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And the winner is... drum roll... @ARLukomski, who retakes the crown from this year's runner up @Dripsey3 and completes a hat trick of wins. Congratulations! You earn a place in the halls of prediction league legends and a hairy chip from down my sofa. The rest of you will have to wait a few days for the final scores, but I promise I'll be on it soon!

Huddersfield Town 2-1 Reading Millwall 3-1 Blackburn Rovers Middlesbrough 0-2 Coventry City (joker) Preston North End 0-2 Sunderland Bradford City 2-1 Leyton Orient Newport County 1-1 Crewe Alexandra Tranmere Rovers 1-1 Northampton Town Walsall 0-1 Doncaster Rovers I know you're all booking your Wembley tickets right now, but there are more important issues at stake here - the final round of the prediction league. Send them in by 11.30am on Monday if you want them to count! @Dan, @nottsnutter, @DonnyNotts, @barnet11uk, @KB1862, @steve61

I don't know how to begin to sum that up. Complete madness. A lack of concentration at the back led to us going in 2-0 down when we deserved to be ahead, I didn't feel it was over, but we needed a quick goal. Wet got it and the rest is history. One key moment was Nemane using his superhuman pace to get a block in when it looked like BW would have a tap-in. Just minutes later we had scored the winner. Sometimes a tackle is as good as a goal, and that one turned the game. If any of you have taken pictures or videos of the scenes after the game, feel free to post them. The stream was switched off seconds after the whistle, but it sounded like PANDEMONIUM on the radio! Onto the final then, and at the time of writing it looks like it'll be Chesterfield. I think the experience of winning such a tight game when we really had our backs against the wall will do us good.

We NEED the commentator cam for this. Providing he's still got his clothes on ????

Never really in doubt, was it?

"Interesting" decision there @Dripsey3, especially as Ashmore played the full 90 minutes on Tuesday. But I'd rather have Slocombe in goal than McDonnell, he never filled me with confidence. An hour to go and I'm proper nervous. There's a tendency to overanalyse games like this. We've just got to outscore the opposition, so let's get on the score sheet nice and early and take charge of this match. COYP.

Interesting topic. I think feeling like a minority is something shared by all Notts fans born after about 1970 and it's part of who we are. I've lived in cities where there is one professional club and supporting that club is the default, and the mentality is a different one. Personally I'm happy to engage in a bit of gentle ribbing, but the idiots whose idea of banter is "you're crap" get ignored. Life's too short.

@Piethagoram does excellent work keeping us informed and supplying us with really interesting snippets from the world of football that would otherwise get missed. And I really enjoy reading @menzinho's thoughtful posts as well. A special mention goes out to @Chris, who puts such a lot of work into keeping the community ticking.

I think it's more modern football than a reflection on the club @liampie. The really good ones who would otherwise make the breakthrough are spirited away to big clubs before they kick a ball for us, and most of the remainder just don't quite have what it takes. Going back a few years, David Platt and Peter Beardsley each played more than 100 games for their first clubs (Crewe and Carlisle) before they hit the big time. Unimaginable now.

Thanks for the well wishes! We've proven we're good enough over the course of the season, but anything can happen in a one-off match. If it doesn't work out, we'll be a pub quiz question and we'll just have to keep banging on the door. We're a well-run club now, so I'm confident we'll make it sooner rather than later. Hopefully very soon! Wednesday are a proper club and I always enjoy your visits, so hopefully we'll see you again soon in League One. Although you might not agree with that last bit PS Langstaff is actually rubbish and you should under no circumstances try to sign him.

After 45 rounds and so many twists and turns it's a wonder it hasn't got its own Netflix series, this is it - the final round. We're all battling for positions, but we still have two players in contention for this season's star prize (once I've found it down my sofa) and an eternal place in the prediction league hall of fame. The League Two fixtures below kick off at the frankly crazy time of 11.30am on 8 May, with the Championship following at 2.00pm. So get your predictions in before then, and remember your jokers Full disclosure: the timing of this last round isn't great as I'm off to The Hague on holiday (no, I'm not being sent there for crimes to counting prediction league points). However, I will announce the winner on Monday at the very least, with the full results to follow ASAP. Good luck everyone! Huddersfield Town v Reading Millwall v Blackburn Rovers Middlesbrough v Coventry City Preston North End v Sunderland Bradford City v Leyton Orient Newport County v Crewe Alexandra Tranmere Rovers v Northampton Town Walsall v Doncaster Rovers

Welcome to the pleasuredome. I think we can guess who your favourite player is

It's hard not to vote for Langstaff given all the goals and records, and his goals may yet get us into the fourth division. But we've done some superb business in general this season.

That isn't very reassuring ???? It feels like sod's law to get the only team we didn't beat this season, but we'll just have to complete the set. So let's have none of this slackness in defence on Sunday - BW have the best defensive record in the league so we don't want to end up chasing the game.

