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Today's game was a chore, So I'll present to you the scores: Stoke City 0-0 Preston North End West Bromwich Albion 1-2 Bristol City Burton Albion 5-1 Northampton Town Luton Town 4-0 Wycombe Wanderers Accrington Stanley 2-1 Barrow Gillingham 1-1 Cambridge United Eastleigh 1-1 Woking Solihull Moors 7-1 Tamworth This round the honours are shared by @Garry Lee, @Robbie and @super_ram, who all hit double figures! @magpiejue holds on to the lead overall, while this was also a good round for @super_ram, who goes second. We've got a full round of league fixtures on Monday (the 29th), so I'll post the fixtures for that in the next few minutes. Thanks for playing and see you over there!

Aaaand the results: Portsmouth 2-1 Blackburn Rovers Wrexham 2-2 Watford Burton Albion 0-0 Wycombe Wanderers Peterborough United 2-1 Northampton Town Stockport County 1-3 Stevenage Cheltenham Town 1-1 Harrogate Town Chesterfield 3-1 Barnet Crawley Town 2-2 Oldham Athletic Congrats to @liampie, who wins this round! @Fan of Big Tone also did well once again. At the other end, @Chris, @Joshua, @super_ram and @william1984 face the walk of shame... Our top two @4everapie and @magpiejue are now tied in top spot, with @Dan joining the top three. On Wednesday I'll post Saturday's round, which will kick off a busy festive season with rounds on the 20th, 26th and 29th of December and the 1st and 4th of January. Five rounds in just over two weeks - my crystal ball will be worn out. Thanks for playing everyone!

Terrific game tonight, even though we were second best in terms of play. Dennis' great goal was very important. It would've been a different story if they'd scored the next goal. It'll be interesting to see the penalty - it just looked like a crazy scramble from the far end of the Pavis. I don't think the foul on Tsaroulla was a pen. But Nemane should've been sent off for a second bookable offence. I think how quickly Warne subbing him soon afterwards at HT points to that as well. Fans had a right to be incensed about that. Everyone played their part, but it will be good to get Robbo back and then the skipper.

So I've done the numbers, albeit roughly and over about 10 minutes, so pinch of salt. I'd say that after a keeper (which I don't think count's to the 22) which is imperitive, we're really struggling with Grant. His numbers are quite bad for a player in the attacking category. For the 18 games he's played this season, he's scored 2, which puts him scoring every 9 games, effectively every 2 months. He's assisted once. He's only played a full 90 once this season which was his best performance against Swindon. You can be assured that the board and analysts are looking at this thinking it's not even a fine margin, it's quite a chasmic one. I might be blinkered in that we've had Ruben, Crowley and Didzy aleviate bad performances with creativity and clinical ability, but I do feel he's the first to go when we are pushing games as no one has faith in him performing on a consistant level. What happens to Cotter and Aljofree in the first week of the transfer window will give us a good indication of how many moves to expect. I'm optimistic about the window because I think the bro's have shown courage and guile with getting Montague back, first and foremost. If they get a new GK, 6/10. If they get a new GK and a new AM, 8/10. If they get anything more than that, 10/10.

Just to bring the boring technicalities into our fun fantasy window 🤓😅 we can register a maximum of 22 players, but that doesn't include goalkeepers or any players under 21. Right now, we have 19 players registered, as Hinchy was left out. Even with the 3 free spaces we’ve got a pretty big squad (thanks to most our loan players being under 21). I think we’d need players to leave as well and I agree with @Piethagoram that Cotter and Ajofree going back would make sense. I don't think we need tons of movement, assuming Palmer's injury isn't too bad I think my main priority would be a top attacking midfielder but I agree this could be challenging in January. I don't think we need any more wingbacks and we only play 1 striker so another would mean we'd have 4 of them. We need to make a decision on Mai Traore though because at the minute we act like we’ve only got 2 strikers, we either have to start using him or replace him. I’ve no idea why it's not worked so far, he’s played over 50 matches in the top division in Norway so he’s clearly got something about him, is it just confidence?

