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The results: Derby County 3-0 Bristol City Plymouth Argyle 0-1 Stoke City Crawley Town 0-3 Barnsley Peterborough United 0-2 Wrexham Accrington Stanley 1-1 Colchester United Carlisle United 1-2 Tranmere Rovers Altrincham 1-1 Oldham Athletic Gateshead 2-1 Eastleigh --- No fewer than six of you made double figures this week - @allardyces tash got a stonking 16 points, followed by @super_ram, @Blake and @Joshua. Well done all of you! --- This is how we're shaping up overall. @liampie is now sharing top spot with @super_ram, while @allardyces tash and @Joshua join the front runners. Meanwhile, I'm lurking in the bottom half of the table and waiting for my opportunity to pounce. --- Irrespective of the internationals, we'll be back on Saturday for another round, so the fixtures will be posted on Wednesday. Thanks for playing and have a good week!

As far as I know he still is @Blake. At that level, managers typically have a day job, and training will be a couple of evenings after work. He played yesterday, so he hasn't quite finished playing altogether. They lost 7-1 though.

Brilliant. Promotion contenders find a way to win even when things don't quite go to plan. Last season we didn't win many of those "smash and grab" points because we were just too easy to score against. I only saw the end of the game but a win is a win!

I can't read and I can't write but I can drive a tractor! In their defence, it seems to just be on the packaging, which they can't really do anything about. It's not as cringey as having the wrong foundation year on the scarf! I've got one of those myself, I should check it...

Now manager of Clifton All-Whites in the UCL (who are disappointingly playing in blue today). He appears to have hung up his boots.

And now the winning predictions: Derby County 1-1 Bristol City Plymouth Argyle 1-1 Stoke City Crawley Town 1-2 Barnsley Peterborough United 2-2 Wrexham Accrington Stanley 0-2 Colchester United Carlisle United 0-2 Tranmere Rovers Altrincham 0-2 Oldham Athletic Gateshead 2-0 Eastleigh (joker)

Not an exciting signing if I'm being honest, seems a bit like a last-minute signing due to us missing out on other targets. That said, he seems to be versatile, which is good as we'd probably struggle to accommodate another out-and-out striker with the system we play. As for his past, he lost his temper outside a nightclub and was deservedly punished for it. He's not the first Notts player to be involved in something like that and probably won't be the last. If he had a conviction for domestic violence that would say a lot more about his character. And if he does turn out to be a bad influence, it's a loan and not a permanent transfer.

And just like that, the prediction league is about to enter its second month. There's still plenty of time to have a go! These kick off at 3pm on Saturday, and you have a joker each! Derby County v Bristol City Plymouth Argyle v Stoke City Crawley Town v Barnsley Peterborough United v Wrexham Accrington Stanley v Colchester United Carlisle United v Tranmere Rovers Altrincham v Oldham Athletic Gateshead v Eastleigh

It looks like @ARLukomski and @gtownjohnno are the Notts and Wrexham of the prediction league. But our strongest player is surely @Robbie, as he's propping the rest of us up The next round will be online in a few minutes!

Maybe the younger readers won't realise what an earthquake his appointment was. He was England manager just three years before. His career did taper off a bit at the end but at the time he was still pure box office, a household name all over Europe. We hadn't seen the likes of it since Tommy Lawton joined, and probably won't again. From his point of view, I doubt he was proud of his spell at Notts, especially as he'd fallen for a "fake sheikh" in a sting just a few years before. But all the same, he stuck around when Munto fell apart and did his best to make sure the club would be in safe hands afterwards. Notts fans appreciate him for it. To me he always came across as a thoughtful and humble man. RIP Sven and thanks for the memories.

A proper Bratwurst wouldn't be bad, but rest assured they'd price it like a foreign delicacy. A tenner is outrageous. €3.50 is pretty much the standard price for them here, but it creeps up as soon as there's a captive audience - Bayern charge €5 for theirs, and Mrs Sausage was charged €7 for one at the festival we were at at the weekend. Bear in mind that they're less filling than a pie, it's just a sausage and a bit of industrially made bread. They can be very tasty, but you won't find the best ones near a football ground. I think Currywurst would do well. Great comfort food and surely easy enough for one of the greasy vans outside the ground to do. I never thought we'd be pining for Pukka pies, sad times

The teams that sell cup shirts tend to be in the Champions League. Having an alternative home shirt for cup games is unnecessary, but at least they're used for a set number of games as there's a group stage. The German cup, on the other hand, is a straight knockout competition, meaning that Bochum's cup campaigns for the season ended in August...

