Originally Posted by
Davy500
Feel abit for SM - came at a difficult time. He was always going to struggle to fill the shoes of the popular and successful LW - and to do so he would have to have hit the ground running and be very good - especially after the good start had artificially upgraded many supporters views that we were promotion contenders. SM also came when form was dropping and the suspect defense was getting worse . Even so most people myself included think LW would have done much better than SM so far
Notts are a team with ambition that expect to be pushing for promotion from L2 , whether the team are capable or not - and with a manager like SM with limited experience, and the circumstances mentioned above , it was always going to be a struggle for him
It was a strange appointment with SM,s only experience keeping a small team in the bottom half or midway in the NL, which appears right now to be the wrong one
For me i doubt SM can turn this around,he doesnt have the experience or natural talent - we will probably drop lower this season, and escape relegation because of our good start. Next season the best we can hope for with SM is mid table most likely lower . I hope i am wrong - but there is nothing to suggest otherwise right now
But hey perhaps that what the brothers want - solidifying low to mid table- solidfying over several seasons- eventually pushing more to the play offs and automatic ??