Match Thread vs. Solihull Moors 13.04.21 [NL]

[St Kitts Magpie]

How come we never get the new manger "bounce" ??? I remember watching Notts beat Man Utd 3-2 I believe it was, with MacParland scoring the winner. Now we are getting turned over by the likes of this lot, who I had never heard of a short while ago.

Feel your pain foreign...was there too...Solihull 2 Notts 1 , not even smash and grab, as others have said it was always coming 2nd half....let let sink in

[KCNotts]

Why is it so hard to be a Notts fan?

Can't wait to see the back of this season to be honest.

[Stan Marshall]

A typical Notts performance in managing to lose that. Two soft goals conceded and two absolute sitters missed. We went into the game without any creativity with Enzio and Rodrigues both on the bench. Substitutions came too late in my opinion. Wasn’t impressed with Griffiths. Just doesn’t know when to play safe!
Very disappointing result tonight. We should be winning games like this!

[KCNotts]

Begs the question. Was Ardley overachieving?

No. Ardley was ****e.

[tied_up_in_notts]

Solihull Moors . . . SOLIHULL EFFIN MOORS.

Been saying for the last three or four years now that we have finally reached rock bottom, but no, still it goes on getting worse:
the No.1 Rule of being a Notts County fan nowadays is: Things can ALWAYS get worse!

[MAD_MAGPIE]

Solihull Moors . . . SOLIHULL EFFIN MOORS.

Been saying for the last three or four years now that we have finally reached rock bottom, but no, still it goes on getting worse:
the No.1 Rule of being a Notts County fan nowadays is: Things can ALWAYS get worse!

We have to ask ourselves are this team better or equal to last seasons team that finished 3rd? My answer is no and that is grim, sobering and depressing to think that we could end up regressing on the field and finishing at our lowest ever level in the pyramid.

If we do manage to finish in the play-offs then I'm not confident at this point in time that we could go on and win them. Cheaterfield and Torquay are the two in form sides in the play-offs at the moment.

This season is far from over, but we need to stop conceding two goals a game, take our chances and we might start to be able to put an unbeaten run together to give us some hope in the last 10/11 games.

[Russ_OTF]

No. Ardley was ****e.

Well he wasn't. The new guy seems to have made us worse.

[laddo]

Begs the question. Was Ardley overachieving?

[jacobncfc]

To be honest, that's my biggest concern and it has been for a very long time. I don't think we have a poor squad, but we often contrive to play like we have a poor squad. It seems that when the going gets tough, the opposition get going. We seem far more concerned about countering their style of play than we do on forcing them to counter ours. We allow ourselves to be bullied, and if we do make the playoffs does anyone think we will have the guts and desire to win a key game whoever we face? We played with fear and trepidation under Ardley, and it seems nothing has changed in the short term at least. Let's just hope the long term will be better.

Agree with all of that. We occasionally look like quite a neat football team to be honest, when a football game breaks out (as it did for half an hour today!). But every team in this division knows that all you have to do against us is turn the midfield into a physical battle which we inevitably lose, and put enough long balls and crosses into our box.

There’s nothing to stop you playing nice, attacking football in this league (Barrow last season a great example), but you have to have the will, the desire and the energy to impose it on an opposition that wants the game to turn into something else. We lose that battle every single time, and have done all season.

[MAD_MAGPIE]

Agree with all of that. We occasionally look like quite a neat football team to be honest, when a football game breaks out (as it did for half an hour today!). But every team in this division knows that all you have to do against us is turn the midfield into a physical battle which we inevitably lose, and put enough long balls and crosses into our box.

There’s nothing to stop you playing nice, attacking football in this league (Barrow last season a great example), but you have to have the will, the desire and the energy to impose it on an opposition that wants the game to turn into something else. We lose that battle every single time, and have done all season.

I completely agree. You can play your way out of this league but you need that energy, grit, tenacity and aggression to go with it and keep it going throughout the game and not play to your opposition's game or let them bully you into playing their way.

From the first game against Dover away in too many games we have lacked the energy, aggression, desire and ruthlessness to kill teams off and that's enabled the opposition to grow in confidence as the game has gone on. Today was a text book example of the problem with this season.

It will likely be the same in games until the end now as the dye is well and truly cast and some players in their individual battles are getting brushed or pushed off the ball with ease like taking candy from a baby. That's going to be the biggest challenge for the new coaches to try and get what they can out of the players they've got.