The results are in! Middlesbrough 2-2 Portsmouth Sunderland 1-0 Burnley Charlton Athletic 2-0 Bolton Wanderers Lincoln City 4-1 Mansfield Town Joker Cheltenham Town 0-1 AFC Wimbledon Newport County 3-1 Accrington Stanley Rochdale 0-0 Forest Green Rovers Sutton United 2-2 York City --- This must have been one of the busiest prediction league rounds ever! Just a couple of notes before I start - one of you got overexcited and posted two sets of predictions - in cases like that, I only accept the first predictions posted. A few of you also forgot to post one of the fixtures (or really had no clue how Middlesbrough would get on...). Big congrats to this round's winner @liampie! @Joshua and @NottsTastic were also pushing double figures. Alphabetical order keeps your truly off the bottom of the pile. --- @liampie also moves ahead in our overall table. It's very early days, but there are some very familiar names getting comfortable at the business end of the table... --- And that's our lot for another round. The next fixtures are on Saturday, so expect the next round to appear here on Wednesday. Thanks for playing!

He looks different without the wig!

Sounds promising. Apparently he likes to go swimming in Scottish lakes to unwind. But I'd take that with a inch of salt as nobody has ever been able to spot him.

Looks like the standard LinkedIn blurb to me (when I read texts that begin "I held a presentation and we discussed X Y and Z my eyes glaze over, sorry). But it's interesting that he's involved with Football Radar now. I wonder if we'll be seeing him at Meadow Lane again at some point in the future?

@JustLikeJuve, you named two jokers, so I've only entered the top one (Lincoln v Mansfield).

Middlesbrough 2-1 Portsmouth Sunderland 0-2 Burnley Charlton Athletic 1-1 Bolton Wanderers Lincoln City 1-1 Mansfield Town (joker) Cheltenham Town 2-1 AFC Wimbledon Newport County 2-0 Accrington Stanley Rochdale 1-2 Forest Green Rovers Sutton United 2-0 York City

"Cup shirts" are yet another scourge of modern football, but perennial Bundesliga strugglers VfL Bochum have managed to take them to a new level. This summer, Bochum unveiled a special light blue cup shirt with "HG 4630 Bochum" printed on the arm. This was part of a sponsorship with the famous singer Herbert Grönemeyer, who comes from the city. About 4,000 fans ordered the shirts, only to be told they would have to wait until October for delivery. Last weekend, Bochum played in the first round of the German Cup. As you guessed, they lost. And they weren't even allowed to wear the shirts due to a colour clash...

Great performance yesterday. Crowley and Jones were outstanding (and must be kept!), but in general we were a class better than Grimsby. They get stick sometimes, but credit must go to the recruitment team who have a knack of bringing in proper footballers who no one else seems to have in their sights. We saw the result of that on the pitch last night. There were some borderline calls and lady luck did help us out at times. I'm not convinced that Crowley handled the ball for his first and Jatta was about level for his goal, but if we had VAR neither goal would have stood. I also think Grimsby would have had a penalty as Hinchey was nowhere near the ball. But we were much the better side and would have won regardless. Finally, 10,000 on a Thursday night is amazing. I remember being glad to get more than 4,000 for midweek games.

The poor bloke. Jodi Jones came back from a succession of major injuries, but not everybody does. It's doubly bitter as last season could have been the making of him, but by the time he's back he'll have had two Football League seasons with barely a handful of appearances to his name.

That's a bit beyond me I'm afraid - maybe @Chris can shed some light on it? You're down as following the forum. Have you selected "An email when new content is posted" under your follow preferences? As a rule of thumb, when Notts are playing, there'll be a prediction league round on.

Yes I did! On the plus side, I was finally able to cast it to my TV using Chromecast. iFollow has never managed that in several years. I had my stream running a few minutes before kick-off. But I also heard the "stuttering" and ended up switching the sound off. I thought it might have been an issue with one of the microphones - did it sound like that on the radio too? It also threw me out of the stream at about the 70-minute mark and I couldn't get back in until the 87th minute. It's been a frustrating experience so far, but it'll be good when it works.

We're up and running now! I try to post the fixtures on a Wednesday for Saturday games. Good luck!

Time to get the crystal balls out again! These games kick off at 3pm on Saturday, and remember your joker! Middlesbrough v Portsmouth Sunderland v Burnley Charlton Athletic v Bolton Wanderers Lincoln City v Mansfield Town Cheltenham Town v AFC Wimbledon Newport County v Accrington Stanley Rochdale v Forest Green Rovers Sutton United v York City