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I take it that this is automated? Otherwise we must have been kicked out of the FA cup this weekend!

Swindon were one of the sides I thought would be fighting for a top 3 spot, but they have gone right off the boil recently and have hardly won a game, so should be a good time to play them. Will probably see a change back to the more solid usual line up and try to grind out a result, so will go for a 1- 1 draw to Notts ()

Been looking forward to this one for quite a while, but not sure that now is the right time to be playing them as they have won their last three games (although their last two were against the bottom two sides), so their confidence will be up. We'll probably play the same XI as last week, but I'm not going to put the mockers on them by predicting we'll win, so I'll go with a 2-2- draw!

All depends on which Luton turn up, will it be the one that spanked Stevenage, Cambridge and Yeovil? In which case it will be a long afternoon, or will it be the one beaten convincingly at home by Swindon and Coventry? Personally I think they are starting to gain some consistency and I just can't see us containing their front men, so it will go one of two ways: Score first and it might end up 1-1, but if they score first, be prepared for a long afternoon!

"We’ve been defending so well and it was just one dip in concentration that led to the goal.” Maybe the reason they have been defending so well is because they haven't played anybody at the same level that we currently are?

Need to find a win away from home quite soon, otherwise it might start to become a burden and that will put pressure on the home form, with a harder game than I thought coming up on Saturday as Colchester appear to have found a bit of form recently. Never been a fan of Duffy's, but at least his mistakes are fewer this season. I would still look to replace him in January as there are better players out there who would make us very solid at the back. It also looks as though we will be getting a new striker in January as JF was overlooked again and only brought on because Nolan had no choice.

If this game is just as important as the Roverz game, I look forward to seeing the team sheet tomorrow night at the full strength squad named. More likely it will be a reserve team again on display. Not that it matters to me as I won't support this trophy anymore (was a bit sketchy beforehand to be honest), it is all but killed off now.

Send out a full strength side, against them and also parade Craig (extra pound) Ramage on the pitch before kick off! Well overdue a good cup run and would be really nice to see us draw Man Utd away in the third round, although knowing our luck we will win tonight and then go out to Morcambe in the next round after a replay and it will be them playing Man U!

Second half was much better @Chris, first half until the sending off was a bit scrappy and probably even between the two sides. I must admit that before the sending off, I saw nothing special from Newport suggesting that we might lose the game and thought that if we could get a goal, we would have won comfortably.

Been waiting for this game all season and it's shame that a certain Liam Noble has had a fall out with Cooper, so probably won't be playing. I wouldn't change much in the line up, except by giving Stead a rest by bringing in Shola and also bringing Hawkridge back into the side. We should be too strong for them and I can see us running out 3-1 winners, I just hope that it will prompt Cooper's departure and I won't be sorry to see him go!

Yet again, the Mansfield hoodoo comes back to haunt us. I have to be honest, I didn’t even listen to the game as I just had that feeling that we would be stuffed! I’m not going to let yesterday bother me because at the end of the day, I am very happy with the 6 points we got this week and having looked at the fixtures for the next three months, I’m thinking that we can win a lot of those to cement our place near the top, especially playing the bottom side next week to hopefully get us back winning again.

We appear to be getting better and better at the moment, whilst the Stags are just not gelling at all it seems, so you would expect that this will be Notts's best chance in years to finally beat them! Evans was sent off last night, so he probably won't be on the touchline and Stags fans are bemoaning their midfield and wasteful strike force, but they are still not that far off third place in the table. I'd expect Notts to line up very similar to Saturday, rather than last night, with the exception of Dickinson still in for the injured Jones and I think it could well come down to the fact that we are more clinical in front of goal. I still reckon we'll lose 2-1 as we never get anything from Field Mill! Plus the fact that I won't be disappointed if we do, but really happy if we get anything from the game!

Fancy a draw to be honest, Exeter have come a long way since the same fixture last year when they were bottom. Will be interesting to see the line up he chooses, if he does rotate the squad, can’t really see where he will do it as Jones will be out anyway and Forte might be struggling.

I look at this game as an important one to win in order to maintain the momentum. With Lincoln, Exeter and Mansfield coming up as our next three fixtures, 3 points on Saturday would give us the right impetus going forward into those games. I'll go for a hard earned 2-1 win, with Tootle and Forte scoring. After that, if we can get four, or five points from those three games, that would set us up nicely for an easier October!

It's just not good enough, I'm starting to run out of things to moan about! Can't fault yesterday's performance, it was a big gamble to make so many changes for the match, especially against strong opponents, but it worked. Still waiting for Stead to score in open play though

Plus, win tonight and we go top! ????????⚽️???? (Alan Hardy emoji overload!)

Swap Hewitt and Stead for Milsom and Forte, then we might have a chance of turning them over. If he goes with the same starting XI as last week, I can't see us getting any more than a draw out of the game.

I can see this also, the only thing he might do different is swap Walker for Grant and put Grant out wide. If he goes 442, I can see us getting beat 3-0, but we might nick a point with 4411. Unlikely though, so I will go for a solid 2-0 defeat.

You missed out, 'Next Club, Ilkeston Town'! Not good enough, so have no idea as to why we have given him a contract, my only thinking is that we have signed up all of these players in order to loan them out to Ilson, in order to guarantee promotion for them! The higher up the leagues they go, the more beneficial they be as a feeder club.

I wouldn't say near flawless at all. Granted there have been a lot of positives, but he really upset a lot of supporters when he voted against their wishes on the Checkatrade trophy and also decided to mess with Lifeline, the one thing that shouldn't be touched! Also, using a fan meeting to go to the press with and fabricate a story out of it, hasn't gone down well with a small minority of fans. Finally, the boast that we will be signing quality over quantity and then going and signing up a bunch of trialist nobodies these last couple of days has just made a mockery out of the whole summer transfer policy. First 6 months deserves a solid, but unspectacular 7/10.

I'm actually surprised it has taken him this long to sign. I would have expected him to have signed it there and then as I bet he hasn't had a queue of clubs desperate for his signature! No statement on the website as to how long it is for, so I am assuming that it is for 1 year only?

An entertaining 2-2 draw. The issue we now have is that our season is over, so a lot of the motivation will have gone from the players as shown with the sloppy mistakes at the back returning. I can't see us keeping a clean sheet as Blackpool have too much power, but hopefully we will cause them enough problems in order to get a result.

We may be, but I reckon one more win will definitely see us safe. I can't see Newport winning 5 of their last nine games, or even four wins and two draws if we only get another 3 points. Hopefully Luton and Portsmouth will beat them in the next two and Orient unfortunately are just a mess, they won't get to 40 points.

Amazing win and you cannot fault any of the side yesterday to get a result after the sending off, especially so early in the game. Initially I thought the ref had got it completely wrong and so did social media, but after seeing a still shot of the incident there is no question that Yeates's studs were showing and he caught him around the knee.

Tough game against February's form team with 5 wins from 6 league games. I'm hoping that their manager gets the manager of the month award, thus guaranteeing us the three points! No O'Connor for the next two games, who was starting to become the player we expected him to be, so will assume that Thompson will come in to add energy and some ball carrying ability, but not authority. The big question is will Nolan bring Duffy back in? Surely not after two clean sheets on the trot!