Notts County: Season will be a failure if we don't finish in play-offs, says Andre Boucaud
NOTTS County's season will have been a failure if they don't finish in the League One play-offs, says midfielder Andre Boucaud.
The 28-year-old midfielder has enjoyed a good season himself, earning a return to the Football League with the Magpies after four years in the non-league wilderness.
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Andre Boucaud
He only moved to Meadow Lane on a short-term loan deal from Luton Town last summer, but he was quickly given a permanent deal that could keep him at the club until 2015.
But he says all of that will count for nothing if Notts miss out on the top six.
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They are nine points outside the play-offs in 11th place with only eight games left – and Boucaud insists they should be battling it out at the top with the players they have got.
They were up there throughout the first half of the season, but their form has dipped badly since December to leave them well off the pace ahead of facing struggling Scunthorpe United at Meadow Lane on Saturday (3pm).
"For me it's been a success, coming from where I came from," said Boucaud. "But as a team I believe we should be no less than in the play-offs so maybe if we don't make them I will see it as a bit of a failure.
"I believe the squad we have here we should be there.
"We shouldn't be where we are, but the league doesn't lie and it's not good enough.
"We need to be up there in the play-offs and fighting for automatic with the squad we have got here."
The Magpies were unbeaten in seven league games before losing 1-0 to Preston North End on home soil on Tuesday.
"Now we've had a blip everyone seems to think the wheels have fallen off, but I don't think that's the case," added Boucaud.
2 Comments
by RG_Bargee_Ont
Thursday, March 14 2013, 7:11PM
“Seems to me we've had far too many "blips" in not being able to put teams away. 0-0 draws don't cut it as the number of remaining games ticks away.
Ex-BJ has it right, it's not going to happen this season.”
by ExBurtonJoyce
Thursday, March 14 2013, 9:06AM
“Wrong Andre. A "blip" is not struggling to score at home and losing seven games there already ... On the pitch we are a long, long way off thinking about mounting a challenge for the Championship.
The new season starts in a few months time and we need to start planning for it now ... starting with the appointment of an experienced manager, even a younger one such as Burton Albion's Gary Rowett, who is performing miracles there and whose team will be playing us next season now that he has them pushing for automatic promotion on a small budget at a smaller club.
Leave that until the Summer and the new manager would be hurriedly getting the team assembled and geared up in time to hit the ground running.”