Solihull Appoint Ardley

[upthemaggies]

I remember breaking it down into percentages of blame way back when and I had Ardley less than 50% to blame, but he was still more to blame than anybody else. Hardy obviously 2nd biggest factor but Nolan, the players, the coaching staff and even the fans expectations played a part in what led to Ardley failing to turn it around.

We probably wouldn't have gone down however if we'd stuck with Nolan or Kewell. The players liked Nolan, so would have played for him enough to get the necessary points, Kewell left having taken us out of the drop zone. So that's why I focus on Ardley so much because he was the small margin of error that made the difference between finishing 21st or a few places higher.

[countygump]

I remember breaking it down into percentages of blame way back when and I had Ardley less than 50% to blame, but he was still more to blame than anybody else. Hardy obviously 2nd biggest factor but Nolan, the players, the coaching staff and even the fans expectations played a part in what led to Ardley failing to turn it around.

We probably wouldn't have gone down however if we'd stuck with Nolan or Kewell. The players liked Nolan, so would have played for him enough to get the necessary points, Kewell left having taken us out of the drop zone. So that's why I focus on Ardley so much because he was the small margin of error that made the difference between finishing 21st or a few places higher.

If you reverse what happened and imagine Ardley had succeeded in steering Notts away from relegation, I would imagine he would have gotten the lion's share of the credit for it. So, the opposite must surely apply?

[upthemaggies]

If you reverse what happened and imagine Ardley had succeeded in steering Notts away from relegation, I would imagine he would have gotten the lion's share of the credit for it. So, the opposite must surely apply?

We wouldn't have been praising Hardy, that's for sure, or most of the players. It was all riding on Kewell, initially, to sort it out and once the job in hand had been withdrawn from him, it was down to Ardley to make the difference and he failed to deliver.

If the new owners and the fans had been told that we wouldn't go up with Ardley in 2019/20 and that we would never climb higher than 3rd with him in charge in the best part of two seasons, and that by the end of March 2021 even getting into the play offs was in the balance, I'm pretty sure nobody would have been up for keeping him on once the Reetz btos had got things under control.

Other clubs have looked on and seen what he's done here, that's why he's ended up at a club that virtually nobody had heard of until a few years ago and didn't even exist until 2006. Maybe he has learnt something from his time at Notts how not do things and wil be a success there, but that's absolutely no good to Notts County.