Liam Noble has expressed his intention for Notts County's home ground to become a fortress.

 

He said: "We need to make people hate coming to Meadow Lane.

 

"Teams come here and rightfully think, 'this is a brilliant stadium' and they want to come and play football. But in reality what we want them to do is go, 'it's gonna be a hard game'."

 

Following the Magpies' 3-2 win over Luton Town, is this going to be possible? How can we go about ensuring that ML can become a horrible place for people to visit, and how long would it take for everything to click?

We'll we have wanted this for many years now, good teams build promotion by their home form and if we can get it right at Meadow Lane - It will set us up nicely for our away days.

Liam did really well to protect our position and reclaim all 3 points for us.

I really can't stress how we must accept him and help him improve, it's not going to happen instantly and provided we see improvements throughout the season then there are no worries for me. If we sort the defence out, I think that will breed confidence going forward and take pressure off the squad - I also think we need to step the fitness up a fair bit, several players looked tired with 25 minutes to go.

COYP!

The last time this happened was the 2009/10 season when we were only beaten once at meadow Lane by non other then Accrington

I hope to see no more defeats at the lane this season the Mansfield one was enough

Last season it ended up being the fans that hated coming to Meadow Lane  :lol:

 

Let's hope Noble is right, and we can be formidable as it can only benefit the club to get more people through the gate

If that would work, its a good idea. Worth a try at least. Don't make it so our fans don't want to go... when we are losing, its hard enough getting some fans to go.

We've heard all this before I am afraid, it gets churned out by one player or another every year but in recent years it never seems to happen. Let's hope this year is the one.

I think it's an over-used cliche.

Gone are the days where you can intimidate an opponent by the ground and the atmosphere. Ticket prices, over-zealous stewarding, media and all seater stadiums have shown that the door.


Having a good home record is what 'fortress' means now. Most of the good teams have this. 

Totally agree with SDA, I used to love the terraces and I think the crowds felt more of a family or community than being told where to sit.

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no doubt in my mind this is something notts should try to achieve, its important we do as well as we can but i fear that we will rely on our away form as always.

I think we should focus on defends an grafting as a team before we focus on any kind of fortress

Yesterday we took a big step towards that hopefully we can do it again on Saturday

last year good away crap at home this year home looks better away we look to give stupid goals away we just need that balance an we will shoot up the league Crawley were terrible no offence to York but they surely can't be much better

We started off quite well away from home, yet it seems to have gone down the pan but I still say it's early days. A couple of good results could quickly change things, I mean yesterday was the perfect example and although I would prefer to see Notts win at home - I don't care where the points come from in truth because provided we have them, that is all that matters.

I'm not going to say this is the turning point, as we know, you have to expect disappointment by the weekend (potentially).

But, having won two in two home league games, it does boast well with me.

I hope the do turn Meadow Lane into a fortress because after all the home fans need entertaining then they are more likely to return, last night was a good start let's keep it going and start to climb the league.

I hope the do turn Meadow Lane into a fortress because after all the home fans need entertaining then they are more likely to return, last night was a good start let's keep it going and start to climb the league.

 

This corresponds well with the question I asked in this weeks "Meet the Fans".  Everyone we asked (okay, we did only ask 5 people, but shhhh) said they would rather have an entertaining game with lots of goals, even if we don't get a clean sheet (as long as we won of course)