Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss

[SwalePie]

Technically, today was a draw.
Both Warnock and Allardyce began with home draws, as did Sirrel on his return for the 2nd coming.

Nicely dug out UTM, I'll take that!

[SwalePie]

Disagree. Blaming the players is exactly what I would do. I wouldn't blame Ardley for signing them, I wouldn't blame Burchnall after a few days. I would put 100% of the blame on the players. They faced inferior opposition, but only inferior in terms of ability. In terms of fight, spirit and desire they were streets ahead of our spineless bunch.

Nailed.

[SmiffyPie]

It's absolutely ludicrous criticising the manager for that garbage. After having only 10 minutes behind the bike shed with them what did you expect? He doesn't know this bunch of .... players well enough, he can only possibly use the previous managers first team squad as a benchmark. The time to start making judgements (knee-jerk or calculated) is after seeing his next three or four teams. As mentioned above there is no REAL desire in a majority of players and there certainly isn't a "I'II run for him 'cos we is Notts" attitude anywhere in the team.

[Old_pie]

Technically, today was a draw.
Both Warnock and Allardyce began with home draws, as did Sirrel on his return for the 2nd coming.

Were they draws against teams from a lower league?

[Killerkline]

Were they draws against teams from a lower league?

Someone always as to go and spoil it!

[queenslandpie]

The thing with all this football radar stuff is that you might find players who on paper are good enough but you don't really know much about their personality only their potential ability. It takes two to tango so if we are are really not giving the manager a lot of control over signings as has been muted especially he is now just a coach that's a bit concerning. Even more concerning is that if it doesn't work ( and so far it hasn't) the owners would probably be asking themselves why they are bothering...... Just for a bit of balance on previous posts Kevin Nolan also started with a draw. Look how that ended up!

[OP67]

Jeeeeeeeez he's had 45 minutes on the training ground with them!

The players are old enough and ugly enough to have won that. Ardley brought them in do they really need him to hold their hands aswell? They need to take responsibility and ask themselves if they're really cut out to a "professional" footballer!!

[optipez]

Not blaming the new man, blaming that pathetic bunch of players out fought out smarted, out played by Hornchurch. Now is where Burchnall must make changes. if half of that team plays on Tuesday night I will be disgusted and if Reeves ever pulls on a Notts shirt again I will be shocked.

Prepare to be shocked.

[Elite_Pie]

The thing with all this football radar stuff is that you might find players who on paper are good enough but you don't really know much about their personality only their potential ability.

That's my big worry. I can see a lot of positives with a stats driven approach, but how do you measure guts, bottle and desire? I doubt any of the Hornchurch players will be of interest to Football Radar, but the only reason that they beat us today was because they were streets ahead of us in terms of guts, bottle and desire.

[CheltenhamPie]

That's my big worry. I can see a lot of positives with a stats driven approach, but how do you measure guts, bottle and desire? I doubt any of the Hornchurch players will be of interest to Football Radar, but the only reason that they beat us today was because they were streets ahead of us in terms of guts, bottle and desire.

Of all the posts you have made over the years Elite, this may well be the truest one you have ever posted. How sad is it, to read such a statement, and even sadder to agree with you. Our players were dreadful, and not worthy of the shirt.