What do we need, and who might it be?

[SwalePie]

Good spot ! He was exceptional for Dover at Wrexham, scoring a hat trick and causing havoc. Well worth a look on youtube. He's under contract at relegated Kings Lynn Town

https://www.kltown.co.uk/2022/05/20/...released-list/


A quick P.S.

A marked difference between Wrexham fans and ours. Even when they were losing 5-2 at home to relegated Dover their fans stuck with them and even increased the volume. Conversely our fans were booing in the first half because we were only winning 1-0 against Dover...

Your quick P.S. probably says a lot about our aging fanbase (of which I have to admit to now being a member!) who unfortunately find it difficult to adapt to modern football. We tend to hark back to the 'olden days' a little too much for the good of our club's future sometimes, IMHO. I do hope that IB's departure doesn't signal a return to the route one days and I'm hopeful that with the Reedtz brothers at the helm it won't.

[pravda_plc]

Amen to that Swale !!!

[jackal2]

I do hope that IB's departure doesn't signal a return to the route one days and I'm hopeful that with the Reedtz brothers at the helm it won't.

Well, being under 50 I count myself as middle-aged in Notts County supporter terms, so perhaps that's why my take on things is somewhere in the middle too.

God forbid we go back to route one days of a 'manager' like Steve Thompson, but I've never bought this myth that Neil Warnock and Sam Allardyce were 'route one'. Their teams played some excellent and very entertaining winning football. What they didn't do was employ a style of play that asked more of their players than they were capable of delivering, especially against strong opposition who could exploit any such weaknesses. For example, we didn't mess about too much with the ball in our own half, playing in front of teams.

Warnock and Allardyce played to the strengths of their squad, and produced the most exciting times I've known as a Notts fan, because I was too young to see Jimmy Sirrell's teams live. For me, this is still a good blueprint for success in the lower leagues. We aren't Manchester City and we shouldn't try to be.

[SwalePie]

Well, being under 50 I count myself as middle-aged in Notts County supporter terms, so perhaps that's why my take on things is somewhere in the middle too.

God forbid we go back to route one days of a 'manager' like Steve Thompson, but I've never bought this myth that Neil Warnock and Sam Allardyce were 'route one'. Their teams played some excellent and very entertaining winning football. What they didn't do was employ a style of play that asked more of their players than they were capable of delivering, especially against strong opposition who could exploit any such weaknesses. For example, we didn't mess about too much with the ball in our own half, playing in front of teams.

Warnock and Allardyce played to the strengths of their squad, and produced the most exciting times I've known as a Notts fan, because I was too young to see Jimmy Sirrell's teams live. For me, this is still a good blueprint for success in the lower leagues. We aren't Manchester City and we shouldn't try to be.

My 'route one' comment was about all the other dross, not Sam and Warnock's times.