New Manager?

[jackal2]

Automatic has gone

If you're saying that based on recent performances and results, then maybe, but we're only two points off third place with eight games left and teams around us are slipping up time and time again like we are. Win six of the remaining games and I'd say it's still very much within reach. The question is, have the team got the desire and the gonads to go out and make it happen?

[jacobncfc]

I am and have been for the entire time he's been here desperate for SM to succeed, he seems a lovely bloke, but I'm at the point where I'm more ****ed off with this team than I was with the team that got us relegated to the Conference, or any number of the boring mid-table League Two sides.

I could accept they were just a bad set of players, but this is a good squad. It has everything you could want really - the defence is pretty good, the strikers score goals, the midfielders are creative etc etc.

Every time we play with any urgency we look quite good. Today we had them on the ropes in the last ten minutes, unfortunately the eighty minutes beforehand we spent slowly passing it around between our goalkeeper and back three. I'm not buying the criticism of the January business, for me there is absolutely everything in place other than a manager who can get the team playing with the pace and intensity you need for a League Two promotion push.

[LaxtonLad]

I am and have been for the entire time he's been here desperate for SM to succeed, he seems a lovely bloke, but I'm at the point where I'm more ****ed off with this team than I was with the team that got us relegated to the Conference, or any number of the boring mid-table League Two sides.

I could accept they were just a bad set of players, but this is a good squad. It has everything you could want really - the defence is pretty good, the strikers score goals, the midfielders are creative etc etc.

Every time we play with any urgency we look quite good. Today we had them on the ropes in the last ten minutes, unfortunately the eighty minutes beforehand we spent slowly passing it around between our goalkeeper and back three. I'm not buying the criticism of the January business, for me there is absolutely everything in place other than a manager who can get the team playing with the pace and intensity you need for a League Two promotion push.

We have players in the team who are average for the league they are in, not every player but enough, rather like any other club really. The difference between us and the other clubs has to be the manager. It's his job to win matches with the tools at his disposal and if he can't do it then he's below average and the managers of clubs above us are therefore above ours. Look at it this way - average manager, average players, average league position. But in my opinion we have a below average, novice manager trying to learn with every game out-thought and lost.

[queenslandpie]

We have players in the team who are average for the league they are in, not every player but enough, rather like any other club really. The difference between us and the other clubs has to be the manager. It's his job to win matches with the tools at his disposal and if he can't do it then he's below average and the managers of clubs above us are therefore above ours. Look at it this way - average manager, average players, average league position. But in my opinion we have a below average, novice manager trying to learn with every game out-thought and lost.

Who would you replace the current manager with out of interest even at end of season? I do think we might given as someone posted elsewhere we have done nothing about coaches. You say you should never go back, but I would be tempted to give Williams a full season if he does not go to MK Dons.

[MagpieMeltdown]

For those who want SM out, who do they want in? Names please, not ?someone who will shout on the touchline.?

I don?t think anyone on here is employed to make those kind of decisions, or have the database to come up with names.

I?d like to leave it to the Bros, and hopefully the next one will be more of a Williams than a Burchnall or Maynard.

[LeftPeg_Pie]

Me too,
It'd be a dream to go up. But, at worst, I'd like a competitive two-legged play-off battle, ending in triumph hopefully. The last time we had that was against Coventry in 2018

We're entering the depths of a promotion run-in so threads like this are nuts. If we want to be ridiculous, why not wait til the eve of a Wembley play-off final after we'd stormed through the semis and sack him then?

I want results to speak for themselves. Let's see where the next 8 games take us

Agree. I think nailing opinions/expectations at the beginning of the season is an odd an pointless thing to do in football as football is such a moving feast.

Given last season, if we would have been offered 6th with 8 to go, everyone on here would have snapped your hand off. After Salford away, the same. After 25 points from 30 post-Salford, there is frustration around which, to an extent, I get.

