Robbie

We were promised more physically at the start of the season but we are still being bullied somewhat by these physical sides. Notts simply have to start holding their own against these sides to have any chance of getting success this season.

Thanks for that @Fan of Big Tone . We would normally celebrate it today, but we are celebrating it tomorrow this year. In past years we've bought a Turkey, but we now buy a large chicken plus the trimmings, followed by Pumpkin pie. It's like having two Xmas meals in a month.

Chance would be a fine thing.

Wow @super_ram Practice makes perfect

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Just a routine day for both of us today. Help Mrs R do some house cleaning & watching some of the news. Particularly shocking is the news about the massive fire in Hong Kong which is affecting several High rise apartment buildings. They are talking about 2000 apartments may be affected. The first reports 36 killed & 279 missing.

I think that Notts have to improve the communication. Having to rely on an opponent for a B Team match report is a poor show. I've tried to find out what the Notts line up was but it's still not available on the website except the score. I think it's important to know what the team sheet was for the match, & to be able to read a brief match report from a Notts perspective.

@Graham said: "One answer would be to say that we don’t have enough players with the right mentality and we need to make this a recruitment priority". I think that you have made an important point here. Players were brought in during the summer & we were told that they were more physical & could hold their own against those strong uncompromising teams in League 2. But we now find ourselves with 8 out of the 10 outfield players from last season now playing in Martin's first 11. The problems that we saw towards the end of last season is showing itself once again. The January window is going to be more important than ever to ensure that the club recruits players with the mentality to deal with the pressure & hold their own against those tough & physical sides.

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@super_ram Derby are up to seventh place in the Championship after beating Swansea 1-2 this evening.

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The Poll has now closed. Thanks to all who voted. I'm delighted to announce that Nick Tsaroulla is the Pride of Nottingham's Man of the Match against Colchester.

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@McPie I agree with what you have said. Another thing we lacked yesterday was physicality & aggression. We were told that the new players were more aggressive, but the starting eleven was basically the same team as last season apart from Bass & McGoldrick & that team yesterday can't be described as being aggressive. Hall isn't an aggressive player, nor is Bennetts.

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