@TheSkipper I understand that mate, no one was getting tight to the players and Duffy should be shouting at his players to perform better. I'm only suggesting as a winger he should be doing more than half heartedly going into it. 

@ARLukomski there are many to look at, Smith on loan from Forest has been rumoured and in truth he is a fairly decent goalkeeper but same with Jones he can only be as good as the defence in front of him. But having said that if we get a commanding goalkeeper would the defence tighten up? 

If not I would try and get Anel Ahmedhodzic on loan from Forest. CM/CB. 6'3

I would just try to get the midfield to pull back when out of possession, Notts can't defend with 4 players alone and the team can't commit too many men forwards. Right now they are trying to pull off something new and at times it looks good.

The problem is the defending is a massive down side to what KN is hoping to achieve.

Give it time.

On 18/08/2018 at 13:16, Chris said:

@ivansneck pointed out elsewhere in another discussion that Notts lack pace, he's correct the defence has little. If you remove Jones who was caught out of position a lot, there's nothing. Duffy looks overweight for a footballer, seriously he seems to sprint well early on but after a few times he's just huffing and puffing.

Nolan needs to quit changing the formation.

He needs to go out and sign a keeper, the defence can improve but it will take someone to organise them. Fitzsimons isn't that player, he's not vocal and his confidence is destroyed right now.

Get a stronger keeper in with experience, drop Duffy or remove the captaincy from him.

Then either play Hall/Brisley or Hall/Duffy. Give someone else the wing back position/right back - anyone but Hewitt.

Notts played with a lot of confidence going forward, yet Duffy never lead the team and he didn't organise the back four properly. Brisley seems lost, Jones was awful and Fitzsimons doesn't have hands. People need to stop defending him because it's becoming a joke, when we realise this things might improve. No wonder Nolan doesn't think we need a keeper jesus christ.

I think a valid argument would be the lack of fitness the defence shows.

Even Dan Jones seems a yard slower than last season, Richard Duffy seems to be carry a lot of weight (or is pregnant) and Shaun Brisley seems to have turned into a snail over the summer.

Fitness, was worked on in pre season easy to see but it's not being shown on match days. However, Nolan wants passion from his players as he said "players grew up watching how I play, tonight they didn't do that" he wants them to play how he played and he went in full on game in game out never took it easy. 

I have no idea, maybe it's partly bad luck and confidence? I don't know, it needs fixing but I am certain Notts are better than a lot of the teams inline for relegation this season so I am not really bothered where they finish.

But I hope they can gain promotion this season.

If I knew better than the manager I would probably be a lot richer than I am ! 

Last season (Other than the usual dissatisfaction with Duffy & suggestions that Fitz isn’t good enough) no one anticipated that the defence would become our Achille’s heel this season. The change in midfield seems to have left a massive gap between them & the defence and we are getting overwhelmed in the final third. I am not sure we have the personal at the club with the quality or experience to bridge that gap, the nasty ball winner type of player .

I would get them working longer and harder in training, makes changes to those who are playing poorly and just focus on lifting the performance levels up.

Kevin Nolan won't sit back and see the club struggle.

@allardyces tash I agree, the way Nolan as player was, he won't allow players to slack off he will get them working extra hard till they perform and play with pride

Nolan needs to man up and stop having favourites for a start and pick his sides on merit. Where’s the work ethic of last year? Has he learnt a plan B yet? It’s great having attacking players, but if you are just going to allow the opposition to run through midfield you’re not going to win that many games. 

He needs to go back to keeping the game tight and use the extra class of the front 4 to nick a goal to win games. A new keeper that dominates his 18 yard area can organise the back four as he sees the danger first, after that the most pressing need is to tighten up the midfield and look to play on the counter.

After tonight the goalkeeper and the defence 

Unfortunately I think the question may change to...

Would you change Kevin Nolan.

And knee jerk after tonight may lead some to say yes. Especially with the seemingly favourite game of Duffy. How this guy got a new contract I’ll never know, let alone is picked week in, week out.

14 hours ago, hissingdwarf said:

Would you change Kevin Nolan.

no.

however 3 to 5 games this might be switched to a yes, the players make the same mistakes and nolan wont concede that hes in the wrong. remove duffy as the captain and rebuild from the back now whilst we can.