Chris

When you see calm, and collected passing like this against a decent team you have to feel impressed. Yet when it leads to a goal like this, I think I may just need jaw surgery because I can't get mine back up from off the floor.

It's games like this. I dream of upgrading to an executive box and reliving the wonderful moments of our previous PON gathering. I hate Meadow Lane when it's overcrowded; it's frustrating and leads to my anxiety playing games. I've also heard we have sold out.

Can I just say? I'm glad it's not us. That's what makes me thankful, a little selfish I know but these records are nothing but distractions. Cheltenham may rack up quite a few poor records during the course of this season. Good luck to them, but it's better them than anyone I care about.

I feel quite nervous, which is something that I haven't felt so much at home for a while. I see they beat Grimsby Town today 2-1, quite alarming when I started to search "Swindon Town" in Google, a pop-up option for searching 3-1 came up. I realise this is our scoreline from when we last played and Google is aware I search things related to Notts but it better not be a warning sign too. ???? When they are the team where our last time in League Two ended, I very much want us to win, and I would feel disappointed if we lost or even drew due to defensive mistakes. I don't want to see any of them, however, I'll cross the line if it does. I think we should be alright at Meadow Lane. Most likely, it may even be a draw but whatever the outcome is I am not going to let it change my belief or stop complaining about things. I suppose we will have to wait and see, yet I am mindful of a potential further setback.

I'm not bothered, I don't really care either. Ken Clarke attends matches for both Notts and Forest regularly. There's been better Lib Dem leaders too. Whilst I sound more like someone much older, I just don't get the fuss about something like this. Its great others find it interesting, and I respect the discussion within this but for me, I quickly want to forget about it.

@Alan, I just want to clarify. Do you also mean e-mails? I send on occasions newsletters, which is something I should do more often, but I can understand that this might not be something everyone wants to get. If this is the case, and you haven't turned off all your notifications to notice this, If emails are something you would like to be omitted from, just let me know. I'll turn it off within your settings for you, so that you don't get them in the future. Best wishes to you.

Hello, @Niederbayern Pie. Welcome to the Pride of Nottingham. I hope you enjoy being a part of our Notts County community.

The Jackass of smack, Johnny Jackson, played for us and them. Unfortunately, he was a player I highly rated until I heard him speaking nonsense about our club, city and fans. His actual forced move, which wasn't reflected in the media since he had the habit of putting it across in a way whereby people felt sorry for him - is something I will never forgive. He was ungrateful that we took him in, disrespectful because he felt that League Two was beneath him and all the comments he made about Notts County, Nottingham and our fans. It just made me feel like saying to him, well **** off back to London. I would've been sacked if I did, but even colleagues that aren't football fans, felt shocked by his disrespect.

Well, I missed the first three goals as I had been to my dad's. I put the radio on my phone once I did get back, then noticed the score and messages from some of the group team members about scoreline. In football, when your side wins games, and you are playing well, sometimes you forget that it is totally unpredictable at times. Yet you are given an almost false sense of security and I would never have imagined that this would have been a nine goal thriller, with defensive mistakes which could be befitting in a comedy sketch about football. Unfortunately, this highlights how much better we need to be defensively. On the plus point, I don't think it's a case of the 'bubble bursting', I just feel as if we played a very good team who wanted to win just a little more than we did. Had we defended better, the outcome may have been much different, but I don't think we should dwell too much. I think we have been doing fantastically well and games like this just make you reflect a little more, we have a squad that can do well, and we need to see it in all areas of the pitch. We can't always rely on winning games by one more than the opposition, yet at the same time I don't think we need to overly worry. Full respect and credit must go to a very good Colchester United team, their fans won't be as bothered about the four goals they conceded even with their false league position. They will most likely just want to see more consistency with their own performances, which is what I am hoping we can go back to doing. If we defend stronger, we are capable of beating any team in this league. That's not me being biased or overconfident, but it is me saying that we need the right approach and not make such awkward mistakes that prove costly. Jodi Jones sounded quiet in the first half, perhaps guilty of not covering his defensive duties but what a goal he scored. It was absolutely fantastic, whilst I mentioned him, I don't think we need to call out the players individually. I just want to note that it's a team effort and my point was more to mention his contribution towards fixing a slight area he perhaps could have done better. Certainly, there are defenders in our squad that switched off and proved that to be more costly. Isn't that football, though?

3-1 to Colchester. Noah Chilvers 10' Jayden Fevrier 31' Arthur Read 38' Sam Austin 21' It sounds like Colchester United are attacking very well, with us perhaps making it a bit too easy. Hopefully, Luke Williams will try to lift the players and demand more from them.

