Lincoln City

[Glad2BeAPie]

Since getting out of this league they've gone from strength to strength, a couple of quick fire promotions with decent owners and a decent manager, sounds familiar. Could we emulate them.

[Notts78]

Since getting out of this league they've gone from strength to strength, a couple of quick fire promotions with decent owners and a decent manager, sounds familiar. Could we emulate them.

Given Lincoln blobbed their playoff today I would rather follow Luton’s progress

[SwalePie]

There's no reason why not but there's a lot of luck that goes along with the good decision making to make it happen.

[BigFatPie]

We’ve seen many smaller clubs than us outperform us on the pitch. Hopefully by some miracle we’ll have our time in the next few years.

[MAD_MAGPIE]

Given Lincoln blobbed their playoff today I would rather follow Luton’s progress

Clubs like Lincoln and certainly Luton (the latter of which I deem us to be comparable with in terms of club size / league history.) give us hope that with stability, the right decisions being made and clubs being run properly it is possible to rise from National League level through the lower leagues and be strong and competitive at those levels.

As I've said on here many times I believe all the pieces of the jigsaw are there at Notts and it just needs that spark to get it going. Hopefully that spark has now been lit with the appointment of IB to bind it all together on the field.

However it requires time and patience and that is something that as Notts supporters we've been conditioned to accept the opposite to some degree over the years and that constant change of players and managers is normal when it's not if you want to be successful.

An example of this was demonstrated after the poor results at the start of IB's tenure when some fans were calling for him to go which I believe was born more through the hauntings of past experience with some managerial appointments, but the fear of us potentially not making the play-offs. It's when the rationale is needed that when you are making a transition in the change of playing style as we have since seen it's going to take time for a new coaches different ideas and methods to get across to the players.

It's taken Luton 10 years to get to where they are now finishing 12th in the championship from finishing 3rd in their second season in the national league in 10/11. They had a further three seasons at this level before getting automatically promoted to league two in 13/14. After that they were in the top 8 of League Two for four seasons and then once they got promoted they catapulted straight through League one to the championship where they have been for the past two seasons.

Should we get promoted this season we will have three seasons head start compared to Luton in which to grow in League Two to push towards League One.

For us the past two seasons have been much of a re-building process from the ground upwards certainly off the field after the fallout of relegation. Relegation out of the football league for clubs like ours demonstrates that something has gone very wrong at a club at some point and will take time to fix and change course.

I'd like to think whilst the decade of 2010's was one of general decline on the field with a couple of false dawns, the 2020's decade will be one in which under our current owners we can grow as a club like Luton and progressively move forward in a calm and patience manner and the success will come that this approach deserves.

[laddo]

I enjoy reading MAD MAGPIE'S posts like this, good combination of considered thought, rationale and optimism.

[Oldstripy]

Clubs like Lincoln and certainly Luton (the latter of which I deem us to be comparable with in terms of club size / league history.) give us hope that with stability, the right decisions being made and clubs being run properly it is possible to rise from National League level through the lower leagues and be strong and competitive at those levels.

As I've said on here many times I believe all the pieces of the jigsaw are there at Notts and it just needs that spark to get it going. Hopefully that spark has now been lit with the appointment of IB to bind it all together on the field.

However it requires time and patience and that is something that as Notts supporters we've been conditioned to accept the opposite to some degree over the years and that constant change of players and managers is normal when it's not if you want to be successful.

An example of this was demonstrated after the poor results at the start of IB's tenure when some fans were calling for him to go which I believe was born more through the hauntings of past experience with some managerial appointments, but the fear of us potentially not making the play-offs. It's when the rationale is needed that when you are making a transition in the change of playing style as we have since seen it's going to take time for a new coaches different ideas and methods to get across to the players.

It's taken Luton 10 years to get to where they are now finishing 12th in the championship from finishing 3rd in their second season in the national league in 10/11. They had a further three seasons at this level before getting automatically promoted to league two in 13/14. After that they were in the top 8 of League Two for four seasons and then once they got promoted they catapulted straight through League one to the championship where they have been for the past two seasons.

Should we get promoted this season we will have three seasons head start compared to Luton in which to grow in League Two to push towards League One.

For us the past two seasons have been much of a re-building process from the ground upwards certainly off the field after the fallout of relegation. Relegation out of the football league for clubs like ours demonstrates that something has gone very wrong at a club at some point and will take time to fix and change course.

I'd like to think whilst the decade of 2010's was one of general decline on the field with a couple of false dawns, the 2020's decade will be one in which under our current owners we can grow as a club like Luton and progressively move forward in a calm and patience manner and the success will come that this approach deserves.

Excellent post.

[Stan Marshall]

I agree. An excellent post from MM 👍

[upthemaggies]

If you had to pick one club that is the closest to us in terms of history, size and potential, I'd probably say Luton. Their notable successes have tended to be more recent than ours but we never installed a plastic pitch and banned away fans - We might have spent as much time in the top flight as them if we had, as well as reaching a League Cup final or two.

I'd gladly swap our most famous fan for theirs (and by that I do mean Eric Morecambe for Harold Shipman and not Tommy Robinson for Jake Bugg).

[WarsopPie]

Given Lincoln blobbed their playoff today I would rather follow Luton’s progress

I’d take George Moncur released by Luton today.