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The results: Derby County 2-3 Watford Ipswich Town 0-0 Wrexham Bolton Wanderers 0-0 Bradford City Mansfield Town 1-3 Huddersfield Town Crawley Town 1-1 Accrington Stanley Crewe Alexandra 3-3 Chesterfield Eastleigh 0-2 Hartlepool United Morecambe 0-0 Yeovil Town In a tricky round, well done to our winner @super_ram, who nailed his joker. Incidentally, it was his team who messed up my joker by failing to hold on to a two-goal lead. There is truly no justice in this world 😉 In our leaderboard, @4everapie remains top, with all the top four staying unchanged and @super_ram the big mover this week... That's us done for another week, I'll post next Saturday's fixtures on Wednesday as usual. Thanks for playing and have a good week!

Colchester have a habit of playing well against us. Whether they'll challenge further up the table remains to be seen, but they looked useful yesterday. They got a bit of luck with their first goal, but they made the most of it and it was a well-earned win for them. We started brightly but I felt we eased off after going ahead and handed the initiative to Colchester. After that it was a question of scoring against a very deep and compact opponent, which is tricky at the best of times. In the last couple of seasons we've become reliant on Jones and McGoldrick to unlock the door for us, and without them the end product is a bit lacking. Add to that the constant mistakes in goal and we're dropping points in winnable games.

Isn't that what they put in caipirinha?

Yes it’s true that Tsaroulla, Grant and Bennetts all have ability but one thing they all have in common as well is the missing end product. With Tsaroulla and Bennetts it’s the final ball, the cross and particularly last season for Tsaroulla It was his shooting. He would dribble past three players and then sky it over the bar. If he could work on that he would be real player for us . With Grant he just lacks that ruthless streak. If he had it he could be our top scorer. What I’ve like about Bennetts is his willingness to take players on and her crosses in. He has the technical ability that some of the others lack. I could vote him as a man of the match but he has to do it more consistently and with more assists. Having said all that, I would like to see Kouyhar get a start, to see what he could do. It’s the same with Jarvis they need a consistent run of games to bring out the best in them. I think after Saturday’s performance, Martin Paterson might be willing to make a few changes.

I think everytime Maz comes on he is very positive, always driving at players and getting crosses in. I think he shows more determination than many of the players, a bit like Austin used to.

There's a couple of things here for me. I thought Colchester was everything I'd expect from a Notts side this season. Remember when we were sold the idea of "dark arts" and being physical and more direct? I didn't see that against Colchester. I thought they were probs the best side I've seen at Meadow Lane and that's including us against Shrewsbury. They were disciplined, drove some good passes behind our high press and the front three bullied us all day long. Also helps when you've got a good keeper who catches and doesn't have a 60% rate of giving the ball to the opposite side. I think that a large majority of people within the club and watching now think that Roos is the biggest hinderence since Alan Smith's days of being a statue. They have to act or watch us lose more money by not achieving promotion and Paterson sacked as he can't navigate a boat with a gaping hole in it. Two tactical issues stand out for me which I think is on Paterson. We are easy to counter and break the lines of. We do have good defenders but some times I think we'd be better with three in midfield with someone screning the back line and Palmer and Robbo abit pushed up. Secondly, we fall off a cliff when it gets to the 25 yard area. The amount of players which get to just outside of the area, all of a sudden are hit with a moment of indecision. Grant is the worst for it but Hall is a very close second. Jarvis has shown that he might be capable but I dunno. This Jan is huge, but I do find comfort in the fact Montague is at the club. I hope/reckon that we'll see signficant changes to our team in Feb to now.

I couldn't agree more Robbie. The more you think about the last transfer window the worse it gets. I was impressed with Colchester yesterday. They were very fit and very organised, but we should have created more and we should be able to beat teams like this. It could be a long 38 days waiting until January. Let's hope not.

It's a great result for the tiny nation, & I'm sure the players chosen to represent it during the World Cup Finals will never forget the experience, I read in the report that most of the squad were born in the Netherlands & some have played in Europe & the football league, which does put the achievement of qualifying into context somewhat.

