Paul Mullin

After having watched the mighty mariners smash and grab at Doncaster yesterday, I watched the highlights of the Wrexham v Notts Co game.

Whilst having to admit that Paul Mullin is a very good striker I'd forgotten what a cheating bar steward he actually is.

Having conned the referee into giving a penalty against us, yesterday he was at his theatrical best.

Some of his antics in the box yesterday were just totally embarrassing.

What a prize tw*t !!!!!!!!

I suspect Luke Waterfall is looking forward to renewing his acquaintance with Paul rather more than Paul is.  

I watched the highlights this morning and thought the same. Constantly throwing himself to the floor. I never understand why the refs don't book players for diving in those situations.

I'm happy for Wrexham who have endured the depths of the national League for far too long, but their style of play under Parkinson is horrible to watch. Just hoof it in behind or launch a throw into the box. I suppose it works but let's be honest, if they didn't have a team of league 1 quality players, Parkinson would be out of a job by now.

I watched the second half live and it was entertaining stuff but hardly high quality. County looked the better side in terms of football but lacked a bite up front (which could have been due to Wrexham's defending). Wrexham did look dangerous when they got the ball out to the wings or to Mullin.

Some of the defending from both teams was Keystone Cops stuff.

But,

One of the commentators said that either of these teams could hold their own in League 1!!!!!!

Both would need much more quality to be able to do that, it was either a stupid or naive comment.

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

I watched the second half live and it was entertaining stuff but hardly high quality. County looked the better side in terms of football but lacked a bite up front (which could have been due to Wrexham's defending). Wrexham did look dangerous when they got the ball out to the wings or to Mullin.

Some of the defending from both teams was Keystone Cops stuff.

But,

One of the commentators said that either of these teams could hold their own in League 1!!!!!!

Both would need much more quality to be able to do that, it was either a stupid or naive comment.

Possibly a little OTT, but teams that have finished Conference seasons on 100+ points do tend to find themselves in League One in fairly quick succession. Crawley went straight through, Fleetwood needed an extra season and Luton took a little longer, but history does tend to suggest that exceptional teams promoted to League Two do more than ok there.

Wrexham are now nailed on to join us in the EFL next season, but in terms of our own selfish interests it’s probably best that North County fail in the play-offs. With Forest Green coming down, both those two coming up and Stockport, Bradford, Salford, Swindon and Mansfield all possibly still with us, League Two could find itself very well heeled indeed - probably record levels of wealth in fact.

Our budget will increase, that has been confirmed, but it looks like it could still fall well outside of top 7 levels if certain things prevail.

Still hoping Notts pip them to the top but a rematch with Wrexham in League 2 will be a cracking atmosphere..

Quoted from TwoLeftFeet

Still hoping Notts pip them to the top but a rematch with Wrexham in League 2 will be a cracking atmosphere..

Wrexham are currently 1/20 to County’s 10/1 - a ratio that has them 200x more likely to lift the title. I think that is somewhat swayed by the money that will have gone on Wrexham this season, as it’s not quite that clear cut.

They have 4 games to play; v Barnet and Boreham Wood who are in the play-off hunt, and Yeovil and Torquay who remain in with a sniff of avoiding relegation. If they lost 2 of them, 3 County wins from 3 would would see it come down to GD with Notts marginally more likely to come out on top.

It’s absolutely Wrexham’s to lose, but they still have to keep their nerve.

Quoted from Poojah

It’s absolutely Wrexham’s to lose, but they still have to keep their nerve.

Not to forget that they are somewhat hampered by having Parkinson as their manager...

The donkeys that run the National League must be scared sh1tless, once these two go up there will be no stories down there to draw interest to level 5.

I think Parkinson will be gone by Christmas. L2 is a different animal, there are no part time glorified pub teams in L2, very very few basket cases and they’ll get found out by some of the better and cleverer teams at this level.