NOTTS County's woes at Meadow Lane continued today.
The Magpies lost 2-0 to promotion rivals Doncaster Rovers in League One, conceding twice in less than three minutes in the second half.
Midfielder Paul Keegan headed the visitors 1-0 ahead on 61 minutes and sub Chris Brown doubled their lead on 63 minutes.
Notts have now lost three of their last four league games on home soil – and have not won at Meadow Lane since they beat Portsmouth on September 22.
The Magpies were entirely unchanged from their 3-3 home draw against Bournemouth, but midfielder Alan Judge notably returned to their squad after injury and was on the subs' bench.
Leading-scorer Yoann Arquin again spearheaded their attack and the young French striker was flanked by Jamal Campbell-Ryce and Francois Zoko, while captain Neal Bishop, Andre Boucaud and Jeff Hughes started in midfield.
Gary Liddle, Dean Leacock, on-loan Ashley Eastham and Jordan Stewart were named in the back-four, in front of goalkeeper Bartosz Bialkowski.
Former Notts target Billy Paynter started in attack for Rovers.
Doncaster got the first sight of goal on six minutes.
Their left winger Kyle Bennett beat Boucaud and drove a shot high and wide from 25 yards.
The Magpies replied a minute later, Campbell-Ryce flicking the ball to Jeff Hughes, who slid a pass into the box for Arquin, but Rovers defender James Husband shepherded it out for a goal kick.
Zoko then swung a cross dangerously into the visitors' penalty area from the left wing on 14 minutes that their goalkeeper Gary Woods spilled, but no Notts player was there to capitalise on his mistake and he claimed the ball at the second attempt.
The Magpies threatened again on 21 minutes.
Campbell-Ryce beat Husband and drove a low cross into the six-yard box that Jeff Hughes almost seized onto, but it was hacked clear.
Notts then survived a big scare, however, as striker Iain Hume pounced on a mistake by Eastham on 23 minutes, raced away from him and swept a shot just wide of Bialkowski's right-hand post.
The Magpies hit back quickly and Liddle crossed the ball to Bishop inside the Rovers' box and he struck a shot that hit Keegan and deflected wide on 26 minutes.
Liddle was then almost sent racing into the box on 42 minutes.
Jeff Hughes tried to flick Campbell-Ryce's pass into his path, as he charged forward from right-back, but Keegan was there to make a sliding block and clear the ball.
After a goal-less first half, Lee Hughes came on for Notts at the start of the second half and Dean Leacock did not re-emerge.
He must have been injured and his substitution led to Liddle joining Eastham at the heart of the back-four and Campbell-Ryce dropping back to right-back.
With Lee Hughes on, Arquin was also switched to the left wing and Zoko to the right.
The Magpies threatened just after the break too, Jeff Hughes prodding the ball at goal from a cross on 48 minutes, but Woods bravely punched it clear under pressure from Lee Hughes.
Rovers then went close to breaking the deadlock on 58 minutes.
Keegan floated a free-kick to the far post, Tommy Spurr headed the ball back across goal and Bennett headed over the bar from just a few yards out.
The Magpies' relief was short-lived, however, as the visitors quickly scored twice.
Keegan put Rovers ahead on 61 minutes, heading David Syers' cross past Bialkowski from close range.
Notts responded by throwing Judge on for Zoko, but Doncaster scored a second goal before the Irishman touched the ball, Brown seizing onto Hume's pass inside the box and beating Bialkowski at his right-hand post on 63 minutes.
Trailing 2-0, the Magpies went all-out attack by replacing Boucaud with young striker Romello Nangle.
But just minutes after making their final substitution, Stewart was injured and had to come off after lengthy treatment on the side of the pitch, leaving Notts with ten men for the last 20 minutes.
The game was all over – but Notts never gave up and Judge drove a long-range shot wide on 78 minutes and Bishop headed wide on 83 minutes.
NOTTS: Bialkowski, Liddle, Leacock (L Hughes, 46), Eastham, Stewart, Bishop, Boucaud (Nangle, 65), J Hughes, Campbell-Ryce, Zoko (Judge, 62), Arquin. Subs: Pilkington, Sheehan, Mahon, Showunmi.
DONCASTER: G Woods, Quinn (Griffin, 62), Jones, Spurr, Husband, Syers, Harper, Keegan, Bennett, Hume (Clingan, 83), Paynter (Brown, 46). Subs: Sullivan, Blake, M Woods, Wakefield.
ATTENDANCE: 6,750 (1,195 away).