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Alassana Jatta, Jodi Jones, Nick Tsaroulla, Ollie Norburn and Scott Robertson would be my preferred choices to start. I get nervous when defenders take penalties, but I do think Jacob Bedeau and Rod McDonald would feel confident and able to smash the ball into the net. I know Matt Palmer can be tidy with his penalties, but I would still feel nervous all the same.

Happy belated birthday young man. It is great to see you celebrating and joining your father to watch Notts. I hope you had a nice day, and I trust the trip to Wembley is a wonderful present for you.

The club did very well to sell out the stadium and it was good to see. It was a shame that many ignored the club’s requests and went on the pitch to celebrate Wembley after a 0-0 draw. If the game had been more exciting, or more on a knife edge like our route to the National League final, I would understand it more. Instead I felt disappointed watching it. It stopped the players from coming back out, and it might make the club think twice about inviting fans to celebrate with them if we do win promotion, because it showed how poorly the stewarding handled it. I also wondered where the police were.

Do not sit on the fence. Go and have a day you will remember, and make the most of it. Take your grandchildren so they can feel what it is like to see Notts play at the home of football. Wembley is a rare treat, and if you can go, you should.

Happy birthday @Chris. I hope you have a brilliant day and enjoy every moment. I also hope the club gets promoted as a late birthday treat for you.

What a lovely day it has been. The wind was calm and the small shower made the warm air feel a bit cooler. After I finished work, I went for a drink with a few colleagues before heading home. I hope Friday is just as nice as today. It would be great to go to The Nest and then head to the ground to see the mighty Magpies beat Chessie.

Thank you for keeping the site moving forward. It is great to see how much effort and care goes into the community. Everything is coming along well, and I hope that with Notts being a happier club to talk about, more fans will join in. PON deserves the support, so keep up the hard work.

Stability and good owners are things Notts has always needed. Success is earned, not handed out, but football is often focused on short term goals. The five year plans that never happened and the fans who moan about not going up are really the same issue. It is silly that some people cannot see how good things are right now. If Notts does not go up, we have been in that place before, but the signs are strong that the club can keep moving forward.

I worry that the injuries and recent form, along with missing out on automatic promotion after doing so well to get there again, might be a setback the players struggle to move past. I do not think the season has been bad at all. We have had some great spells, and in other years those dips might have caused far more damage. I feel the club finds the playoffs difficult, and the pressure can become too much.

Thank you for all your hard work. It is good to see you back at your best and I like the changes you have made. There is one small thing I have noticed. I use the lightweight fluid theme and I seem to have a large blue pill shape showing with an adidas logo inside it. Other than that, I am very impressed.

Welcome to PON. It is nice to see a new member joining in, and expressing their thoughts. Keep it up, and have fun. You will be made to feel at home here.

It has been a long time since I was eighteen or even looked that age. I was lucky in a way, as I was born with a moustache, so even as a baby I never really looked my age. I have always felt that people who try to dodge paying for things are asking for trouble. Underpaying the club is not a good sign of support, and I would hope the club focus on the right people when they deal with it. I have never had any real issues myself. I have seen others get grief, and stewards do take a lot of stick for simply protecting people or doing their daily job. When the turnstiles work, they feel almost ghostly. I did have some problems in the past with my season card not scanning, but I would not blame the staff for that. The club rushed the cards out and did not have the right technology in place. Those poor scanners must get used more than an old magazine in a waiting room.

I am really enjoying the lightweight fluid theme. It looks very good and the improvements you mentioned will be well received. It feels like real progress has been made with the site and the ideas behind it are strong. I hope Notts can at least reach the playoffs so we finish the season with some fight.

Alassana Jatta has to take responsibility for what he has done, because he keeps letting this sort of behaviour affect not only himself but also the club that employs him. His suspension has come at a bad time, and letting him go does feel like the right choice, although I do think we are a better side when he is focused and fully committed. I do not feel he is fully behind us based on how needless that card was, especially at such an important point in the season. It is a real shame that a fee now seems very unlikely.

Performance does not really matter at this stage. What matters is going into the final run with some level of consistency, especially with the chance that even if we beat Barnet, we could still be sitting right on the edge of the playoffs. Winning is what counts now, and these points could be the difference between automatic promotion and the playoffs. The match might feel tense, but I think Martin Paterson will have pushed the players hard after the last defeat. Winning in a scrappy way can help rebuild belief, and once that belief returns, performances often follow. Football is never simple with Notts County, but getting the result is what keeps the season alive.