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Doncaster are basically promoted now, they’ve got a 4 point gap over 4th place Walsall who now haven’t won in 12 matches! It’s extremely unlikely they will win their last 2. I actually hope their promotion is confirmed this weekend, it might give us more of a chance against them!

I am slightly worried that we have a bit issue when it comes to playing at home under Stuart... Overall in his 33 matches the results have been as follows; W13 D7 L13. Last season we only won 3 matches from 11 at home under Stuart. This season we’ve won 10 from 22, but 6 of these wins have been against the current bottom 7 in the league, we’ve then only managed 4 wins against the rest of the league! (1st-17th!). That’s not good and right now we are currently 20th in the home form table which measures the last 8 matches. For the majority of Notts fans, this is where we see the team play more often. I’ve always thought generally fans are more lenient if your home form is solid but away form is patchy, but for us under Stuart it’s been the other way round. So now it's starting to put him under a bit of pressure... Is it just me or do you think our home form is becoming a major issue?

Honestly I feel like I could write an essay on that match, there's so much to cover, but I'll spare you all! It is just incredibly disappointing and frustrating, Cheltenham in the first half were just time wasting but I don't feel we ever did enough to trouble them. We scored because they made a massive mistake. 100% credit to Jatta for be alive and sharp, but we didn't create a clear-cut chance until Bedeau headed against the post late in the second half. And that was from a set-piece, like most our chances, in open play for all the ball we didn't threaten them enough. Even when they pushed forward and left a lot of space at the back we had no idea how to exploit it. I think some extra subs and earlier wouldn't have gone a miss either, by the 60th minute they had 4 fresh pairs of legs on the pitch but we failed to react. I don't know why our central midfielders are un-sub-able. It's a key area of the pitch, but we never change it. I think Palmer and Abbott are great but they had both just played 90 minutes against Bradford, they were tiring, surely Hinchy/Edwards would've been better?!

Well now that Bass is back this must go down as one of the most pointless signings ever. I can't believe we signed him just in-case Slocombe got injured, the chances of that happening were so slim but even if did happen we could’ve then loaned in an emergency keeper... I feel like we’ve just wasted money and Tyler’s time here…

So with just the two matches remaining now we have made this a lot harder than it should’ve been! Crewe are all but done, they could still make the play-offs but it’s extremely unlikely. Chesterfield can only get to 70, but they have favourable fixtures in Morecambe and Accrington. Salford play Colchester next and Grimsby are away at MK... We simply have to win against Harrogate because Doncaster at home will not be easy. If we scrape over the line, it’s going to be quite possibly the most bizarre play-offs for a while as no-one will be in good form or have much confidence they can win them.

I think we can finally put our automatic dreams to bed now. From those 16 matches that were initially posted we've picked up just 16 points (with 2 still to play) and we’ve only won 2 of our last 8, it’s quite amazing it’s remained a possibility for so long but it was always looking less and less likely...

Hull City 1-0 Preston North End Millwall 1-1 Norwich City Lincoln City 2-1 Bolton Wanderers Wigan Athletic 3-1 Rotherham United Accrington Stanley 1-1 Carlisle United Chesterfield 0-2 Bradford City Eastleigh 1-0 Yeovil Town Wealdstone 1-1 Maidenhead United

I’m half wondering whether Didzy from the bench might help both him and us. Give him the last 35 minutes against a tiring Cheltenham defence? I’d also be tempted to give Jatta a break too, I feel Traore might actually do better if he starts and plays upfront. Controversial but I’d start Jarvis over Jodi right now, I’m still not convinced playing at wing-back suits him but I really like him when he’s on the ball and going forward. I guess if the team is released on Monday and Jatta, Didzy & Jodi aren’t in it everyone will be panicking! My guess is that none of my thoughts will happen though, maybe just one/two changes from Thursday. Whatever the team I just hope we go for it a bit more from the off. We need to get out this rut of poor home form, I really don’t like these non-event first halves we have succumb to at the minute. When was the last time we scored a goal in the first half at home? Feels like it was months ago…

Considering we’ve only won 3 games since March it's nuts that we could still possibly finish in the top 3! I'm still looking the other way so I’m just glad that none of the play-off chasers won. Today’s results were almost perfect for us.

I think I'd have Abbott, Didzy and Bedeau as my top 3. Not much between them, except one did something extraordinary

Not going to lie I had pretty low expectations for the match so I was pleasantly surprised at how well we performed in the end. I think a draw was a fair result, neither team was really able to open up the other team’s defence but there was no lack of effort or endeavour from anyone. I think we looked slightly more assured at the back then them, midfield was solid but the attack just lacked a touch of cutting edge at times. Jatta has looked like a different player these past few games though, he’s seemingly lost all his physicality and balance. Have we just exhausted him or did someone switch places with him when he was on international duty with Gambia? Need to win at home on Monday now, otherwise that point will have been in vein.

George Abbott is up against Nathan Lowe and Bobby Pointon of Bradford... I'd make him the favourite, I think Nathan Lowe only having played 22 matches in League 2 is a bit unfair against the other two. In terms of Player of the Season for League 2 Cheek, Molyneux and Lowe (again) are the candidates. I am slightly surprised Didzy didn't get a nomination. No idea why only 3 players have been nominated in these categories, almost makes it look like there's no-one in League 2 worthy, especially when one of the candidates only played in the League for half the season!

Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Millwall Coventry City 2-1 West Bromwich Albion Bolton Wanderers 2-2 Wycombe Wanderers Stevenage 1-0 Blackpool AFC Wimbledon 2-0 Chesterfield Fleetwood Town 3-2 Barrow Altrincham 1-3 Rochdale Boston United 2-0 Wealdstone

@Chris No, you are not the only one who didn't recognise him. I actually assumed that article was bad journalism as the picture appeared to show a man in his late 50s! I genuinely couldn’t believe it until I googled Matt Hamshaw - he's only 43! He's younger than Stuart Maynard!

I think @ARLukomski should be docked points for doing so badly considering he posted his predictions during the second halves!