Like most fans and in an ideal world, I would like to know who the manager/coach is and the calibre of players Notts will be adding, before raiding my savings for £400 or so.

However, we know it doesn't work like that, and the more up front season ticket sales money the club has, the more it can budget for the above.

My car insurance is due at roughly the same time, so that's over £1,000 I have to find each year.

50 years and counting makes it almost impossible not to get one.