‘The Problem’

[Davy500]

Yep. if only we'd had the full season we may have caught them too. Still, perhaps it's better that way, otherwise we wouldn't have this increasingly tedious thread to enjoy eh?

very unlikely we have caught Barrow, if anybody was likely to catch them it would have been Harragate not us

[SwalePie]

very unlikely we have caught Barrow, if anybody was likely to catch them it would have been Harragate not us

We'll never know, unfortunately but it was still a possibility. Hey ho. Let's all hope this season brings us the title so we can all be friends again and you can give Ardley a massive hug (socially distanced of course!) eh?

[Davy500]

We'll never know, unfortunately but it was still a possibility. Hey ho. Let's all hope this season brings us the title so we can all be friends again and you can give Ardley a massive hug (socially distanced of course!) eh?

Its possible i could win the lottery too lol
But i tell you what, if we don,t win the title, we can still all be friends

[SwalePie]

Its possible i could win the lottery too lol
But i tell you what, if we don,t win the title, we can still all be friends

That's the spirit!

[magpie_mania]

Well once they got going they were, think they had nearly 20 wins, with only 2 losses, and 3 draws in between, an incredible run of results

Just goes to show the excuses for Notts poor start are really just bull, as shown by Barrow

Facts are that we beat both Barrow and Harrogate away. How it happened really doesn't matter as there would have been times we didn't win but hit the post etc.

What do you base your suggestion on that we would have lost to Harrogate?
When the season was stopped,
We were on a good run, 4 wins with 11 goals scored
We had beaten Barrow away
We had just won 4 - 0.

[Davy500]

Facts are that we beat both Barrow and Harrogate away. How it happened really doesn't matter as there would have been times we didn't win but hit the post etc.

What do you base your suggestion on that we would have lost to Harrogate?
When the season was stopped,
We were on a good run, 4 wins with 11 goals scored
We had beaten Barrow away
We had just won 4 - 0.

The fact that we have lost twice to Harrogate since then

[SwalePie]

The fact that we have lost twice to Harrogate since then

Yep, League Two Harrogate were much better. Mind you we didn't show up in the first game when they were at our level.

[laddo]

The only thing that was comedy was the 25 plus games that Ardley was in charge, especially him only winning once in 12 games

Yes Alan Hardy gets equal blame for appointing Neal Ardley in the first place , he admitted as much later saying he made a huge mistake sacking Nolan

So you blame for him appointing Ardley , I agree. He made a huge mistake stacking Nolan, you seem to agree with that.

So that's two mistakes that season from the owner, that leaves just Kewell. You said if he hadn't have been sacked you don't believe we would have been relegated.

So that's 3 big errors from Hardy andddddd you blame Ardley for relegation magic.

The one thing I've never understood fully that season is how you can go from being unlucky in a play off semi final, being back by a chairman to sign two expensive new players in guaranteed goalscorer Dennis and exciting Enzio and then you start the season not only winless in first 5 games. But absolutely hammered in some of them.

From hero to zero and sacked in a summer and 5 games. Can anyone explain that?

[Elite_Pie]

From hero to zero and sacked in a summer and 5 games. Can anyone explain that?

Easily explained. The owner made a premature sacking decision, not once but twice.

Out of interest, when Ardley was appointed with more than half a season to go and us within a point or two of safety, did you see relegation as inevitable due to what had gone on before? Or did you think that any semi-competent manager had the time and backing to keep us up?

[SwalePie]

Easily explained. The owner made a premature sacking decision, not once but twice.

Out of interest, when Ardley was appointed with more than half a season to go and us within a point or two of safety, did you see relegation as inevitable due to what had gone on before? Or did you think that any semi-competent manager had the time and backing to keep us up?

After that January transfer window I was convinced we'd stay up.