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I will try to answer that as best I can, with my own personal thoughts.
We at Ilkeston are realistic, we are a football club in a small town sandwiched between two massive clubs (Forest and Derby), to be where we are in the Northen premier league and finish one place off the play offs for your current league is a major achievement for a club as small as ours with a relatively low average attendance, mainly because most of our fans are season ticket holders at the 2 big clubs and watch us when their team is away, of course we have a small hard-core of fans that do not support the bigger clubs, so really we are punching above our weight, if we could get to NLN like Rushall did, we too would probably not last so long either?…. as I said we are realistic here.
David Hilton aspires to be at a higher level than possible at Ilkeston, Matlock have no competion for fans and have far better average attendances than us, so this may be his reason thinking he could go further than possible with Ilkeston?… I don’t know and as I said these are my personal thoughts, I know Dave very well and he is a very ambitious person, so if he wants to reach for the stars that’s fine, if he does and it works out that’s great, if he doesn’t get there at least he has had a go hasn’t he…. and most people love a trier, and if he does get there we could have a Brian Clough/Leeds Utd situation, where he was hounded out of Leeds, went on to be a European cup double winner while Leeds sunk down faster than the Titanic drowning their Brian Clough hating fans along the way….. think on!