Maynard is a good coach. There are some parts he can be critiqued on, he certainly is not the finished article, but he is not at the stage of his career to be so. People do not like them, but if you look at it statistically, on probably 95% of the metrics we are one of, if not the best teams in the league; defensively, offensively, in and out of possession. All that does not happen by chance.

With us being sixth, we are slightly underperforming when compared with those metrics. So, you dig into the disconnect.

Our biggest issue is converting our chances. AJ has 20 but could conceivably have 30 or beyond. Didzy has 14 and could have at least 20. You take Jodi and his output out of the equation (14 league appearances all season) and the sale of Crowley (a goal contribution ever other game in his time at Notts), with even one of those in consistently, we would be in the Top 3. With both, I think we would be top.

As it stands, the pivotal moment of the season was selling DC and not bringing someone in with more experience a the top end of the pitch as Whitaker, Traore and to a slightly lesser extent Jarvis can be put into the gamble category with regards hitting the ground running.

[jackal2]

I am and have been for the entire time he's been here desperate for SM to succeed, he seems a lovely bloke, but I'm at the point where I'm more ****ed off with this team than I was with the team that got us relegated to the Conference, or any number of the boring mid-table League Two sides.

I could accept they were just a bad set of players, but this is a good squad. It has everything you could want really - the defence is pretty good, the strikers score goals, the midfielders are creative etc etc.

Every time we play with any urgency we look quite good. Today we had them on the ropes in the last ten minutes, unfortunately the eighty minutes beforehand we spent slowly passing it around between our goalkeeper and back three. I'm not buying the criticism of the January business, for me there is absolutely everything in place other than a manager who can get the team playing with the pace and intensity you need for a League Two promotion push.

Maynardball does remind me of Ardleyball too often, I have to say. I think if Luke Williams was in charge the pace of passing would be faster and the general approach would be more adventurous. Too much of the time, Maynard's team looks too safe, and frankly dull and negative.

I refer back to my comment in post #22 above, Promotion is there for any team in the top six that takes the initiative and grabs it, but we've got to play far more high tempo, attacking football than we have in recent weeks to make the most of the ability in the team. The manager either needs to deliver the required kick up the arse to the players, or perhaps receive one himself from somewhere.

[jacobncfc]

Maynardball does remind me of Ardleyball too often, I have to say. I think if Luke Williams was in charge the pace of passing would be faster and the general approach would be more adventurous. Too much of the time, Maynard's team looks too safe, and frankly dull and negative.

I refer back to my comment in post #22 above, Promotion is there for any team in the top six that takes the initiative and grabs it, but we've got to play far more high tempo, attacking football than we have in recent weeks to make the most of the ability in the team. The manager either needs to deliver the required kick up the arse to the players, or perhaps receive one himself from somewhere.

If I had to make a prediction, I think the Williams thing will happen again. Might not be this year or next year, but the platform is there for a manager who can get things moving a bit quicker and a bit sharper to come in and deliver a 100+ point season with this set of players. But I really doubt it will be SM.

[Woodypie]

They will range from , Warnock, Ardley and Williams - one dinosaur , one **** and one left us for pastures new !!
Stick with Maynard , get our injured players back, fit and see how we perform then. I'm hoping we will get a fully (match) fit first eleven ready to take take us through the play offs. Automatic has gone, we need to hang on to a play off spot so our proper eleven will see us through to promotion !

What multiverse is it that absolutely anybody would want Ardley back? Why have supporters got to suggest who are next manager should be, don't some Danish guys linked to Notts have a business that should sort that out? Yes, automatic promotion is gone and I don't have any faith that Maynard has the nous or balls to navigate the playoffs. But, we are Notts....

[PedroTheFisherman66]

What multiverse is it that absolutely anybody would want Ardley back? Why have supporters got to suggest who are next manager should be, don't some Danish guys linked to Notts have a business that should sort that out? Yes, automatic promotion is gone and I don't have any faith that Maynard has the nous or balls to navigate the playoffs. But, we are Notts....

Believe me , the Ardley lovers are still out there, even though he has bombed at every club he has been to since he left us. I see he's doing a decent job of taking Woking down this time around. !!