In the second part of our Q and A session manager Jim Smith told Yellow World about his future plans as well as the one that got away!

Q and A is your chance to ask questions to the management and players at the club, and in part two of Jim's interview the first question was How long are you going to be a manager? Will you know when to pass it on?

"I don't know, really, how long I will continue. Obviously I don't want to pass it on on a down, I want to pass it on when we're on a high. Mind you, too many downs and I might not have much choice anyway!

"I was so disappointed with how last season ended, not the season overall but just the end of it, and you think 'at my age do I want to go through it again'. But it means so much to me and to the club and to Nick and the fans that I want to give it at least one more crack to go back into the league. I took a good break from it all over the summer, and came back refreshed and feeling good about it all.

"I'm looking forward to working with Darren from day one of the season and what lies ahead."

Will it be easier or harder having had a season in the Conference?

"I think we have a hard job this season. There will be four or five serious contenders, more than last year. People are spending a lot of money and it's going to be tough. I don't think that's a bad thing for us because we maybe thought it was going to be a bit too easy last year after the start we had."

Are there any players in your career who you've looked at and not signed, and then regretted it?

"On the negative side one of my biggest mistakes was when I was told to go and watch a young left back called Stuart Pearce at Wealdstone when I was at Birmingham. We already had Dave Langan, Mark Dennis and Colin Todd, all serious players, and when I went down to watch Stuart I could see he had a great left foot and could kick it a long way, which was how the team played, but I wasn't too sure he was First Division. Look what he did! He had a fantastic career

"We had Mark Dennis, and if he'd had the brains of Stuart then he'd have been better because he was an outstanding natural player. But Mark was a little bit crazy. Good fun, and a great lad, but his career could have been that bit more?"

Even missing out on Pearce isn't Jim's biggest regret though:

"In terms of young lads that I saw but couldn't do anything about then I remember signing the Argentine left back Alberto Tarantini for Birmingham and he told me to go out and sign a young 16 year old striker called Maradona. We could get him for $500,000, and I said we had enough with one Argentinian in Birmingham and we didn't need another!

"A year later I went to Dublin to see Eire play Argentina, looking to sign someone who was playing for St Pats in Ireland. In the first half I saw Liam Brady being absolutely outstanding, but in the second Maradona came on and was magnificent and I realised that I'd made a bit of a mistake not trying to sign him for Birmingham!!"