It's all over now

[jacobncfc]

3rd spot is all we can hope for now. Failure to beat Wycombe and it will be a massive struggle to make this. If we do manage to beat Wycombe then we're right back in it. However with Coventry, Luton and Accrington being 3 of our last 6 games you'd have to say the play offs is the best we can realistically hope for and we could even drop out of them.

Having a tough run in is probably a good thing for us - our record away from home against bottom half teams is appalling, but it’s pretty good all round against the top ten.

Our chances went with Mason Bennett’s hamstring, though, probably. This team is slow that they can’t do anything when a team plays with the press that Chesterfield did. We’re just lucky that our home record intimidates teams at ML and they naturally drop deep.

[slack_pie]

Our chances went with Mason Bennett’s hamstring, though, probably. This team is slow that they can’t do anything when a team plays with the press that Chesterfield did. We’re just lucky that our home record intimidates teams at ML and they naturally drop deep.

For sure. We've been crying out for pace up front all season, and Bennett looked like the answer. Now we're stuck with two old cloggers up front and our only option is to punt it up to them in the vain hope that we'll get a free kick or their defender will mess up. It's rubbish to watch and devoid of skill, but that's what happens when you mess up two transfer windows in a row.

[ncfcog]

It's got to be automatic or bust, however based on what we have been watching since the New Year, and certainly more recently, this looks highly unlikely.

[sirlesbradd]

No, he's not. All of Alan Hardy's efforts to increase crowd attendances will come to nothing if we fail this year. Nobody will be attracted to a club that promised so much before Christmas and whose manager now says we weren't after promotion this year anyway. Could you blame these prospective fans if they now said sod it for this year, Notts are going nowhere and it ain't attractive to watch anyway. Similar thoughts will go through the minds of anyone thinking of buying a season ticket for next season. Major mistakes were made on Sunday and not just from the players either. New fans will have watched that awful display live on the telly, and I don't think many will be converted to be Notts supporters.

Consolidation is all right for the likes of Luton and Coventry who have large, loyal fan bases that will always be there but the likes of us, Accrington, Exeter, Wycombe and Mansfield have to scrape by with far fewer supporters and fickle supporters will come and go with success, or lack of it, and we know this increase in our support will vanish in proportion to our failure, as in the past. Not investing in actually BUYING quality this year will cost Alan Hardy more next year.

it's a well known fact that we wasnt after promotion this year. it was always about consolidating then pushing on nexr season.

[LaxtonLad]

it's a well known fact that we wasnt after promotion this year. it was always about consolidating then pushing on nexr season.

It's a well known fact now, now that it looks beyond us, that we weren't after promotion. Did we start consolidating after we made a balls up in January or was the balls up part of the consolidation plan?

[BigFatPie]

it's a well known fact that we wasnt after promotion this year. it was always about consolidating then pushing on nexr season.

We weren’t really after promotion seems only to have become a fact now that it doesn’t look like we’re going to get promotion.

I must have been dreaming when someone asked AH a few weeks ago where would we be in a years time and he said “halfway up League 1”.

Clubs f00k up seasons for all sorts of reasons, my word we’ve done it often enough, but let’s not pretend staying in this league was the aim all along, that’s just nonsense.

[upthemaggies]

We weren’t really after promotion seems only to have become a fact now that it doesn’t look like we’re going to get promotion.

I must have been dreaming when someone asked AH a few weeks ago where would we be in a years time and he said “halfway up League 1”.

Clubs f00k up seasons for all sorts of reasons, my word we’ve done it often enough, but let’s not pretend staying in this league was the aim all along, that’s just nonsense.

In the interview with Hardy and Nolan together in the Radio Notts studio at the end of last season, Hardy said that he thought we could get promoted this season (I think he said via the play offs) but Nolan said that would be too much too soon, he definitely said there would be a danger we'd come straight back down again because solid foundations needed to be in place beforehand, and that would take more than one season.

[LaxtonLad]

In the interview with Hardy and Nolan together in the Radio Notts studio at the end of last season, Hardy said that he thought we could get promoted this season (I think he said via the play offs) but Nolan said that would be too much too soon, he definitely said there would be a danger we'd come straight back down again because solid foundations needed to be in place beforehand, and that would take more than one season.

There's always a danger of dropping back down after one season and there's always a danger of dropping down after two, or three, or four. I suppose what is meant by consolidation is signing newer and better players during the close season but this can be done in the transfer windows during the playing year. We could have started in January but was it part of the consolidation plan not to?

[durhampie]

In the interview with Hardy and Nolan together in the Radio Notts studio at the end of last season, Hardy said that he thought we could get promoted this season (I think he said via the play offs) but Nolan said that would be too much too soon, he definitely said there would be a danger we'd come straight back down again because solid foundations needed to be in place beforehand, and that would take more than one season.

Well, we certainly have a solid foundation in place, We have have assembled a squad that cant pass, cant defend and have forwards old enough to draw a pension.But more importantly we have built a foundation on nothing but bullsh*t

[Big Bob]

Automatic promotion is an absolute pipe dream. The management team completely blew it in the January transfer window.

Looking at our fixtures I'm also going to suggest that we won't make the playoffs but if we do scrape in no doubt it will be Mansfield so effectively we will be out at the first hurdle.

Unfortunately the Chairman has already made next season a Beast of Burden by saying next season was the season whereby we planned to challenge. That's the Biggest Mistake he could have made as in football You Can't Always Get What You Want. Just look at the Accies with 50% of our playing budget.

For the Last Time, I don't believe we will be getting our Rocks Off this season and personally want to Paint it Black.

Best season we've had in ages and still can't please you. What do you f'in want?
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