This is not a wind up

[Pavilion_Road]

You seemed to be doing so well at first that I thought you were going up.
What happened to derail you?

[tied_up_in_notts]

Matty Palmer got a season-ending injury

[GEZMAN]

You seemed to be doing so well at first that I thought you were going up.
What happened to derail you?

Leaves on the track......

[the_anticlough]

You seemed to be doing so well at first that I thought you were going up.
What happened to derail you?

Manager left - players affected by the change. And the Palmer injury.

[durhampie]

We didnt strengthen our defence, but we signed an ageing player for old times sake and appointed 3 idiots masquerading as a management team....

[Wedgie_pie]

All of the above, apart from the leaves on the track...

[Old_pie]

You seemed to be doing so well at first that I thought you were going up.
What happened to derail you?

Going up was never realistic with the defensive squad we had. The "doing so well" was an illusion in as much as we had a fairly easy start in terms of fixtures and we carried some momentum as promoted sides often do before they are found out. The first game of the season defeat was a salutory indication that League Two was a big step up.

We might have made play-offs if Palmer hadn't been injured and then the unsettling period of Williams' departure. Never got our broadband speeds back up, not helped by recruitment errors in the close season, exacerbated by not knowing which league we would be in and over optimism of the squad based on our NL performance.

But for some the answer is simply that we signed a League 1 leading goal scorer who really wanted to play for the team he supported and played for as a youth and everything went wrong from there.

You win some you lose some.

How come you've escaped going down? Thought it was written in the stars. You're not making life easy for yourselves.

[Woodypie]

Two words - Stuart and Maynard

[OP67]

Manager left - players affected by the change. And the Palmer injury.

Form was dipping well before Williams left. More to do with Matt Palmers injury exposing our NL defenders and keeper.

[upthemaggies]

Two words - Stuart and Maynard

Nobody would be pretending otherwise if Notts had done what almost any other club would have done and got rid of him after the utterly appalling run he took us on, they'd be praising the owners for realising they'd made a mistake and acting swiftly. It's only because he's still going to be here next season that fans have to convince themselves it was other factors.

Had Maynard replaced Williams mid-way through the promotion season and screwed it up to the point of missing out on the play offs, condemning us to another year in the NL, you'd have had some people making excuses on the basis we never genuinely looked like going up under LW, that we only won 1 of the opening four games, lost to Dorking and that LW could not have kept winning with that defence.