Turn out in numbers on Monday.

[upthemaggies]

Fans are often prone to making idle threats about not renewing season tickets or turning up and making predictions that gates will drop through the floor, but there does appear to be people on here at least who've genuinely had enough..... and - it seems - not just with the results.
It is very often the fans who have to force the issue and sometimes, perhaps, owners appreciate that as the excuse they need to pull the trigger.

[Pietastic]

I fully understand that some, maybe many on this site may disagree with this post. However, I have supported Notts for over sixty five years now, and I profer the argument that Notts need our support on Monday, more than any other time in our recent history.

Not getting behind the team will do nothing to help achieve a result against M K Dons. Do we want them to win and us to lose? No, of course we don’t; so please if you are able turn out on Monday and get right behind the team, and show them and the Brothers how much our club means to us all.

Let us encourage the players, and create an atmosphere that will lift them and produce a result we all wish for. If the game doesn’t go our way, then provided the players have given their all, we can ask no more, but we can still cheer and applaud their efforts.

Right now, Notts County and the players need us, more than we need them. Let’s cheer and lift the rafters off on Monday, and support our team which has provided us with so much joy and happiness in the last few years.

Yeah well said. It's not as black and white as some people make out with Maynard this Maynard that. A bit of luck, a bit of confidence, an alignment of the stars and admittedly a few better decisions (but hindsight always helps) and I think we may have gone in a different direction. I still think that could happen.

I definitely agree that getting behind the team is the only positive way forward. Everyone at the club wants the best for Notts so better to unite rather than fight and diss. That shows more strength and character. And let's remember how even a few months ago this team were a f***ing joy to watch.

[matt_magpie]

Fans are often prone to making idle threats about not renewing season tickets or turning up and making predictions that gates will drop through the floor, but there does appear to be people on here at least who've genuinely had enough..... and - it seems - not just with the results.
It is very often the fans who have to force the issue and sometimes, perhaps, owners appreciate that as the excuse they need to pull the trigger.

I get a bit tired of people saying they’re not renewing, if you’re genuinely not going to then don’t, no one needs to know or is it just wanting attention?
I only briefly considered it when we went down to the NL but did renew, my indecision lasted probably hours on the day of the relegation. I personally believe if you’re just going to down tools at the first sight of trouble then are you a proper supporter? Fully understand to some it’s a financial challenge sometimes but for me your either in this or not, we had one of our greatest days less than a year ago, yes we are in a bit of a mess now but it does need a bit of prospective.

[upthemaggies]

I get a bit tired of people saying they’re not renewing, if you’re genuinely not going to then don’t, no one needs to know or is it just wanting attention?
I only briefly considered it when we went down to the NL but did renew, my indecision lasted probably hours on the day of the relegation. I personally believe if you’re just going to down tools at the first sight of trouble then are you a proper supporter? Fully understand to some it’s a financial challenge sometimes but for me your either in this or not, we had one of our greatest days less than a year ago, yes we are in a bit of a mess now but it does need a bit of prospective.

This club would have died without fans like you, there's no doubt about that. The flip side is that there would be a very low ceiling for what the club could achieve without the so called "glory hunters". It just isn't realistic to expect 15k to turn up no matter what the circumstances.

People go to football matches or take an interest to whatever degree (merely checking the result to paying for a stream) for all sorts of different reasons, be that habit, friendship, family, drinking buddies, just to get out of the house, to offload the stress of a working week onto bad officials and poor performances, to sing/chant, meaning, purpose, nothing better to do etc. I can't imagine too many are turning up to impress upon somebody else that they are a "proper" supporter.

If people are turning their backs on the club (physically or with less online engagement) then I would have thought it important to understand why that is and not to discourage them from remaining connected and interested enough in the club via places like this, in the hope they will return someday.

Crowds go up and down at all clubs in tandem with success or failure, Notts are no different. You get a buzz when the team is winning and the atmosphere is pregnant with anticipation and forward momentum, you feel thoroughly miserable when they're losing with a sense of impeding doom and falling backwards. Everybody has a different set of priorities in life and at different times of their life. It's basic human nature to prioritise what makes them feel as if they're doing something rewarding and worthwhile and to de-prioritise what feels like a hopeless waste of time.