Norwich City 2-0 Birmingham City QPR 1-1 Coventry City Port Vale 0-1 Bolton Wanderers Reading 3-1 Burton Albion Gillingham 1-2 Mansfield Town Salford City 1-1 Newport County Halifax Town 0-1 Eastleigh (Joker) Rochdale 2-2 Southend United

When I think of past games which are most memorable for me, there are two which stand out the most. Two games, I can't separate them from each other. May 3rd 2014 Oldham Athletic 1 Notts County 1 Back then I went to every game, home and away. We were looking likely to make a return to League Two and our fanbase were reflecting this. The game wasn't very eventful at all; when Oldham scored I got a real sense that everyone had given up. It was just so silent, you could see on the faces of people that they thought that was it. I remember Oldham nearly scoring a second, then all of a sudden we hit the post and had an effort go wide. Around the 70th minute, Notts started to look a bit brighter and 5 minutes later, Alan Sheehan had tucked a penalty away to make it 1-1. This instantly lifted morale, everyone went berserk. Those final 15 minutes were the happiest but most tense for obvious reasons. 1. Bialkowski, 2. Dumbuya (Substituted for McGregor at 73 minutes), 3. Sheehan, 4. Thompson, 5. Liddle, 6. Hollis, 7. Campbell-Ryce, 8. Vela, 9. Murray, 10. Spencer, 11. Grealish. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/27167977 August 27th 2013 Liverpool 4 Notts County 2 I remember a lot of our fans expressing they would be ripped apart, I know of people who were trying to sell their tickets and I just hoped we could go, give a good account of ourselves and try to improve further in the league. In hindsight, I think we did exactly this. This was the first Premier League ground that I have been to too.oo. Jake was very excited to go too. It felt a bit daunting to be at Anfield, yet the atmosphere was very good - even if we weren't joining in as much. I was part of a small group that started chanting early on. I always felt like this would take the nervous off the players and whilst I thought going level seemed impossible. It goes to show what happens when the support is lifted, as the lads did very well. I remember us chanting to Steven Gerrerd what the score was, he turned and, smiled showing the score with his fingers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/23764145

If we can play with that threatening intensity where our attacks bombard and seem relentless, Colchester United will find it difficult to prevent us from scoring. I think they will hope that their own midfield can do enough to break things up. As defensively, that is their issue, and they are quite capable of doing well themselves. But the reason they're not doing as well is simply down to them making too many defensive mistakes. It should prove to be an interesting game, one where I would feel comfortable if we can manage to score early on within the first 25 minutes whilst ensuring we are tight and reliable at the back. I don't think we will witness another goal thriller; one or two goals might be enough to secure the win. Ultimately, we may be denied this by a very much improved Colchester United who hold us to a 1-1 draw. Provided they don't score more than us, it's fine. I know people won't want points to be dropped but in the grand scheme of things remaining unbeaten is more important than the winning streak we are on.

I just watched the interview David Horseman, the Forest Green Rovers manager, gave after the game. He mostly comes across well, but there are some bitter signs for me where he seems to be trying to defend himself more than telling it how it is. "We're not far away, this is supposedly the best team in the league." They did play well, but in the first half they weren't very effective. With incredible determination and a reservoir of untapped energy, they exceeded all expectations. The difference in the first half was we created the better chances and proved ourselves to be clinical on goal. Forest Green didn't have me remotely concerned that they would score in the first half, in comparison to the second half where they came out looking like they wanted to win the game. He uses the word "arrogance" in what he wanted to see from his team, that's never a positive sign from a manager, and he realises his slip in wording when he quickly tries to change his tune. He doesn't finish and adds a deflective comment after he says that there were words said at half-time but insisted it was from him. It's like a school boy trying to explain why he's done something naughty to a headmaster. It's way he keeps adding throwaway comments about how he felt they played, trying to reinforce to the interviewer and listeners that he believes it. Yeah, Forest Green Rovers are the best team to play us so far at Meadow Lane. Yet to complain about missing chances and trying to talk ours down, along with our quality, it really shows a lack of awareness from him and says more about him trying to explain why he can't win a game. I don't think they murdered us in the second half, but they showed a real force in pulling the game back. They did very well, but the deflective comment of them having 7 injuries further backs up my comments. Especially, since earlier in the interview he speaks about them needing to find players, so they can be better. We can see the making of a very good Forest Rovers, however, they did play well. He noted, which seems like a slip, that his side hasn't played as well for 90 minutes. This was part of their issue, as they weren't great attacking in the first half or much after we scored our 4th. I don't think anyone would say FGR were poor, but they didn't do enough to draw or win in my opinion. Had they played like they did in the second half, but for the whole game and they still had lost, I would feel lucky to have 3 points.

Don't worry, you've given plenty of time for people to catch up like @super_ram. Nobody will mind you missed a day, just have fun posting.

At least you knew where he lived; I assume none of your family ended up camping outside the house trying to bump into him? ???? What a hero Mrs T was for doing this. You really should have, but I know what it's like. I think it's something that once you do, you gain that confidence but until then there's always that nervous element like you feel you are bothering people or should leave them to enjoy their night.

