StarkMallard

I can see why there are rumours - he was there before and is doing well at a top League 2 club. I hope it is just paper talk though. I would be disappointed in him if he did attempt a Burchnall manoeuvre. The transfer windows might not have been great, but we had a strong enough basis to allow MP to rehabilitate himself as a head coach after the near-disaster at Burton. I hope he appreciates that and doesn't bail at the first opportunity.

Eight months before Christmas day, how many points will StarkMallard's elves leave in your stocking? You'll only find out if you play. All of these matches kick off at 3pm, and don't forget your joker! QPR v Derby County Stoke City v Portsmouth Blackpool v Leyton Orient Bradford City v Bolton Wanderers Burton Albion v Exeter City Chesterfield v Crewe Alexandra Shrewsbury Town v Fleetwood Town Walsall v Harrogate Town

Cambridge have lost 2-1 at home to Grimsby. It's absolutely maddening how achievable automatic promotion was (is?) this season. Cambridge are third going into the last two games having won just one of their last six. And of course that was against us! We hava a theoretical chance of third still if we buck our ideas up, but my money's on Salford. If we lose again on Saturday, the race for a play-off spot could just as easily go to the wire.

The results: Bristol City 2-4 Norwich City Watford 0-2 Sheffield United Exeter City 3-3 Stockport County Mansfield Town 2-2 Luton Town Fleetwood Town 1-1 Chesterfield Oldham Athletic 1-2 Salford City Solihull Moors 0-3 Boston United Sutton United 1-2 Altrincham Your predictions were great, but the real-life scores were stupid. Accordingly, poinbts are at a premium. But congrats to this round's winner @Fan of Big Tone! At the other end of the table, a couple of us are getting into the Eurovision spirit. Overall, @william1984 is looking almost nailed on for the title while there is a three-way tie for second... Keep your eyes peeled for Saturday's fixtures, which will appear here tomorrow. Thanks for playing!

Good topic @Chris! I recently switched from Spotify to Tidal - the artists get more and the sound quality is better (not that I can actually tell with the Bluetooth speaker I normally use...). My listening habits vary a lot. Today I've been listening to some ska (The Specials) and some 90s indie music (Belle & Sebastian). I've also been listening to a Faroese singer called Eivør Pálsdóttir (she did the soundtrack to The Last Kingdom). For work one of my go-to albums is The Life and Times of Scrooge, an unofficial soundtrack to a graphic novel about Scrooge McDuck.

I picked Palmer as well, although he feels almost like a default choice. He consistently does his thing. Yet I feel we lack a character next to him, a Bish type, somebody who steps forward when it counts and refuses to be beaten. Palmer is Mr Reliable, but we need more.

I'm so fed up of us failing at the crucial moment and having to watch other teams' fans celebrate instead. We were scrappy, wasteful in possession and vulnerable at the back. "They wanted it more" is overused in football, but it certainly looked like Barnet did today. They weren't special, but they were a little bit sharper, a bit faster to claim loose balls, a bit more confident. Playoffs it is then. I've got zero expectations. Looking at the table, it's agonisingly close. If we had drawn against Cambridge (and let's not forget we were playing ten men for most of that one) and lost today, we would be third now. The bar isn't that high yet somehow we're managing to miss it.

Bristol City 2-1 Norwich City Watford 1-1 Sheffield United Exeter City 0-2 Stockport County (joker) Mansfield Town 0-2 Luton Town Fleetwood Town 1-2 Chesterfield Oldham Athletic 1-1 Salford City Solihull Moors 1-0 Boston United Sutton United 2-1 Altrincham

It's once again time to dust off your crystal balls and locate your ferrets (not a euphemism). These matches all kick off at 3pm on Saturday and you have a joker each. Good luck! Bristol City v Norwich City Watford v Sheffield United Exeter City v Stockport County Mansfield Town v Luton Town Fleetwood Town v Chesterfield Oldham Athletic v Salford City Solihull Moors v Boston United Sutton United v Altrincham

What's the point in having players suspended if they can just bring in a replacement outside the window? Where's the punishment? They've got a reserve keeper, they should have had to use him. How is it fair that Cambridge are allowed to bring in an experienced replacement for their suspended player despite already having an alternative, while we have to do without our top scorer for three games?

I've scoffed at people calling the club's finances "sustainable" before, but this puts it into perspective. How on earth does a club as small as Port Vale lose 6 million in a single season? Were they paying Championship wages? Were fans getting in for free?

