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sorry to hear that @Fan of Big Tone my grandfather passed away with that aged 81 - checking with the doctor is a good idea. Mine said it isn't genetic at all, I was under the impression it was Anyway, better focus on your sunny memories of Lanzarote and a great prospect of a win and jumping up to 57pt today.

MP's pre-match interview seemed quite gloomy on the injured players. 'Weeks not months' is a positive, but still a real blow at this stage of the season. I like how Pato is so conscious not to give the opposition any information from his interviews, much more than other recent managers. Maybe this was particularly the case yesterday. I'd also like to think there's needle in this one - the way they won deep in stoppage time in August. Maybe they weren't very gracious celebrating that. Whatever, the manner of defeat alone should give the players extra motivation in settling the score. The following 25+ games have showed we're much better than them and we should aim to give them a pasting.

Two of those definitely aren’t in the ‘union’ 😊 Get your point though. Cameron ended up where I suppose the club wants to avoid - at a promotion rival. I felt sorry for Roos, Going down to 10 after 4mins at Ibrox isnt going to end well. 2026 hasn’t started so well for him

Got to say Accy are just about as horrible as Salford - the sort of team that pulls off results to affect the promotion race. Anyway, what this result means is that no team has games in hand to win which could put us out of the top 3. In other words, promotion is definitely in our own hands 😉

Looks that way, maybe the Abbotts have moved into Newstead Abbey I do wonder why he left Wycombe... Have you ever been there? The stadium is OK but what a terrible location....at the back of an industrial estate which is by the side of a retail park, off a slip road on a b-road in the middle of nowhere. Makes Field Mill seem like a prime location

A sad episode. A potentially popular and effective player and it hardly gets started before he's gone. While we're winning and sitting in 2nd though, it probably doesn't matter

My eyes are always on the No.10 positions. It's amazing we sit in 2nd while not really getting all that much from all the different pairings we've tried there. Of the options available, I'd go for Dennis and Iorpenda. I've got a feeling we'll get our first sighting of Tangen in this one.

@Dripsey3 agree that it was a strange one. Probably to do with them - good set of players, good manager but not gelling. Big and physical too. I don't remember MP making those types of subs, so early. Players like Hall and Macari looked like they might get overpowered, so on came Ness and Ndlovu earlier than usual. Not long after likewise with Bennetts on for Dennis. So the last 30mins was a typical bruising L2 game that we might have forgotten about since the days of Nolan

I was having a problem choosing between Norburn and Iorpenda, but James Belshaw made it easy by the end. Another good game for Platt as well.

Difficult game in the end, but we ground out the win. MP signalled the strategy on 62mins, bringing on bigger more physical players. It worked out

The players are keeping up the good form of recent games. Jatta and Jones are big misses but the backline and CMs are giving us the base to dominate the game

More or less the same age, I'd still take him over Trump though :)

I wonder why Mansfield is better than Wycombe....maybe he's unsettled there. Both are a fair way back from a strong set of teams in the play-offs.

The L1 promotion race is going to be interesting Ruben will be playing for Bolton in 3rd. Kyle Wootton is Stockport's main striker in 4th. Aden Baldwin is Bradford's CB in 5th. With Langstaff now starting in the Championship and other players doing well, Cameron at the top of L2, like Calvin Miller winning accolades in the SPL you have to credit Richard Montague. We practically had all those players in the same National League team! No wonder we got promoted and no wonder the Bros took him back after Swansea lost patience after 6 months.

Sure, it'll be interesting following RR at Bolton. Of course they were interested in him - they saw that amazing skill in the Wembley final - the ball falling out of the sky in an innocuous area, a split second later, after RR's unbelievable first touch and thru ball, they were killed off 2-0.

We can go 2nd on Tuesday might. We're on a roll so Gills will have their work cut out trying to stop us.

For me, it's between two players who aren't exactly my favourites :) Wasn't that Conor Grant's best game for a long time? Maximum effort and energy, but this time more things came off for him than not. I have to give my note to Ollie Norburn though...he's improving every game, so is there even more to come? He might not be showing for the ball like Palmer does, but he's got a great knack of knowing where loose balls will go, and where to be generally. His passing is better too and he made that winner - driving forward from deep in his own half to play a perfect through ball to Ndlovu. Also want to mention Lucas Ness who came on and did an outstanding job at the back

Roos clean sheet!

Impressive response to being pegged back. We deserved the win. Gutsy performance in a physical game. Different players than usual stepped up for us.

Horrible game, but our superiority has been on display and they've been pretty much snuffed out so far. Two CMs - Norburn has been great, Hall hasn't. Platt has been good and Grant is doing better this time. 3pts are there for us today as long as we don't do anything silly

Great. I love this way of running the team. You keep your place in a winning team. But if you don't win, you drop out when you lose form or look tired. So don't lose form or look tired.

Portsmouth 1-0 WBA Watford 2-0 Swansea City Peterborough 1-2 Huddersfield Stockport County 2-0 Plymouth Argyle (joker) Chesterfield 2-0 Walsall Crewe Alex 1-1 Colchester Braintree Town 1-0 Eastleigh Sutton United 1-0 Brackley

Yeah, I think the new signings and his signing in particular will be a boost and I really fancy us to win well today. He seems very positive and the way he spoke about Notts County made us sound like the place to be. Would all the players watch that interview? His enthusiasm about joining County could give an extra boost to the positivity and pride in wearing the shirt.

Definitely, in the sense that it's insurance for the second half of a promotion bid. Say we keep Jatta, but he got injured....we absolutely have to have a physical presence at both ends of the pitch. I wouldn't like to see us in play-off semis against Salford or Cambridge say, and we get bullied and wimp out like last season. Apart from that there's not much similarity, different style, age, length of contract. He's got a season and a half to prove himself and make a contribution.. He may only get about 6 goals across that time and still be popular and a good signing.

Yes, Dennis should be a regular starter If it was the worse case scenario and Palmer is out for months, it wouldn’t kill us completely. We have 4 CMs including pairings that are proven to work