No doubt there will be some outcry on here today about letting all these youngsters go, Ardley doesn’t have a clue, Hates playing younger players etc etc....But actually, I’m not sad to see him go.

Fair play to him in taking his future into his own hands and good luck to him, but if he hasn’t got the fight or belief in his own ability to break in our first 11 then he’s not the type of player we need.

He had numerous opportunities last year to show what he was capable of and barring one or two wonder goals he actually contributed very little in my opinion. Far too light weight, poor positional sense and very often pondered too long on the ball for a player of his position. If he can’t cut it consistently at this level then I have doubts about how high he will go in his career.

Sam was offered a contract to the level as to which the club thought he was performing at and weren’t going to budge...and rightly so in what I’ve seen of him this year. If he wasn’t a Nottingham lad who had come through our system then there’d be very little outcry in seeing him leave.

Well done Notts, I’m sure we’ll see better players take his place. I have no trouble with us scrapping or youth system if we continue to attract ready made young talent with a higher sell on value.