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I’m not (yet) massively concerned over results as it is pre season and the squad is almost totally new. I’m more concerned over the lack of minutes played by some key members of the squad. Palmer and Tsaroulla won’t be fit to play 90 minutes till September looking at things. Robertson is coming back from an injury and is obviously behind fitness wise at the moment, but he should have been given 45 minutes and not 30 as he is a must need player this season. Scott could take quite a while to regain his confidence of putting himself in situations where he may get clattered, he’s probably holding back as not wanting to get injured again. Altogether, the games won’t have the intensity of a league match as no player will want to get injured and I fully expect the defence to be tighter during league matches. I’ve known Notts to have some pretty good pre seasons in the past and then go onto struggle in the league, but the lack of fitness is leading me to think that we won’t get off to a great start, but should get a lot better after a few weeks.

Missed the whole of last season with a glute and hip injury, which apparently is the second time he has had it. Makes you think it is a degenerative condition as he said he’ll have to live with it. I should add that I wish him well and could be an inspired choice if we can keep him fit. Defence is now complete, Midfield and upfront now please Notts.

Weak Derby starting line up by the look of things and half their players looked overweight and slow. Cheaterfield have got some half decent players going forward but their defence looked all over the place. Wait till they come up against the big, physical sides of league 2, it will do for them as it did us, and Dobra will be hospitalised every weekend the way he appears to get injured every game.

As a way of extending how long it runs, could we possibly look at adding a rule in somewhere along the lines that you can only make 1 guess per day? That way more people are likely to see the question and participate.

To be quite honest, I wouldn’t have Williams back at the moment but things might change so never say never. I think that ship has sailed though and I can see the brothers always looking to appoint an up and coming coach rather than an established one.

Came on for the last 20 minutes and never touched the ball appears to be the general consensus amongst their fans, not a good start.

My reservations aren’t so much with Maynard at the moment, but with the personnel available to him. We only currently have 18 senior outfield players, we still haven’t seen Tsaroulla or Pamer, we have only briefly seen Jatta, Robertson, Morias, (Ronald) McDonald and Austin. We are in serious danger of going into this season undercooked if minutes don’t rack up in the next 3 match days. If we get off to a slow start (which I can definitely see), it won’t take long for the unrest to start again. Because of his background he will always be paddling uphill.

I know @Piethagoram, to be honest I was going to put Phil Turner in there and then I was going to use Neil Bishop, but I plumped for Hunt because I quite liked him, but my eyes were still fairly young back then ????.

This is tough but I’ve basically ended up with players I’ve loved watching over the years (but basically span the 80’s and 90’s) plus two players I would have loved to see. Oh, and I even managed to stick Ruben on the bench, which means our midfield’s aren’t too dissimilar @Robbie. 4-3-3 is the formation and it would score a shed full!!! Raddy Pedro N Worthington D Needham (Craig) Short Masson Draper Hunt Sewell Lawton Johnson Sub: Ruben

I was assuming that because he didn’t feature against Wealdstone, we may have dropped our interest, will wait to see if he plays this weekend. The only trialist I can find that did play the other night was Robbie Cundy, who I know has been training with Notts.

Genius!

Glad to be rid of him if I’m honest. Complete wasted signing and just could not be bothered to get himself fit enough to play. I did think that we would be lumbered with him for another year as couldn’t see anyone wanting him.

One of the trialists was apparently a wingback released by Luton. I see from the team sheet that there were quite a number of players not present, so can only assume we will see them at the weekend as Alreton are one of the weakest sides we will be playing this pre season. No Stone or Randall named either, so looks like they will be frozen out in order to push them out of the door.

I saw the original photo this morning on my timeline and it never clicked that he wasn’t a contracted player, good job I don’t need to be observant! Looks potentially a useful player, can play as a centre back, but apparently was a revelation at wing back for Bromley. Quite handy as it will give us options and fits the “versatile” tag in a player that we look for.

I would go with the same @Robbie. Depending on who is on the pitch at the time I would assume it will be Scott or Didzy if they are playing, but JJ also showed at Wembley that he isn’t afraid to take one.

Now need a minimum of 5 players. Two (minimum one) right footed centre backs, a right wing back, a box to box midfielder and a punt on a young, quick, energetic striker. Squad is paper thin at the moment and we proved last season that it was a mistake to go into the season with such a small squad as we burnt out all our players by Christmas.

I didn’t rate him but he was young and raw when I watched him, he just does not seem to have the physical attributes needed for league 2, but it may help him being with a club two divisions higher. Best of luck to him, I hope he becomes an immense player as that will mean we get a nice windfall sometime in the future.

We all knew that Macca would be in demand this summer and most thought at the end of last season that he had played his last game for us. I think people are feeling disappointed because of the false hope given to us after making him captain a few weeks ago, which hastened Cameron’s departure from the club. I think there is a little bit of panic in the eyes of Notts fans as we have seen five players leave in the last few days, even though only one would have been classed as a first XI starter this season. Notts need to settle the fans nerves with a couple of signings in the next few days and all will be well again.

Not for me, I think he is too quiet and I would like him to concentrate on his main job of making us tick. I would be looking at either one of the defenders or we may yet be bringing in a player to do the job.

Poor timing by the club if true but personally i do feel it’s good business to sell now and I can understand the fee as he is unproven at the level. If he is a success, I suspect the add ons to be substantial and I would expect a sell on clause to be included. I doubt he will be successful as it is a whole different level against far superior defenders, and I hope I’m wrong but I can see him only getting a dozen or so goals. I’m now more bothered about the holes opening up in our squad that need filling fast.

Really don’t like it as it has far too much black, I don’t want to look like a referee from the back. The only bit I quite like is the white collar, the stripes look like the colours run. But then I am more of a traditionalist and like the simple black and white stripes…

Thing is though @Chris, with Saka we would again be shoehorning a player into an unnatural position and he will be found wanting against better sides. Our main issue is Southgate’s negative tactics, we haven’t got the players to play the football he wants and he is unable to adapt to another style. Just stop picking the same 10 players, it is not working! Sooner he’s gone the better.

Southgate has to sort the left hand side of the pitch out, he’s either got to play Shaw with Foden, or Trippier with Gordon. Fully expect us to be beat by the Swiss as they’re a decent unit, whereas we’re just stumbling along with a totally unbalanced team. Still think Grealish have been taken. At least we’ll get more money into the club by having another game at The Nest.

Would prefer a tall box to box midfielder who is good in the air, rather than just an attacking one. We have plenty of players who can play that role, but we’ve lacked the former for a while.

Expect three more at most to be signed, an RCB(seriously short if Platt is to play in the centre where he prefers) another wing back and a central midfielder. These could all be dependent on moving on the three players listed though. Morias will be loaned out, along with a couple of the kids and maybe Chicksen. Any other signings will depend on departures. Langstaff could probably be off but can only see us selling for the money we want, and I would not be surprised to see Cameron leave, but would hope he stays and fights for his place.