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The gap between the Premiership and Championship is seemingly getting bigger and that's not a good thing. It's looking like this season all the teams that got promoted will be relegated. Same thing happened last season with Sheffield United, Burnley and Luton... What's the point of going up to just come straight back down?

Is it just me or is it very hard to find out much about our younger players? There's barely any information about our academy team on the official site, they have page for the "B Team" and U18 squad but they are both blank! All you can do is look at the tables (and that's not exactly encouraging!) Maybe there are safe guarding issues which restrict us from covering a lot of it, I don't know. But I really don't know much about any of these players, I do think the occasional report about the academy teams would be of value to a lot of fans.

After 3 players suffered cruciate ligament injuries last season I thought we’d have a touch more luck with injuries this season. Yes luckily, we’ve not had season ending injuries so early into the season this time round but the constant niggles that have turned into months out has been a massive hinderance. Injuries are always going to happen over a season though and that is sometimes just where the whole element of luck comes in. I think back to when we got promoted from the National League at worst we had a couple of players out for a month or two, but they were never our best players.

I totally agree finishing in the play-offs will be progress, from a results basis just finishing with more points than 61 is a step in the right direction and we’ve already surpassed that. Even though Colchester beat us we’ve effectively got a 7-point gap from them due to our superior goal difference. It would be a pretty disastrous end to the season now if we did miss out on the play-offs given we’ve pretty much spent the entire season higher than 7th!

I think the fact Jarvis gets up so quickly probably didn’t help us. I don’t like it but I remember when George Abbott scored against Barrow their players just protested until the ref basically folded. I wonder if Will had stayed on the ground and the rest of the team made a scene it might have been overturned? Equally I think the fact he doesn't protest tells you it probably wasn't a foul, he could’ve done more to hold the Colchester player off and just knocked the ball out for a throw. He’ll learn from it though and we still played 90 minutes of football and didn’t score… We’ve got to find a way to create some decent chances when teams do just sit back and let us have the ball.

I think everyone felt like someone currently working at Football Radar would just come in but on paper Roberto seems to be a very good replacement for Richard Montague. He's got lots of EFL experience and having worked at Football Radar previously too he'll be very familiar with the data-driven approach that has seemingly served us incredibly well so far!

It was a pretty dominant and straight-forward win in the end. We were a tad over-cautious in the first half, but the second half made up for it! Jarvis is looking like the player we thought we were getting, I didn't think he had that defensive side to his game but he nullified the threat from Nemane all night. It's his ability to just pick the ball up and glide past players that makes him stand out though, he makes it look effortless. And for all the stick the inverted wing-backs got earlier in the season (me included) they worked last night. Tsaroulla was excellent on the right hand side as well, finally we are getting some goals and assists from him! Just felt good to get a home win again, even with all the injuries we seem to be in a good place now for these final matches.

Got to try and get a home win and kick on here. The Newport win should give us a bit of confidence going into it, and second half against Crewe was promising, just go for it from the off! I think the players will have some personal motivation to show Dan Crowley what he’s missing out on, given he was basically waiting until January to join them. We've still got a lot to play for, they haven't so I'm half hoping that sways a few more 50/50s our way. At least Luke Williams hasn't turned up there (yet) as that would've been the last thing we needed!

Wimbledon give away two penalties in injury time and end up losing, wow! Walsall attempting to draw their way to automatic promotion, that was their 4th in a row, still 8 matches without a win for them! Are Bradford now having a bit of a wobble? Now just 1 win from their last 5 matches. Possibly good news for us as we face them soon. Port Vale now the team with the best form in the top 7 and they play Walsall at the weekend… Not to bad for us really, just got to go and beat MK now.

I've e-mailed the club and Jo King with my thoughts, I urge all Notts fans to do the same... Or I guess you could just watch Forest get beaten by Man City in the semi-final 😇🤞

So he’d moved to Notting Hill I wonder if when we, Notts County, first called he thought he’d be playing a short walk away! Still given the size of the US and distances they have to travel, Notts to London will seem like a short drive. Great interview though, seems a really positive and driven guy.

Crawley Town 2-2 Peterborough United Lincoln City 2-1 Huddersfield Town Northampton Town 1-0 Rotherham United Crewe Alexandra 2-1 Grimsby Town Doncaster Rovers 2-0 Walsall 🤡 Harrogate Town 1-1 Tranmere Rovers Aldershot 0-0 Fylde Wealdstone 0-1 Boston United

My prediction table is: Bradford 82 Walsall 81 Wimbledon 80 ---------------------- Port Vale 80 Doncaster 78 Notts 76 Grimsby 72 --------------------- Colchester 71 I really do think it’ll be close, there's still a possibility one team suddenly ends the season strongly and goes clear at the top, who knows?! I also wouldn’t be surprised if Walsall slipped out the automatics, I think their saving grace might just be their remaining fixtures against the poorer teams but their current form is awful. As far as Notts are concerned, I think I had us down to draw with Salford and Doncaster at home and lose at both Bradford and Colchester… Maybe a touch pessimistic but it does mean even if we don’t have a great end to the season we should still make the play-offs.

