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It's boring, I'd much rather have had either a bigger team or a more winnable tie. We'll probably lose and not earn much money in the process. Oh well, I guess we had our cup draw luck last season.

All three started against Portsmouth, I'm hoping Curle goes back to those three behind Miller and lets them all attack (within reason) again. In fact I'd have the same team as the one which started at Portsmouth, apart from Brisley in for Gillesphey if he's available. No need to rush Jabo back...

Pleasing result on Saturday if only in terms of getting a point on the board in the toughest game of the season. The way we played to get it won't be replicated in future matches so I guess there's not much else to take from it other than that we're well organised and that Lambe has non-human pace.

Absolutely, but the fact that they would lose 3-0 at home must show that they're lacking a certain quality. Devitt will be back and Jabo should be too so we'll have a full strength team barring any injuries against Vale. If we could get a good win against them then we'd be on 4 points 2 games in...

Loving the meltdown by Portsmouth fans on Twitter, fans still thinking they're too good for this league despite being held at home by 10 man Carlisle playing with no striker at the end. Very happy with the point after the ref screwed us over. Curle said he'd had a word with him but that it...

Sounded soft. Roberts is getting some flack from our commentators, is he always like this??

Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit One man down already. Blow the whistle ref.

Reggie Lambe!!!! Why did Mansfield release this footballing god?

Seeing as I'm going into it expecting a defeat - which any realistic fan must be doing - I think I'd be relatively OK with a spirited one goal loss.

Portsmouth v Carlisle Sat 6 Aug Loss - toughest first match you could ask for really. Heart says we could nick a draw but in reality we'll almost certainly lose. (EFL Cup - First Round) Carlisle v Port Vale Tue 9 Aug Win - we played Port Vale in the first round last time at their place. Awful...

We've signed Max Crocombe, a keeper who Oxford have let join us on a free. Seems to be relatively well thought of there with plenty of fans saying he wasn't really given a chance. Only 22 as well so another one of Curle's 'projects'.

I may as well take you up on that bottom one seeing as it's the only realistic one I've seen for me to do thus far. Devitt and Adams for us should, in theory, rack up a fair amount of assists and hopefully a few goals too. It should, again in theory, be pretty close between the two pairs. No...

A few reports coming out that Charlton want Gillespie off us to solve their keeper crisis. Unfortunately for them doing so would create a keeper crisis for us and we really have no reason to sell, and for him another good season at this level with a better defence and he could yet be looking...

How did the trialist keeper and striker look?

There shouldn't be any hesitation from certain Cheltenham fans to take you up on this given what they've been predicting

Christ, if Joyce is starting our first match of the season then we're doing something really wrong. It could easily happen but we've surely signed at least two players better than him in that position this summer. Very much looking forward to seeing the Lambe/Devitt/Adams partnership develop...

I'm not sure this is the game for Miller, may be wrong but if we do end up pinned in our own half we'd need someone big as an outlet. Obviously I hope it doesn't come to that but, given the match, it easily could.

An almost guaranteed loss, just not sure by how many yet. That's not to say I don't think we'll do well this season, just that we never play well against Portsmouth and have only just managed to scrape a couple of draws off them in the last couple of seasons. My choice of team would be...

Hard to argue with that logic, my mistake.

They only need 45 minutes to hit double figures.