❔Score, scorers and attendance predictions v Walsall [H] 09.12.2023 [EFL L2]

[irishpete]

That was dire. Conditions should have played into our hands playing the ball on the ground, but we played like 11 strangers. What has happened to the Crowley/ Nemane partnership. Caused a lot of threat down that right side. Is LW playing tinkerman with the side?

[uysapie]

That was dire. Conditions should have played into our hands playing the ball on the ground, but we played like 11 strangers. What has happened to the Crowley/ Nemane partnership. Caused a lot of threat down that right side. Is LW playing tinkerman with the side?

Crowley was simply outmuscled and Nemane was fairly static.

[durhampie]

Crowley was simply outmuscled and Nemane was fairly static.

Nemane should have been one to go off, he is a waste of of a shirt. And why on earth LW took Macari off is a complete mystery, he was one of our better performers.. But he may not have been here long enough to be in the favoured click.
I'm afraid Williams has lost the plot, his team selections are baffling, his tactics no longer work at this level, but he still persist with them, his substitutions always seem to have a negative effect on our play instead of improving the performance. We need to stop hoping that Gosling eventually comes good, since his arrival he has been crap.
Morias is another one who wouldn't get many games in a local pub team.. You have to feel sorry for Macca, he gets no service whatsoever. I wouldnt be surprised at some point if he tells Williams to stick his backpedalling tactics up his jacksy..

[Thordardaughter]

Nemane should have been one to go off, he is a waste of of a shirt. And why on earth LW took Macari off is a complete mystery, he was one of our better performers.. But he may not have been here long enough to be in the favoured click.
I'm afraid Williams has lost the plot, his team selections are baffling, his tactics no longer work at this level, but he still persist with them, his substitutions always seem to have a negative effect on our play instead of improving the performance. We need to stop hoping that Gosling eventually comes good, since his arrival he has been crap.
Morias is another one who wouldn't get many games in a local pub team.. You have to feel sorry for Macca, he gets no service whatsoever. I wouldnt be surprised at some point if he tells Williams to stick his backpedalling tactics up his jacksy..

So many times today Macca was making a run and was totally ignored for the ball to go backwards.
Cmon Notts even Man City look for a runner occasionally !

[MAD_MAGPIE]

That was dire. Conditions should have played into our hands playing the ball on the ground, but we played like 11 strangers. What has happened to the Crowley/ Nemane partnership. Caused a lot of threat down that right side. Is LW playing tinkerman with the side?

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That was dire. Conditions should have played into our hands playing the ball on the ground, but we played like 11 strangers. What has happened to the Crowley/ Nemane partnership. Caused a lot of threat down that right side. Is LW playing tinkerman with the side?

It looked to me that Crowley was playing a more central role yesterday which meant that he wasn’t as close to Nemane as he would normally be. This maybe to compensate for the loss of Matty Palmer and to assist Austin in midfield and force Walsall out wide.

I’ve seen some criticism of Nemane in this thread but to be fair there were times when he had two or three Walsall players around him and he didn’t have the support options he normally gets from Crowley with those one twos and balls Crowley puts behind for Nemane to run onto. Likewise Matty Palmer would also be there buzzing around meaning that Crowley would have more time and space.

It was Crowleys most quietest game in a Notts shirt but I don’t put that down to him. He is a great player and has been one of our most successful signings of the summer. It’s the the loss of Palmer affect for me.

Someone mentioned Gosling is like Arter on the thread and I fear the same and thought the same after yesterday. I’ve seen nothing as yet to convince me he’s the answer and I hope there is time and that sharpness and fitness comes. Players that may have played in the top two tiers all their careers may get a shock when they drop to L1 or L2 because the fitness and quality is a lot better than years gone by. It’s not going to be easy when you’ve not played competitively for a year.

For Notts, LW the recruitment team and our owners when we don’t win it will be a case of we learn. As Jackal said it’s evolution rather than revolution at Notts. LW alluded to it in the post match interview that we have nearly played everyone so after Harrogate and Stockport the club will know exactly what this league is about.

As I said before if we can follow Stockport and be like they were last season in their first season back and then strengthen accordingly over the next two transfer windows then go again, and again like we did in the National League until we have a side that could hold their own in league one.

[Davy500]

Any way who we got next up - ahh Harragate away - possible revenge for that wembley defeat 3 and half years ago ??

[uysapie]

Any way who we got next up - ahh Harragate away - possible revenge for that wembley defeat 3 and half years ago ??

Not a chance.

[uysapie]

Without Palmer we do not have an engine in midfield. The repacements aren't good enough

[BigFatPie]

Well that was a really worrying performance, by some distance the worst of the season, putting the 10 man Sutton one aside. Walsall were absolute sh!te, they should have been put to bed in the first 45.

No attacking fluidity, constantly kicking it out under little pressure, other than Jones all our good attacking players might as well have stayed at home.

And the substitutions were dire. Why are we giving minutes to Gosling, we’ve got youth lads who are better than him. And JOB for that matter, time he retired.

[countygump]