Is meadow lane to good for league 2 ?

[slack_pie]

The ground is one positive for me and where the advantage lies for Notts for people with drive and ambition who want to take the club forward. They do not need to spend vast quantities of money on the ground and it's infrastructure. It just needs maintaining.

That's got to be a big positive for someone who could then concentrate on injecting funds into the playing side.

That's my view, too. Our home form has been **** mostly because we've had **** players. Last season our home form was decent, and we struggled away.

Sure, 20k is too big for L2 (or lower), and we usually only fill a third of it if we're lucky, but it gives us a big advantage over other clubs who's grounds would limit their progress. ML was built to be a Championship stadium, but unfortunately we had to sell our best players to fund it, and the rest is history.

There is so much potential at Notts. The infrastructure is there, and the fans will come if there's something good to watch. But unfortunately for us, we've been run into the ground over the last decade. Now we risk slipping off the radar completely. It's a tragedy.

[nay123]

If they have become complacent that quick,they have the wrong attitude,but I suppose that is modern day football.
Who is chief Scout at the club nowdays?

Complacent about what being ****

[nay123]

Who actually owns the ground & the prime land it sits on? Hardy?

Nottingham City council notts just rent it for the next 3 seasons

[i961pie]

This is the only thing I can think of for being the reason to our woeful home form over the last 5 years. Players from other clubs who are used to playing at dumps like Accrington, morecambe and Exeter etc don't usually have the privilege of playing in a nice stadium and on a nice pitch on a weekly basis, so when ever teams come to meadow lane, they up there game as the place is like Wembley to what there used to.
Sheff united suffer with the same problem. I work with a Stoke fan and I was having this convo with him 2 weeks ago and he fully agreed to what I was saying as Stoke used to have the same problem about 12 years ago

Then why do teams you mention like Accrington find it easy to play on our pitch against us?

[countygump]

Then why do teams you mention like Accrington find it easy to play on our pitch against us?

Blaming the ground is about on par with blaming the Gypo's curse!!!

Bad recruitment, poor organisation, constant manger changes and our continual habit of chucking good money after bad has got us where we are. Ironing is, spent in the right way, Bigguss Allus cheque book is about the only thing that has a chance of saving us!!!

[Bridg4d_Pie_]

Surely the question should be, is Meadow Lane too good for the Vanarama National League, aka the Conference !

I think a question that only Big Al should answer is :-

Does he think the money he spent on the Premiership styled Dressing Room has had the desired effect on our players that he envisaged when he paid for its construction.

[jackal2]

This is the only thing I can think of for being the reason to our woeful home form over the last 5 years. Players from other clubs who are used to playing at dumps like Accrington, morecambe and Exeter etc don't usually have the privilege of playing in a nice stadium and on a nice pitch on a weekly basis, so when ever teams come to meadow lane, they up there game as the place is like Wembley to what there used to.
Sheff united suffer with the same problem. I work with a Stoke fan and I was having this convo with him 2 weeks ago and he fully agreed to what I was saying as Stoke used to have the same problem about 12 years ago

It has occurred to me that since we built the new stadium we've had relatively few 'good' seasons at home, but there have been some. We had solid home form under Sam Allardyce in 1997/98, we blitzed teams at Meadow Lane during the Munto season, and for the first 12 months under Kevin Nolan our home form was very strong again. So we can be strong at home when the team is good enough.

However, it may be true that when the team is already struggling, the acoustics of our 'new' stadium make the players particularly aware of the criticism and anger coming from the stands, perhaps further inhibiting their performance, while the vocal support of visiting fans is equally amplified and lifts their players more than it would in other older, more open stadiums. But even if this is true, these are professional footballers and they should be able to deal with it.

[jackal2]

Bad recruitment, poor organisation, constant manger changes and our continual habit of chucking good money after bad has got us where we are.

Without doubt, this is the root cause of our problems.

[Big Bob]

This is the only thing I can think of for being the reason to our woeful home form over the last 5 years. Players from other clubs who are used to playing at dumps like Accrington, morecambe and Exeter etc don't usually have the privilege of playing in a nice stadium and on a nice pitch on a weekly basis, so when ever teams come to meadow lane, they up there game as the place is like Wembley to what there used to.
Sheff united suffer with the same problem. I work with a Stoke fan and I was having this convo with him 2 weeks ago and he fully agreed to what I was saying as Stoke used to have the same problem about 12 years ago

Well it's the same for both teams playing, so what's our excuse again? Your teams with smaller grounds like Accrington thrive when they play us at Meadow lane so why can't we?

[ancientpie]

I think a question that only Big Al should answer is :-

Does he think the money he spent on the Premiership styled Dressing Room has had the desired effect on our players that he envisaged when he paid for its construction.

I would like to ask AH & past owners if they think that selling the club to potential players & managers on us being a "sleeping giant who have a fantastic ground & facilities" is working or is it actually attracting the type of player & manager who think that we are "to good to go down"& have some sort of divine right to win games without putting in the effort?