Yes he was good for them, but unfortunately Notts made him look good. Our star man Jatta wasn't so good on the day because, Colchester prevented him from being good for us.

If Clubs don't give young players an opportunity to show what they can do at a higher level they can easily miss out on something special. Alex Ferguson was a big proponent for giving young players a chance & the rest as they say is history.

Maybe a debut for #Notts next Saturday?

@menzinho You only have to look at the problems we had last season against the top sides, then realise that 8 of the 10 outfield players playing for Notts yesterday were in Maynard's squad last season. Where's the physicality we were promised?

This game was a big test for Notts & it would demonstrate how the squad stand in the League 2 scheme of things, & whether they can compete at a high level against the top sides. With some very tough games to come against the leading sides in December, I believe it was important for Notts to put in a good performance against Colchester, but unfortunately it didn't happen, & Colchester were simply the better side on the day. Why? Because they won the tactical battle. Colchester were another side to come to ML with a plan. A plan that we see time & time again by opponents at ML. Notts couldn't better it once again. I think that Notts have to look at their present style of play, because the way Notts are playing is not good enough to counter the way opponents set up against them especially at ML. It doesn't help when Notts give away goals that could have been easily avoided. Unfortunately, I don't think that our number 1 goalkeeper is good enough & until a change is made, Notts will continue to concede soft goals like they have been doing from the beginning of the season. Another big point, 8 out of the 10 outfield players who lined up against Colchester played under Maynard, & Maynard's team had a poor record against the top 10 teams last season. This side struggled just as the side struggled last season to break teams down. It is also conceding soft goals just like last season. The January transfer window cannot come quick enough.

Yes, he was good for them. Also, Tovide always looks decent when he plays against us, he's not really a goal-scorer just more of a battering ram but he causes problems and brings his team mates into play.

Disappointing result but the well organised good teams in this league always are our biggest challenge. That said I wouldn’t start panicking too much yet and I certainly don’t think we need to rip everything up and start again. I thought we created more chances yesterday than we did against Harrogate and at 1-1 we looked more likely to score. But we didn't and after that we looked like the confidence had gone from us. Even breaking it down, their first goal is incredibly lucky it could’ve deflected anywhere, if that had been us the ball would’ve gone to an opposition player! 3rd goal didn’t really matter in the end but that shot should not have gone in. Interesting idea about changing tactics, I don’t think we’ve got the right players to suddenly start sitting back deep and relying on defensive stability and winning matches by the odd goal. I wouldn’t want us to have suddenly defend 10-15 set-pieces every match, it’s bad enough having to defend 5 or 6 at the minute! I just think we need to really focus on breaking teams down and playing quicker and braver, that can be fixed with training sessions alongside a bit of creative thinking from our coaches.

Bugger the grey knight......Lets go full on Black Knight...iam sure MP knows all about it....he's played enough!!!! But would the Owners allow it????

https://www.cu-fc.com/news/2025/november/21/micah-wins-goal-of-the-month-award/ On loan from Charlton Athletic

I think we had this conversation before but are Notts too nice or naive? An element of the dark arts is required in League 2 IMO. Notts are almost like a white Knight but we need to be more grey Knight I feel.

Last night around dusk we were lucky enough to spot a barn owl hunting in the fields we overlook, an awesome sight, it got quite close to the cottage so we had a great view. It rained very heavy during the night and early this morning here in Flamborough but by mid morning it had stopped and the skies cleared. We’ve been a walk around Bridlington, we parked on the front and the walked along the promenade to the harbour, obviously most things are shut and consequently it’s very quiet, on the way back to our cottage we stopped off at Tesco and got some lamb shanks for dinner tonight. Yum.

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Two things I took from that game yesterday, We won’t get promoted with Kelle Roos in goal There’s no chance of the Kelle Roos Goalkeeping Academy opening anytime soon God help us us in December