Be interesting to know if he was in the country already prior to joining us, I just wonder why you’d move from the US for what will basically to play for 7-10 matches… Maybe we’ll get a little interview with him soon. Anyway, I’m assuming we’ve signed him to play and will probably see him against MK otherwise the move will seem even more bizarre! Also in my time supporting Notts I can't remember ever having a US player in the squad before, is he the first?

The back 3 were all solid, Bedeau in particular got forward really well. Abbott was everywhere like usual, Tsaroulla had one his best games and McGoldrick always looked dangerous and a threat on the ball. I think it's hard to argue against Whitaker though, two superb goals and his all-round game was really solid too.

Just popped up on my feed today (thank you algorithm). Don't think the club have mentioned this, wonder if it's because it's not been made by them? Anyway, it's a short video of a couple of challenges to see how they compare to their EA FC 25 stats...

I do like the long light evenings, the sun shining at 7pm in the summer is a magical feeling. I'm looking forward to the phone call from my dad tomorrow telling me how amazing that his phone, computer, central heating etc all changed time automatically! He'll soon realise it's 2025 and not 1975 one day!

Are they still peddling the true underdog story tagline! These finances won’t include this season’s transfers; 500k on Rathbone, 590k on Faal, 300k on Scarr, 350k on Revan, 400k on Brent, 500k on Longman, 2 Mil on Smith and Jay Rodrigues on 15k per week! Their turnover is high but they are still making a loss and with their high spending it won't have improved. Yes getting to Championship will be a big boost but they'll need to stay there to get the benefits. They've been very fortunate and that’s putting it diplomatically, I’m mean who else has 5 first-team goalkeepers!

Shocking defending for our first goal, Charlie gets the freedom of Newport he still had to finish it though and he did superbly. Second goal was great though, just wish we could see more of that at Meadow Lane. All in all a very good day today, results kind of went our way, we’ve effectively got an 8-point gap to 8th due to having a much better GD too. Still can’t see us finishing top 3 though, but you never know… I’m going to enjoy (try to enjoy!) the run in now. Whatever happens in these last 7 matches (or more) if we’re good enough we’ll get promoted.

We are supposedly in talks to sign another goalkeeper, Tyler Miller I think is a name that has been mentioned. If that does happen I would find it strange if we singed a new keeper and then didn't play him. To be fair I thought Slocombe did really well when he came on at Grimsby but he wasn't really that tested against Crewe. But I do only see him as a back-up keeper, his shot stopping is decent but he can't command his area in the same way Bass does and that has proved vital this season and taken a lot of pressure off the defenders.

The club did the right thing with Ceds, but I can’t help but feel he put a lot of pressure on himself taking the number 9 shirt and wanting to be the main man so soon after a massive injury. Obviously a big reason he moved to Carlisle would have also been to play under Mike Williamson again but that is no longer the case now. He could well be playing in the National League again next season, that might feel like another step back in his career, but it might enable him to get scoring again. The injury was something that was totally out of his control, I really hope he can get back to his best with Carlisle soon.

Norwich City 0-2 West Bromwich Albion Stoke City 2-1 QPR Blackpool 2-2 Bolton Wanderers Bristol Rovers 2-1 Mansfield Town Barrow 1-0 Chesterfield Walsall 1-1 AFC Wimbledon Dagenham & Redbridge 1-1 Maidenhead United Tamworth 3-1 Eastleigh 🤡

They are surprisingly a lot better at home than away. They’ve beaten Donny, Salford, Barrow & Crewe at home (better than us!) I can’t see a scenario where we don’t score against this lot though, they’ve conceded the most goals in the league so far, surely they can’t get two clean-sheets against us! I’m not sure I like the 3-5-2/3-4-2-1 under Stuart at the moment, the wingbacks are expected to do too much and the two attacking mids don’t do enough. But I’m not sure given the injuries how flexible we can be. We did play a 4-2-3-1 formation against Newport last season away and shoved Macca out on the left but it worked… Jarvis would excel in a freer attacking role on the left, Didzy just behind Jatta works, that just leaves the right hand-side of the attacking 3. Could Traore or Morias play wide-right?

Insane that Grimsby who have lost 15 games this season could still go up automictically! Wouldn't mind if this was the start of Colchester falling back down the table, we’ve got to go there soon so a run of bad results would be ideal. Great result for Tranmere, 46 points probably keeps you up this season just two more wins for them and I think they’ll be fine.

That's fair enough @allardyces tash I like how everyone sees the the match so differently, I seem to be in the minority though so maybe I'm wrong! But for me I thought Bedeau, from a defensive point was pretty good. Some of the fouls awarded against him were harsh, but he was part of a defence that limited Crewe to just the 4 shots yesterday.