Do The Owners Ambitions Match The Supporters'?

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Originally Posted by jackal2

I think the owners' ambition does match the supporters' ambition, to want to get back into the Football League and then build further.

What they aren't doing is gambling silly money we cannot afford, all on one season, which has no guarantee of success and would leave us with an unsustainable budget well into the future. We've been down that route before and we know where it leads, regardless of whether you get the immediate promotion or not.

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Well AH is still banging on his drum:

Alan Hardy
@Bigalanh5
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May 25
Our player salary budget was the biggest in L2 and half of L1 in the year we got relegated. Remember we also bought Hemmings, Dennis, Enzo, who were all big money!

Shows how easy it is to p1ss money into the wind.

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Originally Posted by Warnocks Legends

I think the recruitment of the next Manager will give us a huge nod to what the Reedtz bros ambitions are. Go for an exciting Manager like Williamson from Gateshead coupled with a quality striker and animal in midfield and we are going for it! Appoint some minor league scandavanian manager or merry go round ( granted not their style ) manager and don't invest in the obvious gaps in personnel we have then National League status is where they are t and where we will stay. So please bros make the progressive and right choice for this once proud club, before we are broken forever.

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They have to show some ambition beyond their project.

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Originally Posted by Old_pie

Well AH is still banging on his drum:

Alan Hardy
@Bigalanh5
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May 25
Our player salary budget was the biggest in L2 and half of L1 in the year we got relegated. Remember we also bought Hemmings, Dennis, Enzo, who were all big money!

Shows how easy it is to p1ss money into the wind.

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Yes. The fact that he still thinks this is something to boast about illustrates what went wrong with his ownership and his judgement.

I believe to this day that Ray Trew and Alan Hardy had good intentions for the club, but they both thought too much like football fans on message boards like this, which is great for short-term drama and excitement but no good for long-term sustainability. The current owners keep themselves well distanced from places like this and social media in general, and the club is better off for it.

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Originally Posted by Davy500

Like i said that means our season coming down to 2 or 3 play off matches
Yes its obviously sustainable as a National league side in which we shall remain
Yes the skill of the manager is crucial- but they want rookies that might do it after 3 or 4 years as manager
The owners have other interests elsewhere notts is not there main priority - its a project
Hardy failed due to lack of money, if he had 10 X more like FGR chairman he would have been successfull

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He failed because he went *sh1t or bust, he was signing a lot of the players not Nolan and he was led by his ego and was completely inept, if you see any of his tweets now he still doesn’t know a thing about football.

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Originally Posted by Davy500

Like i said that means our season coming down to 2 or 3 play off matches
Yes its obviously sustainable as a National league side in which we shall remain
Yes the skill of the manager is crucial- but they want rookies that might do it after 3 or 4 years as manager
The owners have other interests elsewhere notts is not there main priority - its a project
Hardy failed due to lack of money, if he had 10 X more like FGR chairman he would have been successfull

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In fact Davy tell me the last club to be league favourites with the largest budget that got relegated, that’s how good he was, good god.

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Originally Posted by jackal2

I think the owners' ambition does match the supporters' ambition, to want to get back into the Football League and then build further.

What they aren't doing is gambling silly money we cannot afford, all on one season, which has no guarantee of success and would leave us with an unsustainable budget well into the future. We've been down that route before and we know where it leads, regardless of whether you get the immediate promotion or not.

I think the aim of the owners is to maintain a sustainable but competitive playing budget on an ongoing basis, so we're always there or thereabouts in the promotion mix. It then comes down to the skill of the manager, plus a little bit of luck with injuries and suspensions, to push us over the line. Neal Ardley and Ian Burchnall's attempts were close, just not quite close enough, but as long as we can maintain a competitive playing budget we'll be in the mix, and that in turn keeps the attendances up. Hopefully the next manager can find that little bit extra where NA and IB didn't.

I think we've now got grown-ups in charge, which is ironic given that they're two of the youngest owners in the league. Of course they want to go up, but they aren't going bankrupt us by overspending wildly. I'm fine with that.

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This.

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Originally Posted by Old_pie

Well AH is still banging on his drum:

Alan Hardy
@Bigalanh5
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May 25
Our player salary budget was the biggest in L2 and half of L1 in the year we got relegated. Remember we also bought Hemmings, Dennis, Enzo, who were all big money!

Shows how easy it is to p1ss money into the wind.

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Whatever you think of Hardy, it's amazing that a team with Hemmings, Dennis and Enzio managed to get relegated from League 2.

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Originally Posted by Elite_Pie

Whatever you think of Hardy, it's amazing that a team with Hemmings, Dennis and Enzio managed to get relegated from League 2.

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Not really when you tie it with a defence that featured Duffy, Hewitt and Jones as well as a keeper that isn't national league standard

I don't mind the Reedtz and it's nice to have a stable ownership for once. I think their ambition matches ours but not the way of doing it, I think most of the fans would like a proven manager at this level, someone who mixes it up and signs the right players in the right areas to go up straight away. They're more happy to build steadily which some fans will also not mind doing either. I think the next few months will determine for good which way we're going. It does worry me though that the only two players we signed, Cameron and Palmer, were already acknowledged as good, most haven't held down a place in the team so they failed slightly on that front.

*two players we signed to hold down a regular spot.