O/T:- Swansea

[Old_pie]

It's the manner in which he left. They've admitted themselves that he was tapped up (watch his welcome interview, he gets a call from his agent saying their chairman is coming to his house, not from Notts' board). For me, it's not that I want LW to fail, but Swansea, it's just unfortunate that it would probably put an end to LW managerial ambitions, certainly in the upper echelons

How come you know the full story? How do you know that Swansea didn't approach Notts and Notts gave permission for those conversations to take place.

I don't believe for one minute that Swansea, Notts or Williams did the dirty that Bolton and Fat Sam contrived, namely "walk out on your job and we'll give you a job in a few days time. Leave a note under the door just to let them know you've left".

Disgusting behaviour, but then Fat Sam wasn't known for being on the level all the time was he? Sam Allardyce was sacked as England manager on Tuesday having behaved “inappropriately” when seeking a lucrative sideline role while talking to undercover reporters, bringing a crushing end to his dream job after one match and 67 days in charge.

Idiot (Fat Sam I mean).

[magpie_mania]

How come you know the full story? How do you know that Swansea didn't approach Notts and Notts gave permission for those conversations to take place.

I don't believe for one minute that Swansea, Notts or Williams did the dirty that Bolton and Fat Sam contrived, namely "walk out on your job and we'll give you a job in a few days time. Leave a note under the door just to let them know you've left".

Disgusting behaviour, but then Fat Sam wasn't known for being on the level all the time was he? Sam Allardyce was sacked as England manager on Tuesday having behaved “inappropriately” when seeking a lucrative sideline role while talking to undercover reporters, bringing a crushing end to his dream job after one match and 67 days in charge.

Idiot (Fat Sam I mean).

What was noticeable is that when Burchnall left the Notts statement said that they wanted to put on record their appreciation of the way FGR conducted themselves, but nothing like that when Luke Williams left. May have had something to do with Jason Turner not being there.

[Old_pie]

What was noticeable is that when Burchnall left the Notts statement said that they wanted to put on record their appreciation of the way FGR conducted themselves, but nothing like that when Luke Williams left. May have had something to do with Jason Turner not being there.

Maybe they were happy to have the opportunity to have IB go

Though without anything concrete to go on I wonder if all is as well as it was without Jason there. Just seems a colder, perhaps more "businesslike" atmosphere rather than the congeniallity that seemed to surround the man. Who knows?

[ajojones]

Can't understand the gloating? He got us out of the NL playing attractive football more than the two previous managers could do, left us in a healthy situation in an higher league with great crowds and is a thoroughly nice guy?
Weird. I wish him all the best.

me too, missing him at the helm already

[i961pie]

I can understand Notts fans being not bothered what he does at Swansea now he is no longer our manager, but I find it rather sad laughing at him because he's got off to a poor start there.

[upthemaggies]

I really hope it works out for LW there but losing your first 3 league games is not a good sign. As bad as Notts have been this century, Paul Ince is the only Notts boss in that time to have lost his first three league fixtures and he was sacked later that same season. Fullarton, incredibly, won 2 of his first 3. Cotterill, Curle and Kevan (2nd spell) won all 3.

[MAD_MAGPIE]

I find it sad and disappointing that some fans feel the need to gloat about LW start at Swansea. Last season was the best season ever, we played sublime football, got a massive amount of wins, scored loads of goals, beat our biggest ever points tally had a great battle with Wrexham. All topped off with a trip to Wembley. It’s up there for me as one of the best in 30 years as a Notts fan. Only Munto 2010 and Allardyce 1998 come close. It matters little to me that it was the national league as well.

Swansea means nothing to me, I’m not bothered what happens with them. I do wish LW all the best and hope that he is successful whatever club he’s at after what he did here.

[jackal2]

I can understand Notts fans being not bothered what he does at Swansea now he is no longer our manager, but I find it rather sad laughing at him because he's got off to a poor start there.

It is sad. Pathetic in fact. But it's a refection only on the people laughing, not on LW. They demean themselves.

As much as Luke Williams achieved at Notts County, even he couldn't do anything about the quality of one or two of our "supporters".

[upthemaggies]

It is sad. Pathetic in fact. But it's a refection only on the people laughing, not on LW. They demean themselves.

As much as Luke Williams achieved at Notts County, even he couldn't do anything about the quality of one or two of our "supporters".

It'll be a legacy "County reject" tradition from the days when loyalty still existed in the game. I couldn't understand it when Tommy Johnson got booed on his return with Derby after all he'd done for us, but it's just one of those things we have to accept as "part and parcel". There's always going to be a sizeable proportion of fans who will have been let down by somebody at some point in their lives and things like this can act as a trigger.
Reminds of me rock drummer Ginger Baker who apparently couldn't handle goodbyes after he waved farewell to his father at the train station as a young child during the war and never saw him again.

[nw6pie]

It'll be a legacy "County reject" tradition from the days when loyalty still existed in the game. I couldn't understand it when Tommy Johnson got booed on his return with Derby after all he'd done for us, but it's just one of those things we have to accept as "part and parcel". There's always going to be a sizeable proportion of fans who will have been let down by somebody at some point in their lives and things like this can act as a trigger.
Reminds of me rock drummer Ginger Baker who apparently couldn't handle goodbyes after he waved farewell to his father at the train station as a young child during the war and never saw him again.

I can never understand some of our fans’ attitudes to former players - no reason not to applaud Wootton, say, before the game when he comes with Stockport in April, but I’m sure some numpties will. Unless they left in bad circumstances or said something derogatory about us since, I’d always applaud them - and then hope they have a stinker.