menzinho

Yeah, I'm with @Fan of Big Tone. No idea whether we'll benefit from playing so closely, is it the start of a bad run or will they react and put in a good performance a bit like us against Bradford. That said I'm amazed they conceded 6 to Newport. When we played Newport, they could've played for 2 weeks and I think they'd have done well to have scored... I don't think MK will sit back though, so as long as we can deal with their attackers we should get plenty of space to hopefully hurt them. No idea where we stand with injuries but given we've got a good run of games in a short space, I'd want to change a couple of players - no idea who is and isn't fit though. And I hope Scott is ok because he seems to have just completely disappeared.

Just realised the title of the topic is Jan '26, either I'm missing something or are Notts boycotting 2025?! Brown was slowly eased in and then against Alfreton, after playing so well, his confidence should’ve been high. But he’s just not done it for us, no goals and no assists in the league, I can’t see him drastically improving either so I'd be using that break in the loan deal to end it. I agree Martin should leave, just for his own good, he needs to find a club that will play him. Cundy is basically our emergency centre back, feels like he’s only going to play if everyone else is injured and so far this season our defenders have been pretty much injury immune! I’m still not sure about Gordon either, I know the chances of him leaving are minimal cos we’ve only just signed him, but he seems to have struggled since joining.

Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Sunderland Bristol City 1-1 Luton Town Huddersfield Town 2-1 Stockport County Rotherham United 3-1 Wigan Athletic Carlisle United 0-0 Morecambe Walsall 2-0 Doncaster Rovers Altrincham 2-2 Halifax Town Maidenhead United 2-1 Wealdstone

Luckily I haven't had to battle the food shoppers this year as I'm away for most of Christmas. I did go out for a few things yesterday and it was packed, I was in and out in about 5 minutes, so I survived. I should've left to go to my parents about 1 hour ago but they are still tidying and don't want anyone round yet! Good job I only live 20 minutes away. Back there for Xmas day and then starts a small tour of visiting other family members and friends. I hope everyone has a peaceful and joyful Christmas break

I would say the level of the poorer teams in Scottish Premiership is low League 2 level. Kyle Cameron went to St Johnstone and was immediately made captain! I don't think it's quite worked out how he wanted it to but it tells you a lot about the standard in my eyes.

Yep, it's much better for him to get lots of game time than the odd couple of minutes he'd likely get with us at the moment. He's in a team challenging for promotion, that will give him the added experience of playing under pressure too.

That's your Charlie Adam booted from Fleetwood after they lost yesterday... Charlie Adam: Fleetwood Town sack former Liverpool man after poor run WWW.BBC.CO.UK Charlie Adam is sacked by Fleetwood Town after a run of one win in their past 11 league games Unsurprising but I think the issues run deeper than just the manager at Fleetwood. They peaked when they got to League 1, but they only got there by spending a lot of money. Now the money isn’t being as freely splashed out, I think they are likely to slowly slide back into non-league. It was never going to be sustainable, the fan base just isn’t there, this season they have been averaging about 2,750 for home games. It’s pretty much impossible to not lose a lot of money and have a competitive team…

No-one had a bad game today, a complete role reversal from last weekends outing! Could make a case for a lot of them. Bass helped us by coming and catching everything, Platt was a rock-solid in the middle of defence, Crowley showed how effective he can be when he's on the edge of the oppositions box and even the wingbacks in Austin and Tsaroulla looked dangerous today! But for his goals and all round game I'll give it to Jatta.

It's always a good sign when the players are behind a manager, or head coach in our case now! I think the culture we have at Notts means this should be a thing of the past for us, every player knows what they are signing up for in terms of playing style when they sign for us. We've seen it countless times before when players just give up and are no longer inspired or believe in the managers' tactics.

That was a much-needed win, and after that crazy 5-minute spell that effectively won us the game we had a really solid second half and didn’t let Bradford create a clear-cut chance. We did struggle to play against the Bradford press at times in the second half but we didn’t do anything stupid this time. And we probably created the best chance of the second half too. We didn’t control the game in manor we perhaps want to but we made up for it by being well organised limiting Bradford to half-chances and long shots. I think we missed an out-ball in that second half, someone with pace who could punish teams when they step up on to us. Feels like Martin is just here to make up the numbers and Brown just isn’t having much of an impact. I saw an article in the week about Baldwin and Platt and how both clubs got a good deal. Now I’m grateful for his time with us, I’ll always remember his goals saving us in the Boreham Wood play-off, but my word we absolutely got the better deal! Today Platt was just super solid, won pretty much all his duels and made some vital clearances.

Burnley 1-0 Watford Queens Park Rangers 2-0 Preston North End Blackpool 0-0 Stevenage Northampton Town 0-1 Charlton Athletic Chesterfield 1-1 AFC Wimbledon Morecambe 0-1 Bromley Hartlepool United 2-1 Yeovil Town Wealdstone 0-2 Dagenham & Redbridge

Would he want to come back? He’ll have experienced being part of our relegation squad that was a total mess and given he never played I can’t imagine he enjoyed his time here. I know we are under a completely different regime now but sometimes these memories can put you off.

Well, we’ll find out today, but I’d be surprised. By all accounts just getting into the Top 40 will be a challenge as on the official chart update as of Monday is was only number 85. (Yeah I’m like 1 of about 20 people that still follows the charts!) I saw it was No.1 on the itunes download list but the majority of people just don’t download music anymore, most of it is streaming hence why all the old Christmas songs are back in the charts and one will likely be the No.1 I find it funny seeing stories about the BBC refusing to play it, when in reality they just aren’t playing it because it’s not even in the chart yet! I guess if it does chart they will have a decision to make. They previously didn’t play the Boris Johnson protest song, the Brexit protest song nor did they play Ding Dong the Witch is dead when Thatcher died.

Bradford managed to stop a 6-game winless run by beating Swindon (and they are poor) 1-0 last weekend so they aren’t exactly in great form either. In their 10 matches they’ve played away they’ve only won twice. They don’t score many goals and equally they don't concede that many either, Andy Cook is their biggest threat he’s scored 42% of their goals so if you stop him chances are you’ll be ok. Just looking from the outside you’d expect this to be a poor game, with few goals. Let’s hope that’s wrong! Here’s a small list of things I would love to see: 1) We don’t concede a goal from Bass playing the ball out into the middle of the pitch to a central midfielder being pressed. 2) The inverted wingbacks provide a goal/assist. 3) We play with a good tempo and intensity. 4) We create more chances/have more shots than the opposition. I’ll take 3 out of 4 of those things… Because in theory that should produce a decent result for us! It’s a weird scenario to be in, as we haven’t really played that well of late that so right now I want to see a performance that reflects what this team is trying to achieve. However, we desperately need a win too. Luke Williams last game was on New Years Day, when he left he had won 13 matches in League 2. We are nearly at that point again now and Stuart Maynard is still on 12 wins. We’ve got 4 matches before we hit NYD, he needs to get past that.

What a touch that was, sign him up! I think he’s saying it to get a reaction, he didn’t make the mistake of criticising individuals, rather the whole team which I think is fair. They are still doing pretty well, 10th in the table is solid for them considering they don’t really have a big budget or a great team anymore. I get the aim is to push for play-offs, they would do incredibly well to achieve that. They haven't got close since Steve Cooper departed and that was when they still had all the financial benefits from being recently relegated.