Originally Posted by
jackal2
I think today's performance served to further undermine the credibility of Kevin Nolan's (already highly dubious) claims that he would have turned things around given more time. It was pretty much a continuation of the tactics and style of play he had been using this season, and we conceded another three goals and lost to average opposition.
The only positive we might glean from this game is to take it a punctuation mark on the end of the Nolan era, and for players and fans alike to start afresh from Tuesday night. Perhaps the Checkatrade game will be useful for once in allowing Kewell to try out a few ideas and hopefully get a plan in place as to how he will approach the next league game at Exeter.
It's worth remembering at this point that Kewell made a pretty rotten start at Crawley, but eventually got the team organised and went on a good run. In fact, his results at Crawley were almost the mirror image of Nolan's at Notts. While KN started well and declined, Kewell started slowly and got much better.