Maynard out?

[MAD_MAGPIE]

In

We have secured a playoff place and worst case scenario could end up only being two wins short of an automatic promotion place. It could ultimately only be one.

This is despite the following;
1.) JJ league two player of the year has been injured for the most part.
2.) DC in the league two team of the year was injured for a time and wanted out last summer and was sold in January.
3.) A crop of young players in Johnson, Whittaker and Jarvis came in during January and had not played at this level before and had to be blooded into the team without a pre-season. This also applied to Traore who has come from abroad.
4.) Injuries to other players such as Robertson, Hinchy, Macari, McDonald, Edward’s, Bass which has caused disruption in team selection.
5.) The loss of Macca and Nemane in an attacking sense in the summer.
6.) The loss of two of the senior coaches in the Saunders Brothers earlier this year.

I believe that had some of the above six things not have happened we would have turned a few of those draws into wins and losses into draws or wins.

Of course there is room for improvement and things have not been perfect this is league two and I don’t dispute we could have got better results and performances at home. Overall though under the disruptive circumstances and amount of change this season we’ve made progress.

[Jampie]

I think you live in Australia. If you lived over here and went to most of the home games your opinion might be different.

Weve generally been pretty awful at home, and that I imagine is what most people are basing their opinion on.

To give him his due, away games have been much better, but nothing different from what youd expect from a team chasing promotion.

Yup I do, and it might. I don't know.

Why are our home performances lacking? You do better at home than away, usually because the crowd is with you. Is the home crowd not with the team?

I look at this poll and think... maybe not?

[Notts78]

Yup I do, and it might. I don't know.

Why are our home performances lacking? You do better at home than away, usually because the crowd is with you. Is the home crowd not with the team?

I look at this poll and think... maybe not?

I don?t think as a home support that we are overly vocal? some think that having 10k rock up should be enough for the players. There are games when the home support is flat - and the performance follows. The expectation of some is that the players should change that? I disagree.
We will all be here for as long as we breathe? we have that emotional attachment to the club that 99% of players won?t have, regardless Of what players say. We are the ones that will continue to support through thick and thin? apart from the financial input, I feel we have a responsibility to help push the players, the club and management with our unwavering support? somewhere over the last 20 years that?s been lost? it?s not just at Notts, we see it everywhere.
I?ve just watched Grant McCanns interview (from yesterday) and he banged on about telling the players to not listen to the noise? believe in what I?m asking you to do. Don?t listen to those who say you?re not good enough etc?.

Not that it?s a popular opinion but I do feel as a support we have a responsibility for making ML a great place for our team to play, and I don?t think that?s happened this season.

[magicianpie]

Well I will nail my colours to the mast.

I?m not sure he is the right man.


However losing DC and injuries to our best players this season. We?ve still got to the play offs and theoretically we can still get autos. We?ve improved on last years position. We can only play the teams in this league this year.

He has probably done enough to be here for another year.

In.

[Notts78]

In for me..

I think it?s telling that players like JJ signed a contract extension and that Didzy would literally run through brick walls for us. This has to be in part due to SM.
Both have played at higher levels with some very experienced managers.

[ancientpie]

Do you really think Maynard was the most experienced manager available???
A part time manager with very limited experience and no track record of success managing a mid table level 5 team.

He's turned out to be exactly what it said on his CV.

Left field appointments rarely work. Notts County players and importantly supporters, deserve better than hoping a man who has achieved nothing is the answer

I don't know because I haven't seen a list of applicants, have you??? I would love to know how many of the posters voting to sack Maynard predicted at least a PO place before the season started, very few I suspect so despite over achieving ( at least in their eyes ) they are still adamant he should go, strange imo. COYP

[The_Pie_Man]

He should absolutely go.

His lack of tactical nous has cost us automatic promotion - we are in the playoffs despite him, not because of him.

Nice chap, but we should be looking for better.

[IPieWithMyLittleEye]

In.

We have no idea what his ceiling as a head coach is, yet in his first full campaign he has coached a Notts to a minimum of a playoff place despite having major issues to contend with. Losing Macca, DC, major injuries to key players, coaches leaving and not replaced etc. etc.

I think he has shown improvement and signs of adaptation in his role throughout the campaign - we're not as stubborn to play out from the back as we were pre Christmas and will go direct when necessary, and last few games he has been more proactive/aggressive with substitutions when compared to the beginning of the season, which I felt at the time was really holding him back.

Yes he's learning on the job, but he's showing his ability to grow/improve in the role and given our league position he's hardly out of his depth. It's not where you start it's where you finish and who knows how good SM may become, may I remind people Jose Mourinho started his career as a translator.

SM also strikes me as a thoroughly good bloke, which for me at least counts for something.

[OchPie]

My view is that football clubs should only fire managers for being far below the needed mark and only if they are sure they have lined up better. I can't see either of those being true.

SM has frustrated me this season but he and the club have progressed and I have faith both can continue to do so. I also think bringing in a new manager under these circumstances will be far more likely to harm than help.

Maynard in.

[matt_magpie]

I?m back on the fence, been either side of it a couple of times this season.
That said if the owners think there?s a real gem out there that will fit Notts and the structure then happy for them to go for it.
We can talk about his tactics but there?s an argument he?s hardly on the whole put a foot wrong away, its the disappointing home performances that are hard to take.