Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss

[jacobncfc]

That's my big worry. I can see a lot of positives with a stats driven approach, but how do you measure guts, bottle and desire? I doubt any of the Hornchurch players will be of interest to Football Radar, but the only reason that they beat us today was because they were streets ahead of us in terms of guts, bottle and desire.

You can’t, but you can’t measure that anyway. You have to rely on the manager’s instinct.

One thing I would say is that we could perhaps do with a few more players for whom being at Notts County is a big thing and a journey on their career upwards, rather than their latest step down.

One of our advantages at this level should be that we’re an attractive proposition for some of the better players in our league, but I’m not sure we signed a single player from another National League club under Ardley. It’s mostly people from higher leagues with the odd young lad from lower down thrown in, plus the two obvious Football Radar signings in Sam and Rodrigues.