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Game 2 - The Gulls (H)
Team: Torquay United
Date: 28/08/2021
Where: Meadow Lane
What line-up should Ian Burchnall opt for? What will be the key areas for the Magpies to get a victory? What do you think the final score will be?
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Round five is on Saturday, and the usual rules apply - kick-off is Saturday at 3pm, and you have a joker each. Who will be this week's certified football genius?
Barnsley v Birmingham City
Fulham v Stoke City
Charlton Athletic v Crewe Alexandra
Oxford United v Lincoln City
Barrow v Bristol Rovers
Hartlepool United v Carlisle United
Boreham Wood v Aldershot
Dagenham & Redbridge v Bromley
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Everyone here is from different generations and this is something I've always wanted to hear people's opinions about.
What is the most iconic commentary line you've heard?
What is your personal favourite commentary line?
Iconic: "Aguerooooooooo"
Personal favourite:"oh ya beauty. what a hit son. what a hit!"
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Game 1 - The Bees (A)
Team: Barnet
Date: 21/08/2021
Where: The Hive
What line-up should Ian Burchnall opt for? What will be the key areas for the Magpies to get a victory? What do you think the final score will be?
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Call me crazy, but I think we'll win 5-0. All the goals in the 2nd half.
11 hours ago, Super_Danny_Allsopp said:????bit late. Perhaps the automation is a bit out of time synch?
Kate added the fixtures yesterday for me. It needed this one to stop from generating a match discussion. Let's just stick with the 5-0 win, I don't want to tempt fate. ????
I think it'll be nil nil. No way will we score without a 20-Goal-a-Season Striker (TM)
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It's round four of the prediction league already - and if this one seems a bit more tinpot than usual, that's because the National League is included too. They all kick off at 3pm on Saturday, and remember your jokers!
Coventry City v Reading
Stoke City v Nottingham Florist
Fleetwood Town v Cheltenham Town
Shrewsbury Town v Plymouth Argyle
Hartlepool United v Walsall
Scunthorpe United v Sutton United
Halifax Town v Maidenhead United
King's Lynn v Southend United
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Starting 11 announced.
About as expected?
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Pretty sure it translates to this.
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Strange, angry interview. Obviously haven't seen the game, but anybody that has watched Elliott Hewitt play at RB will know he is absolutely terrible in that position (granted he's not anything special at the other positions either).
Says more about the manager for A: signing Hewitt and B: playing him at RB.
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Slocombe 7.5 Rarely troubled. Thought he had let one shot slip in the 2nd half but was OK
Brindley 7.5 some strong forward runs cutting inside
Rawlinson 7 Solid, does what it says on the tin
Cameron 7 Will have harder days at the office
Taylor 6.5 Disappointed he didnt continue runs down the wing..but he may have been instructed to cut inside
DKE 8 Energy in abundance, great ball in for Ruben
Palmer 9 MoTM a Phil Turner style performance
Francis 6.5 Fantastic ball through for JOB
Ruben 8 Two goals, great movement
Wootton 7 Spearhead but team set up stretched the Barnet defence
Roberts 8 Three forwards that are all a threat. well on and well taken pen
Subs
JOB 8 awesome
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To help us keep tabs on the squad during the summer break, here's an overview of all our first-team players under contract, with contract lengths in brackets where known. I'll update it as soon as there are any changes. I'll open another thread so we can discuss how it's shaping up.
Goalkeepers:
Jake Kean (goalkeeper coach)
Sam Slocombe
Luke Pilling
Tiernan Brooks
Defenders:
RB: Richard Brindley (30.6.2021)
RB: Dion Kelly-Evans (30.6.2021)
LB: Damien McCrory
CB: Ben Turner
CB: Alex Lacey (30.6.2021)
CB: Connell Rawlinson
CB: Sam Graham (on loan until January)
Midfielders:
CM: Jim O'Brien
CM: Casper Sloth
CM: Jake Reeves
CM: Michael Doyle
AM: Ruben Rodrigues
RW/LW: Enzio Boldewijn
RW/LW: Callum Roberts (30.06.2022)
Forwards:
Elisha Sam (30.06.2021)
Wes Thomas
Kyle Wootton (30.06.2022)
Jimmy Knowles (season-long loan)
Departures:
Kristian Dennis (St Mirren)
Joe McDonnell (Eastleigh)
Sam Osborne (unknown)
Zoumana Bakayogo (unknown)
Regan Booty (unknown)
Tom Crawford (Hartlepool United)
Mitch Rose (unknown)
Scott Wilson (unknown)
Owen Betts (Basford United)
Pierce Bird (Eastleigh)
Remaye Campbell (Grantham Town)
Max Culverwell (unknown)
Declan Dunn (Basford United)
Ross Fitzsimons (Boston United)
Alex Howes (Basford United)
Tyreece Kennedy-Williams (unknown)
Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain (unknown)
Matt Tootle (Boston United)
Nathan Tyson (Chesterfield)
Updated: 10 September
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Hi, i'm new and this is my first post.
