I know some people are fed up with hearing KN say this but to be honest I agree with him. I’ve been a supporter for over 50 years so I’ve just about seen everything. We’ve had a fantastic season when we went into the top three expectations were raised and now some people are showing their disappointment and frustration that we’ve dipped in form but I can’t understand the constant criticism on twitter and Facebook. 

For me I’d be elated if we finish in the top three and go up automatic, if we went up via playoffs would be fantastic but if we slip out of the play offs and don’t go up I will still be thinking what a great season we’ve had.

The run in will be difficult we need everyone onboard including the fans to help get us over the line, so let’s all get behind AH, KN and the team and make that final push but if for whatever reason we don’t make it lets applaud them for a great season and be grateful for how far we’ve come.

It is easy to agree with the sentiment, but I am disillusioned with Nolan's choice of teams recently. The subs bench yesterday offered few real options...there was no balance. The key points of the season are the failure to adequately identify to who to replace Yates and that moment of madness from Ross. 

In comparison with a lot of other 'doozies' I've witnessed this Season, i.e. Stead being a true Captain/pulling Duffy away from a sure-fire Red card the other week; Duffy's dives; Collin's (obvious) inabilities and a catalogue of dire Referee's that HAVE COST US PROMOTION, why's everyone continue to harp-on about Ross's "moment of madness"?

Nolan too, appears unforgiving of this (I saw the constant grabs for Ross's nuts from the lad he eventually kicked); but then again, it seems that anyone who 'upsets' the Gaffer is "made to pay!" 

Take Forte. Had confirmation that KN (in front of witnesses) said, "JF isn't knocking on my door to play", i.e. he's not "begging" for a place in the team. I'd be upset, as a 31 year-old professional footballer to have to 'beg' anyone, for anything...and maybe it's 'cultural' but I too, would see KN in Hell before I appeared to "beg" by knocking on his door! I believe that, more often than not, JF gives his all on the field in a Notts. shirt. 

This, then, perhaps explains, why a perfectly good, faster-than-most-we-have-at-our-disposal player, would sit in the Stands or on the bench, week-in, week-out; and why, I believe we'll see him gone very shortly!

Looks too, like RF (this time last year, a builder, and on his first professional contract with Notts) will be made to suffer F-O-R-E-V-E-R - for retaliating against a player the Referee (surprise!) failed to punish for assaulting him each time they met in the box. And the lad MUST (silently) be laughing his socks off, at the lack of clean sheets he's had to witness from the sidelines, since he made his mistake. It must, too, be a learning curve, for him to have to witness so many 'basics' of his trade, carried-out, so wrongly and I suspect - no, EXPECT - that his time on the bench will see him return as a much improved Keeper.

I didn't realise football Management had a 'bitchy' side? Maybe it's just KN's 'learning curve' we're getting full throttle of?And the love/hate relationship he has with fans/their comments is another '*****' he often makes. News is, when folk pay GOOD MONEY to be entertained, they have A RIGHT to EXPECT TO GET THEIR MONEY'S WORTH; and whether they did or didn't last year, is irrelevant. Football is all about the 'here and now' and when fans see a side that were running clear of dead-set promotion just a few months ago, with a side who looked unbeatable; it's just extremely sad now to see virtually the same players, doing less than 'earn their crust' when it comes to this important end to the season.

Maybe I've got it all wrong and there's a 'method in the madness' of who we're fielding and why; but I want (again) to see the side I've followed for 48 years, doing the best they can. I just hate feeling sold a bit short like I'm feeling at the mo - and maybe clutching at straws, as to why?

18 hours ago, Lozzle1 said:

And the lad MUST (silently) be laughing his socks off, at the lack of clean sheets he's had to witness from the sidelines, since he made his mistake

Whilst I agree with the majority of your post @Lozzle1 I’m pretty sure that Colin has presided over more clean sheets since he has been back than RF managed during his stint in goal.

I’ve gone off Nolan on a personal point as I think he lets his judgement of people cloud his view as to his best side and that is what will cost us promotion, alongside not bringing in a decent goal scorer since July. That being said, I still prefer Nolan over a lot of the dross we have had in charge during recent years.