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Welcome from me too @Peter Craddock you’ll find we are a friendly community so dive right in and enjoy.

Welcome from me too @ted beardsall I hope you enjoy being a member of our friendly community.

We lack an actual functioning captain - someone who is an automatic pick, is vocal and leads by example in terms of play and discipline. I know they won't take it off Palmer but just thinking aloud, who could theyt turn to - Belshaw? Iorpenda?

We're now playing catch-up due to too many cheap losses. Do we have the consistency to hunt the top three down? Can we produce our A game against Cambridge and Salford?

6 hours ago, theAnticlough said:

How do we unlock Ness? Lucas did Ok last night but has got to step up as a leader now he's our CB for the run-in. And we've got to hope MP can inspire him to do it.

Ness has already shown us how good he can be, now he's got the precious opportunity of a run of games as an automatic starter. It's time to trust him and back him to deliver on his potential.

It is a great opportunity, Stark. And we have no option but to trust in him.

But maybe it'll need a quick adjustment of his attitude and demeanour. He's got to be a leader now.

If ever he gets crocked, Macari-Bedeau-Bennetts might be another backline we can throw out there in an emergency

Blackpool 2 v 1 Burton Albion

Exeter City 0 v 2 Leyton Orient joker

Bristol Rovers 2 v 1 Accrington Stanley

Crewe Alexandra 0 v 1 Oldham Athletic

Newport County 1 v 1 Shrewsbury Town

Gateshead 0 v 2 Yeovil Town

Halifax Town 1 v 2 Scunthorpe United

Morecambe 2 v 0 Aldershot

Who's been coaching who? Are we coaching them, or are they coaching us? 😂

Quality! Love the way the commentator just went ahead and gave it her best GOOOOOLLLLLLLL anyway!

It looks and sounds horrendous but we seem to be punished for petulance whilst opponents get away, unpunished, with thuggery. There is some mitigation, in my view, particularly in recent games.

Norburn was, arguably, an tad unlucky v C’field, his 1st yellow seemed harsh and he was fouled himself a few seconds prior to his challenge. The “boot” business was daft & he should have been more careful, given his card. Tonight, he was just irresponsible and incredibly dim.

Ndlovu’s red was ludicrous, simply a dreadful decision. Both players had their foot in the air challenging for the ball, 1 made contact, the other didn’t, end of story. That’s never a red card in a million years, crazy decision.

The data does suggest we have a problem & it is costing us, so players need to sort themselves out and the management/coaching staff need to address it with a degree of urgency.

Our lack of discipline is going to cost us an automatic promotion place. With the injuries starting to pile up too, it's a big headache for Martin Paterson.

I think Norburn might have a two game ban instead of just the one game due to his 2nd red card of the season.

Notts have been accused of not being physical enough which has cost us in recent seasons, but lack of discipline is different to showing physicality in games. It's just a self inflicted wound.

Notts are in fourth place in the League 2 Poor discipline league.

English League Two Discipline Stats, 2025-26 Season - ESPN (UK) https://share.google/nu5d07BUpk8me2n8W

There is mitigation in some cases @YoopEyes, Ndlovu's red was debatable and you're always going to pick up yellows due to the nature of this league. If you're not "up for the fight", you won't even be in the running.

Norburn's combative nature has done us good, but he's let us down twice now when every point counts. I've seen a few games now when he's been a red card waiting to happen - it's his responsibility not to be an idiot, but it's also down to MP to take him off when it's clear to everyone what's going to happen.

I'll be honest then Robbie, that's enough of a blow to say, that's it we're done and let's hope for better injury luck next year.

At least we'll have another year of winning loads of matches....

Of course MP and the boys will soldier on. But Belshaw, Macari, Ness, Browne etc. are strangers to each other in football terms. It's such a massive ask for them to keep it together for this run-in - you never know though

i just hope for a quick couple of wins to secure that play-off place. With our attacking players, we'd still be a scary team for others to face.

League 2 Table after the Oldham defeat.

Iorpenda again for me, best of a bad bunch.

Macari OK, Ness Ok apart from the terrible mistake, Dennis the best of the subs I thought

Think Iorpenda was the only serious contender tbh. He persevered, gives you 90 mins of effort and there were glimpses of quality.

After the opening 25 mins or so few, if any others offered much (Palmer, maybe?) until Bennetts and Tangen appeared.

Collectively poor but too many blatant individual errors. Very bad night for Bedeau, Ness, Tsaroulla, Norburn and Jatta!

I agree with others. I thought Tom Iorpenda was far above anyone else. Its concerning that our senior players failed to step up to the plate especially when Norburn was dismissed.

That’s an absolute disaster tbh!

That's a massive blow for Notts with Matty Platt already out for the rest of the season.

Macari, Platt, Bedeau, & McDonald had a great understanding together. I'm not sure if Macari, Bedeau & Ness have the same. And we now only have young Browne as cover for any other injury that might happen to one of those three senior defenders.

