Sutton Utd

[Ayeayeskipper]

Don't flatter yourself; I'd imagine people are looking at the thread title - Sutton Utd - only to find the usual 4 year old squabbles, accompanied by the equally hilarious ##choo choo bollox.

Thanks for not reading it, whoever you are.

[TSANHO]

Don't flatter yourself; I'd imagine people are looking at the thread title - Sutton Utd - only to find the usual 4 year old squabbles, accompanied by the equally hilarious ##choo choo bollox.

This

[laddo]

Nobody knows what the 'mission' is apart from you, because you won't tell us despite being asked many times. I will willingly take threads to handbags if you agree to do the same. Instead, you claim that "things have moved on", yet you still seem happy to pollute topics with your endless petty personal arguments.

Have you grasped the past versus present tense? Just want to check before we move on

You do know you are allowed to ask others to move petty arguments to your handbags thread? There have been plenty of examples recently where I have not been involved and you have once again you have said nothing. You could say you've gone as quiet as a mouse..... again. Hmmm I wonder why lol

Whilst I've got you just want to check you don't like the use of nicknames do you? You still find their use disrespectful?

[Elite_Pie]

You do know you are allowed to ask others to move petty arguments to your handbags thread? There have been plenty of examples recently where I have not been involved and you have once again you have said nothing. You could say you've gone as quiet as a mouse..... again. Hmmm I wonder why lol

Why do you keep calling it my handbags thread? It's nothing to do with me. It's been explained to you many times that it's the ex-moderators thread. He set it up and asked all posters to use it for petty arguments so threads wouldn't be ruined for others. You openly stuck two fingers up to him and flatly refused to use it. That's why threads like this one has been ruined - because you refused to co-operate with his wishes. You insist on continuing your petty arguments on football threads.

Choo Choo on that.

Whilst I've got you just want to check you don't like the use of nicknames do you? You still find their use disrespectful?

I'm not keen on silly nicknames, but I can't stop anyone using them if they want to. What I find much worse is rank hypocrisy, where a poster says one thing and then proceeds to do the exact opposite of what he preaches.

Ring any bells?

[laddo]

Reading the overnight posts on this thread from the usual 3 you have to wonder where this idea of infatuation and obsession comes from?

It's made up surely? Where's the evidence?

Handbags Thread R.I.P

[PedroTheFisherman66]

Chris? Oh, he's talking b0llocks again Pedro.

I suspect he always does and always will...!

[laddo]

[QUOTE=Davy500;39789683]

I am afraid that you have shown that you don't think but just write everything anti-Ardley.

Lots of criticism about him being too defensive (I agree) but there's no way he can be accused of poor defensive play when we had conceded the least goals this season and the 2nd least last season.

Criticise all you like (you have done enough already!) but the defence wasn't the problem. Only last week there was a thread 'The Rock' about Ellis - who signed him?[/QUOTE


There is so many things i could accuse Ardley of how long is your Arm?
You that obviously does not think, before you write, and just write everything to defend your idol

I said his STYLE of defensive play, because its negative in approach and lets teams come onto us ( proven in key matches , where he had no answer to the high press) most teams in this division with respect are poor outfits, where notts must impose themselves, with a belief to win, from the offset most of Ardleys games against these types of sides were undecided into the closing stages of games, with it possible to swing either way - not good enough

By the time Ardley left i do not think we had let in the least goals, the brief time we did for about a week, all of the clubs apart from about 5 had scored more goals, because of ardleys negative set up, and ideas
So what we had a good defense, at the expense of attacking, winning football

Without doubt our good defense under NA was very much at the expense of attacking football. The majority of the side was setup defensively, the main focus was on the defence and shape.

However you may want to check your Facts Davy regarding how long we had the tightest defence in the league. Only about a week? Are you sure only 5 sides had scored less goals? Promise?

Nobody can seriously deny NA was a defensive conservative manager overall nor can anyone say he didn't create a team with an impressive defensive record.

And above all isn't goal difference more important that goals scored? When NA left the building in the top 7 only Stockport , Torquay and leaders Sutton had a better goal difference than Notts. That's a fact.

Not sure about below 7th but that isn't much of a concern when you are in 6th with games in hand.

[laddo]

The answer as to why sutton won the title, is because they consistently beat poor to mid table teams, something Ardley never did, he could,nt even beat Dover , that won 2 of their 15 matches, let that sink in

I already explained it could have quite easily been us in the Championship today, instead of Coventry. Things could have quite easily turned out well for Hardy

Yeah i always said it was a huge mistake sacking Nolan ( surprisingly a lot of fans wanted him gone- hope they are happy with what they got, and where we are today )
Hindsight is simple, there is no way Hardy, or any of us, at that time, even had thought of relegation
Guess where relegation was born, by Ardley, winning once in his first 12 matches, casting us 8 points from safety , losing the key match against macclesfield,.....
It beggers belief some notts fans were behind this clown - for absolutely no reason, his stats were worse than fullartons, its an absolute disgrace

Reading that, especially Ardley's truly awful start in charge with just 1 win in 12 it sounds like the true turning point was Alan Hardy hand selecting and appointing Neal Ardley as manager!

Unless you instead believe it was the earlier premature sacking of Kevin Nolan, which could easily be argued.

To suggest the turning point was the playoff game against Coventry is a stretch at best, laughable at worse.

[Jampie]

Personally I find it highly amusing when people who couldn't manage their way out of a paper bag criticise someone who got a League Two team promoted who were also poorer than us, and then kept them in league one on a shoestring budget. Wonder how he managed that?

I suppose that and getting us into the playoff spots in this league counts for nothing.

Ye men of few ideas...

[upthemaggies]

Personally I find it highly amusing when people who couldn't manage their way out of a paper bag criticise someone who got a League Two team promoted who were also poorer than us, and then kept them in league one on a shoestring budget. Wonder how he managed that?

I suppose that and getting us into the playoff spots in this league counts for nothing.

Ye men of few ideas...

A player going back to his former club to manage is a very different set of circumstances. Ardley failed to do the job he was brought in to do at Notts and then failed to do the job he was kept on to do, not once but twice. If he goes on to make a success of himself elsewhere, it's not going to change what he did here, that is set in stone now.

Anybody still making excuses for his time at Notts is simply trying to rationalise their own failure to spot the bleeding obvious later than just about everybody else.

Digging yourself further into that hole is not going to encourage people to respect your opinion.