[Haggis316]

Let's stop the post mortems and try to enjoy what remains of the ride. I am hoping to get an exeat to attend the Macc and Milton Keynes games as the last Accrington league and league fixtures respectively.

There is a strong correlation between league positions and team's wage budgets. On that basis John Coleman has done a reasonable job. We go down with him and Jimmy at the helm.

Marvellous though the supporters who come through the turnstiles are the town of Accrington has not shown much of an appetite for league football. As with the old Stanley there lies the root of the problem.

Whenever I arrived I was dismayed by the number of young people travelling out of the town in the opposite direction instead of going to the match I had travelled over 80 miles to see.

Against this background I think the club needs to hang onto the most successful non league management partnership it has ever had.

I for one was not one of those people who considered the Conference Trophy an irksome reminder of a non league past that Stanley had put behind them for ever. No one who attended the Chester away game could think that. I thought it was quite possibly the pinnacle of Stanley's achievement.