🗓️Pre-Season Friendlies 2024/25

[Poultonmagpie]

Odd feel indeed.
Also a seemingly odd change of training venue to Grove Farm.
Lets hope it is because they are all on holiday. Have they had a reduction in staffing levels?
Apart from the players and coaching staff it feels like the Marie Celeste.
Hopefully 3 more signings before the end of the week to put our minds at rest.

Agree, extremely quiet in terms of any information, no pitch up date, season tickets sold, any up coming gigs at the Nest. Together with no new signings which at this stage of pre season is indicating that our transfer dealings are done!!

[Chicken Balti Pie]

Isn’t there a restriction on the number of players that can be registered in an EFL squad?

The other thing is that we may have targets that will only become available once the selling/loaning club has settled on their own squad.

So why didn't we do that with Macca/Morias?

[matt_magpie]

I think possibly and hopefully the fact we are mainly putting out 11s including trialists/youth players, playing away and with the heat probably means it’s unrealistic we’re going to put out energetic fluid performances.
We definitely need a striker and one for me that could play as a 10 also.
Midfield feels a bit unknown, read up a bit on Edwards and it appears he could be a very decent player but obviously no guarantee as with the young lad that’s just joined, I would say we do need another.
If LW as still manager I think there would be a lot less concern about results and players left to come in.

[1955pie]

Isn’t there a restriction on the number of players that can be registered in an EFL squad?

The other thing is that we may have targets that will only become available once the selling/loaning club has settled on their own squad.

We are allowed 22 players not including goalkeepers or anyone under the age of 21 at the start of the year. We are on 18 at the moment.
Don’t know about FFP or salary caps though.
Maybe we have spent too much on the pitch and/or The Nest.

[durhampie]

This is JPs doing, We have a pitch fit for the premier League, A fan Zone to equal to any other, 100s more comfy seats for his hospitality mates, and a team thats not fit for the National League. It seems pretty much that we have done things the wrong way round...

[irishpete]

This is JPs doing, We have a pitch fit for the premier League, A fan Zone to equal to any other, 100s more comfy seats for his hospitality mates, and a team thats not fit for the National League. It seems pretty much that we have done things the wrong way round...

You get things on the pitch right first & foremost, that's the bread n butter. The rest will follow if successful.
I don't see one player we have signed that anybody said last season would like him at Notts. Actually, i haven't heard of any of the signings we have made to be frank

[upthemaggies]

You get things on the pitch right first & foremost, that's the bread n butter. The rest will follow if successful.

The lessons are there to be learned from the Pavis era and earlier. It was all going swimmingly for Pavis until he turned his attention away from the actual football. Nobody has done more than him than to try to put things right off the field, he literally re-built the entire ground, and that was the beginning of our downfall from which we still haven't recovered 29 years later. Two levels below where we were when the main stand was opened, supposedly the beginning of a new era. Well I suppose it was, it turned out to be easily the worst three decades in the club's history. No other 30 period comes anywhere close to matching the sustained depths of this one. Total disaster.

99 years ago we built what became known as the County Road stand having finished 9th in the top flight, FAC semi-finals a few years prior. Got relegated in the first season in front of the new stand and it wouldn't see top flight football again for 55 years. Altogether we had five 1st tier seasons in front of what it was built for in the 67 years it stood.

Dunnett's major contribution to the ground was the sports complex. The opening of the executive boxes as the finishing touch coincided with a double relegation and then we needed the Lifeline scheme to save the club from oblivion.

We should wait until we're properly established at a decent level before sorting out the non-football side of things, but owners just want some feature to show off when they sell up. It really wouldn't surprise me if Trew's main selling point to Hardy to bump up his offer was his wife's choice of decor in VIP areas whilst the club itself was on fire, I can imagine Hardy proudly showing off his 'Premier League' standard dressing room and the murals as we sank into non-league, No doubt the current owners will be distracting potential buyers with "The Nest" from whatever irreparable damage Maynard manages to inflict.

#newseasonoptimism

[uysapie]

The lessons are there to be learned from the Pavis era and earlier. It was all going swimmingly for Pavis until he turned his attention away from the actual football. Nobody has done more than him than to try to put things right off the field, he literally re-built the entire ground, and that was the beginning of our downfall from which we still haven't recovered 29 years later. Two levels below where we were when the main stand was opened, supposedly the beginning of a new era. Well I suppose it was, it turned out to be easily the worst three decades in the club's history. No other 30 period comes anywhere close to matching the sustained depths of this one. Total disaster.

99 years ago we built what became known as the County Road stand having finished 9th in the top flight, FAC semi-finals a few years prior. Got relegated in the first season in front of the new stand and it wouldn't see top flight football again for 55 years. Altogether we had five 1st tier seasons in front of what it was built for in the 67 years it stood.

Dunnett's major contribution to the ground was the sports complex. The opening of the executive boxes as the finishing touch coincided with a double relegation and then we needed the Lifeline scheme to save the club from oblivion.

We should wait until we're properly established at a decent level before sorting out the non-football side of things, but owners just want some feature to show off when they sell up. It really wouldn't surprise me if Trew's main selling point to Hardy to bump up his offer was his wife's choice of decor in VIP areas whilst the club itself was on fire, I can imagine Hardy proudly showing off his 'Premier League' standard dressing room and the murals as we sank into non-league, No doubt the current owners will be distracting potential buyers with "The Nest" from whatever irreparable damage Maynard manages to inflict.

#newseasonoptimism

Not forgetting that Pavis sold Craig Short to Derby to raise £3.75m towards redevelopment.

[1955pie]

This is JPs doing, We have a pitch fit for the premier League, A fan Zone to equal to any other, 100s more comfy seats for his hospitality mates, and a team thats not fit for the National League. It seems pretty much that we have done things the wrong way round...

Didn't the Wimbledon fans say something similar when he was there. He is doing the job he was employed to do but if that means the owners don't now have the cash to properly invest in the team then it is putting the cart before the horse. I suppose The Nest was an opportunity that had to be taken whilst it was there. Along with the hospitality upgrades these will (or should ) bring financial gain. The pitch needed work and so long term it is probably the best solution.
It is the here and now that is the concern.
Durham, do you have any sympathy now for SM with the squad he currently has available?

[durhampie]

Didn't the Wimbledon fans say something similar when he was there. He is doing the job he was employed to do but if that means the owners don't now have the cash to properly invest in the team then it is putting the cart before the horse. I suppose The Nest was an opportunity that had to be taken whilst it was there. Along with the hospitality upgrades these will (or should ) bring financial gain. The pitch needed work and so long term it is probably the best solution.
It is the here and now that is the concern.
Durham, do you have any sympathy now for SM with the squad he currently has available?

I dont have any sympathy for him whatsoever.. He is completely out of his depth. It was his choice to take the job knowing damn well he wasnt up to it. And i would imagine that at some point in the not too distant future he will be back where he belongs..