We possibly have a scepticism at Notts, as we’ve never had a successful manager that’s played football on the ground.
In my 35 years supporting Notts we’ve had 3 managers that have won us promotion. All of which favoured a direct/long ball style of play.
So maybe, and understandably, we just don’t trust this style of play. When we hit a bad run of form it’s then the ‘passing games’ fault. Ignoring we’ve got a long long list of failed managers that played ‘hoof it’ football.