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How is Matty Palmer not MoM?! Well, he isn't! Cos that has to go to Tom Iorpenda. I'd say two bold things.... That was the best individual performance of the season so far And, that probably puts him well ahead and clinches POTS as well.

Exhilarating win. We desperately needed it to stay in touch for autos with 3 away games coming up. Players seem to be getting the message now, no non-performances. We keep losing defenders, and we should know it's not our strength, we have to play this attacking style to the end now and hope we keep blowing teams away.

Really entertaining game. Level, but confident that our quality creative play today can win the game.

Something interesting in the offing at the MK stadium

Nice team - and good bench Bennetts can consider himself unlucky after Tuesday. My wish for him was about reward, but I think Tangan is the better bet for helping us get ahead today. And delighted to see the same midfield pairing and Jatta back to start. COYP

Most of those have recent L1 history, so that's believable. Once wages go up, it must be very difficult for clubs to reduce (if relegated) as it'll mean dividing your playing squad between old and new contracts and clubs fancy themselves to bounce straight back up anyway. As it's only based on estimates, I tend not to believe Barrow has a bigger budget than us so that would have us smneaking into the top 10.

Charlton Athletic 0-2 Norwich QPR 2-0 Portsmouth Stevenage 0-2 Reading Wigan Athletic 2-0 Exeter City Accrington Stanley 0-2 Chesterfield Joker Shrews 1-1 Crewe Alexandra Altrincham 0-2 Southend United Yeovil Town 1-2 Morecambe

Exciting match day today. Cambridge v Salford will be interesting at 12:30. Anything apart from a Cambridge win I think...

I guess that's possible @Robbie but Tsaroulla would've been so wildly wrong in his positioning in that case.... If you watch, he's always a good 10-20 yards forward of Platt. I wonder if those 'average positioning' maps are still done. Regardless of whatever MP wanted, Platt was RCB and Tsaroulla RM or RWB [ a back 4, if you wanted RodMac and Platt together, would've needed a radical shift to something like 4-2-3-1 no more Wing-backs, or 4-4-2 no more No. 10s] Defensive team changes has been a lifelong pet hate of mine as a fan. That pair though take the biscuit in terms of impact, if Platt and Norburn weren't out of their natural roles..... The best way to promotion now is the Accy formula IMO. Pick a positive team and concentrate on accurate passing and movement, hard running, final third execution. Trust in a full season's training ground work by better footballers to take us all the way.

I rewatched the first 57mins of the Chesterfield defeat this morning. There were some interesting details to check out and this is what I saw. 1) The formation Adam and Stall are top notch but they were wrong about a back 4 Tsaroulla's positioning was never that of a Right Back. He was too far forward and sometimes inside. It was an Asymmetric set up with Tsaroulla as Right midfield. Jones was further forward. It was a back three but sliding over to the left slightly compared to normal. You can still say Platt was RCB, Rodmac CB and Bedeau LCB. Instead of picking Macari and Iorpenda in CM, MP opted for the extra insurnace of Platt's height and a double pivot of Palmer and Norburn. Two defensive-mided changes that would come back to bite us hard.... 2) Norburn With Palmer doing his normal holding job. Norburn thought he had to run around everywhere. That was why he was at the touchline going through Dobra for the first yellow. He shouldn't have been asked to do that, it isn't his game. He's said himself that he's not a No.8. And he was clearly wound up about Dobra from the off. It's a specific Notts thing I think so this must have come from others winding him up. Dobra probably embeliished the contact but Norburn went through him with his studs up. So he could have no complaints about either 3) Platt If you study the injury he was doing Macari's job of surging up the right then quickly turning back sprinting into the box and turning again. As a 6 ft 2 CB whose game is face-forward head, block and tackle everything, he should never have been asked to play RCB, a totally different position. We saw this before with Rawlo At Accy we went back to playing a ball-playing mobile RCB and a marauding whole-pitch box-to-box CM. The coaches really screwed up by making these defensive changes for a home game we should have set out to dominate. Taking out all that extra insurance cost us dearly IMO. If we go for it, being brave and positive, I think we can live with whatever the outcome is in May.

That's quite a quiet year by recent standards. There are 10 expirations in 2027 for example, before we add any loanees. Of those 7, 4 are no-brainer contract offers IMO. The other 3 are interesting - I'd say Bennetts, Kouhyar and maybe controversially Norburn have to prove their worth more during this run-in. We got an assist from Kouhyar at Walsall and a goal from Bennetts at Accy. More of that, please. Norburn is 33 and his last game was Chesterfield....we need to see a return to only positive contributions from here on in, I'd say

As the Spencer Kelly story was in Barcelona, I'll share an experience I had in that city. I was staying in a Hostal/Pension a few blocks away from Las Ramblas. I got talking to another traveller there and we decided to spend the day exploring the Funicular train and the views to the north. Normal enough day and chat with this man, about the same age as I was then. Following day, early evening I was walking down the Ramblas on the west side. I looked across and at the same level as me going up on the east side was this guy. So about 30m across. I saw him glancing over at me with his head half turned. I would've been the same but as we were walking in opposite directions, the distance increased quickly. A few steps on....something wasn't right....he was going back in the direction of the Hostal. I turned around and went back up on the East side, pretty quickly When I got back to the Hostal I asked for my key. The reception turned around and confirmed what I could see for myself - it wasn't there. They were just saying they had given the key to someone else, but I was already flying up the stairs. When I got up to the top (maybe 4 floors) I pushed opened my door, and lo and behold there he was searching the room. 'Trust your instincts' was confirmed for me thru this experience and I don't hesitate in following them.

