Reply With QuoteFunny you should say that , i was thinking exactly the same about IBOriginally Posted by legs77
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Not only that am i correct in saying a large part of Ardley doing well at Solihull, is because he signed Andrew Dallas last summer
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Funny you should say that , i was thinking exactly the same about IB
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I think you have lost yourself buddy your actual words were
"IB never really signed any good players, our better ones were all Ardley signings"
I can't remember you ever praising Ardley when he was manager for signings. Your attitude and view of NA has shifted dramatically, it is quite astonishing#agenda. I've seen a hell of a lot on NCM in my time but I must admit I never saw it coming.
Your former (NA) partner in crime Pedro is clearly stunned into silence following your stunning U-turn#viva
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Palmer? Cameron?
I really liked Ardley, and still do. It was time though for him to go - for his sake as much as ours. Hope Solihull go up. But I do think we have progressed under Burchnall. More points in a stronger league is what I base that on. I also think that without a needless push in the 96th minute we would be playing Solihull on Sunday. Just my opinion.
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As I've said before, this "stronger league" thing is a half-truth. It was definitely stronger at the top end, but it was also piss weak at the bottom end. Even if you discount Dover's points deduction, the relegated clubs between them managed just 75 points from 132 games. From those 3 clubs alone, that left 294 points for other clubs to gain.
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As I said, just my opinion.
Had we progressed to the play-offs semi, would that have been progress?
Regarding IB, it's quite hard for me not to think that others must have thought he has done well having been heavily linked to the Lincoln job and given the FGR job in League 1.
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Has Davey been kidnapped by Aliens had a brain transplant and been sent back to earth to act as an conduit & informer for some far off planet ? this isn't the Davey I love and remember.
Any way back to NA , for me his success at Solihull should only lead to the conclusion and confirm what a poor manager for US! He went out week after week employing his dreary version of retaining possession to win games or more importantly not to lose them. As far as I'm concerned IB's teams created more chances in 2 games than NA's did in half a season. Anyway back on track as far as I could see and read from their fans forum Solihull he started of in the same vein as he did us , winning but winning bad , ugly , boring football with limited chances. Somewhere along the line he seems to have elevated his own standards and changed them for pug ugly footy team into potential free flowing promotion winners. So therein begs the question , if he is such a good manager then why didn't he do it for us , either in his relegation battle , or his two promotion stints ? The records are there for us all to see , he failed on all accounts , so can we please stop this rose tinted spectacles malarkey that he was a good manager for Notts , He wasn't but he might just have turned into a good one at Solihull by using or stumbling onto a different approach, whichever it was he didn't use it at Notts, we were pug ugly !
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Exactly read what i said, i said all the players that people this season said were good, were Ardley signings , its you thats added other things on, you know full well i was never an Ardley supporter due to the relegation.
I also said that having stuck with him for so long we should see it through, and give Ardley a second crack at the play offs which i believe he deserved . i posted at the time, i was not impressed with the timing off NA sacking, and him being replaced by the inexperienced IB on a 4 year contract was madness.At the time i thought NA should have only been replaced with somebody with more experience at this level
I have now been found to be correct, as IB went on to be worse than NA at Notts, and in the meantime NA has done better than IB at Solihull proving himself to be a good national league manager , on top of that we discovered IB signed hardly any good players, and he was a judas that had no loyalty, i hope IB gets sacked at FGR
So i hope that clears it up for you
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all i have said is NA was better than IB and the final league position shows this, two 3rd place finish and finals against IB two 5th place finishes, as for IB,s team creating chances i never saw it against Grimsby, Notts would have never scored in a week , unless from the penelty spot
I have already said i do not care what kind of football is played, this is a results orientated business , points on the board or winning play off matches is where it is
However you do raise a very good question, if we have deecent managers , why do they never do it for Notts ??
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No it was a tight game in which we had an obvious penalty denied by serendipity or a bottling referee, they scored an offside goal with a touch of the globe trotters involved re handball (possibly) which stood. If we can overlook the fact that we were 20 seconds away from the semi final due to a rookies push in the back on the edge of our box we could have been possibly winging our way to west Ham for a final
P.S we only scored from a penalty as he decided to stick an arm out to prevent a shot on goal going any further possibly into the back of the net
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