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I agree, I'll be seriously impressed if we manage to re-sign both of them midway through this season. I'm sure we'll try but I can't see it happing personally, I think they'll want to see what other offers they could get. Assuming they have another good season they'll pretty much have the pick of any League 1 club... I think we'll need to be in League 1 too if we want them both to stick around.

I notice we haven't released a video or even had a write up interview with Jevani yet. We interviewed George and that was done after his first day of training... ????

And if you're driving I'd recommend getting to Meadow Lane early to find some parking - nothing worst than driving around when you don't know the area. Traffic wise it's notably busier now with the attendances reaching 5 figures...

The UK might have got lucky with the jet-streams this year but weather in mainland Europe was far from cool. I was in Malaga over the summer and that was ridiculously hot, it was 40° one day and I'm pretty sure it didn’t drop below 30° for the period I was there. I think the big picture is that 2024 is on track to be the hottest on record, again… So not good.

Like you say that's football, you're never going to get your number 1 targets all the time but I think we clearly prioritised the defence hence the early signings of the likes of Bedeau, Platt, Bass, Tsaroulla and McDonald (looking forward to seeing him in action when he reappears!) By the end of window most of the better players out of contract have already moved so it's a case of weighing up the next best options and that will then sometimes involve a fee. The Bros are very sensible in that they won't overpay for a player and at the same time they won't just sell off our best players because a bid has been made. Keeping Crowley and Jones was just as important as bring in players too. I think Notts have done pretty well over the summer and I'm confident we've got a stronger squad than last season.

The 2nd McGoldrick goal was the first shot we had in that second half, we barely got out of our half by the sounds of it! But at least we defended well, clearly they deserve credit after being under the cosh for periods of that game. Bass sounded very commanding again, I think he’s made a massive difference. I’ll be interested to hear from those who went/watched it if we were as ropey as it sounded 2nd half in particular or were Swindon just not very good... We’re not going to win every game playing total football so it’s a great result, that's the kind of game we'd have lost last season.

Thought this was going to be about Birmingham City bidding £10M for Jay Stansfield, that's more money sense especially when you consider Liverpool have just signed a Euro winning Italian international in Chiesa for £10M! But back on topic, not exactly great for Macca if the signing were to happen. He seems to already not be in Harris' favourites, but I'd back him to make the move work. Macca's a strong, good character who'll get his head down and do everything he can to prove he's capable.

Not a player I would’ve thought we’d have gone for to be honest, generally under the Bros we’ve seemed to avoid anyone controversial. You kind of just want to focus on what he’s like as a footballer, a pretty good one when he was with Exeter by all accounts, but at the same time you can’t ignore what he did. He admitted it and apologised but that doesn’t make everything ok again, or does it? Just a bit meh over the whole thing, maybe an interview will help sway me but I suspect we’ll gloss over the whole issue as nothing was mentioned in the official article.

???? There's a signing on the way, Notts social accounts have just posted to say "Incoming"!

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Ken Aboh has signed on loan for Stevenage Will Swan has moved permanently to Crawley Dajuane Brown is still at Derby If we do sign someone it could well be someone we've not been linked with, Notts are pretty good at not letting anything out until the day of a transfer.

I hope he’s as good as some of these Spurs fans are making out, we’ve not had a properly good loanee since Patterson. Kind of getting a throwback to Ruben Rodrigues with his hairstyle and tash/chin beard combo, I'm hoping that's a good sign! Sounds like he’s highly rated at Spurs and it's handy he can play in CM and RB. I agree with @Robbie there's a good chance he'll be playing as a RWB for us, I'm pretty sure he'll be comfortable and good enough on the ball to play there. The squad is pretty stacked now, that's 1 from 2 that the club were hoping to sign. Fingers crossed we get an attacker tomorrow and that's us pretty much set for the season.

I was tracking a few of the games last night, when I checked the stats for the Millwall game after about 60 mins they hadn't even had a shot! By all accounts it was a really poor performance but if you don't provide your strikers with any chances what are they supposed to do. I really hope it works out for Macca, it's still very early days for him there but Neil Harris won't have exactly helped his confidence with comments like that.

Matty Palmer played for Swindon before he joined us, he didn't get that much game time in his 18-month spell there and was eventually loaned out and then released! ???? I can imagine someone at Swindon regrets that decision now...

I really like him, considering he'd just moved to a new country he did incredibly well to come into the team immediately and have an impact. He should feel more settled now with a pre-season and with the summer signings he's no longer the new boy. There's just something about his presence which I think gets us crossing the ball in more often, last season at times I thought we didn't cross the ball when we had the chance because Macca was surrounded but with Jatta, he's got the ability to out jump and out muscle a centre-back. Mad to think we've lost a player as good as Macca, yet I'm not worried about this team not being able to score and right now Jatta is a big reason for that.

I’m quietly confident we won’t sell Crowley to MK, going off old previous interviews I’m sure the owners stated they won’t sell (our key players) to our competitors and MK would be bonkers to offer something like 500k-750k when Crowley can, if he chooses to, leave on a free in the summer. If a Championship club or top League 1 club comes in for either of them I feel there really isn’t much Notts can do. Every player wants to test themselves at the highest level possible and that addition of a big wage will help set them for life after their career in football. There's nothing to suggest right now that kind of move for either of them is on the cards though. I’m 99.9% certain Notts will offer both new contracts, but I’ve no idea what their future plans are. I agree with @Chris, if it looks likely we could be in L1 next season I think that will be a big persuading factor in getting them to stay.

