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I solved Combinations #939 today with the full 93 points!

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@Fan of Big Tone £39 each way special fare on Air Fungus🙃 includes 10kg baggage. Bargain!

Back from Belfast... accidently dropped the car keys on to the pavement...key snapped... Quoted £140 for specialist mobile car locksmith... but a local Timsons within Sainsburys fixed it for £50 phew

@Piethagoram you are a lucky boy with the car keys, could of been 140 times worse. Don't forget to do the lottery 😉

Hope you have a great time @nottsnutter and please bring a little of that sunshine back with you 😊

@Fan of Big Tone I'm beginning to think you spend more time on board ship 🚢 then on terra firma,will have to start calling you Captain 😂

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@Piethagoram you are a lucky boy with the car keys, could of been 140 times worse. Don't forget to do the lottery 😉

Hope you have a great time @nottsnutter and please bring a little of that sunshine back with you 😊

@Fan of Big Tone I'm beginning to think you spend more time on board ship 🚢 then on terra firma,will have to start calling you Captain 😂

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QPR 0 v 1 Swansea City

Blackpool 1 v 2 Mansfield Town (Joker)

Bromley 0 v 1 Peterborough United

Chesterfield 2 v 0 Crewe Alexandra

Rochdale 1 v 1 Accrington Stanley

Southend United 2 v 0 Halifax Town

Yeovil Town 3 v 1 Altrincham

Lincoln City 1 v 1 Burnley

QPR 1 v 2 Swansea City

Blackpool 1 v 1 Mansfield Town

Bromley 0 v 2 Peterborough United joker

Chesterfield 1 v 3 Crewe Alexandra

Rochdale 1 v 0 Accrington Stanley

Southend United 2 v 1 Halifax Town

Yeovil Town 3 v 0 Altrincham

Lincoln City 2 v 1 Burnley

QPR 1 v 1 Swansea City

Blackpool 1 v 2 Mansfield Town

Bromley 0 v 2 Peterborough United

Chesterfield 2 v 1 Crewe Alexandra 🃏

Rochdale 1 v 0 Accrington Stanley

Southend United 2 v 0 Halifax Town

Yeovil Town 1 v 1 Altrincham

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I remember the name, but not much else. I love that Neil Warnock is living his life how he wants, and shows little signs of not retiring properly. The thought of managing overseas is amusing to me. Good on him for not allowing his age to prevent him from living.

3 seasons at Meadow Lane @Fan of Big Tone and you don't remember him???

Just in case you missed him, he made zero appearances as a keeper🤣

Yes, he came from Scarborough with Warnock

There’s an argument that every outfield player (not a dig a Belshaw, he had very little to do) that started could’ve got it, no-one had a bad game.

Can’t just be a coincidence when Smyth plays, on the whole, we get better performances. Kanu looked like player I remember! Midfield were totally dominate, as were the back 3 who won so many of their duels. Ishe got some stick last time out, he was great, done by the end but that wing-back spot is so demanding.

I went for Grant though, his link up play and use of the ball was spot on more often than not. If he could just start to chip in with a few goals we’d have some player.

Some really good individual performances in this match. Grants best game in a Notts shirt for me, Robertson was really good and Kanu did well and is improving with each game. My vote though goes to Finneran, he is full of natural talent, quality on the ball turns and drifts past players as though they are not there. He is surely going to be playing in the premier league before too long. We are extremely fortunate to have him on loan.

We always play better when Grant is on the pitch! Said it many times before.

Huge talent, subtlety, awareness and creativity in abundance.

Yes! That was so much better in every single way. More of this please and less of the other thing.

Downside of last is, for all the chances created we still didn't look like scoring, and relied on a penalty

Wow, totally unexpected, I’m not sure how we managed to get such a turnaround in performance so quickly from the weekend but we did!

It's eased the thoughts that we were possibly sliding into Martin Paterson's Burton side, because last night’s performance was the opposite.

It felt like the plan was more in-kin with what MP had hoped would work from the Oxford match. Except this time, we tweaked it so we weren’t so overrun in the middle of the pitch. The press was a lot more coherent and aggressive. It relied on us winning those duels especially as the back 3 followed the Sheffield Wed attackers when they dropped deep and ended up as high as the halfway line. And we seemed to commit more to passing out from the back, at Wycombe when Belshaw had the ball it went long pretty much every time.

