist who puts together a hard-working but talentless team like usual. We've attracted many good players through Moniz's coaching reputation and I think that if we are to look in the future we would need Moniz to be here to nurture our wide variety of promising young talent so I say keep and hope we can get more luck

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@[member="Notts26"] Izale got put out wide for half a game then got moved up top for the second half, but as for Stead I don't think he should be in the team at all let alone on the wing, but either Campbell or Burke usually take that spot anyway. Izale has lived off lofted through balls for the past 5 seasons now so why is he not performing consistently when we give him that service? I think really that despite the childish attitude that Moniz can sometimes have we have played nice football and been unlucky with results. If he gets sacked we'll likely appoint some masochist who puts together a hard-working but talentless team like usual. We've attracted many good players through Moniz's coaching reputation and I think that if we are to look in the future we would need Moniz to be here to nurture our wide variety of promising young talent so I say keep and hope we can get more luck

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What Izale has shown was against Luton u give him the ball on the floor in space an he runs at defenders and they don't like it he took Luton apart Campbell is quick can't cross or shoot no disrespect Snidjers is a far better option and just as young De Silva from what I saw.

Is a a lightweight

@[member="Notts26"] thing with Campbell is that if he had good end product he wouldn't be playing in L2. I personally would start Valenic on the right and Genaro on the left for them both to cut in and shoot with Burke in the number 10 role, I think his choice of wingers isn't the best but all our wingers are good players and unfortunately Jenner hasn't shown his talent too often. Unlike most I can see something in Jenner but he needs to show what he's capable of in his sub appearances otherwise there's no choice but to show him the door

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but he has talented players now Curtis Snidjers Valencic Spencer and there not even getting a look in smith is holding up Curtis and he shouldn't be as he's not as good as Curtis Snidjers is better then Campbell.

and if you play hoof ball to a striker with pace it makes more sense to hoof it so he can chase on it not like Salford just boot it in air so it hangs before dropping Izale has no chance winning a header.

From what I've seen of him he is clearly a player that plays on the last man and wants it either on the ground Thro gaps or over the top into a space not in the air for a hour.

He has that Murray play they want it on the floor in space were they can get a run at the CB that's my opinion

@[member="Notts26"] Salford was a blip so I wouldn't formulate any thoughts from that game, generally McLeod gets good service bar a couple of games. He's inconsistent unfortunately but Murray's return will get him on his toes every game as they are similar players who will be battling it out for a starting place. As for my thoughts on Jimmy, look on the thread I made.

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