Hopefully the 10-day respite will get them both closer to full fitness.

Gray has been a wizard on the loan scene and if he can get Ipswich's Jordan Rhodes it may tip the scales our way.

We have talented midfielders who can chip in with enough goals to prevent relegation, but even they are not yet producing the goods.

Getting Mark Little back into the fold has in some way helped to soften the blow of losing Gyepes.

I must apologise to Andy Holt for erroneously missing him out of my pre-season assessments.

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His strength and heading ability make him an essential component of the squad, and although I expected the delicate skills of Liam Davis to give him a hard fight to keep the left-side position, Davis has so far disappointed and shows little of his reputed blistering pace.

Book for sale
Mark Kennedy's book We All Follow The Cobblers...Over Land And Sea should be ready for sale at the Brighton home game on September 27, priced at £7.95.

As well as being the longest-titled book on our club, it contains some excellent old photographs and memories gathered from fans over the last six months.

Advance orders have been good, and will benefit from player autographs.

While I was talking to Mark, he also passed the observation that he had an excellent view of the shot that beat Chris Dunn on Tuesday night, and he says it took a wicked last-second swerve.

Quiz night
A diary note: The popular NTFC Supporters' Ltd quiz will be run on the evening of Monday October 6.

I shall be quizmaster, there will be a range of questions for all tastes, and there will be a bar and a fish and chip supper.

Away travel
As the season progresses I'll carry full details on away travel, however, it may be worth storing these numbers for any advance bookings: Sixfields Travel on Northampton 706401, Trust Travel on Northampton 499534, and CISC on Northampton 702741. All groups intend running travel to Sunderland on Tuesday, September 23.

Loan problems?
Many supporters took up the offer of a Barclaycard interest-free purchase for their season tickets earlier this year.

I did so, but have had irritating mistakes on my account that could only be rectified by calling a premium cost telephone number and being held on it for up to 20 minutes.

I'd be interested to hear other supporters' experience, because if you let the mistakes go unchallenged, then the interest-free facility could be lost and all advantage of the offer gone.