There'll definitely be another GK. Palmer's injury may spook them. The evidence so far is that Norburn would drag down a promotion push, so they may prioritise another CM. We have a lot of attacking mids, but none get near to the Didzy/Crowley standard. That might be impossible in the Jan window but wouldn't stop them taking a punt on somebody

Some people's shopping lists aren't realistic. The January window is very difficult to start off with. Notts can't just go out and sign six players - ones that fans would expect to be better than what we have, good enough for L1 in fact, not susceptible to injury, have the right attitude, and be willing to sign for a fourth tier side with a maybe 50:50 chance of promotion. Two good first team signings would be amazing. Not six. Also, why disrupt things so much? Since our poor three-game start we've averaged the required two points a game, and that's been a squad effort.

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I watched on my laptop and once again it was a solid performance from all Notts players. A good team effort against well organised and stubborn opposition.I haven't seen many Notts games this season due to my team playing at the same time but there has been a definite improvement recently.Players that I found a bit disappointing earlier in the season are now performing at a much higher level and playing for the team.This makes it very difficult to pick out one single player.I will add that Jodie Jones seems to be very low on confidence at the moment but I'm sure he will sort himself out sooner rather than later.I agree with above comments regarding how many players deserve being voted for but I have chosen Lorpenda.

I think today it showed we need a bit of spark in the No.10 role, Luker and Hall coming on with 30 to go would’ve been ideal. The fact Traore remained on the bench, even when we needed a goal was telling, this situation needs addressing in January. Overall very solid though, we completely dominated the team top of the league all that was missing was a goal. I was also surprised that Bennetts was taken off so early. Ok he made that one awful pass which gave Walsall their only chance but he actually had the beating of Barrett, Jodi’s crosses were better but I don’t think he got past Barrett once. He hasn’t played for a while though, I suspect it’ll take a couple of matches before he starts to look his best again. I was glad we didn’t suffer a smash and grab by the end because that would’ve been totally undeserved. A lot of talk about that performance by Walsall being anti-football, if that’s how they want to play we can’t change it. They were organised and got exactly what they came for but their unwillingness to push forward didn’t make for a great match.

Recently I have found it difficult to choose a man of the match. I think it’s because we playing as a team not as individuals. So everyone is contributing something of value to the cause. I agree Dennis is a class act and should be a regular starter, but for the Grimsby game we spent more time defending than attacking so I’m going for Platt.

For me, it's a tough choice between Dennis and Bedeau. Bedeau was immense today and it was his usual speciality that caught the eye - what an awesome one-on-one defender he is. I voted Dennis though. That's two away wins on the bounce he's won for us now. I thought he ran Roos close for MoM at Bristol Rovers. But I'll vote for him this time. His all round game as an AM was solid, but the goal was spectacular. Freeze the film at when he received it - he had so much to do, scoring would have been a 1% chance. And we wouldn't have got the second if Grimsby hadn't risked all and left just 1 at the back. Matty Dennis has bagged us so many points this season with his goals.

What a match, the ups and downs of supporting this wonderful team. One down in less than 3 minutes, then a phenomenal goal from Mr Dennis only to fall foul of a 50/50 typical wrestling match and the official (another not very good one at that) gives a penalty 2-1 down. Mr reliable then puts us back to 2-2 and all within the first 25 minutes, not to mention Mr Iorpenda and his unfortunate miss. Time to take a breath it's half time. Mixed up second half, with both teams working for that finish, enabling a further climb up towards the division 2 summit. In the 88th minute Tom comes up with the goods and the ground erupts, what fantastic celebrations. Then knocked back down to earth with the showing of a further 9 minutes to endure, nightmare. But all comes to those who have to wait, another deserved win under our belts. COYP. What a superb team effort 👌

Fantastic win. There's no one team running away with the league but you have to say Notts are one of the better sides in the division. We will need to freshen things up in January and I'm sure we will.

In terms of managers, Martin Allen and Paul Ince managed the franchise before coming to Notts. And more recently, Aden Baldwin played for the Buckinghamshire property deal before he signed for us.

Lovely day here today, played badminton followed by table tennis, slightly worse for wear but where there's a will there's a way. 🥵😁 Had the privilege of seeing Santa and his enterage, the kids loved it.

Glad to hear all went well @Fan of Big Tone all the best for your recovery. Monday the 1st meeting up family to go into Centre Parcs for the week. Looking forward to some peace and quiet but I don't think that will be forthcoming. Tuesday and the rain has gone, what a beautiful morning, we could be anywhere in the world. Birds, squirrels, moorhens and ducks in abundance. We have a fantastic view from our bedroom, Forestry galore. Nice walk to the dome this morning for water indulgence and entertainment. This place is wonderful and all ready for Christmas, with Santa and his Raindeer, elves and lots of parafanalia for this time of year.

