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Two draws against Bromley now, not bad at all considering they are top. This has been the biggest difference for me this season, our results against the better teams have improved massively, we are a lot more competitive and the fact we can take points from these types of matches really does give me hope we could be on for a great season finale!

Jodi was excellent, but I went for Platt. Just thought he defended really well especially against a team that played so direct and with such a big physical forwards.

Derby County 2-1 Swansea City Portsmouth 1-2 Sheffield United Barnsley 1-1 AFC Wimbledon Blackpool 0-2 Plymouth Argyle Crewe Alexandra 1-1 Gillingham 🃏 Oldham Athletic 2-1 Fleetwood Town Tamworth 2-0 Aldershot Woking 3-1 Altrincham

The thing that amazes me most about Bromley is their style and how they basically pass the ball between 100 & 150 times per match. In 90 minutes of professional football it just doesn’t seem like it could be possible to win so many matches with so little of the ball. It’s like some kind of magic, against Gillingham when they won 4-1 they made 98 successful passes and their passing accuracy was 43%! Bromley are very strong at home too, they haven’t lost a match all season but someone is going to beat them at some point so in a way we should really relish this type of challenge. In the little snippet of training that Notts posted yesterday it showed a lot of the first 11 training including Hinchy too, no sign of Jatta, Robbo or Norburn so I'm wondering if this is a sort of hint. I'm probably reading way too much into it! Anyway, all eyes will be on that team-sheet at 2pm, really hoping we've just been purposely quiet to give Bromley no indication of who is and isn't fit.

I think so, we have a number of players who can play in more than just the one position. With Cotter excluded and Gordon sold the right wingback spot is now one where we don’t have a naturally right-footed player. I know Kouhyar has played at wingback but it’s not exactly his natural position, a bit like Sam Austin last season he’s just a player that seems to fill in where needed. Aside from that I think the squad is in better place now than it was before January. Belshaw is a big plus, Ndlovu adds some much needed depth upfront, Beck-Ray is like a wildcard signing but his speed really excites me and I've got a good feeling that Tangen could be the player that really looks the part in the No.10 role.

Spot on, I’ve just looked at the match report from last season: “We lined up in a back four, with Alex Bass protected by Jacob Bedeau, Matty Platt, Robbie Cundy and Lewis Macari”. Also I was reminded of this: “And our shaky start was compounded on six minutes as Bass got his pass into midfield wrong, allowing Thompson to seize possession and beat the goalkeeper with his shot from the edge of the area”. Bromley will press aggressively from the start but no-one has the energy to maintain it for more than 10/15 minutes, but not giving them possession on the edge of our box will be useful! I’m almost certain this is the kind of thing that will be flagged up by our revolutionary technical board. If we go to Bromley and try to beat them at their game we will lose. I think the big things for me will be to not give away unnecessary set-pieces and work extra hard to stop crosses. Last season we had Jodi, Crowley, Didzy and AJ all in peak form, which helped obviously, but we beat them by getting the ball down and playing round them. Even earlier this season when we were nowhere near the levels we’ve been showing recently, I thought we played well. Crewe went there a couple of matches back and got a 2-2 draw, there’s no reason we can’t get a positive result too.

Have they specified the direction of the stripes though? Am I going to have to try and fit my head through a sleeve to get the horizontal stripes! 😄

Lots of really good performances again, particularly in the second half. I went for Macari, I agree with @McPie he’s actually been really good for a few weeks and yesterday he got forward really well and made a number of important last-ditch interventions.

I keep thinking Bromley will fade, just on the basis when they’ve been in the National League, they’ve always finished high in the table but never top 2/3. However, it’s not happening yet, we need to beat them to start a wobble! I still think MK will finish top 3 just on the basis of insane squad depth (Crowley doesn’t even start for them!) and a manager who’s got two League 1 promotions to his name. Swindon could go either way with mad Ian Holloway and I think Cambridge will be up there as will, their form since playing us has actually been really solid. Hopefully Salford will fall away like you say, but they always look excellent against! Barnet would be my team to potentially mount a late charge, I won’t be surprised if they finish in the play-offs but top 3 is probably a tad out of reach now. Walsall look like repeating last season’s drop off except instead of autos to play-offs, it’s play-offs to mid-table this time.

