Fozzy

Good result, scoring early certainly does appear to settle us as a team. Can't wait for Saturday now as we start our run against sides in the top half (and a tough one at Mansfield), with Morecambe being very beatable. Come on you Stylish Magpies!

So I have just been told. Will make team selection very interesting! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The logical change for this game would be to bring Audel straight in for Laing, anybody else would mean having to shift around 2, or 3 players. We could put Dickinson in the back 3, but he would have to play in the centre and move Duffy to the right (leaving Hollis on the left). This would then mean Milsom, or Audel playing at left back and another midfielder coming in if it is Milsom, so not a very straight forward team selection. As has been mentioned earlier, it is bang on the right time to play Exeter as they have lost all of their home games this season and only scored once, so will obviously be nervous. Hopefully we can get an early goal and win this comfortably 2-0 (clean sheet please!), but knowing Notts we'll probably give away two soft goals and end up drawing it 2-2.

Like Notts, Orient are another side that are playing much better away than at home, so this will be a tough game. As I've said previously the midfield will be key, so I can see 352 being the formation again. I would like to see Jordan Richards gain his first start in the defensive midfield role as he will bring fresh legs to the side and I wonder if Rodman will be dropped as he has not done enough. Side I would like is: Loach Laing, Duffy, Dickinson Tootle, Richards, O'Connor, Aborah, Milsom Stead, Forte Side I expect to see is the same as last Saturday.

I think this has the hallmarks of being either a 1-1, or a 1-0 game. We need to go there and pack the midfield in order to deny them space, especially early on in the game and although this will stifle us going forwards a bit we might get ahead and then maybe be able to hold on.

They played like strangers today. There was no pass and move, it was a case of lump it up front and hope that Oliver wins it, but when he did there was nobody supporting him! There was just no urgency in our play and so many had off days against a very ordinary Accrington side that JS should have changed it at half time. Time after time we were short in midfield and losing the second ball as Forte and Rodman gave no support to the central two, but in my mind Forte is a striker and not a winger, so it isn't in his game to work hard for the midfield. Collin inspires no confidence as a keeper as his kicking and positional sense are pretty poor and I now don't have any doubt that Loach is a far better keeper in every aspect and I can't understand why he has not been given a game yet, surely his time cannot be far away. I will also add that Audel isn't a right back and we are so easy to defend against because we have no natural width, so everything has to go through the middle where a 5 man midfield just gobbles it up. Not sure what JS can do to change it, but he needs to find a way to bolster our midfield at home. Maybe 352 with Duffy, Laing and Dickinson as the back three, which would allow us to have O'Connor and two of Tootle/Aborah/Milsom in the middle of the park (until Skirtz is fit) might help? I thought Rico talked a lot of sense post match today and was basically asking the same questions of the players that we were asking.

Need to take the advantage right from the start and stop playing catch up. Get the ball out of defence and play our football in their half of the pitch I think was Warnock's saying and it's still true today, but we have a weakness with Collin's kicking at the moment. Hoping for our first home league win tomorrow and I think we will get it if we play high tempo football and move the ball forwards quickly, which may mean sacrificing Stanley for the game as a starter.

Pretty awful first half by Notts and deservedly behind. Back four is still suspect, Aborah hasn't really done enough to warrant his play maker role and Forte is lost out on the left. Couple of substitutions definitely needed in order to try and drag us back into the game! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would be interested to know what last seasons first round attendance figures were, apart from a few games the figures generally look around about the average for round one. I won't be going tonight, not because I'm boycotting this years tournament, but because I have boycotted it for the last 15 years as a complete distraction from serious football.

£12 per game is a bit steep in my opinion, although it does come down to a tenner if you go to both games and buy tickets in advance. I would have liked to have seen it priced at £10 and £16 respectively. I don't attend pre season games anymore, but if it was £16 for the pair I would have been tempted.

What an utter shambles this is turning out to be! Players and staff are disrespectful to our club and quite frankly they can sack the pathetic lot of them, they are a disgrace. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well pleased for Genaro, he has deserved to have had more of a chance this season and hopefully he will start again next week and give Cooper something to think about over the summer (if he stays).

