I don't believe yesterday's debacle says anything at all about Birchnall's qualities - although it probably does say an awful lot about Ardley's legacy.
Do we have a rotten bunch of players who will never be motivated? I pray not ... and I really don't believe that.

But is a genius coach who has succeeded in the upper echelons of European football what we really need to get us out of the National League? I have everything crossed in ways that I wouldn't have if we'd appointed someone with a pedigree in British lower league football. Does IB have the kind of personality that will inspire players to sweat blood for him? Again I really hope so but I'm worried.

Final worry (and I have a stack of them this weekend). How much does it really hurt the Reedtz brothers that we have just experienced our worst result in a massively long history. I feel sick - do they?
My concern is that they don't have emotional skin in the game - plenty of financial skin of course - but do they know how dreadful most Notts fans I know feel right now - and does how we feel really matter to them?