Kevin Nolan eager to get Notts County momentum going once again

Notts County boss Kevin Nolan has pledged to get momentum going and edge his side to League Two safety, starting this weekend at Grimsby Town.

Despite the Magpies slipping into the drop zone, they managed to stop the rot last week with a point against Mansfield Town at Meadow Lane.

The goalless draw was an improvement on the previous 10 league games, which all ended in defeats, and John Sheridan's successor is hoping for more in the coming weeks.

"We want to build momentum now," Nolan told the Nottingham Post.

"We have been down in the dumps for so long with the 10 losses on the spin, but now we want to go as long as we can without losing.

"That may be picking up draw after draw until we get that confidence going and getting as many clean sheets as we can.

"These are all factors that are going to keep us up. There is lots of emphasis on that because I think we find goals easy to come by with the attacking options we have got.

We have 10, eight and seven between the front three, (Jon) Stead, (Jonathan) Forte and (Adam) Campbell. We know if we get chances they will put them away.

"We have to look forward, take all the good things from last week and build on them."

Nolan has also placed emphasis on video analysis to try and improve the players, whilst promising not to use it as a shaming technique.

"They are good players and good players for this league," he said.

"When they start expressing themselves we will start reaping the rewards.

"There's not going to be criticism. Whenever we watch a video and pull someone out, it's not a criticism.

"It's to make him better and to make him do what we want him to do on Saturday. If we don't make them mistakes then we will be a better team for it.

"It's all about helping players and giving as much information as I can without burning their head out.

"It's about being positive on the training pitch, and we've done it visually with the video as well.

"It's hoping they can learn from that and not make the same mistake too often."

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