I've no idea if that's true or not, but I couldn't care less either way.
Sounds like Burchnall isn't very well thought of or liked by other clubs in the national league
I've no idea if that's true or not, but I couldn't care less either way.
Last edited by keldsyke; 06-10-2021 at 09:13 PM.
Agree with the contents of the discussion entirely. There are the usual knee jerk reactions. Work to do. Amusing to see a few of the Ardley in brigader appearing again. Whatever you think of IB he certainly was not the answer for Notts. Seems a lot of the work to do is really nothing to do with spreadsheets and everything to do with rolling up the sleeves, manning up and digging deep to me. Which is what really makes or breaks teams in this division, talent aside.
You and driller are right, it wouldn't be surprising. The response to that should be 'so what?' and then go in the Millwall direction
The only reason to dislike him would be that he represents a threat - to them personally and their livelihoods, if coaching jobs ever get divorced from playing careers more of them are looking for something else (and there are fewer pubs around these days ) And if they're insecure about their abilities the dislike would be even more acute.
This angle makes me support IB even more. He's trying to break the mould - most ex-player managers serve up the same
old dross, stretch out their tenures with defensive tactics so that they last 15 months not 5 and then back on to the merry-go-round, all at the expense of the fans.
Ardley was a propor football man? I don't really think so. Not in the mould of some of the other managers in this division. He was a nice guy and he tried his best for sure but lets not drag that up again. IB does come across in a way in his interviews, which is bound to rub people up the wrong way and I don't think that is a good thing as it will make them even more determined to get one over on him. He does come across as 'smart' and 'smug' at times and whether that's intentional or not if I was up against him it would give me great pleasure to get one over on him. As they say on the podcast this is probably a good season to slip below the radar a bit with all the hate generated towards Wrexham and Chesterfield for their big spending and we are certainly not taking advantage of that. Put that in your spreadsheet lads!