Ardley out!

[irish_pie]

Hammer and thongs....we can see where your mind is going

God damn **** pop ups Joe ha ha

[durhampie]

The alarming thing about the game today was the fact it took Ardley 75 minutes to make any change today, then his changes were completely baffling... In the last 10 minutes of the game I fully expected us to go hammer and thongs for a goal and yet again it was Yeovil who dominated and put it to bed with ease... Our last attempt was in the 68th minute!... Just about sums up this bunch of overpaid waisters

Ardley ****ed this one up big time. We went into the game knowing that we had to win, yet he starts with with the useless Stead up front on his own. Its about time he was dropped and someone else given a chance. Also Alessandra should not have been taken off, Ardley should have taken either Hewitt or Milsom off instead, Both were crap.. How much longer are we going to keep playing these misfits..Enough is enough Ardley , either change the team or sod off.

[Mark_Ross]

We can't just keep sacking managers.... IT DOESN'T WORK!!!!!FFS

Get relegated, complete clear out, Ardley builds his own team.

Yes! It's a totally shyte situation, but this is logical.

[irish_pie]

Yes! It's a totally shyte situation, but this is logical.

Forget sacking the manager... sack 90% of these so called players... they are the utter crap that is sinking this club into the abyss

[Pies4u]

No point sacking Ardley now - I'm not convinced he has the capability to do anything with this bunch of misfits but we have to allow a manager time to assemble a squad and build some foundations. This season is a complete "write off" - we need to start from scratch from a player perspective.

If he perseveres with the same useless tripe against Lincoln & the Slags we face even further humiliation. There has to be better options than the likes of Hewitt, Milsom & Stead - (but switching deck chairs on the Titanic springs to mind). If there isn't then it is no wonder we are sleep walking out of the league.

[jackal2]

All I can say is...zero improvement.

Difficult to disagree with that assessment at present, but probably due to the sheer ineptitude of this entire squad, which is so poor that I don't think even Neil Warnock, Sam Allardyce or the great Jimmy Sirrel would have been able to achieve a quick turnaround.

It took Sam Allardyce four months to get his first win as Notts manager when he took over the mess left by Colin Murphy and Steve Thompson, and by then it was too late to prevent relegation to League Two. He rebuilt the squad quite considerably over the summer and that in itself took until late September/October to settle, but then we began to motor, and the decision to persevere with Big Sam paid off big time, storming to the title in 1997/98. I know many fans will never remember him fondly for the way he left, but it would be churlish to deny that he did leave us top of League One with an immeasurably better team than he inherited.

We have to believe and trust that Neal Ardley can do the same. When Allardyce arrived with us he'd just narrowly failed to achieve his first football league promotion with Blackpool, whereas Ardley actually has promotion on his CV with AFC Wimbledon.

There's no quick fixes here though. It's going to take one long, grinding slog to reverse our fortunes, and we're almost certainly going to have to do it - for at least one season - as a non-league club, as unthinkable as that is.

[Freeman25]

Sticking with someone through bad times is only worth it if they're the right guy to stick with, we did exactly that with Nolan recently and our reward was our current squad.

How do we know Ardley wasn't just a "good fit" at Wimbledon like Eddie Howe is at Bournemouth? Howe left and went to Burnley and was awful. Keith Hill exactly the same at Rochdale, left to go to Barnsley and it didn't work, both ended up back at their first teams and carried on doing well.

Random example but the Cleveland Browns (NFL team) stuck with their head coach after their 1 win, 15 loss season and he rewarded them the next season by losing all 16 games, they stuck with him for a third season and eventually sacked him after 2 wins, 5 losses and a draw before they then won 5 and lost 3 of their remaining games and finally started showing their true talent.

[jackal2]

How do we know Ardley wasn't just a "good fit" at Wimbledon like Eddie Howe is at Bournemouth?

It's one of those intangible questions. How did we know after the winless first four months of his tenure that Sam Allardyce would go on to turn around our fortunes in such spectacular style? We didn't, but Derek Pavis backed his instincts and on that occasion they paid off.

Of course there's no guarantees with Ardley or for any appointment we make, but our club has been through such a ridiculous number of managers of all types that we just can't continue doing the same "sack, appoint, repeat" pattern forever, not just because it patently hasn't helped us, but also because we can't afford to keep paying to recruit and pay them all off. The club needs to have the courage of its convictions and believe that Neal Ardley, given time, will gradually be able to get something going.

[slack_pie]

Can't help but feel sorry for Ardley Gumpy. He's taken on a poisoned chalice. No guarantees that any incoming could change what's happening. A bit late in the day to switch again. Just got to hope he can somehow, against all the odds, get things to click somehow. Maybe if he manages to get a couple of signings it will change the team dynamic and kickstart a revival of some description.

Why feel sorry for him? He wanted the job. Like so many before him, he came here thinking this was some kind of opportunity, like things were just going to magically click into place and we'd push on. At the time I felt like yelling 'nooooo, you have no idea what you are talking about!' This club will swallow him whole, like it did with so many before.

[Disturbed]

Ardley ****ed this one up big time. We went into the game knowing that we had to win, yet he starts with with the useless Stead up front on his own. Its about time he was dropped and someone else given a chance. Also Alessandra should not have been taken off, Ardley should have taken either Hewitt or Milsom off instead, Both were crap.. How much longer are we going to keep playing these misfits..Enough is enough Ardley , either change the team or sod off.

And it will be the same next game. Alessandra will be subbed, Hewitt will be at fault for another goal against but stay on. We should start Aless on the right, drop Milsom and play Crawford. I would have Osbourne as a sub, and if Aless needs to come off, then Osbourne to replace him.