Terrible news. What bad luck for him and for us. Hoping for a full and speedy recovery. We're relying a lot on Rod McDonald now, but if he can play the next 9 games like the dozen before he was injured we'll be fine. Ness is good and Browne looked handy at Accy. (Two emergency CBs? It'd be interesting to see Iorpenda there, and maybe even Jatta!)

I'd like to see the team below. Grant and Bennetts rewarded for playing well and scoring. Ndlovu, Tangan and Hall ready to come off the bench .........................Belshaw.......................... ..........Macari...McDonald.....Bedeau....... .................Palmer.....Iorpenda................. Tsaroulla......Bennetts...Grant.......Jones... ..........................Jatta..................................

I watched the game @Sheffield Pie. What struck me is that they have a fortress at home. It's such a perfect, big pitch...spoiling teams don't have much of a chance. They look like strong title favourites to me Bromley have got a head start and a nice run in. Our 9-game run-in though looks better than Cambridge's so if we're to go up it looks like we'll have to go toe-to-toe with them. It could be a bit like the game-by-game battle with Wrexham, with an away game deep into the run-in.

Part of the fun : ) Simple rule - you choose. Don't let people choose you - especially things like taxis, accommodation I think you can even extend that to speaking. You're under no obligation to respond to strangers. I will sometimes, but my attenae is already alerted

Sad story. I've done quite a lot of travelling and paranoia is second nature to me now. At the moment the man spoke to me I know that my legs would've tightened around those bags if they were at my feet. The small bag would've been on my lap anyway and I wouldn't have anything like a passport or cards in a bag. They'd be about my person, inside pockets or a pouch on my limbs. These instincts have been earned the hard way. I fell for at least two distraction techniques when I was younger. The worst? Sitting in a busy restaurant. Two of us, opposite each other, a bag on one of the side chairs on this small table. Kind of under our noses. I finished, but my companion was very busy, head down, very busy cutting some meat into tiny pieces. A tap on the window a few yards away. A man with a piece of paper imploring me to come over and take a look. Big mistake, I did. I couldn't read what was written on it. But almost instantly he disappeared into the very dark street outside. In those few seconds, someone inside the restaurant had plucked way the bag right under my friend's nose, who didn't know anything about it, still cutting the meat into small pieces. Nobody ever got me on the buses in the same place when someone drops a bunch of coins then tries to get people to help pick them up. I was always alive to that, but I have to admit they got me in the restaurant that time.

I think it'd be fair to describe it as 3-2-5-0. I saw Grant as a No.10 rather than filling in for the striker. Whatever it was, Accy couldn't live with it and they went to pieces. As you say@Robbie, an interesting option rather than something to repeat in any of the 9 Cup Finals we have left. One thing I would like to see kept though is the Palmer-Iorpenda CM partnership. What do you and others think? Norburn's red card let others players in, they took the chance, looked great, and now he has to take a seat on the bench. I'd like to see Grant and Bennetts given another go v Cheltenham. With Iorpenda next to Palmer again. I thought Palmer sprayed it around at Accy in a way Norburn can't.

True @menzinho , the team selected, the formation and the approach meant we played the game to our strengths and on our terms. So many of these teams want to drag the game down to their level, make it scrappy and physical. We often fall into this trap, but having no option we went out there with a winning strategy - outpass them, outmove and generally outplay them. Rawson and Co's worst fears. We should always concentrate on our football. As for this particular set up, MP should keep it in our locker to surprise another team in the same way. Although if Jatta stays fit we shouldn't need to.

Fond memories of my driving lessons and driving instructors... One was an oldish bloke called Barry from Trowell. No instruction, he just let you drive all around Notts for a hour. The only things I can remember him saying 'one of you mad bastards is going to kill me one day' 'WTF are you doing? Overtaking on a blind bend before a hump-back bridge!!!' I was to be fair...

So many candidates tonight. Mention must go to Bedeau, Palmer and Grant for great performances. Also Hall - his best showing for a while. Special mention to Macari. We missed him against Chesterfield. I'm glad he reacted so well to getting dropped for that game. Just edging all those out though, by my reckoning, was Jodi Jones. He terrorised them. He gets my vote.

Lovely night for Notts fans, you don't often win 0-4 away. So many positives...I'll pick Palmer. He put in a tremendous 70+ minutes, and bossed the midfield. He didn't put a foot wrong in the first half.

Wow, maybe the most enjoyable half of the season - so much good football played. We've approached this game in exactly the right way - outplay them with passing and movement and the ball on the deck. Maybe it's a good thing MP didn't have his extra height or defensive mid options available tonight

I think Bennetts will try to give his best Lee Ndlovu impersonation @menzinho Enough good footballers there who have been training together all season to outplay Accy tonight. If it works it could be too fluid for their defenders to cope with, they won't know who to pick up and where

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