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The top teams of League 2 have a far more effective high press and that is our Achilles heel. We need more pace higher up the field (hopefully Jarvis will help with that) as an outlet and we need to make better decisions at the back. Sometimes you just cannot play your way out of trouble and need to put your boot through the ball. I think the Walsall home game highlighted brilliantly our strengths and weaknesses in one game. First half they let us control the ball and they couldn’t get close, second half they made changes and brought much more energy and urgency both on and off the ball which we just couldn’t cope with. A lot of league 1 sides would spot our weakness quite quickly, so we need to find a solution.

Still not convinced that he is worth keeping to be honest. I didn’t see the Cheltenham game but thought he had a steady game against Walsall. I wasn’t impressed with his performance against Swindon and thought he flattered to deceive, a lot of nimble footwork but more often than not he played the simple short ball back rather than attacking and taking on his full back. I doubt we are paying him much but would give him no more than a contract till the end of the season, and I wouldn’t be disappointed if he leaves with Brown in the next week or two, especially if it creates space for a better option up front.

This ⬆️ It’s laughable that the people complaining the most about this are the very same who were throwing disparaging remarks about Trump. Personally I don’t care what he says because of the fact he’s American so can’t actually directly influence anything in this country, but from what I have seen he does belong in a James Bond film as he fits the mould of flawed genius. Getting back to the original topic though, what Musk doesn’t realise is that if you remove Farage from Reform UK, it will dwindle away, just like UKIP did. As a hater of how low the quality of British politics (and politician) has sunk, I’m quite enjoying the dynamics of a fairly new party unsettling the establishment and the sheer meltdown of the two main parties in response.

Looks like a really good signing and appears to be comfortable with either foot, but I would say he is predominately right footed @Robbie as from the videos I’ve watched, he mostly shoots with his right and also takes penalties the same. Appears to also be quite sharp and we’ve been missing pace up front ever since letting Nemane go.

Wish him all the best, and going to work for his old manager might be just the pickup he needs to really get his career going again. Without the injuries I’m sure we would have has another great striker on our books because he had the game and finishing ability for it. Carlisle could be the right club as I’m sure he will get the game time, he just needs an early goal. Don’t forget Sam Slocombe is also still at the club, at least until the end of the season.

Looked like an own goal from where I’m sat. Not complaining ????

I’ve also wondered this, and can only think that he is struggling with his health, otherwise he should at least be on the bench. Surely we will be replacing both Martin and Brown in January? Neither have done enough to stay with us. I must admit that after the Salford game I was bemoaning the decisions made by the management in playing 4 players out of position, it just shows what happens when the square pegs end up back in the square holes.

I’m hopeful of a win tomorrow as long as we don’t concede another sloppy goal as I can see heads dropping. The one thing I’d like to see: Dan Crowley banned from our third of the pitch and find he’s playing just to the side of Jatta.

Unfortunately they’ve made some bad decisions and breach of promises very early in government, they’ve now got a massive uphill struggle to win back trust.

Only way that Mother Earth will deal with it is to destroy mankind. She’s already started.

If it was for existing homes, no. For new builds? Absolutely, should have been done years ago.

Not by stealth, by law. From 2025 new builds must have an alternative heat source as they will no longer be allowed to install gas boilers. Unless you are thinking of buying a new build, it won’t affect you. I would never buy a new build if anyway as they’re thrown up nowadays by poor corporate building firms only interested in maximising profits. The heat source is the least of your worries, poor build quality and drainage issues are enough to give you nightmares

I think you misread my post @Robbie, I said in houses being built, new builds, not existing properties (although you could argue that Council’s and Housing Association’s should be the first to have to install them). Homebuyers will then obviously have these heat sources incorporated into the cost of buying the home, same as it is solar panels. Personally, I don’t know that much about them, but they can be cheaper to run than a gas boiler (depends on electric price) but cost an absolute fortune and are a fair size. I have no idea where I could possibly fit one on my property anyway, I have a full length conservatory on the back and narrow driveway to the side. Forgot to add, I’m all for cancelling any subsidy that Dale Vince gets, at least until he puts proper Cornish pasties and Sausage rolls on the menu at FGR! ????

