⚽ Match Thread vs. Maidstone Utd. 15.01.23 [FAT]

[BanjoPie]

WTF does Tiernan have to do to get a game for Notts?? - if he is such a good prospect why the hell is he not given a chance?

[uysapie]

No disgrace going out to other NL team on penalties. Let's be honest, with the league being the overwhelming priority this season, the FA Trophy is nothing more than a glorified reserves competition for us. It's probably to our overall advantage to be out, especially with Wrexham and Chesterfield already out.

Might have been nice to go through with the Eastleigh home game on the 11th Feb postponed regardless, but even then we are playing Barnet the Tuesday immediately after. We now have certainty that we won't directly postpone any league games due to FA Trophy progress.

At worst we'll have a couple more weekends off if NL teams remain in it that we are due to play in the league on FA Trophy weekends. With our small squad, that's a far better outcome than fixture congestion.

Totally agree.

[Glad2BeAPie]

Who watched the Keeper at Norwich, Roy Orbison

[nottscol]

Look on the bright side. Notts get £1,500 prize money for losing that!

[Old_pie]

Who watched the Keeper at Norwich, Roy Orbison

Nothing wrong with Roy Orbison's vision - https://ultimateclassicrock.com/roy-...-dark-glasses/. Sounds as though Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles might have detected issues with the goalie though.

[TSANHO]

Don’t mind going out of the competition so much, it’s the poor performances that are worrying…they soon snow ball into losses. Does anyone back us to beat Chesterfield at the minute?

[nay123]

Nothing wrong with Roy Orbison's vision - https://ultimateclassicrock.com/roy-...-dark-glasses/. Sounds as though Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles might have detected issues with the goalie though.

No chance

[countygump]

Don’t mind going out of the competition so much, it’s the poor performances that are worrying…they soon snow ball into losses. Does anyone back us to beat Chesterfield at the minute?

Basing it on the last couple of performances from Notts, not a chance. Poor show today, even for a mackled together team.

[countygump]

[nw6pie]

Don’t mind going out of the competition so much, it’s the poor performances that are worrying…they soon snow ball into losses. Does anyone back us to beat Chesterfield at the minute?

We will have to play so much better than in these last two home games and stop gifting the opposition such soft goals. Maidstone were as poor a side as I’ve seen in years and we still didn’t deserve to beat them. Don’t remember either keeper making a save in the 90 minutes, very poor quality game in which we were happy to play at walking pace again for the majority of it.

The two under-19s who came on both looked about 16, but Gill produced the moment of the game with a turn on the halfway line that took two Maidstone players out of the game and set up an attack.

Another game where it was hard to pick a man of the match due to the average performance - but it definitely wouldn’t have been Mitchell, Baldwin or Francis.