IT'S a good job you are what you eat and not what you drink or else I'd have turned into a bottle of Cava a long while ago!

I've loved every second of our championship celebrations, and really made the most of them.

But while it's good to toast our success, I'm looking forward to drinking in everything we've achieved this year, and planning our next challenge.

Come August, we'll be playing the same ball game.

Players are players, contracts are contracts, clubs are clubs, pitches are pitches whatever level you play at.

But for me and John Coleman, the Football League is a completely different ball park.

We have been non-league men throughout our football careers, so how far our style of management will take us from now on, we don't know.

One thing is for sure, though, we will give it everything we've got to keep the club moving forward.

We have ear-marked at least four targets that we want to secure over the summer.

For starters our goalkeeper situation needs to be addressed, and our first choice would be Rob Elliot after the fantastic season he had with us. Then we need a central defender, a central midfielder and a striker.

But as well as strengthening on the pitch, I think there are a couple of factors that will work for us psychologically next term.

No-one will fancy coming to the Interlink Express Stadium because it can be an intimidating place, and we haven't got the facilities that Swindon and Walsall are used to.

Then there is also the momentum that we will hope to carry forward on the back of winning the Conference.

For the first half of the season at least I would expect the lads will still be thriving on that and they will be all up for playing in a new league.

If we can get our noses in front in that time, I'm sure it will be a good season.

It's time to relax a little bit for the time being though, go on holiday and recharge the batteries before preparing ourselves for pre-season and a new chapter in the life of Accrington Stanley.

I hope all the supporters have enjoyed this season as much as the management and players have.

Enjoy the summer, and we look forward to seeing you, and hopefully a few more besides, in a couple of months.

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