No matter who gets to take on football in Ilkeston there will be many questions which will be troubling fans at the NMG!
Many supporters were very unhappy with the way there club was run over the last two seasons and they will be looking for a new approach! It will be important that lines of communication are improved as previously when reliable information is missing guesswork was the only way fans could work out what was going on.
If Mr Hardy gets the challenge he will be fully aware of how to engage with a "broken" club having taken over Notts County after years of in fighting and dashed hopes and dreams. Having read the excellent "One Flew Over the Magpies Nest" it is obvious that there are many parallels between the situation he inherited at Notts and what he will be taking on at Ilkeston! Years ago when I was introduced to David Holdsworth who had just been appointed Manager of Ilkeston Town I asked him what he thought of the club? He replied that it was a club tearing itself apart and it desperately needed some TLC (tender loving care). I had never looked at it this way because I had become so used to it being this way at Ilkeston. The club are in a similar if not worse position now where there is a lack of trust and suspicion is the emotion of the day!
Hopefully the new regime will bring a bit of TLC to the footballing community of Ilkeston!

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