Kevin Nolan has rubbished suggestions of the wheels having fallen off Notts County's League Two promotion campaign and stressed that they are in a very good place at the minute.
Just 12 points separate second-placed Accrington Stanley and 10th-placed Lincoln City and, with 10-12 games left of the season depending on the team, the stage is set for a gripping promotion race.
“There will be a lot of expectation and you just hope that does not transmit itself onto the pitch,” he told the Nottingham Post.
“You don’t want people getting anxious because you can sense it in your players then too.
“You don’t want them to go in their shell and we’ve already had a bit of that this season because of the success we have had.
“I am hoping we have learned from that. But I’ve said to the players that we’ve had a fantastic season regardless because nobody expected us to be here.
“Nobody thought we’d be where we are in July or August, not in September and even October.
“It was only in November when everybody started saying ‘you are going to be allright’.
“In December everybody said we were spot on for promotion and that we should go up, and January it was the same.
“In February though, all of a sudden people believe the wheels have come off.
“That goes to show how much it changes on a month-to-month basis. But why should we worry now? We’ve got to embrace it and enjoy it.
“Everybody else up there and around us are expected to be there because they are teams who have built to have success this season.
“We haven’t. We are building to get there. This club is going in the right direction and that is the most important thing.
“We are in a very good place at the minute and long may that continue.”
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