My question is this:
How come Notts Co don't have a similar strategy to Bradford City in order to fill their stadium and not have vast numbers of empty seats. I've lived in Nottingham for over 10 years and always looked out for Notts but have always genuinely never understood how come they don't take advantage of having a huge stadium and do season tickets for £149-£199 provided say at least 11-12k sign up to it. I would love to hear peoples views.
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1. Stockport (P)
2. Notts County
3. Grimsby
4. Eastleigh
5. Barnet
6. Wrexham
7. Chesterfield
8. Halifax
9. Southend
10. Solihull Moors
11. Dagenham Redbridge
12. Boreham Wood
13. Bromley
14. Torquay
15. Maidenhead
16. Aldershot
17. King's Lynn
18. Altrincham
19. Yeovil
20. Woking
21. Dover
22. Wealdstone
23. Weymouth
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Coming towards the end of our pre-season, so how do we rate our chances? Lots of big signings by the bigger clubs (Stockport, Wrexham, Chesterfield etc...) and some weaknesses of our own exposed against York.
1. Are we returning to the football league?
2. Position finished?
3. Top scorer?
4. Top assists?
5. Player of the season?
6. Most yellow cards?
7. Number of goals conceded from set pieces?
8. Position of first loan signing?
9. Points from first 3 league games? (Barnet A, Torquay H, Wrexham A)
10. Average attendance?
I'll start:
1. Are we returning to the football league? Yes - winner of playoff final against Barnet.
2. Position finished? 2nd
3. Top scorer? Cal Roberts
4. Top assists? Ruben Rodrigues
5. Player of the season? Cal Roberts
6. Most yellow cards? Dion Kelly Evans
7. Number of goals conceded from set pieces? 12
8. Position of first loan signing? CB
9. Points from first 3 league games? 6
10. Average attendance? 5145
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Before the Woking division has even kicked a ball, the Football League - and the prediction league - are onto their third match. This is our first midweek round of the season. The rules are the same - predict the scores, add your one joker and good luck! Predictions can be submitted up to kick-off - 7.45pm on Tuesday - and everybody is welcome!
Millwall v Fulham
Peterborough United v Cardiff City
AFC Wimbledon v Gillingham
Oxford United v Crewe Alexandra
Wigan Athletic v Wycombe Wanderers
Bristol Rovers v Oldham Athletic
Port Vale v Carlisle United
Walsall v Scunthorpe United
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“We didn’t feel there was anything to offer William Hondermarck at this moment but we’re continuing an open dialogue with him while he explores other options. There’s still a possibility – but right now there’s nothing on the table.”
“We didn’t feel there was anything to offer William Hondermarck at this moment but we’re continuing an open dialogue with him while he explores other options. There’s still a possibility – but right now there’s nothing on the table.”
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Roman Glass St George Football Club, a name I have not come across before!
But which team which has played in the top division (Division 1 in old money) started their FA Cup campaign today? (probably too easy a question but hey)
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While I'm happy Grealish has got his well deserved move to a club playing Champions League football, I personally don't think City is the right move.
He may win trophies etc but in years to come I think Pep and City will slowly hamper his progress. There's a number of players City have done it too. Look at Mahrez for example, plays excellently but is often left out of the starting line ups.
As for Pep Guardiola, I do think he's a good coach but he hasn't had much of a challenge. World Class Barca team consisting of Messi, Xavi and Iniesta. A Bayern team that were already dominating Bundesliga. Now a Man City team that has unlimited funds it seems.
Pep said that City had no money to spend but then splashes out £100m on Grealish. Kane and Messi are linked to the club.
Don't forget Man City were suspended from the CL for breaching FFP but later got overturned and now there's fresh evidence against them for breaching FFP yet they still happily splash the cash.
If City go on to sign Kane or Messi or even both then it is safe to say that the PL are bowing down to the "top 6 elite"
There's also a quote going around from 2009 in which Guardiola said that modern day football saddens him because clubs choose to spend big money on players rather than utilitise the youth squad. Before anyone defends this, remember Man City built a brand new state of the art training facility that is supposed to be beneficial for youth players.
