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  1. All the things you have stated though @Robbie are things that Notts cannot do. When was the last time we were able to batten down the hatches when going down to 10? You remove one attacker for 1 defender/midfielder when down to 10 and the obvious one is Nemane, not two of your best 3 players. And not at least trying Jatta until the 90th minute is ridiculous. He should have come on a lot earlier. Thankfully Sam had a great game, otherwise we would have got drubbed by 5 or 6.
  2. Not if it is jeopardising the clubs revenue with gates falling though @Robbie. Many may not come back next season and that impacts the whole FFP thing. Langstaff and Jones’s stock will start falling which means they will leave for significantly lower transfer figures than they would go for if they were still firing. Still need 6 points, I have no idea where they are going to come from unless we make a change. Rumours circulating that there has been a bust up with players, and he’s lost the dressing room. Plus he looks to have lost the fanbase. Sometimes, you need to bite the bullet, admit you got it wrong and pay the price.
  3. Time to go. Down to 10 men and he takes off our only attacking threat for a defender and midfielder. Has he not realised that Notts CANNOT shut up shop!?! Any sustained pressure and we crumble, score one and a second will come quickly and that left us with no chance of getting an equaliser. He’s been a bit unlucky at the start, but as a side, we are now far worse than we were when he was appointed, players look confused and despondent as to what formation they are supposed to be playing. One last thing, the season is far from over, both FGR and Grimsby won tonight, it is not inconceivable that we may still go down. Two more away games to go, don’t fancy our chances in either of them with Maynard in charge.
  4. I’m starting to think that the Notts job is too big for Maynard. I thought he was the ideal candidate when Williams left but now I’m starting to doubt that he can turn it around. His decision making during games is poor and I think he’s starting to look a little defeated. We’ve gone from being a team that scores goals for fun but also lets goals in, to a side still conceding but now can’t score. The players have lost the zip to their passing and movement and have become way too easy to defend against. I would say that if we lose the next two games, his position will become untenable as we cannot carry on with this run. At this rate, we will lose all 11 games remaining and you cannot lift a side for the following season that has lost 15 in a row. If you’ve lost the players and the fans, the owners will have no choice but to pull the plug. Massive clear out of players, staff and recruitment team required this summer.
  5. That’s my favourite save too @Robbie, I’ve never seen one to better it and even Pele could not believe he got to it. We used to have some of the best keepers in the world back then, now you’re struggling to name more than half a dozen as the “sweeper” keeper appears to be more fashionable.
  6. That’s quite a handy feature, I sometimes disappear for a bit (especially in the summer), but mostly it’s only for a few days as there isn’t that much to talk about really on the Notts front, it just looks like we’re drifting along now until the end of the season.
  7. It would be if you could see us improving in some way, sadly I can’t at the moment. Big result for Franchise FC in beating Stags, throws them right back into the top 3 chase.
  8. No, we won’t make the playoffs, you shouldn’t have to go into every game needing to score 4 goals to have any chance of winning. Expecting the slump to continue to be honest and I reckon we’re going to end up around 16th. Could have and should have been a nailed on playoff seasons.
  9. Well, he was rested for most of the game and I actually think that Jim did a half decent job and was one of our better performers. It certainly showed after he went off as there was nobody trying to organise or encourage.
  10. It is embarrassing, no other word for it, Sutton have scored 40 goals all season, but 9 of them have been against us, and I hate to keep banging on about it but we had warnings in pre season that the defence wouldn’t be good enough. Then August came and it showed from the off that they weren’t good enough, what does the club do? It signs a couple of kids to bolster it. January comes and it is now evident and has an imperative need for upgrade, what does the club do? Signs another kid! This falls on Montague and his team, they have let the club and supporters down appallingly since the start of the season, only signing Macari and Robertson that look anything like half decent is shocking (juries out on Colkett and Jatta as not seen enough). You can’t keep signing kids and injury prone players as you are hoping rather than anticipating that they will make a difference, you have to sign solid, experienced pros as well. Maynard is fighting a losing battle here as the players just won’t perform for him, but chopping and changing formations mid game is just asking for trouble. You can’t experiment during a game just find a system and stick to it, it’s not as if we’ve got a barn door striker on the bench that we can chuck on to cause havoc for the final 15 if chasing a game. A lot of players need to leave in the summer, but the ones more likely to go are the ones who are actually still trying to perform.
  11. I don’t think he has been the same since he got injured against Mansfield to be honest, he has really been struggling recently and seems a bit lost without Matty. I would rest him tomorrow and play Jim in his place instead as it could be a battle. We might get 60 minutes out of Jim and then Colkett can take over.
