Originally Posted by
jackal2
After the summer we've had, anybody who thought we had a chance of promotion must be completely delusional. We may be a "big club" for this league, but the reality is we've got a team thrown together in two weeks, some of whom have not even had a full pre-season. If we had a bad pre-season last year, we've had a disastrous one this year, because of the chaos of the takeover. And it doesn't help that virtually every team we play will regard us as their biggest potential scalp. We'll be playing cup ties every week.
Ardley's brief this season must be to get through what will inevitably be a very difficult start, where our players are several weeks behind those of other clubs in terms of preparation, and then to stabilise the club so that we can go into next season as a more competitive force. It may well be that we finish the season in the bottom half like Chesterfield did last year, but hopefully towards the end of the season our results will be getting stronger and giving more cause for hope in the future.