Not a fan @Chris? I wouldn't want him owning Notts, but at least he's putting something back into the game (and let's be honest, the 14 million will be just the start with the money lower-league teams lose). I'm surprised more former PL players don't follow the same path, they could afford it easily enough.

The results: Charlton Athletic 1-2 Preston North End Southampton 2-1 Derby County Bradford City 0-1 Stevenage Huddersfield Town 3-3 Wycombe Wanderers Grimsby Town 3-2 Crewe Alexandra Newport County 2-1 Harrogate Town Aldershot Town 0-1 Gateshead Altrincham 1-0 Eastleigh @ARLukomski claims the honours this week, congrats! @william1984 is clear at the top now. Meanwhile, I surge into seventh place and it's only a matter of time till I claim top spot (shall I just keep adding rounds until I win?). Keep your eyes out for Saturday's fixtures, which will be posted on Wednesday as usual. Thanks for playing and have a good week!

If this season has taught us anything so far, it's that things can change very quickly. Yesterday was a bad day and we're now once again hoping that others will slip up, but Cambridge now have a very tough trip to a Bromley side that needs a win to seal promotion. We could quite easily find ourselves in the top three again next weekend. All we can do is move on from yesterday, win our remaining games and hope for the best.

What a demoralising and humiliating day yesterday was. Cambridge were very good and started with high intensity just like @theAnticlough warned us they would. MP's game plan was clearly to hang in there and unleash our more creative players at the end. Jones, Hall and Dennis pose more of a goal threat than the side we fielded but offer nothing defensively. I would maybe have replaced Grant for this game. But the performance was unprofessional irrespective of who was starting and IMO you can't blame such a collapse in performance levels on the head coach. The players have to take responsibility. By the time of the sending off we were already out of the game and we were a distant second best against ten men too. The game was gone by the time he came on, but Enoru can't possibly be as bad as he's looked so far. The referee only left him on the pitch out of pity.

I'm sure he doesn't take it personally that we're still upset about yesterday. Might have been a good idea to add "the fans" as an option though!

Browne and Enoru on. MP has evidently decided there's no point risking Hall and Jones for a complete lost cause and is trying to get minutes in legs instead. As well as losing a game we couldn't afford to, we're getting humiliated by ten men and we've completely shot our goal difference, which was almost the same as Cambridge's at the start of play. Well done Notts.

I did that and a goalkeeper disappeared. Not that they needed a goalkeeper anyway.

PiesPlayer is broken, I appear to be watching a replay from 2019. How do I fix it?

Good point @Robbie. In that case maybe we should cross our fingers for a draw, as I'd prefer Bromley to be fully motivated when they play Cambridge!

Charlton Athletic 1-1 Preston North End Southampton 2-1 Derby County (joker) Bradford City 2-0 Stevenage Huddersfield Town 2-1 Wycombe Wanderers Grimsby Town 1-0 Crewe Alexandra Newport County 1-0 Harrogate Town Aldershot 0-2 Gateshead Altrincham 1-1 Eastleigh

Fantastic result for us, if we win tomorrow it'll be difficult for them to catch us. Big if though! It's also shaping up to be a big matchday for Salford, with at least three of the teams above them guaranteed to drop points and possibly all five. As for who I'd like to go up, Bromley are probably done now, plus us and Cambridge automatically and Grimsby via the playoffs. If we don't make it, I'd like Salford to go up so that we're rid of them.

Bromley beating Shrewsbury on Tuesday night probably puts paid to our chances of us catching them, they're now seven points clear with just four games to go. They've lost only five times this season, so I really can't see them losing three of their next four. It's probably in our interests now for Bromley to sail into League One, beating our rivals as they go - they've got the franchise away on Saturday, followed by possible promotion deciders at home to Cambridge next Thursday and then Salford away.

You've only got a few chances left to gaze into your crystal ball now - why not end the season on a high? As always, our painstakingly curated fixtures kick off at 3pm on Saturday and you get a joker each! Charlton Athletic v Preston North End Southampton v Derby County Bradford City v Stevenage Huddersfield Town v Wycombe Wanderers Grimsby Town v Crewe Alexandra Newport County v Harrogate Town Aldershot v Gateshead Altrincham v Eastleigh

Good tip @Sheffield Pie! Every game from now is huge.