Extraordinary “good luck” for City as they score a 95th minute winner 🤷🏻‍♂️

Yeh Tilley has been excellent the past couple of games I've watched, as he was start of last season. Point being he's a good example of one of those players who has longish periods of both extreme mediocrity and match winning form.

I think it’s a fair point that Kelly’s lack of match time is an issue. Every game I’ve seen him come on he seems to take quite a while to get going. Home game against the scum he was way off the pace first 10-15 he was on.

Agreed re Tilley it’s exciting to see him getting back towards last season’s early form.

Silk is right - I don’t think we would have lost yesterday with Reeves and Lewis playing (the proviso being that they’d need to be fit…). If I was a bit harsh on Kelly earlier, it’s only because it looks awful - however, he’s not had many minutes, and hadn’t been on the pitch long…. Maybe JJ needed to swap him in sooner…?

I'd say Tilley has been back on form recently. Put in a ball yesterday that someone really should have buried.

Rather than claiming JK is a definitive dud I'd say he's just not the bargain non-league gem we were hoping for. There are degrees in between. I've seen enough to believe he could be a worthwhile 4th striker with some improvement. Could be doing a 'reverse Tilley' with best yet to come.

I would also add the two that would probably change this on the pitch Reeves or Lewis were out.

Just seen the extended highlights. We had three very presentable chances in the first half (two for Stevens and one for Bugiel). Kelly seemed to snatch at his chance and that is probably confidence. What is more alarming was how passive our defending was in the half dozen chances they showed for Notts County. We stood off them, keeping our shape and asked them where they good enough to play through us. They were and we did not seem to change our defending. There was one highlight where a player run about thirty yards and had a shot which went narrowly wide with a proper challenge and we still stood off them. Standing off and keeping your shape works against some teams but it wasn't working yesterday. Needed to be more in their face.

My first away game of the season yesterday. Frustrating but just the rub of the green, I think. 16 shots of which 8 on target (BBC stats), which is a decent attacking performance for an away game at Notts County. Yes, most of those were in the first half but - whilst I agree that JJ continued his tendency towards like-for-like substitutions - you can see why he thought persevering with the same was the best chance of getting something out of the game, given all the chances we had had. Kelly's miss was dreadful. I shall now watch the highlights and see just how dreadful (or not) the other misses were. Three points on Tuesday, please.

Think it’s just based on what was admittedly quite a poor miss yesterday.

I think we’re being hard on Kelly. Steven’s has scored in 2 league games, piggot and bugiel one each. For all his hard work, Bugiel will never score very many so puts pressure on rest of team to step up. None of our midfield is particularly prolific either so it’s others and not just Kelly that need to step up

Thank OI

From memory Kelly even had 2 or more cleared off the line by defenders who wouldn’t have got anywhere near the ball if one of the other 3 hit that shot.

Alan he scored lots of goals one division down so I agree with your idea but I don’t think he even needs to go that far down to hit a level. Biggest problem I’ve seen with him is he places his shots. A fair number of times he should have scored he would have if he’d put some more oomph into his shot. He seems to need to change his technique. He gets into the positions and he’s decently accurate for this level but where Steven’s’ shots aren’t getting stopped his are.

Why do trains insist on running like a Scandinavian sauna on days when people are obviously dressed for cold weather. How unbelievably stupid do you have to be to do that?

I honestly feel the best thing we could do with Kelly is to loan him out with the view his confidence is built up a few divisions down by hopefully getting goals and let him find the net again. His goals ratio pre us was decent enough 1 in 5 at Maidstone, 3 in four at Walton Casuals and 1 in 3 at Solihull Moors. It's in there, but sitting on his arsenal and expecting to be on it from the get go, is as much on the staff as it is on him in some ways. He clearly a confidence player, but we can't afford to stick an arm around him week in and week out. Get his goal juices flowing and see what we get back. If we are going to do that, do it with one of the stiffs and who there maybe another AAH (WHO? was the term used prior to the Oxford match.

If (big if) we win our games in hand we could go top of the table

wdn85 - Sky Sports have no FA Cup rights so there will be no cup ties on their channels

Scapegoating Kelly is a bit off as we already knew he’s a dud. Jackson clearly thinks so. The interesting thing is why Team Fortress at home becomes Team Soiled Mattress away and how Jackson’s going to sort it aht.

6MDM - this was the 1996 article Google found.: [Link] It sounds like there was a revolt of some form to keep the old club going and they seem still to use the same ground. Maybe we should have a PSF ;)

So we were beaten by an "average league team" who are 4th? How is 4 out of 24 average?

Was certainly a soft goal which was disappointing considering we had worked hard to limit the number of decent chances they had. I do think JJ’s gonna need to change things up a bit away though because the 1-0 defeats will continue otherwise.

It was a bad miss but there were other bad misses, and if we must have a villain, I would look at the winning goal and ask how many players were at fault, including Omar for whatever he thought he was doing.

I think that most people would see the Kelly transfer as a reasonable gamble to take - albeit one that looks as if it has failed. The problem is that we aren’t a PL side with unlimited resources who can afford to take a “ship ‘em in, ship ‘em out” approach so a failure of that type is high risk for us (but at the same time we can’t afford not to take those sorts of punts) - like every thing else it comes back to us not having enough money!!