One year on since the club was saved from administration, it was billed as a thankyou day and the fans did their part to celebrate with over 6,500 of them turning up - the best attendance of the season.
They were let down, and the Notts players let themselves down, with a thoroughly inept performance which allowed Wycombe Wanderers to once again head away from Nottingham with three points.
Indeed this was the Wanderers fifth successive visit to Meadow Lane without defeat, and their third win.
Not even having eight players absent through injury, illness and suspension could fully explain the poverty of the home team's display which somehow only deteriorated as the game progressed.
Notts had three scoring efforts on target in the first half and none in the second - a statistic which tells its own story.
The best of the three scoring efforts was delivered by Matty Williams whose quick footwork carried him away from two challenges before forcing a fine save from Wycombe goalkeeper Frank Talia.
Talia should also have been more severely tested when the otherwise lacklustre Stefan Oakes put Chris O'Grady in the clear, but the front man needed too long to bring the ball under control and his eventual shot at goal was blocked on the line.
Wycombe were always the more dangerous and their goal on 42 minutes was no more than they deserved yet it might have been prevented by a more experienced back three than the Magpies were able to field.
From the edge of the penalty area Ian Stonebridge delivered a crisp low shot into the bottom left hand corner of Wayne Henderson's net and the on-loan goalkeeper from Aston villa was left without the remotest chance of saving.
Wycombe had the better chances in a second half which they dominated but it never lived up to its billing as a spectacle for the fans.
Ironically it was an attempted clearance by County defender Mike Whitlow which went closest to a second Wycombe goal but the ball came back off the foot of the post and was eventually hacked to safety.