I look at the pile of headless jelly babies, sacrificed before the altar of the football gods, and think to myself...you fat bastard.

I've yet to see why he is more of a coach than a manager. We've always looked under coached, going way back into the realms of Brown. Still little is the same on the coaching side going tha...oh.

When I do something well at work I don't have all in sundry singing my name before I fuck off home by the same token shergy. though they should frankly

Ardley is really a coach, not a manager. A bit like a tennis coach, ie improving individual players. By his own admission, he has struggled leading a squad of men. And if he can’t cope with a sentimental fanbase like ours, he would surely be eaten alive at a bigger club

STD. you say the lucky Charlton winner.......surely all we did was capitalise on an opponents mistake? Walsall at home: George Long miskicks it and opponent scores from 25 yards........was that unlucky?

Its all about our own opinion ,the lucky pen at walsall and lucky charlton winner during the run in saved us ,not scoring in 20 league games was very poor!up and at them this season Ardley will be king again

What Silk said!

STD......when you say we were lucky to survive surely at the end of a 46 game season you end up where you deserve to?

Agree with WD

Last season was shit,lucky to survive,but lets draw a line under it and look forward to the new positive attacking season ahead with promotion!

Silk, when you say 'he has done nothing that an average manager wouldn't have done' that is purely your opinion. I for one would disagree but that is what a fans forum such as this is all about of course!

Silk. It sounds as if you'd have given NA a higher score if we finished 4th in league 2 every season but never went up.

Except for those who attempt to see logic and reason in his words and then make a judgement

We all treat the bits of what Ardley says that we agree with as holy writ and dismiss the bits we disagree with

Sparts, I'm guessing that you weren't at the MtM evening a couple of weeks ago? NA tried to explain most aspects of last season, including the perceived negative tactics.

I give him a 6/10. He has done nothing that an average manager wouldn't have done. He has only finished top half one season since he has been in charge. If he had been sniffing around the playoffs before we had that good half a season and had us mid-table last season he would have got more.

SW, he made a mistake not signing a target man last summer. Personally I think that defined our season. We were short of strikers so we ended up being fairly defensive.

Results achieved 8 or 9. Pleasure from his football 5. Annoyance with his tendency to whinge 3. So average out around 6 to 7.

Shergy - I'm not saying we should go all out attack and never mind the defence but, it seemed like all out defence for much of last season instead. 7 marks out of 10 for what NA has achieved, but only a 4 for entertainment over the same period i'm afraid, and, if you were to take out the 2nd half of the promotion season it would be even lower.

Whatadom, I am an Ardley fan but I would say 8.5 or maybe 9

On the Fleetwood front, anyone passing through Preston en route to the game with room for one more?

I’d give Ardley a 10, in that he has achieved everything he possibly could have with us. Survival, promotion and ok cup runs and passing franchise

OI...... ok a question for you and others. Ardley has been manager for nearly 6 years. How many marks out of 10 would you give him for his overall performance in that time? 7/10 and I'm a very harsh marker.

Hello Shergy my friend, I think they will have mid table budget money to spend, due to having the Poolfoot complex now up and running creating income (busy every day I'm told). [Link] . Three signing this afternoon [Link] Ched Evans!. [Link] six signings to date. I think they will be strong next season. I hope to make the Fleetwood game if not skint, currently in France watching a weeks worth of stages of Le Tour. Prices here would make a few toes curl.

OI...... ok a question for you and others. Ardley has been manager for nearly 6 years. How many marks out of 10 would you give him for his overall performance in that time?