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i never said there was a set rule, in fact I explicitly stated there are examples, like Langstaff, where a player can kick on later in their career. Maybe Jatta is another example of a late bloomer. I'm just saying it doesn't happen often.

3/5 choices are fine, but a couple of poor choices in there. Northampton v Kettering would be fine if it wasn't at Sixfields. There are 7 fixtures featuring non-league v league opponents at the non-league ground I'd much rather watch. Wrexham was inevitable. Depressing and wrong, but inevitable.

I love when fans describe players in their mid-20s as "raw". 18-21 year olds are raw, by 25, what they are is what they are in most cases. It's rare that they suddenly find a new level.

You're right, I missed that it was starting this season, thought it wasn't coming in until 25-26 or later.

Dag & Red at home isn't great, but it isn't a disaster either. It's fairly winnable(although a reasonable chance of an upset) and it's at home, so I'll take it. Could have been a lot worse. Just don't draw it FFS! Some cracking games already made for TV. Weston-Super-Mare getting the best draw...

Haven't had a non-league team lower than tier 5 since 1994/95. Any chance draw gods? Fully expecting Harrogate at home just for the sheer dullery of it. Would take anyone from balls 49, 53-54, 56-65, 69-71, 74-76, 78-80. If we got a non-league draw and pulled FGR, Sutton, Rochdale etc, I'd cry.

Salford have some good players and it's hard to have a lot of confidence in us going forward given we're still down several attackers, but there is no reason why we can't be targeting a win in this one.

Decent performance for 70 minutes from Crewe Alex yesterday. Set up deep and denied a good Donny side any space to create many chances. We then took one from a fantastic run by Max Conway, who continues to improve week to week. Made some changes which weakened us and allowed them to score and...

Reassuring for us that we're performing around where the underlying numbers say we should be. A few teams overperforming it seems, the most concerning being Tranmere.

No, he isn't. He was fine with Gateshead to the point that Williamson decided he wanted him at MK, Villa clearly think a lot of him for him to still be on their books and he's been really good for us so far. One bad spell in the middle of clearly solid play elsewhere suggests it would other...

I've always thought that you can treat attendance for this competition and how your team does as 2 separate things. I'm glad we're only pulling in crowds sub 1,000 crowds, but I'm also pleased to see us win both the home games and progress to the 2nd Round. We'll probably slip to 2nd once...

Final game of this shambles tonight, made 9 changes. Hope for a low crowd, but wouldn't mind a decent performance and attacking display.

Newport's defence has got to be a worry for them. 20 goals conceded in 10 games isn't good. Do look to have enough quality to safely stay in mid-table. Bradford I thought were going to throw it away, but stepped it up and got 2 well taken goals, so good 3 points for them.

Anderson got a 3 game ban didn't he? That would make this game 3. And even if it wasn't, I thought he got charged with an extra violation for abusing the officials, so that would likely add a game or 2 to his ban.

Doncaster away is as tough as they come with a full squad. With us being definitely down Hemmings and there are new doubts over Sanders and Lankester in addition to Thomas, Long and Bogle, I can't see past a comfy Donny win.

I do think it's a growing problem in football and I think it stems from the ridiculous amount of games players are subjected to in their formative years. Take our U18s. They've gone from 26 league games last season to 31 this season. It's too much. We've got 6 out currently, 1 long term(new...

Not to start any BEEF, but I thought Gillingham, much as they did on Tuesday, looks very very average. Clearly solid at the back, but they aren't quick, aren't tall or overly physical, aren't strong technically. Not sure what they're actually good at. We were the better team and we were missing...

A lot of my confidence depends on how many of the walking wounded we get back. Conor Thomas seems like he's out for a few weeks, but the rest I'm not sure about. We'll have to wait on Lee Bell's assessment. If we're down all of them, then I can't see us getting more than a scrappy draw. If a few...

Watched the Gills v Grimsby game as I was interested to see what the Alex were up against on Saturday. Grimsby clinical, took their only real chance. But defensively they made few mistakes and restricted a very average looking Gills team to not much in front of goal. As for Gillingham, I've...

Bit late as the first round of games this month kick off tonight, but nevertheless, how will you do in October do you think? For Crewe Alex: Gillingham(H) - Draw. Going optimistic despite our long injury list, we usually match up against them at Gresty Road pretty well, so I'm hoping we can...