The results: Millwall 3-2 Southampton West Bromwich Albion 3-2 Swansea City Burton Albion 0-4 Leyton Orient Huddersfield Town 3-3 AFC Wimbledon Chesterfield 1-2 Swindon Town Walsall 3-1 Bromley Forest Green Rovers 2-1 Southend United Yeovil Town 2-1 Boston United Well done to @4everapie and @magpiejue, who both hit double figures this round! Overall, @4everapie has now moved into a five-point lead at the top while yours truly surges into a glorious 18th place. There's no prediction league on Saturday as Leagues One and Two are taking part in a new-fangled competition called "the second round of the FA Cup" (no, I haven't heard of it either). But there will be a round the Tuesday after, so keep your eyes peeled for the fixtures here at the weekend. Thanks for playing everyone 🙂

One of the takeaways for me is that Jacob Bedeau is the epitome of the fighting spirit we showed on Saturday and is a future Notts County captain. He has the ability to be aggressive while being able to keep it under control. I noticed he was pulling players away when trouble started. Good qualities!

As has already been said there won't be a massive influx of new players. Two or three of real quality players though are needed for promotion. While the win at Bristol Rovers was a good one, we shouldn't let it paper over the cracks. We were poor before the sending off.

Yeah, I think the main candidates will be the back line and Roos. Shout out for Grant and Bennetts who I thought worked really hard when we did go down to 10. Platt just shades it for me, he came back into the side and didn't really put a foot wrong in the middle of that defence.

Well I didn’t see the match but listening to commentary and the post match discussion I’ve given it to Roos, who made a superb save to keep us in the game.

Historic. Love you Notts! Respect to Paterson for getting the best he can out of this squad. Just seen the highlights. The subs all did brilliantly to make the goal. The pass from Gordon is exquisite.

I agree with both @Fan of Big Tone and @McPie the proverbial door is now open. So if the bench regulars are keen enough and want it this is a perfect opportunity for them to shine, make a statement to the gaffer so he has to play them. Good luck one and all. ⚽️✨️

Well that didn’t go to plan did it? A surprisingly lacklustre performance from Notts which is disappointing given their good form of late. I don’t remember a single shot at goal. Unfortunately for Roos both goals can be attributed partially if not wholly to him, for the first goal he pushed the ball straight into the path of their player instead of catching it or at least pushing it to the side and the second goal it looked like he told Jatta to leave it and then fluffed it. He seems to have reverted back to type after impressing lately. We need a reaction now against MK Dons.

Really really poor...Two main reasons for defeat? MP's conservative team selection, not bringing in proven creative players to start the game. Players like Grant and Bennetts are not promotion-level, so these results will happen while we continue with them. To add to all that, Jatta was poor but what the hell was that from Dennis? The worst player on the pitch today. And yeah, Roos' error was awful, but they'd have won anyway. The main problem was with the outfield players.

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Notts were the better side in every aspect of the game today except one, putting the ball in the net. It's a point, we move on with confidence. We are in a good place.

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What a win for Notts tonight against a good side that will be up there at the end of the season. One thing that Martin Paterson has instilled into this squad is grit, determination & character, something that was missing in previous seasons. It was a big loss with the news that Robertson was to be absent due to injury, but Norburn came in & played his part along with his teammates in a famous win tonight.

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Biggest game of the season so far for Notts in my opinion. This is going to be a big test. To beat a top three side would be massive especially at this particular time of the season. Notts need to up their game dramatically from the backs to the wall win against Bristol Rovers. Notts need to attack from the beginning & have a good 20 minutes & hopefully get an early lead. I would like to see Dennis make a start in this one, just behind Jatta & I would also like to see Kouhyar on the left wing. Roos needs to carry on with his good form against Rovers. My first eleven would be Roos, Macari, Platt, Bedeau, Tsaroulla, Robertson, Iorpenda, Grant, Dennis, Jatta. A 2-1 win for Notts would be most welcome & would get the Club and the fans buzzing, however I think it may be a 1-1 draw. How Notts start the match may well determine the final result.

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Man of the match could be one of a few players. Roos made one or two good saves, Robertson was great again in midfield especially without Palmer alongside. For me though Matty Platt gets my vote. Headed everything and put tackles in consistently throughout the match and considering he's been out injured for a while lasted the course well!

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