Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
Flipping it would mean Bournemouth and Luton are the two worst run clubs, finishing around 30 places higher than where their gates say they should be, which would make no sense whatsoever.

Man Utd have just won the FA Cup and qualified for the Europa League but their fans aren't happy. Most people will understand why that is, because they're the number 1 supported club and expect their league position to closely reflect that.
Nobody was in massive shock either that the club with the lowest support, FGR, have dropped back into the NL.

So yes, Notts should be upper L1 and if the current owners can't achieve that, or at least get close to it, then they can be added to our list of failures, regardless of how 'nice' they are.
My point is really a well run club is much more than league position compared with gate and the fact that we can flip it so easily shows that. We are clearly not the second worst run club, but neither are Luton or Bournemouth. You can't determine whether a club is well run or not on 1 metric, not least one which has some many influences which affect the number. On that metric we will remain a poorly run club no matter what we achieve next season.

Post war, we have only had 2 long runs of finishing above our gate position... when Saint Jimmy then Wilkinson were in charge and again with Warnock then Walker, during Dunnett and Pavis' tenures. The only other decent owner we had was Scardino and the Reedz are amongst the worst (1949 being the only other Post War year where we were more badly run and they have the Non-League years where we were well below our gate position too). I just don't buy that they are so awful.