King Luke to Swansea

[1955pie]

My last contibution on the subject.
https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footba...nd-the-outcome

[matt_magpie]

How can you be unhappy with bringing in McGoldrick and Crowley in the summer, any L2 team would have these two in a shot! Maybe he was disappointed we didn't bring in a top class keeper but aren't we all.

I don't believe he was interested in the Oxford job at all but I'm sure his links at Swansea would have been keeping him in the loop regarding what was going off at Swansea as they were just about to sack the manager there. This would align with our sudden loss of form for sure. He was always going to leave for the Swansea job even though he was their 2nd choice. Their owners will be wanting to be in the play offs next season, no if's or buts.

I don’t believe for one minute it was down to that. The last bad result/performance was Harrogate which was over 3 weeks ago which was then followed up by 2 excellent displays.

Obviously you could argue the Tranmere game was effected but I’d put that more down to them playing a tough team away and the usual naivety from certain players, the effort was there.

LW was clearly not their first choice, if he was it wouldn’t have took 5 weeks to get it over the line.

[maddogslater]

Jimmy the squirrel left us for the greener grass of Sheffield United then returned because it went tits up there 🙄

[durhampie]

Well, it didn't take him long from saying it was the best club to work for ....

[legs77]

Well, it didn't take him long from saying it was the best club to work for ....

He said it’s a good club to work for and if he says that then why doubt it.

You might work for a company and think it’s good but you then get an offer of something different at another company which you take a risk on, can’t really understand your thoughts on this as if everyone thought like you they’d never leave any job !

[optipez]

To be honest, I doubt he gave 100% towards the end with his mind on Swansea - which likely had some impact on our results.

LW struck me as the type who could not switch off but he would have had to devote a fair bit of his time preparing for the interview and then thinking about the task in hand once he was confident he was in with a good chance of landing the job, which is understandable. I think he was also very interested in the Oxford job, which pretty much coincided with our sudden loss of form. I think the Oxford link came up ahead of the Wrexham game.

I can't say I listened to his pre-match interviews so it's possible I might be wrong about this, but I got the impression he wasn't altogether happy with the business or lack of that Notts did in the summer. There's something to be said for giving a promoted squad the chance to prove themselves, but that wasn't a point that LW seemed to push.
He may well have felt privately that he'd taken us as far as he could with the restrictions placed upon him.

I thought our form dip coincided with Matty Palmers leg conking, starting against Wrexham.