The results: Reading 1-1 Wigan Athletic Stoke City 0-1 QPR Accrington Stanley 1-2 Cambridge United Derby County 1-1 Portsmouth Morecambe 3-2 Lincoln City Carlisle United 2-3 Salford City Gillingham 1-2 Newport County Northampton Town 1-2 Bradford City --- With only one home win, points were at a premium (at this juncture I would like to "thank" serial promotion escapologists Northampton Town for messing up my joker). Our top scorers this round were @liampie and - with two correct scores - @ARLukomski! @ARLukomski, @liampie - 7 @GrannyPie - 6 @DangerousSausage - 4 @4everapie, @Dan, @Megan_Elizax, @Chris - 3 @Dripsey3, @gtownjohnno, @super_ram, @jimbob, @DonnyNotts - 1 @magpiejue, @nottsnutter - nul points --- With that, @ARLukomski opens up his lead to 11 points - is it all over bar the shouting, or can @Dripsey3 pull a rabbit out of the hat in the final round? ARLukomski - 236 Dripsey3 - 225 magpiejue -204 DangerousSausage - 203 gtownjohnno - 200 4everapie - 198 super_ram - 191 Dan - 188 Megan_Elizax - 187 jimbob - 166 GrannyPie - 164 nottsnutter - 162 DonnyNotts - 161 barnet1uk - 156 Chris - 112 liampie - 57 KB1862 - 21 steve61 - 7 --- So now I have a week to polish the (imaginary) PON prediction league trophy before our final round. The Football League has helpfully split the final games over the bank holiday weekend, so the fixtures we'll be using will be on Monday 8 May. I'll post the final fixtures in midweek as usual. Thanks for playing and see you all then!

Very true @menzinho, but the other side of that coin is that no one will really be expecting them to beat us either, so it'll be like a free hit for them with the pressure all on us. Or maybe not. One of the many things I hate about the play-offs is the temptation to overthink everything I also noticed that Chesterfield are in the other home semi-final. I fully expect them to polish off Woking or Bromley. Which leads me onto my next thought... They're the opponents I'd be most nervous about, but, in the depressing scenario that we falter, it would be good to at least have them out of the way for next season.

A nothing game, but 11,000 was a fantastic crowd so it's a pity they didn't see a win. As much as it was annoying to drop two points at the death like that, maybe it'll help guard against complacency in the far more important game next week.

It's a bit outdated unfortunately - in the last 20 years or so they've been few and far between. This is because the big clubs now have huge academies that hoover up all the talent, that then gets loaned out to lower-division clubs. In the past, many of these players would have come through the ranks at smaller clubs and been sold on. It was an important source of income and it promoted the idea that, as Football League members, even the minnows were part of the same entity as the big clubs - everyone knew that David Platt played for Crewe, Ian Rush came from Chester and all the rest of them. So the most notable current player who Notts have helped to nurture is Jack Grealish - and he was never our player! That's not to say that youth development is not important though - it builds links with the local community and there's always the chance of uncovering a gem. But to do that, you also need to give them a chance in the first team.

Reading 1-2 Wigan Athletic Stoke City 1-1 QPR Accrington Stanley 2-0 Cambridge United Derby County 1-1 Portsmouth Morecambe 2-1 Lincoln City Carlisle United 1-1 Salford City Gillingham 2-0 Newport County Northampton Town 3-1 Bradford City (joker)

I like his comic strips, but I actually missed this one! "Financially pumped-up behemoths" sounds a bit much in relation to Notts, but Wealdstone or Alty fans might feel differently. Our owners are putting nearly 2 million pounds into the club every season, and that puts us in a different league financially. That's less than what's been put into Wrexham, which in turn is chickenfeed compared to the top levels of the game. So it's all relative. It does take credit away from the excellent work the club has been doing to rebuild over the last few years (Chesterfield probably at least match our spending, and we left them standing). But the last time we were featured is when our former chairman got his "little Alan" out on Twitter, so this is an improvement ????

We're in the playoffs and York are staying up (no way will there be a 16 goal swing in favour of Torquay), so that takes the edge off this a bit. Games like this can throw up unpredictable results, but I think there'll be a win for us to keep the good vibes going, and hopefully no injuries.

It's the penultimate round and, like in the Football League and Vauxhall Conference, the moment of truth is coming. Who will be the champion? And who will grab the unparalleled glory of third place? Predict these fixtures by 3pm, and remember your jokers everyone! Reading v Wigan Athletic Stoke City v QPR Accrington Stanley v Cambridge United Derby County v Portsmouth Morecambe v Lincoln City Carlisle United v Salford City Gillingham v Newport County Northampton Town v Bradford City

It's great news, and hopefully many of the out-of-contract players will follow! I can see us adjusting our style of play to fit League Two if we do go up, but he's already proven how adaptable he is. Important player and personality.

Do many Notts fans actively support an ice hockey team? They have so many games, it must be a huge time commitment... As I live in Germany, I follow a football team here too - Waldhof Mannheim (I've posted updates about them in the past). They play in the third division now. I used to have a season ticket there, but I haven't really got back into it since covid. Supporting a sports team is a big emotional investment, and if I lived in the UK Notts would be quite enough for me. It's a bit of a rollercoaster and you also need the time and energy to devote to other things.

Woah people, we're running the risk of tempting fate with this one! Reminds me a bit too much of when the Florist fans were talking about where they were all sitting at Wembley, only for Yeovil to put five past them in their second play-off semi-final I'm not superstitious enough to close the thread or anything, but could you all make some sort of sacrifice to the football gods before contributing, just to make sure? A beer and burger before jumping on the tube sounds just the job though. If there happened to be a game on or something.