Martin Paterson

The win on Tuesday night, well-timed as any win I can remember for us.

massive confidence boost for the club and both performances show how much the players are putting it in for Martin and the shirt Pythagorean thought Stockport one of the best teams we've seen at the lane for a very long time a Luke Williams style football with a plan B There you go.

Notts' defence was immense, limiting any real chances that Stockport

had.

Thanks for signing the book, Paul.

Medders Pie, who popped in to see me yesterday.

In my Costa Coffee office on Daleside Road With a photo of him, Stel and me Tommy Dring Yes, Stel was one of the players we had I remember his striking partner Paul Heffernan Scoring four goals in one match Was it against Tranmere? Jono Hammocks I was lucky enough to get a couple of minutes with Martin before the match.

At 2.30 on a Saturday afternoon, you could tell he was intense.

Lifts them out of the relegation zone.

So crucial that for Martin Paterson and his Magpies.

Magpies beating Owls.

Who'd have thought it?

And, um, we're talking managers that are feeling the heat at the moment.

Is Martin Paterson one at Notts County, Matt? They're second bottom now, level on points with Wigan Athletic, who are bottom.

Yeah, I think Martin Paterson is feeling the heat.

And this is a classic example of things turning around very quickly in football because it wasn't that long ago we were talking about Martin Paterson and what a fantastic job he did to get Notts County promoted.

It was even less time ago we were talking about their really solid start to the season in League One.

They had an unbeaten start to the season, but since then things have unraveled.

Maybe they'll just finish lower mid-table.

Uh, I do think Notts County are in trouble because we, we kinda said this, or I said this, um, on previous episodes, um, Martin Paterson, very good experience.

He obviously did well last season, but did he do well himself or did he just carry on the previous manager's good work? 'Cause that happens a lot, where a manager, like, comes in, does a good job, but he leaves for a bigger club, and the manager who comes in just kinda does the same.

And now he's thinking for himself in this league, he's struggling.

So I think that Martin Paterson, uh, I think he's close for him to be relegated as well.

Notts County...

Sorry, relegated.

Um, you... reading some of the Notts County fans' reaction, they were, "Oh, that's the best team we've come up against this season." They've already played the likes of Huddersfield, and Leicester, and Luton.

The second half, uh, Martin Paterson, Notts County manager, made a change at half-time.

Uh, Notts County...

It was, it was pretty much game of two halves.

He said they could have scored more than three.

Then you've got Russell Martin basically saying the defending for all three goals was horrendous, and it was just a case of them missing those opportunities.

I would probably see it, like, the way that Russell saw it-

Yeah

A cross in from the right-hand side that Ohura turns into his own net.

Like, they are, they are avoidable goals.

It's bad defending, but this has been the story for, for Russell Martin so far this season.

Alex Bass did make some big saves.

We've been very clinical in terms of taking our chances, which is always a bit of a red flag because you wonder how long that's going to last.

I do think that could be quite a good stylistic match for us here on Saturday because I think Martin Paterson's Notts County, as they often do, will look to press us and we're generally a team that kind of thrive in transition moments rather than when we're given kind of stale possession opportunities.

But I agree with you.

There'll also be Notts County fans listening who will be shouting at their phone or whatever they're listening on because Ali and I actually had them in the relegation zone in our 1-24.

Um, what I would say is I quite like this stylistically for us.

Like, Martin Paterson's side tend to be quite aggressive out of possession.

Um, tend to, to kind of look to press teams.

And I think we, as we've discussed, look like a team that really thrive when playing in chaos rather than just kind of giving the ball and allowed to do whatever we want with it.

Um, so one suspects, I'm sure, that he was involved against Stoke, um, on Saturday.

Um, how, how much d- how, how much does Martin Paterson focus on this, the need to score more goals, create more chances? Is there a danger that we over-talk this and it becomes a psychological issue? I mean, it is quite bizarre, even with an international break, that we've literally been in front of games, I don't know, a handful of minutes this season.

Yeah.

Look, you've got to address it.

It's interesting when you look at the group, Stell.

Um, you, you, you can make different arguments to who leads the line, can't you? You know, certainly in the center of midfield, depending how close Max Sanders is, I think if we did a straw poll of the flock and, you know, who are the two sitters, et cetera, y- y- you could probably come up with 10, 11 different permutations of players.

Um, I would be imagining at this stage, given we've only won one game, Martin Paterson is going through an awful lot of different options, permutations to try and get more of a inverted commas winning formula.

Yeah, of course.