Ray Trew

[slack_pie]

Jesus wept, Ray Trew nearly oversaw the death of the club - why on earth would we want him back? The atmosphere is still nowhere near as bad as it was in RT’s final season or two, when crowds dipped below 3,000 and the club was dying a slow death in the most toxics and hateful of times.

We don’t have a divine right to do well, and if we go down this year it will be on merit. I hope it doesn’t come to that, obviously, but maybe we do need to go down to reset and rebuild. There appears to be something rotten at the heart of our club, no matter who is at the helm.

Luton went through far worse times than us and look at them today. Same with Lincoln, Exeter, Tranmere and Mansfield, all of whom have ultimately come back stronger. Who’d have thought that Lincoln would now be averaging 9,000, for example.

While I get your point that going down can often reset a club, it is foolish to think the same will happen to Notts. For every Lincoln and Luton, there's a Stockport and Torquay. I've watched Notts for coming on 30 years now, and we simply aren't the type of club that would just bounce back from such a drop. Relegation to the Conference is deadly serious - we have to understand that it could be the end, one way or another.

[Bridg4d_Pie_]

While I get your point that going down can often reset a club, it is foolish to think the same will happen to Notts. For every Lincoln and Luton, there's a Stockport and Torquay. I've watched Notts for coming on 30 years now, and we simply aren't the type of club that would just bounce back from such a drop. Relegation to the Conference is deadly serious - we have to understand that it could be the end, one way or another.

I have to say having watched them for 68 years there have been times when we have diced with exiting the Football League in that time, but I have to say that sadly I fear this time maybe just for real. We have never really recovered from the Administration years, we may have a Dressing Room fit for the Premiership but those who occupy most of the Lockers are not it would appear fit for Victoria Embankment Football.

That I fear is the Long & the Short of it, Sir Jimmy, Jack Son, Arthur & Bill would turn in their graves if they saw most of this Shower wearing the famous old shirts.

Like it or not, that is FACT !!!!

[51Magpie]

...we may have a Dressing Room fit for the Premiership...

I do sometimes wonder what goes through the players' minds when they come in at the end of another disappointing home display and look around at each other in a dressing room that's up to the standard of Chelsea or Man City. I think if I were one of them it would make me cringe with embarrassment, even though it wasn't my hubris that had seen it built.