The manager is a loser

[Piessince67]

How many on here want him to be given more time .Those people who do are stupid.

[Smigpie]

They can’t continue with this set up, in free fall and in real threat of being sucked in. Southend were relegated with 49 points.

[Big Bob]

He needs to go now

[tommopie8]

He needs to go now

Difficult to lay the blame at his door tonight if you only consider the scoreline when Robertson got sent off.

However - we were still 1-0 up and we crumbled and it could've been more and but for Slocombe and some wayward shooting it would've been.

Next season worries me - ML and JJ will have their eyes elsewhere. Neither will want to battle at the wrong end of L2 under this man next year. They'll both have suitors - Crowley may have also.

Getting players to re-sign and attracting new players with this man's record isn't going to appeal. They'd look at our freefall so far this season and think sod that.

Nothing has changed based off tonight. I don't think Maynard staying in charge is a good thing for Notts County.

Who knows maybe he has an Allardyce level turnaround and we defy expectations next season. I know if it was me in charge - I would be asking Maynard why I should stick with him based on his time at Notts County.

[the_anticlough]

How many on here want him to be given more time .Those people who do are stupid.

There were lots as recent as this afternoon

[marky]

There were lots as recent as this afternoon

I'll stick my hand up and be honest. I was one of them. For years Notts County Football Club has had a horrible reputation of just sacking managers constantly and I felt that this was changing in recent times and it really won't look good to sack a manager after 9 matches but I do admit it looks like the owners have messed up very badly.

[MapperleyMagpie]

I'm not one of them! Tonight was the final straw

[Lullapie]

To be honest, there's no one to feel sorry for this apart from the fans.

The Board - no - they chose a manager who had no kudos or experience at a full-time level or outside of the the National League.

Stuart Maynard and his team - no - you sometimes have to look at yourself and be honest and think am I up to this.

The players - no - are they not professional? Surely they would have rallied around and thought lets do our best for the club. However, I don't believe outside of football, they would have had much of a career.


Where will it end? Only the Board knows. Maynard might suddenly click and this all becomes just a bad dream, but my fear is that winning becomes a habit and so does losing. We are now in the losing habit.

Drastic changes need to happen to address the situation and they would be:

1 . Changing those players not doing as they are asked. Not wholly possible as the transfer window is over.
2. Changing the management team. Not a 100% certainty as the Board will look like chumps.
3. Stuart Maynard pulling something out of the hat and getting some momentum going at the club.

I don't fancy any of the above happening and so we are in for a slow, painful end to this season.

[Piessince67]

Slocombe kept us in it we were a shambles ,totally disorganised.

[BigFatPie]

I think everyone at the club got a bit high on their own supply after last season, and they started to think this running a football club lark was a bit easy.

Some of the recruitment and retention and the thinking behind Maynard’s appointment have been that of a big club in the National league rather than a newcomer to the unforgiving world of the EFL.

As someone else said, thank Christ we got those two big wins around Christmas otherwise we’d be seriously looking at going back down again. Unthinkable.