It will be a tail tale sign of how the club is progressing, fans often overlook this area and become crazed by the amount of transfers. Forgetting that it takes time, that the players need to develop together and grow an understanding on the pitch.

You look at any successful team, even those operating on a low budget.

They will have a spine of players that have been around each other for a number of seasons, it makes a huge difference.

I hope we can keep the likes of Sam Osborne, Kyle Wootton, Regan Booty, Sam Slocombe, Alex Lacey, Dion Kelly-Evans.

I suspect one or two will remain, it would be nice to see Neal Ardley establish a base of upcoming players, who are able to make good first team appearances. I have always felt Notts should be a club like Peterborough.

I think if anyone stays with us for 5 years it will be Sam osborne

I think that depends where we are in 5 years time.