Best performance of the season by a mile, we knew this season was going to be tough but results like that make it totally worth it!

Dicey tie. A L1 team should be alright but our cup record makes this seem difficult

The Altrincham game will be a fomer Notts XI vs Notts County.

The have Hinchy, Tom Crawford, Kristian Dennis, Kane Hemmings and Jimmy Knowles.

FC United players include Adam Le Fondre and Andre Wisdom.

It's Altrincham! They won 6-2 against FC United. We'll play them on the weekend that is the 7th Nov.

Looks like we'll be seeing a few familiar faces!

AFC Wimbledon 1-1 Mansfield Town

Bromley 0-2 Leicester City

Burton Albion 0-2 Bradford City

Luton Town 1-0 Barnsley

Crawley Town 0-2 Shrewsbury Town (joker)

Northampton Town 2-1 Tranmere Rovers

Rochdale 2-1 Grimsby Town

Rotherham United 1-1 Newport County

Wimbledon 1 v Mansfield 1

Bromley 0 v LeIcester 2 jkŕ

Burton1 v Bradford 2

Luton 2 v Barnsley 2

Crawley 1 v Shrewsbury 2

Northampton 1 v Tranmere 2

Rochdale 1 v Grimsby 2

Rotherham 2 v Newport 1

AFC Wimbledon 0-0 Mansfield Town

Bromley 2-1 Leicester City

Burton Albion 0-2 Bradford City

Luton Town 1-0 Barnsley

Crawley Town 1-1 Shrewsbury Town (Joker)

Northampton Town 0-0 Tranmere Rovers

Rochdale 1-0 Grimsby Town

Rotherham United 0-1 Newport County

Cal Roberts played for Scunthorpe as an attacker on many occasions.. if our present strike force can't get the goals needed why not try Cal upfront with an extra midfielder supporting him?

I think this is now the beginning of the pressure for ol' Patto. He's getting jumpy in terms of becoming more defensive, less press orientated and trying different players.

We need to stick to a team because without it, players become uncommon with player relationships, bad players relationships lead to errors and errors lead to defeats.

I wonder if League 1 is a bit of a sensitive scar for Patto?

Although I can't see it, we need something out of these next three games or there will be a calling for Martin's head - especially when someone so revered and known for their attacking, creative style at Notts, waits in the wings and unattached.

Having left it a couple of days to mull over I have definitely come to the conclusion that it would be a mistake to let MP go, I do think once (if it ever happens) he has more fit players back that he can turn this around. I think modern football we get into the cycle of hire and fire managers but if you just look at the successful clubs they have patience with their managers and even if we do go down this season I still wouldn't let him go because he could well bring us back up.

We have to remember we haven't been at this level in a long time (11 years is a long time in football). We also came up through the playoffs not by running away with League Two and quite a few of our key players were on loan so have gone then we let go of our two main strikers.

I agree with everyone that this is concerning and MP needs to make changes, I'm not sure what those changes would be other than getting players fit but I'm not a football manager. Please don't misunderstand this as me saying the fan base wants him sacked etc because that isn't the case. This is merely what I'm thinking about the whole situation at the moment.

Agree @theAnticlough I thought the substitutions made a big difference. Maybe those five substitutions should have been in the starting 11. Not sure why Ness was substituted.

We didn't create anything worthwhile till those four players came on. It was a toss up between Ness, Grant & Palmer, but I thought Palmer just shaded it

Really can’t comment, fire stick for some reason wasn’t showing any live 3pm games 🤬

Just 6 hours left to get your vote in for this Man of the Match award. We may have lost but there is a player that performed above the rest. Let's give the team some support and get your vote in.

Bristol City 1-1 Sheffield United

Norwich City 1-0 Portsmouth

Barnsley 0-2 Cambridge United

Leicester City 2-1 Doncaster Rovers

Leyton Orient 3-1 Blackpool

Plymouth Argyle 2-3 Huddersfield Town

Colchester United 0-1 Exeter City

Crewe Alexandra 2-0 Rochdale

On 14/10/2026 at 16:06, StarkMallard said:

• Round: 11

• Kick-off: Saturday 17 October, 3pm

• Don't forget your joker!

