📝 Tobi Adebayo-Rowling Signs

[upthemaggies]

I genuinely have no idea to what you're referring here. Can you explain/clarify what it is you feel they've done wrong? (Serious, not being facetious btw)

On the face of it, we are getting worse (league position/play off round exits)

Financially, nobody knows for sure how they manage the debts, it will be complicated. Previous owners admitted they hadn't anticipated the weight of the iron ball they'd chained themselves to and, seeing that the list of clubs we can't compete with at this level seems to be growing, despite our gates being three times higher in one case, I suspect the Reedtz era is just going to be yet another chapter in the volume that deals with Notts County's decline following the completion of the rebuilding of the stadium that closed the previous volume.

[magpie_mania]

They've finished higher every season since 2017 with one exception.... 21st, 17th, 9th, 7th, 17th, 4th

I am always glass half full with Notts so I will take great heart that they were promoted after finishing 17th the season before.

[jackal2]

Don’t you know anyone? Surely we can get the Danish royal family to invest or the owner of the NY Yankees. They were interested in the past, right? Queued up with all the other billionaires looking to invest in the formerly known oldest league club in the world. I think they are waiting until we are in League 2.

I hear Russell King is putting together another Middle-Eastern consortium as we speak, from his little house on the Solent. It's like the land of milk and honey out there!

[uysapie]

On the face of it, we are getting worse (league position/play off round exits)

Financially, nobody knows for sure how they manage the debts, it will be complicated. Previous owners admitted they hadn't anticipated the weight of the iron ball they'd chained themselves to and, seeing that the list of clubs we can't compete with at this level seems to be growing, despite our gates being three times higher in one case, I suspect the Reedtz era is just going to be yet another chapter in the volume that deals with Notts County's decline following the completion of the rebuilding of the stadium that closed the previous volume.

The rebuilding of the stadium was financed by selling our best players, start of the decline.

[SwalePie]

On the face of it, we are getting worse (league position/play off round exits)

Financially, nobody knows for sure how they manage the debts, it will be complicated. Previous owners admitted they hadn't anticipated the weight of the iron ball they'd chained themselves to and, seeing that the list of clubs we can't compete with at this level seems to be growing, despite our gates being three times higher in one case, I suspect the Reedtz era is just going to be yet another chapter in the volume that deals with Notts County's decline following the completion of the rebuilding of the stadium that closed the previous volume.

Cheers for clarifying. Interesting how we all perceive things differently but that's what keeps life interesting.

[jackal2]

The rebuilding of the stadium was financed by selling our best players, start of the decline.

With the benefit of almost thirty years of hindsight it may be true that we built a ground that was too big for us, a bit like George Reynolds did with the Reynolds Arena at Darlington, but I've no doubt Derek Pavis did it with good intentions just after we had been relegated from the old Division One, and with the Taylor Report requirements in mind. I don't recall many fans (if any) complaining at the time about building an ambitiously-sized new stadium, in fact quite the opposite. The reality is that the likes of Draper, Johnson and Short were going to move on anyway sooner or later, so Pavis sold while they had relatively high value and reinvested a good portion of it.

[SwalePie]

The rebuilding of the stadium was financed by selling our best players, start of the decline.

Yes indeed. No question about it. (IMHO)

[uysapie]

With the benefit of almost thirty years of hindsight it may be true that we built a ground that was too big for us, a bit like George Reynolds did with the Reynolds Arena at Darlington, but I've no doubt Derek Pavis did it with good intentions just after we had been relegated from the old Division One, and with the Taylor Report requirements in mind. I don't recall many fans (if any) complaining at the time about building an ambitiously-sized new stadium, in fact quite the opposite. The reality is that the likes of Draper, Johnson and Short were going to move on anyway sooner or later, so Pavis sold while they had relatively high value and reinvested a good portion of it.

Said then to my mate we would have the best stadium in the 4th Division, didn't expect nonleague.

[upthemaggies]

With the benefit of almost thirty years of hindsight it may be true that we built a ground that was too big for us, a bit like George Reynolds did with the Reynolds Arena at Darlington, but I've no doubt Derek Pavis did it with good intentions just after we had been relegated from the old Division One, and with the Taylor Report requirements in mind. I don't recall many fans (if any) complaining at the time about building an ambitiously-sized new stadium, in fact quite the opposite. The reality is that the likes of Draper, Johnson and Short were going to move on anyway sooner or later, so Pavis sold while they had relatively high value and reinvested a good portion of it.

The context that's forgotten now is that it was pretty much the last roll of the dice to attract decent support for the level we'd climbed up to. Promotions and Wembley finals hadn't brought the crowds in and I think it was widely thought at the time (certainly by Pavis) that the embarrassing state of the ground by then was putting people off and if Notts offered better facilities and the impression of being a more modern club, people would turn up.
Sadly they didn't.
It was an awful sight looking across from County Road at a mostly empty Pavis stand on the day it first opened v Wolves.

[uysapie]

The context that's forgotten now is that it was pretty much the last roll of the dice to attract decent support for the level we'd climbed up to. Promotions and Wembley finals hadn't brought the crowds in and I think it was widely thought at the time (certainly by Pavis) that the embarrassing state of the ground by then was putting people off and if Notts offered better facilities and the impression of being a more modern club, people would turn up.
Sadly they didn't.
It was an awful sight looking across from County Road at a mostly empty Pavis stand on the day it first opened v Wolves.

The gates were really poor, no doubt about that.