Worst Notts County manager ever

[Woodypie]

Well, I would say Maynard is in top five since I started following Notts in 1981. Others? Larry Lloyd, Fullerton, Sheridan, Kewell and Ardley. Also big mention for Kendall, who may even knock Maynard out of top five worst ever.

[queenslandpie]

Fullarton will take some beating. Maynard is having a go but he's way ahead of Fullarton.

[Davy500]

Fullarton will take some beating. Maynard is having a go but he's way ahead of Fullarton.

Is Maynard way ahead of Fullarton??
Well both Managers in League 2 , so the same level, and both appointed in January

Fullarton P 12 W 3 D 1 L 8 Total Points 10
Maynard P 8 W 1 D 1 L 6 Total Points 4

So in order for Maynard to be better than Fullarton in the next 4 games, Maynard must get 7 points - which for me seems unlikely

[ThaiPie]

Perhaps we should focus on recruitment.

In Stuart Maynard's post match interview he said "we're not equipped" , to deal with high balls and long throws. I.E. We don't have the right players for Division 2 defending. I think I, along with every other poster on this board we have been saying this all season. So maybe you can focus on the recruitment team, rather than prematurely trying to rate SM.

Currently, Managing Notts is like rock climbing in flip flops. There are going to be slip-ups.



Edit: Is this the smallest Notts County team - Ever?

[jackal2]

Perhaps we should focus on recruitment.

In Stuart Maynard's post match interview he said "we're not equipped" , to deal with high balls and long throws. I.E. We don't have the right players for Division 2 defending. I think I, along with every other poster on this board we have been saying this all season. So maybe you can focus on the recruitment team, rather than prematurely trying to rate SM.

Currently, Managing Notts is like rock climbing in flip flops. There are going to be slip-ups.

Edit: Is this the smallest Notts County team - Ever?

We've recruited plenty of good players, the latest being Scott Robertson, but you're still absolutely right.

We're very short (literally) of players who can dominate our own penalty box and lead a defensive line. If you have a Graeme Lee/Garry Strodder type of centre-half in the box yesterday then they take up the right position, win the key headers, and you don't concede either of those goals. Connell Rawlinson is the closest thing we've got in terms of physical stature, but I'm afraid that first goal yesterday endorsed the arguments of those saying he's simply not good enough for this level.

The second goal was another example of a team hitting the ball to the back stick to target the area often occupied by Aaron Nemane, who is tiny, not very good at heading, and should be nowhere near the six yard box in those situations. He's never going to win the ball, in fact the biggest risk is that he gets in the way of one of (few) bigger players who potentially could try to put in a meaningful challenge.

[Could'vebeenacontender]

Perhaps we should focus on recruitment.

In Stuart Maynard's post match interview he said "we're not equipped" , to deal with high balls and long throws. I.E. We don't have the right players for Division 2 defending. I think I, along with every other poster on this board we have been saying this all season. So maybe you can focus on the recruitment team, rather than prematurely trying to rate SM.

Currently, Managing Notts is like rock climbing in flip flops. There are going to be slip-ups.



Edit: Is this the smallest Notts County team - Ever?

Spot on
We've all known it all season and of course every other team in L2 knows it now as we can see from the way opponents play against us week after week

[midshipman]

Spot on
We've all known it all season and of course every other team in L2 knows it now as we can see from the way opponents play against us week after week

S M cannot save us with the Rubbish Defenders we have. appointed for the right reason but the ship notts county appeared to be sailing along O K but the bottom was falling out of the ship but the owners where blinded by the success (top of the league) Thought they needed some one to carry on who would not rock the ship. We now need a manager who can read the riot act to the defence and if no improvement give the players concerned the HEV HO.

[since41]

Well, I would say Maynard is in top five since I started following Notts in 1981. Others? Larry Lloyd, Fullerton, Sheridan, Kewell and Ardley. Also big mention for Kendall, who may even knock Maynard out of top five worst ever.

Top of the real Division 1 for a few days with Larry Lloyd I doubt we will ever see that again so i would take him out the top worse managers list for that alone.

[upthemaggies]

Based on PPG (and not including caretakers who were in charge for 1 or 2 games and lost it/both) Maynard is currently the 2nd worst of all time on 0.50.

For worse than Maynard you have to go back precisely 90 years (1934) to a guy called Charlie Jones whose PPG is 0.41 with a record of Pld:17 W:1 D:4 L:12. However he was up against the likes of West Ham, Fword, Sheff U and Newcastle United in tier 2. At 4th tier level Maynard is currently the worst of all time.

[andy6025]

I remember things being especially bad under Wombat. His stats were P34 W9 D9 L16 W26.5% PPG 1.06, which aren’t nearly as bad in comparison.