Match Thread vs. Bromley 15.05.21 [NL]

[countygump]

Scrape in? We are in a play-off position. Not sure what you mean mathematically still a chance. That usually applies when you need to win all your games and others lose all theirs.

If we win our home match and draw the other 2, that should see us in the P/O's, maybe not 5th, but in the P/O's nevertheless.

[Frigiliana Pie 1]

Despite not winning, that performance continued the momentum we’ve built up over the last few games. At this stage of the season it’s extremely important to go into your next game with confidence still intact, and we will. And it’s possible that after today’s results, Halifax and Chesterfield won’t.

[drillerpie]

Sorry driller, I probably misunderstood your post. That's the problem with us playing at the arse end of the football pyramid, the odds you can get are very limited.

No worries. You can always email or tweet bookies to get bespoke odds, although sometimes they refuse to give them.

[MAD_MAGPIE]

Having missed the game today and from reports and reading the comments on here it's pleasing that we have put in a performance worthy of a win and continued on the basis and kept the standards that we appear to have now set ourselves in an attacking sense.

We knew that the two games against Bromley were key to if we finish in the play-offs or not and we don't want to be losing any of the two games. We've managed to avoid defeat in the first game and finished the game as we started with 1 point. The worst outcome would have been had we dropped this point and given Bromley all three points so they would have leapfrogged us.

On this occasion and this game in isolation then 'respect the point' is a good outcome. Of course a win would have been great, but we've kept Bromley below us that is the main thing. Likewise we extend our unbeaten run to five games all of which we have played in the last fift.een days.

We have superior goal difference on all the teams outside of the play-offs so our mission is to get more points in our remaining games than Bromley, Halifax, Eastleigh and Dagenham who have come in at the 11th hour with an outside chance.

We still have our playoff place, it's firmly in our hands so let's go on and cement our place in the remaining three games.

[Robertomac]

Yes we are conceding almost every game
Bread and butter crosses are not dealt with game after game but we are going the right way!!
Jesus are we gonna come down to earth with a huge bump. At the expense of repeating myself we cannot win the playoffs conceding 2 goals a game

We've played exciting, attacking football for several games in a row now, the complete opposite of the turgid boredom inflicted upon us for most of the season. Yes, we made mistakes at the back which have cost us, but I also can't help thinking our defence is bang out of luck as virtually every mistake at the moment ends in a goal. How many goalscoring chances did they actually create today? 2, maybe 3? We dominated from start to finish and although we didn't manage to make it count in the first half, we did have a real go. It was definitely not Ardleyesque, as that means rarely going beyond the halfway line and taking an age to do it.

With a bit more luck, two goals off the woodwork would both go in and Bromley would have capitulated. They were really struggling with our tempo and speed.

Regardless of the result, today was massively entertaining and had me on the edge of my seat. It feels like an age since that a Notts team has done that and long may it continue.

To be honest, keep playing like we are and I'm not too bothered what happens this season as I'm just enjoying watching us play. Clearly I'd love us to go up, but if we don't, I'm already excited about next season.

[Kelton]

We've played exciting, attacking football for several games in a row now, the complete opposite of the turgid boredom inflicted upon us for most of the season. Yes, we made mistakes at the back which have cost us, but I also can't help thinking our defence is bang out of luck as virtually every mistake at the moment ends in a goal. How many goalscoring chances did they actually create today? 2, maybe 3? We dominated from start to finish and although we didn't manage to make it count in the first half, we did have a real go. It was definitely not Ardleyesque, as that means rarely going beyond the halfway line and taking an age to do it.

With a bit more luck, two goals off the woodwork would both go in and Bromley would have capitulated. They were really struggling with our tempo and speed.

Regardless of the result, today was massively entertaining and had me on the edge of my seat. It feels like an age since that a Notts team has done that and long may it continue.

To be honest, keep playing like we are and I'm not too bothered what happens this season as I'm just enjoying watching us play. Clearly I'd love us to go up, but if we don't, I'm already excited about next season.

Well if we cant defend crosses like this game and the goodness knows how many before that i will see you at Solihull Moors next season.

[countygump]

[the_anticlough]

He spent most of that game drooling over the stadium, teams really must get an extra 10-20% when they play us

For the return fixture, the word 'Rodrigues' is going to come up a lot in their team talks, so hope IB can pre-empt whatever they try to do and have some counters. If Ruben plays his game, there isn't a NL match we can't win.

[countygump]

He spent most of that game drooling over the stadium, teams really must get an extra 10-20% when they play us

For the return fixture, the word 'Rodrigues' is going to come up a lot in their team talks, so hope IB can pre-empt whatever they try to do and have some counters. If Ruben plays his game, there isn't a NL match we can't win.

Now if we can just get a couple of other 'flair' players up to speed they'll have more than Roddy to focus on. Enzio and Big Sam?

[the_anticlough]

Now if we can just get a couple of other 'flair' players up to speed they'll have more than Roddy to focus on. Enzio and Big Sam?

Yeah, if he pulled that off we'd be play-off favourites IMO...those two are match winners and game changers as well

Ardley couldn't do it, but why isn't Enzio always ready to play and needing a full game or two to be match sharp and Sam really up for it?
It's your talent and you have to manage it. An IB coaching intervention worked with Rodders, so why not Enzio and Sam as well (although it might not be the same remedy, get the impression you have to make Sam really want to play for you, Enzio too as well as keeping him as sharp as possible)