The benchmark has to be the gates and going by those we are at least 40 places below where we should be, probably more (as those gates would be considerably higher in the current climate if our position was higher).
I don't know the ins and outs of the Hayden Green Estate situation regards the ground, but I am now beginning to wonder if - whilst it protects Notts from doing a Bury, does that also act as an obstacle for a potential saviour in the true sense of the word, that is to say a saviour which not only keeps the club alive but restores it to a position we used to take for granted - upper 3rd tier, lower 2nd, or higher the further you go back.
We're in this league on merit, I think a lot of posters here need a reality check, we don't have a God given right to storm the league so making the post season playoffs quite frankly is a decent season
I totally agree.
History shows you it isnt easy to get out plenty of former league clubs are stuck down here.
The weirdest thing is the constant mocking of our owners I mean just have a think about who put us here the real villian is Egghead.
The other options other than Reedtz brothers were some Nando guy and a crook who robbed OAPs.
Substitute "a God given right" for "ambitious and relatively wealthy owners", read that back an there's your reality check.
I think it was Sven who said that if you give me a list of clubs spending power in August I can give you the order of the final table in May and be correct for the most part, give or take the odd position.
Plenty of clubs get relegated to divisions lower than where they ought to be, in some cases to levels they've never dropped before. Some bounce back immediately as champions (Newcastle or Bristol Rovers for example) some languish. Depends what financial backing they have and/or the owners nous.
A decent season, or a limp-wristed acceptance of mediocrity? We are definitely here on merit. This division is hard to get out of, but it's also hard to get into. I hope I never sink to your depths. The day I see a failed playoff campaign for Notts in the National League as a "decent season" is the day I will wish Forest all the best in their playoff final.
As long as I can breathe, neither will ever, ever happen.