17 minutes ago, Magic magpie said:

Totally agree we can’t keep ignoring the ultimate promblem which is the goal keeper 

I feel the club will but now is the time to act.

There must be a good enough keeper available on a free, the issue is money now though. Harry Kewell has spoken about two more players, so we will see.

On 03/09/2018 at 14:12, Magic magpie said:

Whats your thoughts guys ?

I'm not sure I can say. ????

Midfield, defence and keeper.

I can't see things improving much with Ross Fitzsimons in goal, he has no confidence and every good save he makes is ruined by several mistakes which makes you question his actual ability. With the defenders you know that they could if someone organised them better, so which makes me come back to Fitzsimons.

Both the defence and keeper but how many new defenders can you field before you start to realise that Ross Fitzsimons not ready for the number 1 shirt? People may continue to blame the defence but there is nothing else to compare.

The club must gamble on signing a keeper.

23 hours ago, B&Wstripes said:

Midfield, defence and keeper.

I can't see things improving much with Ross Fitzsimons in goal, he has no confidence and every good save he makes is ruined by several mistakes which makes you question his actual ability. With the defenders you know that they could if someone organised them better, so which makes me come back to Fitzsimons.

I agree.

If you took a gamble on saving the wider issues and a keeper with more experience could do this, I don't see why the club wouldn't go for it. We have had strikers who look quality but haven't had service, people complained but now we have a keeper afraid of his own shadow and voice.

It's not just the defence it's also the keeper

Kevin Nolan seemed to blame the attack which wasn't the pressure, we was scoring and creating chances but when you concede its only going to put pressure on the strikers. I feel the blame more falls on the keeper and his lack authority, if the midfield helped with defending I do feel it would be improved.

The issue is the defence and keeper, neither seems to have faith in the other.

Nobody marks or tries to win the ball back.

If they do, people soon start to drop off and we need to be more in the oppositions faces when they have the ball. I don't think Fitzsimons or the wing backs are helping but as a team everyone needs to improve.

Confidence. fitness and effort throughout the whole squad not just the defence, it's a team problem and there's no easy fix.

I think the defence and the goalkeeper have to be as one .. fitzsimons needs to command more .. but let’s hope this weekend we will see the turn around 

The defence will sort itself if you put a decent keeper behind it and a good defensive midfielder in front of it! The back four although far from perfect is adequate for the division, but they need a keeper to bellow at them, alert them to threats and command his box, plus they also need a bit of a shield in front. Without that and we are back to the Moniz way of no protection at all in front, but at least they had a decent keeper behind.

The defence would be better if a keeper was being more vocal. Ross Fitzsimons acts like he's fallen asleep vocally and he never reacts like you would expect after conceding a goal.

The keeper could be good enough if he used his voice and put more quick thinking into practice.

There's no denying it is.

It's concerning the amount of goals Ross Fitzsimons has shipped past himself, it's hard to defend and I expect better from the whole squad.

Harry Kewell must believe Ross Fitzsimons would be okay, he has spoken about not bringing in a keeper and the two new signings would back this up.

Notts almost has a complete new defence.

I hope things can start to improve from here because I don't feel it's just the defence or midfield that is the issue.