Originally Posted by
jackal2
Well, being under 50 I count myself as middle-aged in Notts County supporter terms, so perhaps that's why my take on things is somewhere in the middle too.
God forbid we go back to route one days of a 'manager' like Steve Thompson, but I've never bought this myth that Neil Warnock and Sam Allardyce were 'route one'. Their teams played some excellent and very entertaining winning football. What they didn't do was employ a style of play that asked more of their players than they were capable of delivering, especially against strong opposition who could exploit any such weaknesses. For example, we didn't mess about too much with the ball in our own half, playing in front of teams.
Warnock and Allardyce played to the strengths of their squad, and produced the most exciting times I've known as a Notts fan, because I was too young to see Jimmy Sirrell's teams live. For me, this is still a good blueprint for success in the lower leagues. We aren't Manchester City and we shouldn't try to be.