Fans' Forum [September 2021]

[maddogslater]

A different game in the seventies, yes and far more entertaining on and off the pitch.

[LaxtonLad]

A different game in the seventies, yes and far more entertaining on and off the pitch.

That was before we imported all them foreigners, showing us how to dive and feign agony. Don Revie caught on quick and Leeds became unbeatable. It took years for the FA to catch on what was happening to the English game but they never tried to halt the cheating. It's now common among players foreign or home-made

The Referees Association were astonishingly slow to even acknowledge that their members were being duped into giving penalties to every false trip in the penalty area. Slow wasn't the word, incompetence was, and it goes on still.

We no longer see close-ups of a player, foreign or home grown, lying on the ground, grinning when he sees he's fooled yet another referee into giving a free-kick, now he knows the cameras will pick it up they've stopped the grinning, but the refs are still fooled and the player still applauded by his manager.

Alan Shearer, on MOTD, stated that if a player feels a touch in the penalty area (!) he's entitled, yes, ENTITLED to go down and should be awarded a penalty - where does THAT come into fair play?

[SwalePie]

Happy matchday everyone!

[countygump]

Happy matchday everyone!

Looking out the burnt cinder, as you do, we may well be needing one of these.....

[magpie_mania]

No it’s not just 11 v 11 as I’m guessing any Championship or Premier League coming to the lane should wipe the floor with us, coming back to reality with Notts playing in the NL against other NL teams it’s about having the best players to your budget to implement the managers plan, and looking who we’ve signed we haven’t done it very well, and that issue comes from those in charge. Interestingly looking at the prediction thread it looks like not many people have faith too.

Yet just a couple of games ago the prediction thread was overwhelmingly positive!

[keldsyke]

And one he'd do well to ignore I think.
The more you can put into your game the more you will get out of it and increase your chances of having a lucrative career. The best put in hours of practice on their skills.

Interesting in our industry our drivers are constantly on the simulators to learn and refine details from race circuits that are upcoming in the season. The drivers say you can’t beat seat time whatever it is in testing or races.

How many people would fly on a commercial plane if a pilot had not been trained and hadn’t amassed hours in a simulator?

[Killerkline]

No it’s not just 11 v 11 as I’m guessing any Championship or Premier League coming to the lane should wipe the floor with us, coming back to reality with Notts playing in the NL against other NL teams it’s about having the best players to your budget to implement the managers plan, and looking who we’ve signed we haven’t done it very well, and that issue comes from those in charge. Interestingly looking at the prediction thread it looks like not many people have faith too.

However you dress it up, it’s still 11 v 11. Of course there are levels. I don’t understand the point you are trying to make and the relevance to Notts? Notts are trying to gain an advantage by coaching and developing players. Not throwing money at it.

So, we’ve lost 1 game out of 8, but we’ve not done well with the signings we’ve made? Similar record to Chesterfield, have they not done well with their signings?

‘The issue comes from those in charge’, what issue? Trying to run the club sensibly and not putting it in jeopardy of going out of business?

I understand folk have frustrations and concerns. But, it’s almost like some are waiting for the club to fail so they can say told you so.

I can’t stand this ****ty league, the governance of it, standard of officiating etc. But, I’d much sooner be alive and fighting in the NL with the approach we have than out of business.

[Killerkline]

Interesting in our industry our drivers are constantly on the simulators to learn and refine details from race circuits that are upcoming in the season. The drivers say you can’t beat seat time whatever it is in testing or races.

How many people would fly on a commercial plane if a pilot had not been trained and hadn’t amassed hours in a simulator?

Really, comparing taking a free kick with flying a plane.

Right, I’m staying off here. I prefer to remain positive. Hope everyone has good day and we get 3 points.

[laddo]

Whereas back in the day you could take someone out at the knee with no real attempt at going for the ball and you'd get a quick telling off or if the referee had balls a yellow card at worse.

That hard man potentially career ending challenge (can't really call it a tackle) resulted in the player being labelled as a hard man and celebrated.

Untrained physio runs onto the pitch to treat the injured player with a magic sponge and some cold water.

Great times

[magpie_mania]

Whereas back in the day you could take someone out at the knee with no real attempt at going for the ball and you'd get a quick telling off or if the referee had balls a yellow card at worse.

That hard man potentially career ending challenge (can't really call it a tackle) resulted in the player being labelled as a hard man and celebrated.

Untrained physio runs onto the pitch to treat the injured player with a magic sponge and some cold water.

Great times

I don't know if it's just me, but it seemed that we had less injuries. We certainly didn't seem to get so many niggly strains etc - they probably just carried on! In my first season (71/72) I could almost name the team every week.

Defence was:
Brindley - 41 games
Needham - 32 games
Stubbs - 43 games
Worthington - 46 games

In addition,
Bradd - 46 games
Jones 44 games (12 as sub)
Masson - 45 games
Nixon - 46 games (3 as sub)
Brown - 43 games (keeper)

I doubt we will get 8 players who average over 44 games each now.

Remember that on top of those games, Jimmy Sirrel would play full scale games in training every week (and there were reserve games in the league too).

In 70/71 when we won the league, 8 players played more than 40 games and another 3 played 37 each.

We used 17 players all season and 4 of them played 14 games between them.