I'd love to see this confirmed once and for all or otherwise, though how you verify it I've no idea. It's probably going to endure as one of those 'facts' that can be tossed into the equation when it suits an argument and left aside when it doesn't.
If Ardley can get a club on a quarter to a third of the gates we get then you have to take your hat off to him and also accept that it reflects very badly on Notts.