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I've mentioned some of this on other threads, but following our relegation I'd really like Notts to take this as a chance to rebuild and create the kind of identity that you see sustain other successful smaller clubs.
Here's some of the kind of rules I'd like to see us implement as soon as possible:
1) A SENIOR SQUAD OF NO MORE THAN 25 PLAYERS
This season our squad of 40-odd helped take us down. We've been doing this for seasons now. Never again!
2) GIVE OUR YOUNG PLAYERS A CHANCE
Stop stockpiling journeymen in front of them. Bird, Etete, Crawford, Patching and Osborne all need regular squad places next season. Young loanees from the leagues above us can work too, but it's a better idea to give our own a chance first.
3) BRING IN PLAYERS ON THE WAY UP
Scout hungry players from the leagues below us. Not has-beens on the way down.
4) INSTALL A FAIR WAGE CAP & BALANCE
If Vaughn was on £5k a week this season then there will have been players who played more games for us than him on a fifth of his wage. That kind of disparity just breeds contempt between players and kills team spirit.
5) PRIORITISE FITNESS
There's really no excuse for professional sportsmen to be in such bad shape as ours were this season. Do we have a fitness coach at the club? And if we have doubts about the fitness of potential signings, then don't sign them!
6) PRIORITISE SCOUTING
Do we have people out there looking for the best talent in the two leagues below us? And have them looking for people specifically in the positions we need, rather than signing 18 centre-mids because someone recommended them.
7) WORK TOWARDS AN EVEN BALANCE SHEET
This one will kill us if we don't get it right soon. If Accrington and Exeter can do it, why can't we? With Hemmings, Enzio & Kellet etc still on the wage bill we probably can't get there for a season or two. But we can work towards it.
8) TRY AND SET CONSISTENT FORMATIONS ACROSS THE 1ST TEAM, RESERVES AND YOUTH
We may already do this? But if our manager next season wants to play 442 or 433 or 352 then we should get the other teams to adopt that format too. It's less important for the reserves and youth teams to win games than it is to breed 1st team ready players.
9) DON'T ABANDON SENIOR PLAYERS AFTER A FEW BAD GAMES
Vaughan, Kellet, Dennis, Enzio - all expensive signings and yet barely a full season between them. If they have a bad game or two, stick them on the bench and give them 15mins here and there to get their mojo back.
10) GIVE US SOMETHING TO CHEER AT HOME
Our fans were brilliant this season, especially towards the end. But we saw so little fight in so many games at home. We need and deserve more at Meadow Lane next season.
What other rules would you like to see installed as part of the fabric of our club?
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11) Eating and drinking permitted on the monorail
12) Monorail effluent station to be built next to City Ground.
Last edited by ForeignLegion; 20-05-2019 at 10:06 PM.
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You forgot rule 11... Stop being so crapOriginally Posted by DaveSmithRules
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No more than one and a half managers per season from now on...
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An important factor in our demise is that only 9 seasons in the last 25 has a manger been in place for the whole season.
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Crazy isn't it?
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Any even crazier stat is that in 19 of the last 25 seasons we've won less than half our home games.
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The OP's 10 Rules should be framed and put on the wall in the chairman's and manager's offices. They could be tweaked a bit here and there, but if we'd followed anything like that prescription we'd be in League 1 and not the Natonal League. I suggest there should be something in there about being more strategic (and I don't mean a five-year plan to get to the Championship). If you look at teams that have had successive or near-successive promotions, they've usually got a core of players who know they're not going to be cleared out or retiring after promotion is achieved. Likewise, as we've found, it's not good to be trying to motivate players against relegation when it's clear that they're going to be on their way in the summer anyway.
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2) GIVE OUR YOUNG PLAYERS A CHANCE and 3) BRING IN PLAYERS ON THE WAY UP make 9) DON'T ABANDON SENIOR PLAYERS AFTER A FEW BAD GAMES irrelevant. I think 9 is the ony one I disagree with. People have to earn their place, keeping senior players happy has relegated this club.
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