15 minutes ago, Michael D Pie. said:

Didn't realise @Chris you were a pastry and pudding chef, fruit crumbles, especially apple is my favourite, with loads of custard 😋 please. Great to hear that you are making good progress on the coding front, keep up the good work. 🖥️

I've always enjoyed making puddings and deserts; I used to spend every Christmas making things with my mum. She would bake and make everything, jam tarts, spondges, triffle etc.

My favourite thing to make is pizza though; I love replicating Pizza Hut and Dominos. My wife bakes delightful Victorian sponges and brownies. The thing we learned as young parents is we had to make good homemade food. 😁

@super_ram baked me lovely, chesse, potato and beans pies. I think he should return the favour. Ha Haha!!

@Chris that all sounds scrummy and is making me hungry. My mum used to bake all sorts, from scones to jam tarts, and cheese, onion and potato pie, my absolute favourite with beans, and apple pies to die for. That's me being a little biased me thinks 🤔 What we need to know now is do you answer to Domino, whooo, hoo 🤣

I went to swing by Mark's, who's mum gave me the two Steak Ale Pies he had made Super. We had a catch up. I really appreciate how they have shown nothing but care and consideration to my dad. Mark's literally gone above and beyond, which reminds me it must be a "Mark" thing - as that's the name of my other friend who I go to games with.

Of course, I took the Summer Fruit Crumbles and even baked one later on for my dad.

Hopefully, he won't mind me saying but I think it's disgraceful that Tesco delivered him milk (small) that went off a day after he received it. So, I nipped down to the shop and I couldn't help but think back on the times my mum would send me to fetch something. Unfortunately they didn't have half a single paint but I got the same size as the one Tesco delivered. Made him a coffee, and used some to make him custard for his crumbe.

During my visit, I have been continuing my coding and I have two apps up and running that will hopefully help me attract partners with local businesses.

I also upgraded my script for the status page, which now includes member integration for suggestions.

Whilst I implemented this, I went the extra step to add functions to update private updates which I might not wish to disclose publicly. I finished the work in the development area and made changes to the social publisher yesterday. All are now on the live site, I can get back to curating content, and cracking on. I really feel optimistic about next season, as being organised and having help makes such a huge difference.

I watched the first half with @super_ram, didn't think much of our performance and how we have played from home has been very much hit and miss. Oldham to their credit look good for their position, when I got home I saw their second and third.

Quite a long ramble, but coming home it was horrible. I turned two streets away, had to dodge speeding bins flying down and all sorts of rubbish. A 3D version of Donkey Kong, but with bins moving at 20 to 30 miles per hour. Wind much stronger, and rain hitting from all directions, including upwards. It was almost like a diaster movie, "The Day After Tomorrow." Despite that, I would still do it again!

5 hours ago, Michael D Pie. said:

What we need to know now is do you answer to Domino, whooo, hoo 🤣

Ha! I thought you were going to ask me if I do deliveries.

It sounds like our mums were true traditional homemakers, with all the treats they baked. It's quite funny, because my grandmother wasn't much of a cook or baker. The answer to your question is no, I actually don't say it at all. 😄 Not that I think it's annoying but it doesn't quite have the Wazzaaa from Scary Movie and the Buzzwiser adverts.

@Chris I think that there is still room for someone to claim that number 10 role for Notts during the promotion run in.

I think that Jayden will give Martin more options on the bench. Martin does rate Jayden a lot, so I'm sure he's going to feature during the last 8 games & possibly the 3 playoff games if it is to be the playoffs.

To be fair, he can play out wide so there's options, and I think having someone else in those wider attacking positions will be help but I do look at our squad and wonder how he will get game time.

It's a question for Martin Paterson not me, and naturally Jayden Luker needs to take whatever chances come his way.

I already accepted that the No10 conundrum, if it's going to be solved at all, will be solved by committee, and he's one more for the committee!

Step by step I guess. As Chris says game time may be limited so he will have to try to shine in sub appearances and take it from there. We absolutely can't take chances or allow someone to rebuild their game in these 8 cup finals we have left .... Autos is one or two slip ups out of our grasp, and play-offs is 75% failure

Iorpenda, hat tip to Palmer too

i wished conor grant had shown the spark he did against accrington but i think he was pretty quiet, most of the players did very well and i think my choice would be between jodi jones and tom iorpenda but i have gone with who i felt played brilliantly throughout.

The poll has now closed. Thank you to all who voted. I'm pleased to announce that Tom Iorpenda, by an overwhelming majority, has been voted the Pride of Nottingham's Man of the Match v Cheltenham. Well done Tom.

Charlton Athletic 1-2 Norwich City

Queens Park Rangers 2-0 Portsmouth

Stevenage 0-2 Reading

Wigan Athletic 1-0 Exeter City 🃏

Accrington Stanley 1-3 Chesterfield

Shrewsbury Town 1-1 Crewe Alexandra

Altrincham 0-2 Southend United

Yeovil Town 1-1 Morecambe

No Freddie the Ferret again as he is still boating in this beautiful weather.

