Not being in the League Cup needing to win 2 matches just to qualify for the Fa Cup, and I'm really not sure they'll be able to play at Meadow Lane next season.
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Not being in the League Cup needing to win 2 matches just to qualify for the Fa Cup, and I'm really not sure they'll be able to play at Meadow Lane next season.
We will be playing at Meadow Lane.Quote:
Originally Posted by marky
And at the Kuflink Stadium, Crabbie Athletic Ground and Mill Farm Sports Village (Ebbsfleet, Dover and Fylde respectively)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bridg4d_Pie_
There's also the more familiar trips to Chesterfield, Wrexham, Hartlepool, Halifax, Barnet, Torquay, possibly Stockport and whoever comes down with us. It won't be totally alien. I think the biggest culture shock in football is the difference between the Championship and League One. We've been a lower league football club for 25 years now, that's not about to change. It's just that awful problem of having to be champions to gain an automatic return. If it was three up instead of two, it wouldn't feel so daunting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frigiliana Pie 1
I think you're wrong about the culture shock upthemagpies, getting tonked away to Dover followed by a home defeat to Harrogate is going to be a new level of despair that we'll have to endure.
I think it will definitely be a culture shock. I mean I literally don't where half these places are, and I have no idea what colour the clubs where or what their grounds are called. But L2 isn't exactly glamorous either. Apart from a handful of clubs (including us) most teams play in ****ty grounds with rubbish support.
In terms of the quality of football, I think we may all be surprised by how tough and competitive it is. Maybe 10 or 20 years ago it would have been different, but the gap has closed in recent years. There's a fair bit of money flying around down there too, so it's unlikely we'll be the big spenders.
Some old friends there we can help out with a few points.Quote:
Originally Posted by upthemaggies
To be honest I look forward to any new Notts season so next year will be no different and I'm sure we'll all still be there again whatever league we're in. It's difficult to say that yes going down might do us good as staying up and getting sorted out will obviously be better but going down, getting new owners, new manager and steam lining the club might not be the disaster in the long run people think it will be.
Something has to change, for me the club has felt broken for some time, players vastly underperform for us and not other clubs, managers are inept and owners are clueless. I'm tired of the whole thing at the moment so welcome a hopefully different future. Maybe dropping our ego and rebuilding might be a nice change.
well, you're not down yet, but i think Macc have probably got just enough to keep that little gap between them and Yeovil and you.
apart from chesterfield and luton, i would not wish non league hell on any club, it is a ****ty league, with ****ty officials, and is hellishly hard to get promotion from.
even now, the full horror of the bananarama league has not really registered with any of you.
if you go down, you will realise, about december time, what a truly awful league you are in.
before then you will be convinced that "its not as bad as we thought!".
it is WORSE than you could ever imagine.
and on that cheery note, i wish you good luck for the last few matches.
Attendance wise, the gap between 2nd and 3rd tier is the most noticeable gulf.....
Current average gates...
2nd tier - 20.090
3rd tier - 8.615
4th tier - 4.374
5th tier - 1.956
Quality of football is subjective but it's probably not that much different between the 4th and 5th. I fear it will be the standard of refereeing that will really hit us.