Nobody can say that Notts County is a boring football club, we can be in a chance of winning the league with a very average side that works hard - to a team on paper which should be up there, yet relegation is the destination. This season has been poor, it's like a bad panto and Alan Hardy hasn't done the clubs PR any good. Things from the board down should have been better, the club should have had a stronger bond and a bigger passion to turn the season around.

It was an awful transition and the appointment of Harry Kewell took the focus away from the actual football. He could have saved the season if he didn't lose his head, that's a sign of a terrible manager when they start to play people out of position and end up on a losing-streak running three back-to-back wins. It's been awful, the thought of relegation isn't good, but I still have faith (which has been tested). I love Notts, we all do.

A promising summer with the players bought in but we quickly realised that the players we bought in didn't really suit us and the team from August till around December was like a bridge stuck together with celotape. Things went downhill pretty quickly. We never replaced Michael O'Connor properly and paid the price for trying to go for style instead of substance. Kevin Nolan was sacked five games in after 4 losses, 1 draw and 13 goals conceded. Harry Kewell's appointment wasn't really that popular but I was willing to give him a chance. Things soured quickly however and he was sacked too and things looked bleak. We went through a mid-season run of 1 win in 18. 

Good signings in January rejuvenated us and after picking up 7 points from the first 3 in February, including winning a Nottinghamshire Derby for the first time in 358 months, things looked positive. Sadly, a bad run of form and rumours of financial difficulties followed and we looked doomed. Thankfully, two away wins in a row have lifted the optimism though and now the last 5 games are five of the biggest in the clubs history. 

Lesson: Always keep the spine of a team that gets you in the play-offs and make sure that the signings you want to make fit the structure of your team and fit the system you want to play