Smithy his done alright up top, definitely given their centre halves a game, problem will be after he is shattered after 20 minutes of the 2nd half. Playing better and some nice stuff after a pretty disastrous first 15 minutes! Watch us capitulate now I've said that.... Sent from my XT1032 using Tapatalk

Mad Dogs dig at Guy Branston is plain to see. He is absolutely spot on and I'm glad he has come out and said it, rather than the "They've go good players" that other managers say. If the players have no bottle then the side is always going to struggle and the players aren't that good! Rip it up and start again in the summer unfortunately, the side needs revolution, not evolution.

Several things that have to be done by this football club: Give Cooper a contract, the man talks sense and doesn't deserve to not have a contract with this bunch of gutless players. He has been dealt a rotten hand and cannot bring any players in, only work with what he has. Sack Guy Branston: Just look at the quality of players the so called head of recruitment has brought to this club, criminal if he stays. Gut this squad: I said earlier today maybe bring in 8 players, I'm now thinking 10 and just ship out 20, pay them off if they are no good. Give youth a chance. We're bringing these young lads through, so give some of them a chance. Not all at once, but drip feed them to see if they are any good. We've played plenty of 18 year olds in the past for quite a few games, some have made it, some haven't, but at least see if they can sink, or swim. Finally, I've come to conclusion that Ricardo Moniz was an absolute genius. To get this bunch of players, playing the football they did and scoring goals is phenomenal. Ok, we couldn't defend, but he must have seen that and thought stuff it, we'll play the football to hopefully score more goals than the opposition. I will be there on Saturday, if only to doff my cap to Derry and Jimmy, two people you could never accuse of being spineless!

This is going to be really interesting, but Cooper has a major problem in the fact that he has to get to a points target in order to guarantee himself a contract. For that reason I think he has his hands tied and won't be able to savagely rip apart the side like he would hope to normally. Low risk alterations are to bring in Wildin at right back, because that position can't get any worse and perhaps Gibson up front in place of McLeod. Sarpong appears to be the type of midfielder we need, as in he can tackle and also score goals, but I can only see 2 of the 3 playing at most.

Mansfield are no mugs at home and I will take a draw now. I think it will be tight, with one goal deciding it if there is a winner. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Get in Notts! Thoroughly enjoying this match, much better atmosphere and standard than you would think for bottom third of the table! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm sure Hartlepool will come to attack, as they have picked up recently and this will hopefully suit us, as their defence isn't great. I will be there this week, so in true curse of Foz style, I'm going for a 2-2 draw, with Loach saving a penalty.

200 words @notts-joe?!? I can sum it up in 7 "We scored more than them and won!" Will that do? Anyway whilst you are watching the game I will invite my new mate Mark over and discuss exactly why we never went up as champions.

I'm not there, so we are guaranteed a win this weekend! I think he will go back to playing 2 up front for home games, so I fully expect McLeod to play and I think he will also score. With this in mind I will go for a 3-1 win to Notts, but will also take a 1-0! Sent from my XT1032 using Tapatalk

I'm just pleased we got a point and I'm ticking them off until it is mathematically impossible to go down. I don't expect anything from Saturday's game, but then we have a couple of hopefully winnable games after that to see us safe and hopefully he can experiment after that.

It's laughable that yet again we look like we may need steady Eddie back, but needs must and I trust him more than any other centre half, even though he can't run anymore. So, with that I will go for: Wildin, Edwards, Amevor, Milsom Snijders, Noble, Aborah, Thompson, Burke Stead I would like to see Gibson at some stage tomorrow, but would also like to see the back of McLeod. Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

To be honest @Modern Fan 1862 ????, I was thinking exactly the same thing about Gibson, as he can't be any worse. McLeod has turned into a massive white elephant and might as well be ditched, to think we got rid of Jimmy in order to play him instead is criminal. i also wouldn't associate most of these signings with Moniz, the majority of this mess can be firmly put at Guy Branston's recruitment door and the sooner he gets the boot the better. MC has his work cut out and needs some inspiration from somewhere just to give them a little bit of confidence in order to compete.

What was the point of the Campbell substitution? Banton was woeful today and had to come off, but as always it was a like for like substitution, no system change and then to do nothing after going behind was criminal. He might as well have gambled by replacing a defender with a striker, we had nothing to lose.