20 hours ago, KingKev said:

After promotion to League One in 2009/2010, I would have changed who Notts hired as the manager. I don't think Craig Short was the right manager in hindsight, he rushed to change the squad and I don't know if he had interference with his decision but the squad he built wasn't very good.

I feel he weakened the squad.

This 100%.

Craig Short was an interesting call to replace Steve Cotterill but his experience was with a team that could sign players quite easily. Notts don't have that pulling power and the club released key players too easily.

On 20/07/2018 at 10:43, Piethagoram said:

The big travesty was that Bolton were eventually fined for poaching, but no compensation was ever paid to Notts. At that period in time, I don't think clubs had any "compensation" clauses built into contracts?

I thought there was a set amount of compensation handed out if a manager left under contract? Big Sam was under contract right when he left Notts?

@SouthwestPIE Certainly no compensation, was written into contracts at the time? , Big Sam "resigned" but Pavis refused to accept his resignation.