Optimists only...

[SwalePie]

Yeah, and will we be OK keeping Maynard, he'll turn it round? Is that the 'optimistic' view or the head in the sand view? A realist would say he has to go, and that would also be the optimistic view, because you know we can only improve with a better manager.

I'm not buying into seeing Notts as a basket case who should be grateful just to survive in League 2 as optimistic. It's as miserable as sin.

Not for me, as an eternal optimist I hope a new head coach can bring us success.

[Elite_Pie]

My philosophy hasn't changed.
I'm not going to overreact, even if the gloomsters are doing a jig.

That's the bit you completely fail to understand. I can only speak for myself, but I'm certainly not doing a jig. I would bet good money that I'm more disappointed than you are because I'm guessing that I've been a passionate supporter of this club for longer than you have. But I have a rational mind and get increasingly annoyed by the "let's all get behind the manager and team" type of post that you specialise in. I have been behind the manager and team at every single game I've been to in the last 54 years, today included. But I've realised it doesn't impact the result at all if we all pretend everything is great and only post positive things.

To summarise, stick your sanctimonious posts up your rear orifice.

[ThaiPie]

Have a good summer break Elite Pie. I'm optimistic the club will make some good signings.

[PedroTheFisherman66]

is Maynard just an unlucky manager ?
I've backed him 99% of the time but i think it might be time for a clean slate. Yes he has been unlucky with injuries but the crunch games towards the end of the season seemed to just fizzle out with no passion being displayed ( except from Jatta's tackle & Mcgoldrick running himself into the ground) . if he was kept on by the owners than i can live with that, i can accept they might want him to go again with an injury free squad. I would also understand if they wish to go with a new manager and a fresh start!? Its worth remembering though that we finished top six , not bottom six. There has to be some continued hope for next season and maybe a fresh face in charge might enhance that feeling ? That fresh face could be a new manager or a new assistant to the existing manager. In the Brothers we trust , they've done more than OK since they took over. Maybe they dithered about getting rid of Ardley but they got there in the end.

[Med Pie]

is Maynard just an unlucky manager ?
I've backed him 99% of the time but i think it might be time for a clean slate. Yes he has been unlucky with injuries but the crunch games towards the end of the season seemed to just fizzle out with no passion being displayed ( except from Jatta's tackle & Mcgoldrick running himself into the ground) . if he was kept on by the owners than i can live with that, i can accept they might want him to go again with an injury free squad. I would also understand if they wish to go with a new manager and a fresh start!? Its worth remembering though that we finished top six , not bottom six. There has to be some continued hope for next season and maybe a fresh face in charge might enhance that feeling ? That fresh face could be a new manager or a new assistant to the existing manager. In the Brothers we trust , they've done more than OK since they took over. Maybe they dithered about getting rid of Ardley but they got there in the end.

Just like last season, common denominator? The manager.

[MarcusCole]

My philosophy hasn't changed.
I'm not going to overreact, even if the gloomsters are doing a jig.
COYP's

I wouldn't say I was doing a jig, far from it. I'm depressed about it all, not just because we lost but the way in which the club would not address obvious concerns that so many could see. The club need to get rid of Maynard and do it this week, he s a loser. By that I mean he doesn't play to win but rather plays to avoid losing, he is a cut price Ardley.

When you play to avoid losing everything is about playing it safe, there is no risk taking in the play at all and that gets to the players. They take the extra touch that slows play down, they are indecisive so given a choice between a 75% change when passing forward they will pass back because it retains the ball. I have lost count of the number of times Jatta was in the box with a chance of scoring and then passed it because he thought there was a better option available and so many of those passed went to no one. I don't blame Jatta for that though, the number of times points to him being told to play it safe.

Now for a controversial point that I'm sure most will disagree with. The National league playoff campaign two years ago taught us the wrong lesson, we learnt that you just need to keep doing the same thing all the time and eventually it will work out. The truth of the matter is we just got lucky in those games. What we should have been learning is that you always need a plan B, we sort of have a Plan B which looks like do Plan A but slow it down.

[Woodypie]

This must be for me. I'm optimistic that Maynard's shown the door on Monday and that we have a winner to manage the team asap.

[ThaiPie]

My original point was be optimistic while Notts County had a chance of promotion. It wasn't to be, and Wimbledon deserved to go through. Now is a good time for an end of season inquest.

But please, let's not go through the whole "he's got no plan B" cliches.

[The_Pie_Man]

My original point was be optimistic while Notts County had a chance of promotion. It wasn't to be, and Wimbledon deserved to go through. Now is a good time for an end of season inquest.

But please, let's not go through the whole "he's got no plan B" cliches.

Your last sentence is the plain truth, ThaiPie - he has not got Plan B!

Mr Maynard has had ample opportunity to show the vast interior of his tactics truck over the past few weeks when things needed to change.

Instead, we got a variation of a (unsuccessful) theme, which has led to four defeats on the spin at Meadow Lane. Our very *own brand crap*!

Please do not try and convince the world that this approach will magically change over the summer - it will not happen. A phrase involving leopards and spots springs to mind.

[jackal2]

My original point was be optimistic while Notts County had a chance of promotion. It wasn't to be, and Wimbledon deserved to go through. Now is a good time for an end of season inquest.

But please, let's not go through the whole "he's got no plan B" cliches.

Oft-repeated truths inevitably become cliches. If there is a Plan B I've not seen it in the past 18 months or so.