Quote Originally Posted by Davy500 View Post
Feel abit for SM - came at a difficult time. He was always going to struggle to fill the shoes of the popular and successful LW - and to do so he would have to have hit the ground running and be very good - especially after the good start had artificially upgraded many supporters views that we were promotion contenders. SM also came when form was dropping and the suspect defense was getting worse . Even so most people myself included think LW would have done much better than SM so far

Notts are a team with ambition that expect to be pushing for promotion from L2 , whether the team are capable or not - and with a manager like SM with limited experience, and the circumstances mentioned above , it was always going to be a struggle for him

It was a strange appointment with SM,s only experience keeping a small team in the bottom half or midway in the NL, which appears right now to be the wrong one

For me i doubt SM can turn this around,he doesnt have the experience or natural talent - we will probably drop lower this season, and escape relegation because of our good start. Next season the best we can hope for with SM is mid table most likely lower . I hope i am wrong - but there is nothing to suggest otherwise right now

But hey perhaps that what the brothers want - solidifying low to mid table- solidfying over several seasons- eventually pushing more to the play offs and automatic ??
Well when LW left, the board said the aim was to push for automatic so something has gone incredibly wrong. My hope is that they see next years season ticket sales are going to be nowhere near what they was this season and head that off by upping the budget and getting in very good signings early doors. They will also need to ship a fair few out so that will also cost a bunch because giving people 2 year contracts was a really good idea... The move for SM will have cost a fair whack more than the initial compensation we paid wealdstone for his "services"