March Player of the Month

Michael Johnson has been named as Notts' March Player of the Month.

Johnson, 36, arrived back at the club in a shock move from Premiership Derby County, for his second Meadow Lane spell after he started his career at Meadow Lane.

He has proved a class act with faultless showings so far, and the returning

Johnson... March Player of the Month

defender is clearly the current fans favourite and key to Notts' hopes of avoiding the drop.

Johnson picked up 49% of the votes, beating goalkeeper Russell Hoult, who came second with 37%.

That the candidates were the back five, including Hoult, who figured for the majority of a busy month, illustrated how well Notts had performed defensively, and indeed Hoult's net had been breached just twice all month.

That meant five clean sheets in a seven game month in which Notts won one, lost one and drew five. Johnson scored the only goal of the game in Notts' one win, a tap in over Rochdale.

That was his first ever Magpies goal, despite over 100 appearances for the club.

In third place was left-back Paul Mayo, with 6% of the votes while Mike Edwards polled 5%, and captain Adam Tann 3%.

Player of the Month roll of honour

August - Richard Butcher
September - Adam Tann
October - Neil MacKenzie
November - Adam Tann
December - Krystian Pearce
January - Kevin Pilkington
February - Kevin Pilkington
March - Michael Johnson