I agree, after a pretty even first half we had a really good spell second half and played some really slick football at times and dominated up until the last 5/10 minutes when we basically had a make-shift midfield. We had the chances to give ourselves more than just the 1 goal lead, one team is going to suffer a 3 goal defeat soon surely! I was impressed with the first outing of Tangen too, probably not even match-fit but looks to have the ability to play in the tight spaces. Given that Roos got so much stick, it’s only fair to now give a bit to Belshaw because his attempt at a 1 handed punch almost cost us a goal, luckily, he was bailed out by Bedeau (and lack of goal-line technology). 6 from 6, all in the space of 3 weeks is mightily impressive though, thank god we’ve got a free week now and hopefully no new injuries.

Birmingham City 2-0 Leicester City 🃏 Wrexham 1-1 Millwall AFC Wimbledon 0-1 Reading Mansfield Town 2-0 Exeter City Gillingham 1-0 Tranmere Rovers Walsall 2-2 Barnet Altrincham 1-1 Yeovil Town York City 3-1 Forest Green Rovers

Not sure why they’ve included Salford City amongst those teams, did they feel like they just wanted to join in. If that’s the case, I’m almost certain Stafford Rangers would be interested in signing him too! It is intriguing that all the clubs mentioned are in and around the north west, makes me wonder if the ‘big six’ team is one of Liverpool, City or United. I would say moving to a ‘bigger’ club at a young age is no guarantee of success though, get him on the phone to Kion Etete at Spurs, no wait St Mirren or Jack Bearne at Liver.. Oxford City, might help sway his decision making.

I am a tad worried fatigue may catch up with us given how tired the players looked after Gillingham. I think from the players out Jodi could possibly be back in contention for this one, I’d start him if he’s feeling good. Assuming Jatta is missing I’d keep Dennis upfront and I’m expecting Grant back in the side just to keep us looking fresh. I think the subs might be key in this one, especially if it’s close, to keep the high energy up that Martin desires. I just worry we are a tad short in terms of making changes in midfield, Norburn has played every match since early December now, Robertson is just back and Iorpenda has taken over as one the attacking midfield players now. It would be nice to have some fresh legs for the last 30, but that would require leaving one of them on the bench... Barrow have had since Saturday to prepare for his so I’m expecting they’ll come with a plan to frustrate and wait until the second half to potentially go for it a bit more when we could tire again. Funny because even with 5 wins on the spin I’m not super confident it’s going to be 6 from 6, here's to hoping it is though!

No idea how fit Ruben is but when he is up for speed he'll be a great asset for Bolton. Wootton is great form for Stockport at the moment having scored 5 in his last 5. And yeah I didn't think I'd see Baldwin and Bradford doing so well either so fair play to them. All it needed was for Macca to go out on loan to either Cardiff or Lincoln and you'd nearly have a full-house of ex-Notts players battling for promotion in League! Although like you say it's good that he's been playing more regularly for Millwall recently. I'm very happy with the return of Richard, there's a good interview with him on the Notts website about our Jan recruitment and his return for those who haven't seen it yet.

Good point from @Sheffield Pie I think it sums up Martin's approach well, he doesn't want to see the standards drop, even though we are winning it's because we are doing all those fundamental things that he would expect. I wasn't sure how much tiredness played a part against Gillingham, because we had similar +1 leads against both Crewe and Swindon at home and we didn't get pushed back that deep late in the second half. That did mean the ball kept coming back, especially as we looked to just knock it long at times instead of playing the more simple passes. I would've liked to see us try and step up that little bit more. When the ball is on our box, with 7/8 of our players and a number of the opposition players all it takes is a rebound or a ricochet and it can fall perfectly for someone to score.

I'm quite sad it never worked out for him, his first touch and particularly his dribbling was far better than you see from most players at this level. I think when he first signed it was said he can play anywhere across the front 3 positions, which aside from a striker we don't play wingers/wide forwards! It was never going to work out for him long-term as a wingback and I guess the coaches thought he's not going to be able to have an impact as a No.10 either. Hope he does well at this new club though, he's not short on talent in my opinion.

