The story so far!

[upthemaggies]

Well a lot of folk don't want Maynard After a rough start he is bedding in. Most of the people bagging him have done the same job for 100 years and don't realise that it can take a little time to be prepared.

The concern will be that we will live to regret employing SM with no guarantee the current owners will find themselves in such a great position again that deep into a season.
Put it this way.... Who thought 12th placed Crawley Town were a better team than Notts at the time LW left? They are now playing in tier 3. With Crawley in mind, Notts definitely could have gone up last season had they replaced LW with somebody half decent.

It's all well and good if SM ultimately delivers but I still think he'll turn out to be another Burchnall type of manager, doing enough to stay in the job but not actually getting Notts over the line. At this level, that is going to be no less frustrating than it was being stuck in tier 5 before LW came along.

[Hoppie]

We’ve been the better team in all 3 games, are unbeaten and have 5 points on the board. We’re averaging 1 goal against and 2 scored. It’s a 7.5/10 for me for the recruitment team and SM. No games now until after the window shuts so really intrigued how many more bodies we’ll bring in.

GK - depends on Stone. Imagine what we have is what we’ll go with.

DEF - Macari, Platt, Bedeau with McDonald, Cundy and Ness as cover looks sorted.

Wingers - there’s space for a right footer but not dead against 2 from 3 of Jones, Tsaroulla, Gordon with Chicks and Austin as back up.

MID - the new lads have eased my concerns so far so don’t expect anymore.

ATT - we have a bunch of players able to play the no10 roles but beyond Jatta I’m not sure we’re too strong up top and expect this to be the one position we are 100% looking to add depth.

I’d take no more new bodies though if it meant Jones and Crowley could be tied down to longer contracts.

The pitch looks great and massive on TV. Good times.

Excellent post

[Med Pie]

I suppose it could be argued with some justification that our first goal was offside, our second was handball, our third was a miscued cross, and our fourth was a fortunate deflection. We certainly had the rub of the green last night for once, but I think you make your own luck to a degree. If you put quality balls into the box and have shots as often as we did, you greatly increase the chance of a 'lucky' break. It would have taken spectacular bad luck for us to come out of the game with no goals, and we were fully deserving of the points.

The greatest frustration last season was the amount of balls played in to the box or should I say, not played in. The quality of some of Jones's crosses last night were exceptional, Macca would have had a field day and it will certainly suit Jatta.

Jatta seems clumsy, he doesn't have the best touch but his instincts are good and he works hard, he'll get goals in this set up.

[Med Pie]

Well a lot of folk don't want Maynard After a rough start he is bedding in. Most of the people bagging him have done the same job for 100 years and don't realise that it can take a little time to be prepared.

It's fair to say that he has yet to win me over but I'm willing to give him a chance, so far so good.

Jones has been so good so far, I heard a comment that he was using both wings and I think Maynard should give him the freedom to do just that, he's so good at this level he'll cause havoc.

[PedroTheFisherman66]

The concern will be that we will live to regret employing SM with no guarantee the current owners will find themselves in such a great position again that deep into a season.
Put it this way.... Who thought 12th placed Crawley Town were a better team than Notts at the time LW left? They are now playing in tier 3. With Crawley in mind, Notts definitely could have gone up last season had they replaced LW with somebody half decent.

It's all well and good if SM ultimately delivers but I still think he'll turn out to be another Burchnall type of manager, doing enough to stay in the job but not actually getting Notts over the line. At this level, that is going to be no less frustrating than it was being stuck in tier 5 before LW came along.

Definitely could have.? A bit of a contradiction.

[matt_magpie]

The concern will be that we will live to regret employing SM with no guarantee the current owners will find themselves in such a great position again that deep into a season.
Put it this way.... Who thought 12th placed Crawley Town were a better team than Notts at the time LW left? They are now playing in tier 3. With Crawley in mind, Notts definitely could have gone up last season had they replaced LW with somebody half decent.

It's all well and good if SM ultimately delivers but I still think he'll turn out to be another Burchnall type of manager, doing enough to stay in the job but not actually getting Notts over the line. At this level, that is going to be no less frustrating than it was being stuck in tier 5 before LW came along.

The thing is if we’d have bought in a manager with reasonable EFL experience and success we’d have probably put the decline down to the team on a downward spiral already, poor defensive qualities and lack of mental strength getting over LWs departure. SMs lack of experience made him the fall guy, maybe he was the problem and none of the above but we don’t 100% know, he’s got his chance now and we’re going to find out what he’s made of.

[Med Pie]

The concern will be that we will live to regret employing SM with no guarantee the current owners will find themselves in such a great position again that deep into a season.
Put it this way.... Who thought 12th placed Crawley Town were a better team than Notts at the time LW left? They are now playing in tier 3. With Crawley in mind, Notts definitely could have gone up last season had they replaced LW with somebody half decent.

It's all well and good if SM ultimately delivers but I still think he'll turn out to be another Burchnall type of manager, doing enough to stay in the job but not actually getting Notts over the line. At this level, that is going to be no less frustrating than it was being stuck in tier 5 before LW came along.

Even a better manager could not mitigate against the constant, individual errors that cost us games, the defensive issues should have been addressed by changes in personnel which the manager has no control over. It has to be said though that several games under SM were amongst the worst I've ever seen Notts play.

[bule1]

We need to work out how to break down teams who just sit back behind the ball and the counter attack like Fleetwood. We look better at defending than before but struggled to get through them.

[Med Pie]

Much better teams than Notts, struggle when teams set up like this.

[nw6pie]

We need to work out how to break down teams who just sit back behind the ball and the counter attack like Fleetwood. We look better at defending than before but struggled to get through them.

It will be interesting to see how many teams try to sit in versus go toe to toe with us at the Lane. Of course, being 2-0 up after 15 minutes will always force the opposition to open up more, which shows the importance of us trying to make a fast start.