First team coach appointed

[CheltenhamPie]

But, based on this post, when you do it’s a good one.

Thanks. COYP.

[Woodypie]

I will take all of these positive moves regarding the club's structure and plans for the future over any £10k a week striker whose had one good season!

10k per week, blimey - are we trying to sign one of them? Perhaps two 5k per week strikers would be more tempting?

[countygump]

10k per week, blimey - are we trying to sign one of them? Perhaps two 5k per week strikers would be more tempting?

Dunno if you watched last nights ''Magpie Circle'' which I poster on another fred, but Chessie reportedly paid £250,000 for the services of Mr Tshimanga.

[nw6pie]

It looks like we really are assembling a fantastic behind-the-scenes set-up, and the owners deserve so much credit for their efforts. Have we ever had so many resources to give us an advantage over many of our rivals at this level? I also love the fact the club recognised that other clubs were outperforming us in a key area of the game and are trying to improve that.

As CheltenhamPie says, we’re going to need to be patient. It took Brentford a few years to fine-tune their approach and get it right - for instance, one mistake they made early on was having too many young players in the side. Once they identified that having a few experienced players alongside them improved both the young players and the club’s league position, they found the perfect approach. As a bonus, they discovered that players who finish in, say, the playoffs almost double their value from when they’re in mid-table.

Someone really should write a book about football post-“Moneyball”.

[KCNotts]

Dunno if you watched last nights ''Magpie Circle'' which I poster on another fred, but Chessie reportedly paid £250,000 for the services of Mr Tshimanga.

Are you Mace Gumpster?

[jackal2]

I rarely post these days, but am very impressed by the way in which the owners and management approach the massive task before them to achieve our rightful place back in to the Football League family. However, we must remain patient and confident that Notts will do it. Let’s hope that we are able to emulate the amazing job done by Brentford in recent times.

Agreed.

Ian Burchnall nailed it in his interview after the Solihull game. There are other clubs splashing money on bigger and more experienced signings than the ones we've made, and these may or may not give them a head start over us in the short-term, but what Notts are now building is all about solid foundations for longer-term, sustained improvement, even if our upward trajectory is gentler than some other clubs who have gone sh*t or bust. Sooner or later it's usually bust.

Notts County have had more than one experience of owners spending big and gambling on short-term success, but every time it has ultimately taken us backwards. Even those who point to the Munto promotion season of 2009/10 as a successful gamble miss the point - apart from the obvious fact that it was fraud - that the consequences of that period of overspending became evident years later, and would have been evident sooner if Ray Trew hadn't initially underwritten the debt before eventually tightening the purse strings himself.

It's the hare and tortoise scenario. Well-run clubs like Brentford, Accrington Stanley and Wycombe Wanderers are now hitting well above their weight on a consistent basis, but to get to where they are now, they've shown years of patience and financial restraint while other bigger clubs have sprinted ahead with budgets they couldn't afford, only to hit the financial wall, fall back, and be overtaken.

[laddo]

If IBs team can perform anywhere close to IBs performance in interviews we are onto a winning.

Unsurprisingly I agree with the recent posts on here such as Jackal2's , the question is will/can the fanbase display the sort of patience required for the medium/long term approach adopted.

[countygump]

Are you Mace Gumpster?

Nah. Got a lot more hair, thankfully.

[jackal2]

If IBs team can perform anywhere close to IBs performance in interviews we are onto a winning.

Unsurprisingly I agree with the recent posts on here such as Jackal2's , the question is will/can the fanbase display the sort of patience required for the medium/long term approach adopted.

Football fans will always be football fans the world over - emotional, fickle, and liable to predict complete success or failure based on the most recent good or bad result. Most if not all of us do it, at least some of the time.

The encouraging thing is that these owners don't seem to be swayed by such short-term emotions, even though I'm sure they understand how fans react. They keep a respectful distance from social media, and they say just enough, but not too much, to the mainstream media. As such, they don't make themselves an obvious target or lightning rod like Ray Trew and Alan Hardy did with their need to be 'seen' or 'liked'.

The Reedtz brothers seem to be reserved, strategic, thoughtful and very focused, which are somewhat typical personality traits for Scandinavians, and I dare say it's exactly what this club has needed from its leadership for a very long time. The last thing a football club actually needs is a chairman who thinks like a fan ... unless they've got a literally inexhaustible supply of money to repair bad decisions made in the heat of the moment!

[laddo]

Agree with absolutely all of that. The key part is the owners rightly distance themselves from the fanbase to a professional extent unlike the aforementioned predecessors who did the complete opposite and got more

Owners who aren't swayed too much, if at all, by the fanbase mood swings is a wonderful, wonderful thing and makes me feel warm in side#insafehands