Quote Originally Posted by laddo View Post
I can get onboard with the equal blame and 6s across the board but how a 5th placed finish and comfortable finish in the playoffs can be described as midtable is beyond me. Although I don't agree it was argued that if we finished 8th that was mid table now 5th is?!

Can you please explain?
We'd have to be really bad to be mid-table. Aside from the first few months when the table is yet to settle down, the only time we've sunk that low was during the Mo Ross period and a short spell after losing 3-0 at home to Barrow when Ardley came under quite intense pressure - that might have been when he made his "There's people around the club who want us to fail" statement, I'm not sure.
There seems to be next to no tolerance for Notts being out of the play-offs for more than a few weeks, so a whole season mid-table would probably result in a total meltdown.

As I've said though, the longer we remain in this division the more likely we are to having that one season where everything seems to go against you and it becomes a struggle. Every play off failure is a blow to the head and Notts will end up on the canvass at some point. It doesn't matter what level we're talking, you don't see clubs in the play offs season after season for very long without them either going up auto at the 3rd,4th attempt or becoming so demoralised they end up way down the table.