Not entirely unexpected given results, performances and this being Notts but the timing is strange.

Not one to say I told you so, but     

 

My other prediction was Paul Hart in charge until the end of season. I'm guessing i'm spot on with that too. Are you paying attention @PTID1862?

 

Shaun and Greg were lovely blokes who cared for the cause and the club. Last seasons efforts will never be forgotten, BUT

 

Entertainment has been 0

Tactics have been 0

Player recruitment has been much better. Tooooo many palyers by far and no settled side.

 

Hopefully if Hart does take over he'll at least have a go at changing the style a little and try to play football.

 

Onwards and hopefully upwards.

Ridiculous decision. 2 months ago, I could understand it, we could all see what road the season was going down....

I think the problem is that the players are rubbish. Who can we expect to bring in at this point in the season? What are they going to do if they come in? It's the same sub-standard players. 
 

You can't polish a turd. The best you can do is roll it in glitter.

I will be even more depressed about the situation if as I expect, trigger happy Ray doesn't have anyone lined up. I really hope this isn't the case, but my head tells me it is. If we appoint another stop-gap Kiwomya style manager........I despair..... for all Ray Trew has done for the club in saving us from extinction, he has absolutely no idea who to appoint and when to sack them.

I don't think we could afford another home defeat.

I think this move comes at a time where the club realize some decent managers are currently available and are likely to be more open to negotiating terms just to get back into football management. Derrys record was poor for us, that said I do think he would have lead in safe hands next season.

Clearly a risk to great for the club though. Good luck to him!

Put the emotion to one side - Derry & Abbott are useless and should have gone months ago. Why do folks conclude he will be a good manager one day? On what possible basis do you form that opinion? He can't spot a good player, he had no strategy, he has no tactical awareness & he failed to recognise his weaknesses & frailties. He was a dour uninspiring player and he is a dour uninspiring manager.

He talks a good game, granted, but doesn't translate thst into an effective team or decent results,let alone performances. He's saddled us with the biggest load of tripe we've had in a generation - and that is saying something given the other awful managers we have had to endure.

However, I just don't see the point of hoofing out Rodwell last week and now this pair this week. I said before, "we are stuck with them" because it makes little sense to hang on to them through the last, dire 4 months - 16 points from half a season - then can them at the 11th hour. The timing is ridiculous, putting Hart in charge even more so! Dear God, he has "failure" as a middle name as someone else posted either on here or elsewhere. He is probably one of the few people you would want less than Derry tbh.

Rapidly losing faith.

Put the emotion to one side - Derry & Abbott are useless and should have gone months ago. Why do folks conclude he will be a good manager one day? On what possible basis do you form that opinion? He can't spot a good player, he had no strategy, he has no tactical awareness & he failed to recognise his weaknesses & frailties. He was a dour uninspiring player and he is a dour uninspiring manager.

He talks a good game, granted, but doesn't translate thst into an effective team or decent results,let alone performances. He's saddled us with the biggest load of tripe we've had in a generation - and that is saying something given the other awful managers we have had to endure.

However, I just don't see the point of hoofing out Rodwell last week and now this pair this week. I said before, "we are stuck with them" because it makes little sense to hang on to them through the last, dire 4 months - 16 points from half a season - then can them at the 11th hour. The timing is ridiculous, putting Hart in charge even more so! Dear God, he has "failure" as a middle name as someone else posted either on here or elsewhere. He is probably one of the few people you would want less than Derry tbh.

Rapidly losing faith.

Giving the fact that we have seen two peaks, compared to the one low - I think that would be a safe bet which would highlight Derry's potential. Naturally when the going gets 'tough' it leads to mistakes and people bottle their ability. Had we have stayed towards the top, the story would be all different. However, we fell to earth rather quickly and very hard.

We don't know how he would cope with a more competitive budget, I think personally that would take the stress of wasting it from off his shoulders.

It was a special quality that kept us up last season but he needs to find that formula and on a regular basis.

