Are Notts going up.

[Magic magpie]

So with Notts missing out on promotion last season and a new squad book makers make Notts them  odds on favourite to go up my questions are simple ..

will you be haveing a cheeky bet 

Can County go up .. is this our season are the bookies right.?

[allardyces tash]

If they work hard and stay focused they can achieve promotion, Notts finally has two good striker and players in other areas. They just need to play as a team a little more at the right time.

[samwatto2008]

Being bookies favourite is never good imo. Too much pressure / hype to live up to. But yes we have a squad good enough to go up.

[Chris]

The squad and Kevin Nolan need to take each game as they come.

There's always pressure playing football, you take the field wanting to win and if you end up on the other side of that - well the pressure grows and it becomes harder to react in a positive way. So, there is always mounting pressure of some form.

You just have to think about the main things and eventually the better sides will raise.

I'm confident Notts will be in for a shout of promotion, we have a good squad and they just need to settle/work harder.

[upthepies]

It all depends on how stubborn Kevin Nolan is in my humble opinion.

If he insists that Notts have to hoof the ball, I think we might struggle because the players signed don't fit last years tactics which have become old and stale now. Even as far as saying it's predictable but I feel the quality is there for promotion.

[Fan of Big Tone]

Ask me again at Christmas or better still Easter.

7 minutes ago, upthepies said:

It all depends on how stubborn Kevin Nolan is in my humble opinion.

If he insists that Notts have to hoof the ball, I think we might struggle because the players signed don't fit last years tactics which have become old and stale now. Even as far as saying it's predictable but I feel the quality is there for promotion.

I can’t see how Nolan can possibly consider playing hoofball all the time now, assuming he wanted the players that have been signed it would be madness because looking at the squad now it screams football on the floor.

[KingMaynard]

5 hours ago, Fan of Big Tone said:

I can’t see how Nolan can possibly consider playing hoofball all the time now, assuming he wanted the players that have been signed it would be madness because looking at the squad now it screams football on the floor.

At times yes, but I think it's more the squad panicking than instructions from Kevin Nolan.

I think Notts will get promotion this season.

[CliftonMagpie]

I think Notts will be there about come the end of the season.

Promotion would make things worthwhile for a change, as would beating some of the awful teams in this league heavily. I don't know, it feels like it will be a big year for Notts. 

[TM1993]

I think Notts will, I am just wary about the amount of players that have come into the club. All look like great signings but has the quality knocked the balance? I don't know.

[super_pie]

I think if we go up it will be in the playoffs.

[The Heff]

I would like to think Notts will go up but I would hope to avoid the playoffs, its breaking when you fail and even if you get to Wembley it can be worse.

[super_ram]

1 hour ago, The Heff said:

I would like to think Notts will go up but I would hope to avoid the playoffs, its breaking when you fail and even if you get to Wembley it can be worse.

Tell me about it

[AmericanPie]

I am confident that things will click in a few games time and from there the form will improve, along with the results Notts gets. One game can't define a season, you have to wait until at least 7 matches to gain some idea of where things are heading.

[TheSkipper]

The defence needs to do their job and Fitzsimons needs to be more alert if Notts are going to gain promotion this season.

[liampie]

11 minutes ago, TheSkipper said:

The defence needs to do their job and Fitzsimons needs to be more alert if Notts are going to gain promotion this season.

same issues at the back, notts needs to sort it. now pulling level would be the best outcome.

i cant see 2 more goals coming for notts.

[allardyces tash]

58 minutes ago, TheSkipper said:

The defence needs to do their job and Fitzsimons needs to be more alert if Notts are going to gain promotion this season.

 

45 minutes ago, liampie said:

same issues at the back, notts needs to sort it. now pulling level would be the best outcome.

i cant see 2 more goals coming for notts.

I'm afraid I agree, poor goals to give a way.

[B&Wstripes]

Unless things click and improve, I feel playoffs will be the best bet this season.

[themightymagpies]

I have this horrible feeling this season Notts might miss out completely, I wouldn't mind if this happened but I would want to see them have a go.

[DeadlyMacca]

I don't want to say it but the defence doesn't improve, we won't be anywhere near to the position we hope.

[BigMag]

I am worried that things have been rushed, we have signed the right players but the defence is costing the team. I don't promotion is likely this season based on the two games and what I have seen in the pre season.

[NottsTastic]

Hopefully this will be the dip of the roller coaster and the rest will be fairly smooth, I think Notts will still do well. 

[TheSkipper]

On 11/08/2018 at 17:15, allardyces tash said:

I'm afraid I agree, poor goals to give a way.

Notts can't continue being weak at the back and relying on the strikers to dig them out of it, if we go 1-0 up the defence needs to stronger and avoid losing their focus.

[DangerousSausage]

I'm a bit concerned about the expectations this season. Mentally it's going to be a quite different season as really anything below seventh will be a major disappointment. If we'd finished eighth or ninth last season we could have at least pointed to the progress from the season before. This time it's different. If we're too far behind the play-offs come Christmas, there'll be talk of booting the manager.

A couple of other things bother me. Fitzsimons did well last season (up to his red card) but is he really ready to be number one? Let's hope his display against Cambridge was a one-off. We all know how a nervous keeper can unsettle the back four. And in Dennis we signed a 20-goal striker who then spent most of pre-season injured. I'm a bit worried that he'll be the latest in a long list of free-scoring strikers we've signed and never saw the best of.

But maybe I'm overthinking it. We've kept the spine of our team from last season and added real quality to it, so we should be a force to be reckoned with. I just hope we get off the mark before the atmosphere turns sour.

[AmericanPie]

Great post @DangerousSausage. 

5 hours ago, DangerousSausage said:

Mentally it's going to be a quite different season as really anything below seventh will be a major disappointment.

There's that feeling that the squad is above the quality of most in the league, missing out of the playoffs it would be a shame.

5 hours ago, DangerousSausage said:

If we're too far behind the play-offs come Christmas, there'll be talk of booting the manager.

I can't see Alan Hardy sacking Kevin Nolan after the job he's done, fan might call for it but he is building. This is in process and you know what they say, Rome wasn't built in a day.

5 hours ago, DangerousSausage said:

We all know how a nervous keeper can unsettle the back four. And in Dennis we signed a 20-goal striker who then spent most of pre-season injured. I'm a bit worried that he'll be the latest in a long list of free-scoring strikers we've signed and never saw the best of.

If the defence improves, perhaps so will Ross Fitzsimons?