My top 5 cheeses. Stilton (I could write this 5 times to be honest), loved it since a kid. Roquefort Wensleydale (with cranberry) Mature Cheddar Danish Blue Bought some Shropshire blue to try this Christmas which is a new one for me. I’ve always Loved a blue cheese, but even more so as I’ve become older.

Or Wrexham!

Just a few bullets on my thoughts from posts. Supporting Ukraine is definitely one policy I agree with. Putin needs putting back into his box otherwise he will just keeping poking NATO countries until something disastrous happens. I suppose nobody will have to worry about climate change if it does though as there won’t be many people or any industry left. Things I hate to see are wind and Solar farms. Having been brought up all my life in the countryside they are an ugly blot everywhere I go. My preferred option is nuclear but the Tories just kicked that can down the road with austerity and left us in a real mess with no plan to replace our old ones and build new until it was too late. I’m very uneasy and against Fracking just because of the sheer volumes of water required and the high risk of contamination to our water system, although would we notice with the amount of sewage currently being pumped into it? Finally, I struggle to believe that we’ve had to wait until next year for new homes to be built with either Solar panels or heat pumps. Over 60% of new homes have still been built with gas boilers for the last few years, when it should have been one of the first things banned if we are really serious about Net Zero. £40 billion pounds a year given to red Ed just so he can increase our bills with his policies is crazy. None of our efforts will do any good anyway as China and Russia won’t achieve Net Zero until 2060 (at the earliest) and India won’t until 2070. At least I will have shuffled off this mortal coil by then so won’t have to worry about what comes next.

Let’s just say that Fullfact.org had a bit of a chequered past two or three years ago with mainly being manned by ex BBC employees and journalists from left leaning papers, but even they have admitted that 9.5 billion of that is Labour pay rise spending.

The joke @Robbie is the fact that @Piethagoramhas said countless times on this board and thread that he is totally against Labour’s policy on removing the winter fuel payment, yet you keep beating him over the head with it every 5 minutes just because you know his political leanings are to the left (like the majority of his non football posts). This government is destined to fail as it is full of student politicians and no business acumen within it, but that appears to be the way politics is heading at the moment. They will continue to make bad decisions (especially with the suicidal rush to Net Zero whilst the people suffer) but we have no choice but to suck it up for 5 years and then boot them out, probably to be replaced by another shower. Oh, and the 22 billion pound black hole is a figment of Labour’s imagination, it was somewhere between 9 and 13 (still significant) Maybe if they scaled back the 40 billion a year spend on Net Zero and got there a few years later, less people in the country would be suffering.

I gave up on MOTD years ago, it’s now 70% waffle and 30% football. Much preferred the days when Jimmy Hill was a sole presenter so all we got was extended match highlights of two or three games. Same with the Big Match on ITV, football coverage was a lot simpler and so much better, now it’s a case of just listening to analysis and watching a few very brief highlights.

14 points from the past 13 games, scoring only 11 goals, sorry to say that we are not in a good position. Inverted wingbacks do not work with league 2 standard players. Jatta is being starved of service because we are obsessed with keeping the ball but doing nothing with it and Notts fans are basically pinning all our hopes now on JJ coming back and hitting the ground running. Crowley comes back and is played out of position, Abbott is moved out of position to accommodate a player playing out of position That’s four players played out of position in the game, when they could have all been played in position and been more effective, that is sheer madness!

There has to be a tipping point when you just have to accept that this coach cannot motivate the team to play. With the players he has had available since being at Notts, a 34% win record is unacceptable. A coach more obsessed with possession than end product, constantly trying to make inverted wingbacks work and trying to make league 2 defenders play like Beckenbauer. Practically the strongest lineup (minus JJ) we can put out and we play like that. Totally unacceptable.

Nailed it @DangerousSausage, why replace a perfectly good and hardly used stadium with something completely new, unless you’re feeding your own ego. Government subsidies are obviously paying him well. No matter how many steak bakes you offer me, I’ll not be going to it.

Issue we’re going to have is the length of time it will take these players to get back up to full match fitness and also the heavy workload that those left have had to endure as they are also now picking up injuries. I hope we can stay in touch as January’s fixtures look very favourable but our form of 10 points from the last 9 games suggests we’re going to slip away again. The next 3 are massive games now, we simply must get 7 points as we then have to go to MK who are now flying after a horrible start.

Current form table, not a great read. Thing to note is that Saturday’s opponents are currently doing better than I realised.