No mention if it’s the same knee, that really won't be good, it’s terrible news for him. Must feel like groundhog day with it happening at the start of the season again. I hope he recovers and can get back to playing. I'm sure Jodi had a similar long time out, he's shown you can come back from it.

Controversial stuff first, I think it was handball for Crowley's goal, but I agree it wasn’t a pen for them. I hate to see soft pens given and football is a contact sport Hinchy made minimal contact. Jatta’s was offside too, but it was so marginal and the linesmen is having to make a split-second decision. It's almost like the "old days" of giving the attackers the advantage that for me, Grimsby should've cleared it anyway. What's the alternative right now, VAR? Who really wants that... That all said and done I thought we were a level above Grimsby tonight, even if they had ruled the goals out I’d have backed us to have gone on still scored more than them. It was a very good performance and we fully deserved the 3 points. Our passing and movement was a joy to watch and we kind of eased up on them after the fourth went in. Noticeable performers for me; Hinchy did well coming on, screened the defence pretty well and moved the ball around a lot quicker. Tsaroulla looks so much more at ease and dangerous in the opposition’s half. Jatta looking like he’s capable of getting 20 goals. Edwards ran everywhere and was really good on the ball when he got it. Jones showing he can be just as much as a threat on the right as the left. Last but not least; Dan Crowley, he was just a technical footballing master out there. I’m not sure what Grimsby’s plan was, they nearly caught us out with a couple of quick counters when we flooded forward but we wised up to it pretty well after. They looked like a team playing lucky breaks of the ball and for set-pieces and corners. Only real shame for me is Robertson who looked sharp and on it in his short spell on the pitch. Was holding his ribs/abdomen so hopefully not a repeat strain leg injury.

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I’ve seen a few of our fans mention him as a possible signing they’d have liked over the summer, my only memory/reason to know his name is from watching him for Charlton when they played Cray Valley in the FA Cup and he scored an own goal so we'll gloss over that! From what I can gather the Charlton fans seem to think it’s a good move for him and I agree the added future sell on fee is encouraging, it shows the Charlton board clearly think he’s capable of moving back up the leagues. So yeah, another young promising player who on a 3-year deal (possibly even 4) has got plenty of time to develop. There's plenty of options and competition at the back now, that is a real positive and something that was sadly lacking last season.

Size of that trophy, it’s going to need a cabinet of its own, that’s not fitting on a shelf. Pleased to see Crowley in there, almost got forgotten because of Langstaff and Jodi’s performances and numbers last season but players know a player when they come up against one. Something slightly off in seeing 3 of our players who finished mid-table in that team that’s made up of players from promoted teams and a play-off final team though!

Yeah I can understand a packed a venue isn't for everyone, I don't always enjoy being in places where I feel I've got no space. Still, great to see it's so popular. And a pleasant surprise for the fans in there with the appearance of Alex and Chris, anyone go and get the chance to have a chat? They seem very approachable.

Hard to disagree with Jodi, he was our best attacking outlet down the wing. Although I did feel at times he was trying to do a bit too much when a easy pass was an option to him. Macari was very good too, I think he's going to have a very good season.

Strange game, it was a bit reminiscent of last season’s troubles – but this time were able to fight back and deservedly got something from the game. I think first half we really struggled to get the ball into their third. Fleetwood set up well defensively and tracked a lot of our key attackers so I felt we needed to be bit quicker with our passing or somebody in the back line needed to try and carry the ball forward to try and draw the attention of a Fleetwood player to create a gap in their defensive set-up. Hinchy is still young and learning our game but he wasn’t really able get on the ball to bridge the gap between our defence and attacker. Crowley did play higher but we didn’t find him very often so he understandably dropped deep. And the left-hand side was like a dead-end road, Chicksen struggled to advance the ball and Scott was just ineffective. I think we’ll get better at dealing with teams that do just come and sit back and a slight personal change should help too. The team that finished the game looked very comfortable and dominate so hopefully we’ll be able to punish teams a bit earlier on in games that do just sit in a low block. We did look very good in the latter stages of the game, I get that by keeping the ball it does tire the opposition out as Fleetwood did struggle and got deeper and deeper. Tsaroulla was impressive in his short cameo, looks comfortable on the ball and I think he’ll be perfect as LWB for us. Was great to see Palmer get his first minutes of the season too, he will be like a new signing once he's back up to speed!

I think the team will be very similar to the one that played at Tranmere, none of the injured players were on the bench for Shrewsbury but I'm hoping one or two might be fit for Sunday. I thought Didzy and Grant in an attacking sense were really good against Shrewsbury, so I wouldn't be surprised if both stayed in the team. Should be a good match and a great atmosphere, I think it'll be quite close but I'm hoping for a touch of over confidence from Fleetwood after beating West Brom in the League Cup. Maurice Ross is the assistant manager at Fleetwood now, he joined Cowdenbeath as their head coach after he left us and got them relegated into the Lowland Football League! I'm pretty sure he was winless at Meadow Lane during his short-spell with us, fingers crossed it continues when he visits again.