It's a sign!!!
Don't think I've ever really looked at our record in the early days, but you posting that made me look up the first season. Typical Notts - in only our third game we managed to rack up what is still our heaviest ever defeat (1-9 v Aston Villa, which we managed to suffer twice more over the next 40 years). I'm assuming the local headline was "Like lambs to the slaughter".