Match Off!

[jackal2]

Watching Ardley on facebook. " if we win on Saturday and it's a big if" FFS.

Neal Ardley's not helping himself at the moment.

I wasn't too impressed with his comments post-Hartlepool, apparently claiming that the defeat was some sort of vindication against those who claim we're the best team in the division. The league table tells us we're not, but it's very odd for a manager to actively talk his team down. It suggests he's thinking more about covering his own backside than convincing his players that they CAN be the best. It was around this time in the 2009/10 Munto season that Steve Cotterill told his squad a play-off place in League Two was beneath them and that they should aim to win the title. And look what happened.

[navypie]

Neal Ardley's not helping himself at the moment.

I wasn't too impressed with his comments post-Hartlepool, apparently claiming that the defeat was some sort of vindication against those who claim we're the best team in the division. The league table tells us we're not, but it's very odd for a manager to actively talk his team down. It suggests he's thinking more about covering his own backside than convincing his players that they CAN be the best. It was around this time in the 2009/10 Munto season that Steve Cotterill told his squad a play-off place in League Two was beneath them and that they should aim to win the title. And look what happened.

We've bought our tickets and I fully expect a Notts win on Saturday, pity Ardley doesn't.

[durhampie]

We've bought our tickets and I fully expect a Notts win on Saturday, pity Ardley doesn't.

If we had stopped in the football league he would now have been out of a job...

[MagicBoots]

If we had stopped in the football league he would now have been out of a job...

Well, in our alternative world, if that would have happened on the final day, then I doubt it, as it would have surely been rated the most amazing escapes. If however, he would have saved us with five games to go, I agree, because we had a good squad, and he had time to turn it around. I'm not going down the KN / HK debate, but, at the end of the day, he took a team 3rd bottom, and made it worse by one place.

That one place in a normal season is insignificant, in last season is was historic.