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Smart Notts rising to new challenges

Graham Westley
EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER

Back in July, Notts County’s Adam Chicksen said: “You don’t just step up a league and keep doing the same things. You’d be naive to think that. We have to get better and we’re doing that.”
The 32-year-old defender went on to say that ‘the timings of runs, the decisions on passes, the smartness of the whole gameplan rises because each level brings a different level of competition, with smarter ways to disrupt what you’re trying to do’.
What Chicksen says is spot on and the early indications are that County are adapting...

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