Is everyone able to be judged whilst 'inexperienced'? It's like expecting a young player to play with the same quality of a more senior player, it isn't going to happen just like that and the perfect example would be how Curtis Thompson got written off as a poor player. It's really for Derry to prove himself now in my opinion!

Gutted, but not one bit surprised.

 

Right decision? I don't know. I just don't know what to think anymore to be honest. Unless we bring in someone with a proven track record this is an absolutely pointless move. Trouble is we gave them contract extensions a few months ago which need paying off now, and we hardly have a pot to piss in as it is. So all's we're gonna do is appoint someone else untried and untested, then sack them a few months down the line when we go down. Sorry but I think this decision cemented it.

 

Jimmy Spencer is returning to action, JCR and Liam Noble are back this weekend, surely Derry deserved one last crack at the whip against Scunthorpe?

 

Just sums up the sorry state of football in this day and age. After the miraculous job they did last season and the amazing start to this season, ultimately they've been victims of their own success I think.

 

Fully expect us to go down, sack the manager, then sack the next manager when we don't come straight back up, and we'll just rot in league two.

 

I don't know why I care anymore to be honest. It's not like I see enough games to really comment much more. It dosen't feel like the club I grew up loving anymore, somethings gone

What annoys me is how they said SD would be BACKED, he wasn't.

What annoys me is how they said SD would be BACKED, he wasn't.

Some portions of our fans are extremely thickle!

The board probably felt forced.

If I'm not mistaken. when a manager sets a target for the season, it is reflective of the budget. So the performance should be judged in comparison with the budget.

Seeing as we have the 18th best budget in the league, Derry is pretty much on par.


Very, very poor from Trew in my opinion. He deserves all the blame he gets. 

If you want dour try Paul Hart. He was appointed caretaker manager after Danny Wilson was sacked. Danny had an excellent previous season, failed in the next and Paul Hart had 11 games to stay up. W1, D4, L6, and alienated just about the whole fan base by implying that relegation was their fault much more than his.

I wish you well.

I have spent the entire day trying to figure out why, from a timing point of view that is. We would have struggled to get anything from Saturdays games with any team we have had any the last 10 years and I just don't understand why after that result.

 

I really hope we don't give it to Paul Hart, I like him as a person and he is one of the very best youth coaches out there but as @medievalmickey said his conduct whilst in charge of Swindon was bizarre to say the least.

 

The bookies are saying Darren Ferguson is favourite, would be interesting to see attractive passing football at the Lane but all of his previous squads have been put together with millions of pounds so for that reason I can't see him coming to Notts.

Evans & Raynor are dining out on one League 2 promotion, a very flukey League 1 promotion & the support of a VERY accommodating Chairman who gives in to his every whim, which includes about 150 short term loan signings.

It doesn't matter whether you're a Crowd favourite, if you fall out with "the Loan Ranger & Tonto", you're out, just ask Johnny Mullins, Daniel Nardiello, Kieran Agard & Alex Revell to name just four!!

We needed to be ready and prepared for life in the Championship & we plainly weren't. We signed 13 players in the summer & they've all to a man been pap, & I include Paul Green & Matt Derbyshire in that. The worst of a terrible bunch though is a defender that Evans insists in playing week in, week out, Kirk Broad(club)foot!!

How can any side cultivate team spirit when there's at least two new loan players in the starting lineup every week?

Can't stand the bloke & his hoppo, never have from day one!!!

 

That's why I'd love some club to take him, but don't hate Notts that much, maybe Posh eh?

Needed to explain why I hate the bloke so much, and losing to Wednesday at the weekend......

see you next season lads!!

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Can we just have one season... One full season... where we don't have total upheaval

Can we just have one season... One full season... where we don't have total upheaval

No!

That's rule number 1 at the Lane. You shall not get comfortable in the dugout as manager or the stands as a fan.

Rule 2 is Danny Wilson will always get mentioned whenever we sack yet another manager.

Rule 3 is we always leave it late to change. Too late this time imo.