Quote Originally Posted by slack_pie View Post
No club gets recruitment right all the time. Yes, we've dropped a few clangers, but the fact is our recruitment hasn't been this good in many years.

I agree that the whole recruitment policy is underpinned by the head coach, and the jury is still very much out on that one. It's either a masterstroke or a somewhat arrogant attempt to go against conventional wisdom. Time will tell....
Man Utd have shown that you can spend more money on players than anybody else over several seasons, but if you don't have the right man in charge then you will still fail to reach your target.
The season before last I was fed up of hearing Spurs fans griping, now they seem relatively content despite losing Kane because they have a manager they can all get behind.
We literally need Maynard to be the next Allardyce, there's no other example of a Notts manager starting so badly and coming good. This game being what it is, you can't rule that out with certainty, but I think we got very lucky with LW and asking for lightning to strike twice in quick succession is a big ask of the gods.