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Bristol City2 v0 Sheffield United

Norwich City 2v1 Portsmouth

Barnsley2 v 1Cambridge United

Leicester City 3v 1Doncaster Rovers joker

Leyton Orient 1v 22Blackpool

Plymouth Argyle 2v 1Huddersfield Town

Colchester United2 v2 Exeter City

Crewe Alexandra2 v 0Rochdale

Bristol City 2-1 Sheffield U

Norwich 1-1 Portsmouth

Barnsley 1-2 Cambridge

Leicester 1-1 Doncaster R

Leyton Orient 2-2 Blackpool

Plymouth 2-1 Huddersfield 🤡

Colchester 0-0 Exeter City

Crewe 2-1 Rochdale

Well that was literally men against boys but take nothing away from Notts it was a very good performance and we could have scored 8 or 9 given the number of chances they missed.

Hopefully that will instill a bit of confidence for our league encounters.

A cup run would be most welcome. I'm happy...

We needed that! Martin was right in his post-match comments when he said it was a bit of a lose-lose scenario because had we scraped a 1-0 win it wouldn't have alleviated any of the concerns.

We needed to look a cut above, and particularly in that second half it you could see the confidence in the players with the one/two touch incisive attacking play. The Cal Roberts through ball for the 4^th goal where he put Lupsiuc in was sublime. And just on Darius, I'd like to see him as RWB I think he'd be more comfortable there. When we play with the inverted wingbacks we do lose the ability to put in good first time crosses like that.

The fact "94% of clubs in the top five English leagues made losses in 2025-26" is really bleak, and then you have additional thing like "17 clubs across the EFL and National League would be loss-making even if their players played for free", how can that be allowed to happen?

It's not good at all that clubs are totally reliant on owners. At some point, these owners will have enough of just losing money, then you are left in a situation where you are looking for someone richer to keep covering the losses or it'll be a case of the club being wound up.

It might be boring to some but the brothers and Joe Palmer constantly talking about Notts being sustainable and wanting us to be at at a break-even level is only going to make us stronger in the future. Surely at some point the rules have to change so football clubs aren't just reliant on a couple of people basically being the reason for a football clubs existence.

Sorry, I was expecting this to be news about him signing for a new club. 🤣

4 hours ago, menzinho said:

I think I kind of got what we were trying to do first half, we almost had like a front 4 of Cooper, Roberts, Grant and Kanu all pressing hard (well at least supposed to be) with the intent of winning the ball high up. But more often than not we were off the pace by a second or two and it meant that press wasn’t effective and it was quickly bypassed to leave poor Palmer out numbered in the middle. I do wonder if we'd played a back 4, to allow for another midfielder (at the expense of a CB) so a 4-2-4 formation would that have left us less exposed than what at times looked like a 5-1-4?

Yes, I think Pato owes Palmer one. By that I mean to apologise to him for setting up with only 1 CM and getting overrun there. You're right it did look like a 5-1-4I think his performance will cost him a starting place, but Pato should promise him another shot later on after inadvertently setting him up to fail.

The back 4 question...I suspect Pato is more in favour of it than others. He basically set up that way at home to Chesterfield last season with Platt there and it was horrible. We've probably played about 3 or 4 games with a back four in the past 5 seasons since it changed under Ardley (away at Bromley, arguably away at B Rovers when we went down to 10) so it would be a radical move. You can't just casually switch and interchange formations, which is why we haven't. I don't see how Tsaroulla fits into any formation with a back 4 and he's one of our best players. Apart from that we do have the squad for a decent 4-2-3-1 but I can only see it happening if we really get planted in the bottom 4 this month and are on something like P12 Pts 10. Personally, i don't think it would save us.

I agree with you @theAnticlough that the back 3 is likely still our best way forward, we looked better when we switched back to the two CMs in Sanders and Finneran, with Roberts and Grant ahead. That is our tried and tested formation, that over the last couple of years has served us really well.

I just meant more in terms of specific tactics for the Oxford match, if the plan was to be super aggressive and press with 4 players, it's surely asking for trouble leaving just 1 CM to get totally out-numbered and exposed!

The defeat was on MP totally. The first half was a painful watch.

2H performance, thought we should have deserved a point. Credit to Oxford, their team was set up well, defensively strong and could play on the break with purpose.