On the technicality that both the Vokes and then Dack saves at the end were offside and therefore it wouldn't had mattered if they scored, I went for Norburn. 🤓😉

I agree @Dripsey3 I thought we were excellent first half and looked really dangerous and totally deserved to be ahead at half-time. Gillingham made some changes second half and looked a lot better, and it was pretty even until the last 15 minutes. I couldn't tell if in those last 15 we were really deep because we were just knackered or because we just thought it was the best way to see the match out. Had Gillingham scored in the last minutes I don’t think I would’ve begrudged them getting a point because we were hanging on. We really struggled to get out and I thought that last 10/15 would've been perfect for Beck-Ray and his speed to exploit the space in behind because the Gillingham defence were so high. That said it was a great effort from everyone to secure the 3 points.

Has Ndlovu chickened out by not taking the No.9 shirt though? He mentioned Macca in his interview, and was very positive about him. I know they are only numbers but it is strange not seeing any of our forwards with that shirt.

The worry for me about Palmer and hearing that he’s getting all these different opinions makes me think he might need some sort of surgery. Something like that at this stage would more than likely end his season. Nothing has actually been revealed, but I don’t see why you’d need to get lots of opinions if it was something straightforward. As for the weekend, I won't be surprised if we see a few changes. Just because after the Accrington loss Martin said he should’ve changed the side because he pretty much played the same team in that block of matches prior. We’ve had the same side now since our little break after Crawley (well almost, just Hall in for Palmer against Swindon) so for me a couple of changes to keep us fresh wouldn’t be a bad thing. I would start Dennis in behind Jatta, Roberston (fitness allowing) and possibly even Kouhyar at wingback because that position does require a lot of running. It’s definitely not players being dropped though, just making sure fatigue isn’t an issue especially as we will want to press the opposition from the off. If we can make it 4 wins from 4 I’ll be very impressed.

I don't know if it's down to it being easier to do the deal by it being a loan, with the option to then sign him or if it's because we are a tad cautious that it might not work out? Traore had played quite a number of matches in the Eliteserien, but now I've looked more into he never really played the majority of the match, sometimes only playing for minutes. Tangen has played a lot more and usually for most of the match too. He even featured for Denmark in their youth teams, so all the signs are promising that he should be able to have an impact when he is up to speed!

I agree, it was another really good performance and a deserved win, their goal was the classic sucker punch and it was only in the very late stages they threatened us. And that's probably the only minor point, the slight panic in those last 10 minutes. We saw it through which is a good thing but Dennis was getting a tad annoyed at the defenders for just punting it long to no-one and he clearly thought they should've been passing it to him! The midfield was a bit all over the place, that wasn't helped by Robbo just being back and then Hall/Ndlovu seemingly taking it in turns to fill in! Ian Holloway was definitely one of the more animated managers I’ve seen this season. It was like watching an orchestra conductor, couldn’t get much of a tune of his team though 😉 The injury to Palmer is really strange though, especially if he felt it 10 minutes into the match against Crewe because he then played the full 90 minutes... I don’t know his pain threshold, but to play for another 80 minutes and for us to not notice it suggests it isn’t major. Is it just one of those niggling injuries that won’t go away, or did he just get back playing a tad too soon? Hopefully it's sorted soon.

I went for Norburn, he’s really won me over now, he was tidy on the ball and he was pressing and hassling all match. We looked a bit all over the place when he went off that last 10, but I think he needed the rest! The back three were on top form and Jatta was also brilliant.

He offers us something different to both Dennis and Jatta, so I’m pretty pleased with this. There was no way we could've got to the end of the season relying solely on them either they'd have just completely burnt out. From what I can gather from Barnet fans they say the team plays better when he’s in the side because he offers both a physical presence, mobility and can generally hold up and link play well. It’s just in terms of out and out goal scoring where he can struggle, but who knows maybe this will change for him here, sometimes strikers just work at some clubs. He'll definitely have no issue with the physical side, he's was the forward who sent Baldwin to the floor in our play-off semi final and he could've scored another the second half. He was a real handful for our defence that day.

The whole back line were solid, so much so Belshaw was almost not needed. Norburn was really good today, probably better than Palmer which is something I wasn’t expecting to see! Jatta lead the line superbly, even when we the balls to him weren’t great he got them down and linked the play really well for us. My vote is for Iorpenda too, just for the sheer effort and never letting Crewe rest. I hope Huddersfield get promoted this season because the chance of us signing him is then a little bit more realistic.