  12. We could only go direct down the channels though as we are too small through the middle, we would need a proper target man for that and we just don’t have one. You’re absolutely right @Robbie, we have never been able to deal with the high press, even when Birchnall was in charge. Today, Crewe nailed us with it and doubled up on both our wingers as soon as they got the ball. Contrast that to Crewe’s first goal, two Crewe players over for a short corner and Notts only send one player over to stop it. They had all the time in the world to get that ball into the box and just cannot defend crosses. I don’t blame Maynard, he’s trying to find solutions to problems that have been here for a long time. Richard Montegue’s team are the real culprits, for their failure to find defenders good enough for league two. He’s been more obsessed by their passing stats rather than their defensive ones.
  13. Issue is, this Notts side cannot play ugly, it is too lightweight to try and play physical. I watched Jatta and my in depth analysis after 45 minutes would be that he looks quite quick and ran around a bit! He didn’t really do anything else. Looked a bit weak against their centre halves, and not that great in the air. He needs the ball over the top to run onto, but if the defence sits deep he won’t have that option. The main trouble now is that we had a really small squad at the start of the season and lost three of those players to long term injuries by October. That has meant that the rest of the 1st XI are burnt out and can’t give any more. The urgency has gone, and there just isn’t the same effort being put into closing down the opposition. Today was pretty awful, we didn’t even start to play until around the 35 minute mark and by then the game was gone. At one stage in the second half you could even see the frustration on Balwin’s face when he had to play the ball back to the keeper as he had no other options available. Subbing off Robertson was an error and Crowley was playing way too deep and was completely ineffective for most of the game. I will add though that the Crewe players were embarrassing with their feigning injuries, but luckily the ref wasn’t having any of it. 3 more points needed to stay up and that’s all we can expect to do this season now. Big summer rebuild required, but unfortunately we have gifted too many 2 year contracts to players proving that that they can’t step up to the levels required, and that could be a massive sticking point.
  14. How about the EFL doing something even more radical by employing competent officials? Refereeing standards are appalling but by not owning up to it and burying their heads in the sand, the EFL are making matters worse. That being said, I once remember a game at Notts against Macclesfield in the late 90s/ early 2000s where Macclesfield scored a clear goal, but the ball rebounded out off the Stantion at the back of the goal and neither the linesman or referee gave it! We couldn’t believe our luck!
  15. Just think of a pancake as a fried Yorkshire pudding as they are practically the same. As a desert, try Yorkshire pudding with either syrup or jam, bloomin’ delicious!!
  16. The issue I have with “Breathless” is that Dr Rachel Clarke is politically motivated and so it won’t be a totally true account of what actually happened. I saw an interview with her and the main actress the other day and she still stated that over 200K of people died ‘of’ COVID in the country, and not ‘with’ COVID. Unfortunately we will never probably know the true number that actually died because of COVID because of the willingness at the time to write all deaths off as COVID on death certificates just because they tested positive.
  17. Would say that from reading the above he is spot on. I won’t listen to his interview though as I think he is the most disingenuous manager I have ever come across, the blokes a low life and not worth the air time. He never gives the opposition any credit when they beat him and is even worse when his side wins.
  18. Yes, maybe @CliftonMagpiecan name him Clue is that he ran around a bit but that’s about it. I don’t remember him actually scoring for us to be honest. Struggling a bit with this, but remember Manny Smith went to Wrexham from us and also Gary Mills managed both clubs (loosely termed in our case).
  19. Daffs are starting to hit the shops, always a sign that spring is round the corner. My Snowdrops are just starting to die off, that along with longer days are always the tell tale sign for me. Fields are still sodden though, with a lot that still need to be re ploughed and seeded, going to be a bad crop year methinks.
  20. Good spot @menzinho, let’s hope he is fit and can play an active role soon. The last thing we need is for another Randall, who seems to be more interested in posting images of him and his Mrs shopping trips on their instagram account rather than actually making a positive contribution to the team.
  21. I would say the aftermath of too much sugar @KB1862 not the actual pancakes! I bet it was like a scene from the Muppets in your house, exactly how long was it before you got them to sit still!
  22. Totally unexpected result but I felt more confident when I saw the team sheet. Playing 4 centre halves (trying to think if Macari was a RB at Stoke) across the back just gives that extra cover and still leaves us with 4 quality attackers in the side, along with Robertson who is getting better and better the more he plays. Fully deserved win, we looked fairly solid and hopefully the more we play this system the more we will get used to it. Credit to Maynard for playing it, as it is something Luke refused to do because he didn’t want to lose an attacker.
  23. Just to say that only 3 sides were Semi-Professional in the National league last season.
  24. Not in the squad tonight, maybe because he’s not match fit yet, but you would think with seven subs we would be able to find a space for him. If he isn’t fit, it would prove to be a shambolic signing.
  25. Love a pancake, but I prefer mine in one of three ways. Mainly with a freshly squeezed orange over the top (and a sprinkle of sugar), but sometimes with Lions golden syrup (if I want a pure sweet sugar treat), or thirdly, with pitted cherries and vanilla ice cream. On my own with the dogs this year for it as my wife and Dec are in Turkey so got some from M&S, but I normally make hem myself.

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