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Is there a FPL league for Pride of Nottingham?
If not, I've set up a league if anyone's interested in joining on the official Premier league app/website.
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Well that was an anticlimax. At least we didn't lose. A good result on Monday night and it'll be quickly forgotten.
I only listened on the radio, but for all the possession we had after the sending off, we didn't seem to test their keeper much. Of course the timewasting from Torquay was annoying and at times ludicrous, but let's be honest with ourselves - if the roles had been reversed, we'd have wanted our players to do exactly the same. We brought it on ourselves by falling behind to an unnecessary goal.
I was a bit confused by Charlie Slater saying "the man" in the second half, until I realised he was referring to Nemane. Maybe I'll just call him The Man in future to avoid confusion.
Good performance by both teams, that made an exciting game in all fairness.
Torquay came out looking to score early on, Their build up play at times was very good but lacked the end product.
Notts started sluggish and lacked directness, but people should understand it's simply due to how high Torquay pressed. The main issues in the first half, was the high balls to DKE - it's ridiculous and anyone who genuinely blames Dion for this issue needs to get their heads checked.
I felt the chances Notts created in the first half were actually much better than Torquay, yet they are few and far between. It was a decent first half, I don't think anyone can really say it was awful or rubbish.
I'm starting to believe that the signings and, win over Barnet is starting to cloud some peoples' judgement.
Much like Don Masson's comments at half-time has got people all in arms over us playing the ball out from the back, it was difficult for me to hear exactly what was said, but I made the jist of it. I just wasn't sure if Masson was trying to claim Slocombe couldn't hit a free kick to our striker - if so, this is nonsense.
In the second half, Ian Burchnall actually addressed some issues from the first half.
However, I think it's completely unfair to blame DKE for his performance because he did fine with the ball at his feet.
Nemane made a huge difference, but he needs to avoid doing to much. I mean when it works, it's exciting, but it does seem wasteful when theirs better options available.
O'Brien seems revived and keen to play a bigger role in the squad, he was a real bright point when he came on. His movement and ability to get forward, it made a huge difference.
With Roberts and Nemane pulling strings over on the right side, it forced Rodrigues to drift to the left and I think he would've been more effective if he could have stayed central. O'Brien went to the left often enough, but Chicksen didn't really support O'Brien. He seemed more interested in taking players on and, getting the ball into the box.
Chicksen played okay for me, he did some exciting things, but largely I feel he could've worked better with others.
The decision-making wasn't always ideal from Notts, I do agree at times it could've been much better, but the game was good.
Torquay knew the pressure would mount on them. They slowed down and took to dropping to the ground to kill any momentum or simply to hold onto their lead. Their keeper should've been booked earlier than he did, and still managed to time waste beyond a point where he could get away with it in my eyes.
I got the impression the referee didn't want to make any more bookings after a certain point with Torquay, as he looked to hold out and 6 minutes for all the antics was short. Yet, I accept it because a draw isn't the worst result.
Notts played some exciting football in the second half, Burchnall needs to make sure we maintain the same level of intensity and directness.
If a team decides to park every player in their penalty area, we need to draw them out with the creative players that we have - Roberts did well in this regard, he tried to draw people onto him, and it often created Nemane time to get a cross in. Unfortunately, Nemane's crosses was hit-and-miss. This needs to be improved, but I don't think people suggesting we should shoot from outside the box understand anything about football.
You've got to have a clear target, or see a way for your ability to get something in on goal - this won't happen with 3-5 bodies all in your way.
Honestly, I left happy and felt we could've won - yet I will always take a point in games like this.
It could've easily turned in favour of Torquay, although Notts really should've made the most of them having 10-men. I don't think it's worth criticising and, moaning because it's very early in the season. Just because we won Barnet 5-0, it doesn't mean we'll batter every side [unlike people on social media seems to think].
We were too predictable at times. Right to left is all well and good, but we all knew what was going on and who the next pass was to. Sometimes, you have to put the ball in the mixer to keep them guessing and we never tried that, until Chicksen did it and we scored. Strangely, we never tried again.
Very frustrating game in the end. Torquay are a one-dimensional side (lump it to Wright and hope for the knock-ons), who time wasted but ran themselves into the ground. Ref should have punished them for the antics but bottled it because of the red already given. I see yesterday they were thumped 4-0... probably as a direct consequence of the effort they put into defending against us, or the cramp - if you are to believe it.