[hissingdwarf]

I think at the moment, we’d all take Moniz, his philosophy and his coat, back at the Lane pronto. Never knew what you were going to get from the team to his interviews. Unpredictable doesn’t come close. But as said above, his you score three, we score 4 routine kept the blood pressure up!

[matt_magpie]

This club would have died without fans like you, there's no doubt about that. The flip side is that there would be a very low ceiling for what the club could achieve without the so called "glory hunters". It just isn't realistic to expect 15k to turn up no matter what the circumstances.

People go to football matches or take an interest to whatever degree (merely checking the result to paying for a stream) for all sorts of different reasons, be that habit, friendship, family, drinking buddies, just to get out of the house, to offload the stress of a working week onto bad officials and poor performances, to sing/chant, meaning, purpose, nothing better to do etc. I can't imagine too many are turning up to impress upon somebody else that they are a "proper" supporter.

If people are turning their backs on the club (physically or with less online engagement) then I would have thought it important to understand why that is and not to discourage them from remaining connected and interested enough in the club via places like this, in the hope they will return someday.

Crowds go up and down at all clubs in tandem with success or failure, Notts are no different. You get a buzz when the team is winning and the atmosphere is pregnant with anticipation and forward momentum, you feel thoroughly miserable when they're losing with a sense of impeding doom and falling backwards. Everybody has a different set of priorities in life and at different times of their life. It's basic human nature to prioritise what makes them feel as if they're doing something rewarding and worthwhile and to de-prioritise what feels like a hopeless waste of time.

100% agree with all that and thanks for the compliment 😂 probably more blind faith or stupidity than anything else. I agree now, a lot of fans are fickle, I don’t want him to get the sack at all but the club are going to have to do something pretty soon. It can wait probably till the end of the season but their probably going to have to get a name or an appointment where 90% of supporters/followers go “yes I like that” then followed by a Mcgoldrick type signing at the back, dare I say it a Flint style signing and then word gets around pre season and people get excited that we mean business.

[uysapie]

100% agree with all that and thanks for the compliment �� probably more blind faith or stupidity than anything else. I agree now, a lot of fans are fickle, I don’t want him to get the sack at all but the club are going to have to do something pretty soon. It can wait probably till the end of the season but their probably going to have to get a name or an appointment where 90% of supporters/followers go “yes I like that” then followed by a Mcgoldrick type signing at the back, dare I say it a Flint style signing and then word gets around pre season and people get excited that we mean business.

Some of us have been supporters through thick and very thin ( 70 years plus) and it is a habit thqt cannot be shaken off. Crap since January but we still turn up for matches ( more in hope than expectation at the moment!).

[ancientpie]

Some of us have been supporters through thick and very thin ( 70 years plus) and it is a habit thqt cannot be shaken off. Crap since January but we still turn up for matches ( more in hope than expectation at the moment!).

I believe that many of us support Notts as a club rather than individuals, the way I see it I was watching us many years before the current players- manager or owners were even born & God willing I will still watching us when they have gone. Frustrating it may be but to stop going because of a blip? not me. COYP

[LaxtonLad]

Why should people turn up to watch a game where someone who is virtually a learner picks and chooses the team seemingly at random. Someone who is NOT learning on the job, who cannot see the obvious and is blind to his own errors. I am of the opinion that any average football fan who has seen more games than SM has will certainly have learned more about team selection than our current manager has. He has destroyed the team spirit that carried over from last season and this has led to misunderstandings, mistakes, and overcaution where the safe pass back has become a liabilty and an opprtunity for the enemy to strike.

He can swap the forward line to small or no improvement at all, but he cannot coach the defence into a mutual understanding where the midfield need not keep coming back to help out - and that hasn't worked either.

To summarise, he is way out of his depth and needs replacing before next season's season tickets go on sale.

[WarsopPie]

100% agree with all that and thanks for the compliment 😂 probably more blind faith or stupidity than anything else. I agree now, a lot of fans are fickle, I don’t want him to get the sack at all but the club are going to have to do something pretty soon. It can wait probably till the end of the season but their probably going to have to get a name or an appointment where 90% of supporters/followers go “yes I like that” then followed by a Mcgoldrick type signing at the back, dare I say it a Flint style signing and then word gets around pre season and people get excited that we mean business.

You don’t want him to get the sack?
Another happy clapper, this blokes taken us from top 4 too 17th single handed and your still happy with what your watching?