@Fan of Big Tone: I was told this also after the game and by a friend that's a steward. I don't know how serious it was, but hopefully news will come out about how they are doing. A flashing ambulance was stationed by the Family Stand, specifically on the Jimmy Sirrel Stand side.

I think a few could realistically do a job here, they looked very good as a team. Reece Welch is a special talent though. I think he's the lad that tried to wind up Jodi Jones though, which was a bit daft. I might be wrong.

It's a funny tweet, but really they need something else to help them from conceding that amount of goals.

Deeney thuggishly barging into Bostock, without a response. ???? Deeney spinning around trying to convince the referee he was fouled, he should have been yellowed for that. Clear diving! Three defenders on Deeney, none of which could block the ball. It's quite poor. I don't blame Stone here! Their second goal, Stone can be blamed because he wasn't watching the ball. He looked like he had spaced out at a key moment, but defensively again it was poor.

I didn't recall the name until I saw his wiki photo, then I remembered him. He was too lightweight and easily overpowered back then, but he was young. On paper, I remember feeling the loan would give us some pace, but he never got going. I wasn't even aware he played for Forest Green Rovers, I wished I had checked in hindsight as it would have been interesting to note how he did if he played against us.

I would be more critical of Jim O'Brien, Aidan Stone and Sam Austin, by their own standards, each were just above average. Rest of the players did well in various levels.

I never met Jimmy Sirell either, but his daughter, Audrey, is such a lovely lady. I say, I never met him but once my grandfather, Ray, spoke to him and afterwards he told me that it was our greatest manager. I couldn't really understand what Jimmy said, so I paid little attention to me being so young at the time. I just assumed it was a supporter that my grandfather knew, until after he told me. I have always enjoyed hearing stories about Jimmy. I wished I had listened more closely to their conversation, but he seemed a very nice person, that was down to earth. I know it meant a lot to my grandfather, that Jimmy took the time out to always speak to him when they crossed paths. Brian Stubbs once told me a story about a pitch invasion that happened and how he was clobbering people, to which Jimmy didn't like and told him to do it away from sight. ???? Les Bradd also once told me that Jimmy would do anything for anyone, always making sure the players knew they could approach him, but nobody wanted to anger Jimmy as he commanded such high respect that he could be quite fiery when annoyed. ????

After the game yesterday, quite a few of the players kindly signed my prints, and I am very grateful for this. I also spoke to Dave Bracegirdle, of the BBC and told him how much I enjoy his commentary and approach to his work. He probably thought I was a right weird sod, but he listened and thanked me. Both he and Mark Stallard praised my art as well. Going as far as to say, they're surprised the club doesn't work with me. ???? I'm not interested in making money for wealth, but to keep my passion going. Jodi Jones, Macaulay Langstaff, Connell Rawlinson, Aaron Nemane, John Bostock, David McGoldrick all spoke to me and were thankful that I gave them new prints in both home and away. In fact, a couple asked me if I was sure, I think if they take the time and sign some, the very least I can do is thank them. I may have forgotten one or two, but it gave me such a huge lift to feel appreciated. From that, it gave me the encouragement to ask Luke Williams if I could show him a print I have of him, which I haven't had the chance to give him. Unfortunately, I forgot that there's two in A4 size in my binder than I wanted to get signed. One for me and one for a good friend - @Ryan Raynor. If any of the players read this or their families, it means so much to me and I hope it wasn't too cheeky of me to ask. I really enjoyed the conversations, particularly with Jodi who was an amazing person, and King Williams as well. Today, I spent some quality time with my dad. I considered it my day off, yet I still uploaded my fan pictures and did the match report. @super_ram took a trip down memory lane with me; it was a good chat. I can't wait for him to come to Skegness with us. ❤

I'm a bit late to this, although I noticed many, many comments and tweet regarding something Connell Rawlinson had said on Twitter. There's no need for anyone else to get involved, that's my first thought. I am sure Tom is capable of rising above the comment. So, why the need to make a mountain out of a mole hill is beyond me, but there's always something. I have also seen worse things said, which nobody gets up in arms about. Tom seems like a very nice lad. I haven't spoken to him in person, but I have exchanged messages. I don't think there's any harm in what he does; he's perfectly entitled. If people who didn't play football couldn't have a say, well, there are some managers who have done remarkably well in the game and have never kicked a ball. Many of the boxing pundits have never thrown a competitive punch. So, it's a bit of a silly comment by Rawlinson, but I haven't lost any respect for him. We don't know what prompted the tweet, so that's why I say it's got nothing to do with anyone but the two people involved. It's very much, something some are trying to make a bigger thing out of. Rawlinson has done right by deleting the tweet, that's the end of it as far as I am concerned. As I say, Rawlinson is just as much entitled to his opinion, but this extends to Tom too. This isn't something to be taking arms against, whilst it's not needed - worst things happen. Those outraged by the comments, I hope they don't overlook some of the abusive things that happen which are far worse but get ignored. At the end of the day, we should stand as one and be kinder. End of...