Charlton Athletic 1 v 2 Norwich City

QPR 1 v 1 Portsmouth

Stevenage 2 v 1 Reading

Wigan Athletic 3 v 0 Exeter City

Accrington Stanley 2 v 2 Chesterfield

Shrewsbury Town1 v 0 Crewe Alexandra

Altrincham 0 v 0 Southend United

Yeovil Town 3 v 1 Morecambe

With or without Freddie we do the business. 😁

The results:

Charlton Athletic 0-1 Norwich City
QPR 6-1 Portsmouth
Stevenage 1-0 Reading
Wigan Athletic 2-0 Exeter City
Accrington Stanley 0-1 Chesterfield
Shrewsbury Town 0-4 Crewe Alexandra
Altrincham 1-0 Southend United
Yeovil Town 3-2 Morecambe

@super_ram claims the (imaginary) prize this week!

There's little change overall, with @william1984 still leading the way...

The next round is on Saturday, so keep your eyes peeled here for the fixtures on Wednesday. Thanks for playing, see you all then

The issue for me with how Cheltenham played was always about if they could maintain their start, as they did seem very well organised. I think they were better in spells, collectively as a team but never overall in the first half. It was a good first half, against two attacking minded teams but they fell apart due to themselves. Their goals were well-made, but from a Notts view, they were very frustrating.

Second half, Notts did show a lot more of themselves, and even without the red card we would have won. It might have made them a bit more competitive but they were always looking like their energy levels were dropping.

Steve Cotterill is a bit of a moron; there's some valid points but he's that typical 90s whining manager.

There's a lot of credit to be given to how Cheltenham started, but at the same time you are wearing tinted glasses if you cannot accept that Notts were the better team. If you have to look for excuses, and justify them, then as a manager you know you aren't being completely honest. Referees may give advantage at times to teams, but the sending off was coming at a time where Cheltenham were just throwing silly challenges.

If you defend by trying to take out the opposition like that, then you have to blame yourself and expect what might come. You can't pin it down to the official, nor can you gloss over how good the opposition team played when things clicked. We are a very good team when that happens, even at our worst we are. We are fully capable of dismentling teams, so it would be like me avoiding credit to them just because how easy we made the second half look.

cheltenhams second goal, their player had all the time in the world and both of their goals were poor marking decisons. some fans made comments about james belshaw not reacting but what could he have done? Maybe he could have done something with the second goal but the first happened quickly. he made some very good instinctive decisions to claim loose balls i thought he did well despite them coming back into the game.

notts always looks better in the second half, there was calmness about the play and it was very entertaining to see us attack.

On 25/01/2026 at 20:21, liampie said:

i am not adding this to be negative but i thought straight away, here is the new junior morias.

Definitely, in the sense that it's insurance for the second half of a promotion bid.

Say we keep Jatta, but he got injured....we absolutely have to have a physical presence at both ends of the pitch. I wouldn't like to see us in play-off semis against Salford or Cambridge say, and we get bullied and wimp out like last season.

Apart from that there's not much similarity, different style, age, length of contract. He's got a season and a half to prove himself and make a contribution.. He may only get about 6 goals across that time and still be popular and a good signing.

On 27/01/2026 at 10:16, Mapperley Pie said:

Agree @McPie . Just listened to his interview and he comes across very well. Very clear of his role and how he would fit in. An old fashioned Division 4 forward 🤔.

Yeah, I think the new signings and his signing in particular will be a boost and I really fancy us to win well today.

He seems very positive and the way he spoke about Notts County made us sound like the place to be. Would all the players watch that interview? His enthusiasm about joining County could give an extra boost to the positivity and pride in wearing the shirt.

On 31/01/2026 at 05:28, theAnticlough said:

Definitely, in the sense that it's insurance for the second half of a promotion bid.

Say we keep Jatta, but he got injured....we absolutely have to have a physical presence at both ends of the pitch. I wouldn't like to see us in play-off semis against Salford or Cambridge say, and we get bullied and wimp out like last season.

Apart from that there's not much similarity, different style, age, length of contract. He's got a season and a half to prove himself and make a contribution.. He may only get about 6 goals across that time and still be popular and a good signing.

i think my concerns have been addressed, as he looks fully capable and i think if he was here at the start of the season he would be fighting matt dennis to be our highest goal scorer and jatta of course.

Something interesting in the offing at the MK stadium

Cambridge have beaten Salford 1:0

Barnet have beaten MK Dons 1:3

Up to date table.

It's a shame Cambridge didn't draw, but the MK Dons result was very good.

Them being two games ahead, they have added more pressure on themselves and if they want to top Bromley, they'll need to do better. I am really hoping they drop into the playoffs, and we continue to secure our automatic promotion. That's the ideal world, but will it happen?

And with it I’ve changed mine, Aiways found it weird i was tagged as my name and not a user name. Thus arise Paris Sandwich Man

12 minutes ago, Paris Sandwich Man said:

And with it I’ve changed mine, Aiways found it weird i was tagged as my name and not a user name. Thus arise Paris Sandwich Man

Interesting choice! Are you actually a sandwich man in Paris?

No, I misheard Paris Saint Germain on radio, was sure he said Paris Sandwich Man, couldn’t get it out my head.😂😂