Quote Originally Posted by laddo View Post
What I find amusing and frustrating in equal measure is whenever we lose people are rightly upset to varying degree. All Notts fans should be with a defeat but I don't understand why there then needs to be a complete root and branch review of the whole club.

We lose a midfield battle, or struggle against set pieces and lose a game and all of a sudden, the set piece coach is useless, the recruitment is poor, the manager should be gone if he loses the next two games, the owners are relatively skint, the crowds will soon drop by a 1000-1500, won't make the playoffs at this rate, if we do we will bow at miserably, we need Warnock to consult etc etc. I know a game of football can be a rollercoaster ride of emotions as we've seen multiple times under IB but it's frankly ridiculous to question everything about the club and it's long term aims on and off the field.

The only thing missing is another Manger In/Out thread , an NCM staple over the years.

Just my thoughts and opinion with some facts chucked in for good measure.
I’m going to provide my pennies worth re. Recruitment. I don’t feel we have enough strength and depth in key positions.
How can any club, let alone a professional club have 1 recognised keeper deemed good enough for first team football?
When you play 3 centre backs, you need adequate cover - we have Brindley and Chickson. Against tall physical sides that cover isn’t adequate. For the record I like both.
Up front. If we lose Wootton at any point we are knackered. None of the other forwards come close to what he brings. I know some don’t rate him but his stats stack up.
Then there is the centre of midfield. It’s choc full of young lads (with JoB the exception) learning the trade. These players may well progress and become fine footballers. I truly believe that we are 1 central midfielder shy - one with experience of sitting in midfield and dictating play. A 30 year old Doyle.
It’s fine having a small squad if it’s good enough. The issue we might have now is that IF the losing run continues their isn’t much scope to freshen it up without loan players, which kind of defeats the object of what we want to achieve.

So in summary, IMO, the players we have are fine. We just needed more of them.