What are they like?

While this may seem irrelevent and frankly with all that's been going on, it probably is, but with no fresh takeover news and to be honest, little happening elsewhere this is as good as you readers are gonna get today!

So, with that in mind I will now bore you by assessing how Billy Dearden's summer buys have done in their opening games for Notts.

Firstly it must be said that all these players have shown tremendous loyalty by Notts and like the other players, have played with a massive weight on their shoulders and have done ok considering that.

So first let's have a look out how Simon Baldry has done in his short spell at Notts.

Baldry has already developed himself as a crowd favourite and has showed some good touches and appears to have a good cross on him.

At times he seems to show a reluctance to beat his man, but in full flow he appears brilliant.

A bit like Cas (first year), except he can actually cross a ball, is consistent and isn't on a ludicrous wage.

One point that could be made against Baldry is that we could have signed a Hucknall Town reserve player and as long as he was a right winger (or left for that matter), he would of probably got a game.

But I think Baldry is in on more basis then just being a winger and should we ever come out of administration could be a very useful acquisition to the team.

Quality of signing(out of 10) = 8

Next in line is Tony Barras.

Now, I've got to try and not be blinded by Barras' display and goal yesterday and at the time I did proclaim him as Sir Tony.

But even without yesterday's outstanding display Barras has had a solid start to his Notts career.

He is absoloutly solid in the air, a good old fashoined centre back, who after seeing yesterday, can shoot!

He lacks a bit of pace but in this Division you don't see many centre backs who are good in the air and also are quick.

Again, it depends on matters off the field, but I would like to see Barras in Notts' defence in the near future.

Quality of signing- 8.

Next in line, Steve Jenkins.

Out of the four Jenkins had by far the highest reputation coming to the club.

He is a Wales international and played a very major role for Huddersfield.
He also impressed most out of the 4 during the pre-season friendlies.

However, after poor (by his standards) performances in the opening 2 league games he has then played just the 1 game due to injury.

It is therefore unfair to judge him yet, but I will say he has a high pedigree.

Quality of Signing- 6.

Last but not least, Clive Platt.

Platt has divided opinion among the Notts faithful, with some feeling that he is an ok Division 3 player at best and others (me included) believing that he can do a job for the team.

Platt's obvious strength is his height, which he uses to good effect, but he also has probably the best work rate out of all 3 strikers and isn't too bad on the ground.

However, there are 2 reasons why Platt isn't held in high regard by many of the Notts fans (There may be more but these are the 2 that are by far the most common)

The first 1 is that he has not been given a chance to play. The players have used him being on the pitch as an excuse to play long ball football.

Having 1 tall striker doesn't mean we should be a long ball team, but with him being the man on the end of all the 'hoofs' upfield he is often the guy to blame when things go wrong.

It would be better if the long ball game was abolished all together and we can see how good he is as a footballer.

The 2nd is that his goal scoring record is hardly going to set the world on fire.

Platt is not going to score many goals for Notts this season, that's a well educated guess.

But he could do a useful job for the team and should be persevered with.

Quality of signing- 7.

As i said at the start of this article, there is more important things going on at the club and all our thoughts tomorrow will be at the Football League meeting to decide Notts' fate.

NCM will keep you updated with developments as and when they happen & lets all hope for good news.