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It's raining goals. Just need Kouhyar to finally get one now ...

Sounds like we've had the best of the first half. It would be good to progress - we have a terrible record in this competition since the turn of the millenium. The records say we got to the QFs in 2015 by beating the Stags, Donny and Scunny, though I've no recollection of it. Pretty dismal set of fixtures. Come on Notts.

Trying to keep up with the squad and injury list! Ndolovu returns - noted. Where are Griffiths and Baker? Are Maltby and Lilley from the academy?

Got your wish @theAnticlough ! Three subs, no messing. Please let's not concede while we're re-organising, then we need to go for it.

Looks pretty strong XI and a strong bench. Great to see Sanders available. Makes sense to ease some of the internationals back in. Baker and Kouhyar miss out. Hope the Mustapha injury is short term. Robbo's and Ndlovu's turning into long term ones.

Tsaroulla's second assist - came on in the 91st minute and set up the last kick winner with some neat work drawing two defenders before slipping it to Edwards. https://www.uefa.com/uefanationsleague/match/2047936--cyprus-vs-latvia-/

I think this is what happened, mixed bag for our lads. Sierra Leone lost both games. Kanu didn't score. Mustapha withdrew from the squad with an injury, hope it clears up quickly. Cyprus - 7 pts from 4 games. Tsaraoulla made his senior debut which is great for him. Started once and two sub appearances (was suspended for one game). Two assists (both for Burnley's Marcus Edwards), two yellow cards and conceded one penalty. Cyprus just need a draw at home to Armenia next month to progress. Ireland U21 - won both games and have a chance of qualifying for the U21 Euros play-offs. They need to beat England today in their last game. Finneran started both games and Lipsiuc was used as a sub in one. UPDATE Ireland U21s 3 England 1 so they're into the November play-offs. Finneran played the whole match and got an assist. Lipsiuc played the last half hour. England had already won the group so a good time to play them.

Really interesting. Actually looks like football at this point. What the likes of Notts, Sheffield and Hallam played in the early days I doubt we'd recognise as the same sport.

I can't fault those individual choices from among our fit players.its just a question of whether we have enough creativity in there. Roberts has faded a bit since his good start but he's our best bet for getting a goal out of nothing. Palmer picked him out on Tuesday for his goal, would be nice if that happened again, we're short of partnerships just yet.

The club have announced that it's being revived. https://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2026/september/23/heritage--hof---dedicated-match/ Who would you add to it? Possibles for me: Mike Edwards - 349 appearances and a promotion Neil Warnock - back to back promotions to the top flight Jodi Jones - two promotions and that Wembley performance (he might not be ready to accept just yet though!) Edit - maybe the Anglo Italian cup winning team. Won an actual trophy in the days when we had cup runs! I can't think of anyone else. A few others have made their mark e.g. Langstaff but I think there's got to be some longevity to it with players if not with managers.

Palmer played well depsite being fouled a few times. McDonald also looked well up to speed. Of the players I've not really seen before, Browne impressed me the most, very tidy and was always looking to play forward passes, and the goal we conceded wasn't on his side.

Basically everyone who's fit but hasn't been starting. Plus Longelo given a chance to get into the swing of things. The exception is up front but not reading much into Roberts and Smyth starting, we simply don't have any fit reserve strikers. I was hoping for a pleasant surprise on the bench - Robbo, Sanders or Campbell - but no such luck.

Great initiative by the club. Plenty of other clubs have this - I've picked up tickets this way to see various Premier League games over recent years. Also interesting to learn that we've sold 7,200 'general admission' season tickets. I assume that means not including hospitality season passes. https://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2026/september/21/new--ticket-exchange/ As ever it will be interesting to observe what ingenious ways the moaners can come up with to find fault.

This is great news. The fans forum is also an interesting watch (recording is on the Notts website) not least for what MP said about his expectations of players, why Ness has emerged as a top talent, and possession stats. Although I've said we're capable of making the play-offs, in terms of progress in the next three years, all I'm looking for is being competitive in EFL1 for now. Just as important for me is the club becoming 'Championship ready' in other ways - building up the average attendance to 15k+, getting a big name sponsor, buying and selling for bigger fees (looking forward to our first £1m sale), being able to incorporate outside investment into the model.

If Bradford are expecting the same Notts they played in EFL2 then they;re in for a shock. I assume Alexander will have done his omework though. Predicting a win and a few goals. A clean sheet would be nice but not guaranteed. A 12:30 kick off so unfortunatrly not expecting a bumper crowd, a respectable 13k maybe. Wonder when the Sirrel stand will next be open to Notss fans, maybe Sheff Wed - it's a Tues night but should draw a big crowd.

My monthly PiesPlayer pass has become less good value! I don't mind. Quite a big gap but will help with our injury situation.

Quite a season looking back. Losing to Forest on penalties, the Juventus game, a bit of an FA Cup run, Martin Allen sacked after a terrible December and January, then a great run and missing out on the play-offs on goal difference. Average attendance about 6,800.

Privileged to be there. Anyone else go? I think we got about 200 tickets. Thursday night so not easy to get to. Luca Toni and Lee Hughes the scorers.

I like to read other clubs' message board to see what fans have to say about Notts - when we've played them and also some boards have a general EFL1 thread. They've been pretty complementary about Notts so far - very well organised/drilled, fit, aggressive are the most common comments. So a big change from before Pato came along. Pato hasn't quite got us to really click as an attacking force in the ways some of his predacessors have. There's no 'Palmer to Rodriguez to Langstaff, goal!' conveyor belt yet. That's his challenge now.

Ness being praised on the Huddersfield message board, , 'MoM' one comment. Not going to argue with that.

Brilliant battling performance there, copyright Mr M. Paterson. We have NOTHING to fear in this division.

The club should release the list of 22 registered players soon. By my count (I could be wrong!) we've got 23, excluding Reynolds, the two keepers and six U21s. Presumably Macari would not be named. To fit in Flint or any other outfield free agent we'd need to leave out someone else I think.

Our toughest game so far. Would be delighted with a point, even though that would mean slipping a few places further down the table. For us to get a point or even three I think everything would need to click - we manage to not concede first, Tsaroulla, Roberts and Mustafa are at their creative best, the midfield chip in with a goal (Finneran's turn maybe), Kanu strikes up an instant partnership with Smyth or Grant. Need to be competitive for 90 minutes.

Just caught up with the fact that Tom Iorpenda has gone to Swansea for a package worth up to £1m. He's a great prospect but that just shows how difficult the market is and how well Notts do to attract (and replace) talent.

Another sensible move by Notts. Obviously waited to see if anybody would take him but had a mutual deal ready to sign. People will speculate it was costly, as there's this notion that Roos was on big money. But that seemed to start out as something one person claimed and it eventually became a 'fact'. So I'm sceptical. Will we bring in a third keeper when we get the chance, as an extra back-up? I kind of miss the days when an outfield player occasionally took the gloves and performed theatrical heroics. Anyone remember Darren Davis in the County Cup at Forest? He was a better keeper than a full back.