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    Players regrets

    Myself, just like maybe 99% of supporters have listened to our managers post match interviews week on week, year on year and no two are the same, each time the analysis that he gives is pin point accurate, he sees the game just played in a honest way that is imaginable, full of respect and kindness for both the opposition whom we have just beaten hands down and the officials that maybe have just had a nightmare, he is just incredibly humble.
    It must be known in the footballing world that Luke Williams and his back-room staff are the people to take a football club to where they would like to be, as time goes on, he will get offers as a matter of course on a regular basis.

    Brings me to whoever the players are, over the past couple of years or so, that have been touted to sign for or considered playing for NCFC, the regrets they must now have for not taking the chance and missed out on being trained by Luke and his staff, a lot of regrets out there I would imagine, as it is surely recognised that he brings out the best of your ability.

    We have a tremendous,once in a decade, manager and backroom staff there is at Meadow Lane.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dug Out View Post
    Myself, just like maybe 99% of supporters have listened to our managers post match interviews week on week, year on year and no two are the same, each time the analysis that he gives is pin point accurate, he sees the game just played in a honest way that is imaginable, full of respect and kindness for both the opposition whom we have just beaten hands down and the officials that maybe have just had a nightmare, he is just incredibly humble.
    It must be known in the footballing world that Luke Williams and his back-room staff are the people to take a football club to where they would like to be, as time goes on, he will get offers as a matter of course on a regular basis.

    Brings me to whoever the players are, over the past couple of years or so, that have been touted to sign for or considered playing for NCFC, the regrets they must now have for not taking the chance and missed out on being trained by Luke and his staff, a lot of regrets out there I would imagine, as it is surely recognised that he brings out the best of your ability.

    We have a tremendous,once in a decade, manager and backroom staff there is at Meadow Lane.
    Good post. I totally agree, I could listen to LW all day. Such an honest and perceptive guy….I always think back to his post match interview against Chesterfield at home last season. We hadn't started the season great and were two down at half time and the players got booed off. When pressed on the booing at the end of the game he gave such a great and honest answer I felt then it could be a turning point…and so it proved to be, and we went on that record breaking unbeaten run.

    That being said, the owners have to take slightly more credit I think. LW has worked wonders, but only under the conditions and environment that the owners have created….it starts from the top and then goes down I think LW would be the first to admit that.

    The thought of losing this manager fills me with a sporting dread. There will surely be clubs as high as the championship eyeing him up now. My biggest fear would be Forest being relegated, Cooper being sacked and Luke jumping ship to them 🥹

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    So lucky to have the steady calm Danes in charge, I can't see cool hand Luke leaving this season and who knows promotion and the temptation to stay and see how far he could take us maybe irresistible

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    Quote Originally Posted by maddogslater View Post
    So lucky to have the steady calm Danes in charge, I can't see cool hand Luke leaving this season and who knows promotion and the temptation to stay and see how far he could take us maybe irresistible
    It would have to be a mega offer from a leading team (Championship?) for him to go (IMO) He is building something special here and I am sure he will want to see where he can take us.

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    Without sounding like I’m doing LW a disservice, I think the main admiration has to be with the owners.
    They have built the foundations and set a blue print of how the club is to operate. This has given LW the chance to flourish.
    Whatever your opinion of the last two managers, they played a style of football that the owners insist upon. LW has then taken that style and built on it (tremendously well).
    If LW had come to our club at any other point in the last 20 years, I doubt he would have lasted 6 months.
    He wouldn’t have had the right players, a patient owner, or fans that would back a complete unknown.
    And when you consider how many clubs continue to run in that way, managers don’t really stand a chance.
    So far, every piece of recruitment the club makes, is an upgrade on the predecessor. That’s pretty incredible really!
    I would be absolutely gutted if LW was to leave, but I trust our owners to mean it would have limited negative impact.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kill_the_drum View Post
    Without sounding like I’m doing LW a disservice, I think the main admiration has to be with the owners.
    They have built the foundations and set a blue print of how the club is to operate. This has given LW the chance to flourish.
    Whatever your opinion of the last two managers, they played a style of football that the owners insist upon. LW has then taken that style and built on it (tremendously well).
    If LW had come to our club at any other point in the last 20 years, I doubt he would have lasted 6 months.
    He wouldn’t have had the right players, a patient owner, or fans that would back a complete unknown.
    And when you consider how many clubs continue to run in that way, managers don’t really stand a chance.
    So far, every piece of recruitment the club makes, is an upgrade on the predecessor. That’s pretty incredible really!
    I would be absolutely gutted if LW was to leave, but I trust our owners to mean it would have limited negative impact.
    Great post, LW had the opposite at Swindon, in his only full season at Swindon he saw them relegated and was sacked 1 year into a 5 year contract. What the stats don’t show was the calamity of when they brought Tim Sherwood in. I’m pretty sure at one point it was actually Sherwoods role to select the team and LW to just be on the touch line until one game Sherwood actually came down at half time when they were losing to a non league side, so all in all a bit of a sh1tshow there.

    So on that he knows exactly what he has now and seems and says he’s extremely grateful and why wouldn’t he be? Our owners have a proper strategy, ambition and most importantly give support.

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    Of course it's our owners that are the pinnacle of what we are appreciating, that is without any shadow of doubt.
    We as a club, in this moment in time, are in the best place that is possible in the football world, I don't want the Premiership greed & chaos, I'm going to enjoy the ride we are on for, at least, the next few years, we are in the best hands since Pavis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dug Out View Post
    Of course it's our owners that are the pinnacle of what we are appreciating, that is without any shadow of doubt.
    We as a club, in this moment in time, are in the best place that is possible in the football world, I don't want the Premiership greed & chaos, I'm going to enjoy the ride we are on for, at least, the next few years, we are in the best hands since Pavis.
    Yeah ok but you would not refuse it either - a chance to see Notts play at the highest level again

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davy500 View Post
    Yeah ok but you would not refuse it either - a chance to see Notts play at the highest level again
    Notts losing to Fword on a controversial VAR decision would finish me off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davy500 View Post
    Yeah ok but you would not refuse it either - a chance to see Notts play at the highest level again
    I am in all honesty not so sure that i would.There is only one deciding factor in the Premiere League and that is money, along with the "we have the most expensive player in the world syndrome". Its purely dog eat dog with no consience whatsoever,i would not want to be part of that, as i feel now that is, even as a spectator.

    In honesty LW would be a fool to leave us for a Championship team .Here, i would imagine he has a free reign, no fear of the bullet,along with no undue pressure, he seems happy with life, the City,the club would he swap that?. Take our old adversary Eddie Howe, if Newcastle hadnt got a result yesterday he would have been in line for the chop....... even with that money behind him. Anyone that wants to be in that caldron is quite welcome to it but the poor health will follow along with stress levels that must be unbearable,more than 2 poor results and you are on the kiss the badge merry-go-round.
    Of course this is all just a personal view that i have, but i once more look forward to hearing everthing NCFC is doing..... in League Division 2, under LW.

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