JOHN Coleman says he is not going to put a limit on what his side can achieve, after securing his fourth promotion as Accrington Stanley manager.

The Reds were in the UniBond First Division – three tiers below League Two - when Coleman took charge in 1999. In 2006 he masterminded the club’s long-awaited return to the Football League.

Since then he has maintained there was another promotion in the club.

But after securing a place in League One with four games to spare, Coleman has not ruled out going higher still.

“I wouldn’t like to put a limit on it,” he said. “Every game we go into we’ll give it a good go to win.

“We set out at the start of the season to get automatic promotion, not to get in the play-offs.

“We sat everybody down, staff included, and we said ‘we’re going on this journey, come along with us or ship out.’

“Everyone bought into it.

“We’ve got players who are hungry – hungry to prove a point and hungry to earn big careers and use us as a stepping stone.

“That’s the model we’ll adopt. How high you can take that I don’t know but one thing I know is that it won’t be for the want of trying.

“Those lads have worked hard and ran themselves into the ground.

“I can’t praise those players highly enough. I’ll get a lot of bouquets thrown at me in the coming weeks but it’s those boys in there.

“People praise you for being manager of the season but it’s not manager of the season, it’s team of the season, because they are the team of the season.”

Despite operating with the division’s second lowest budget Coleman refuted the suggestion that promotion was a miracle, but added: “Someone said to me it was like winning the World Snooker Championship with a toothpick. I wouldn’t go that far. It’s not all about money, if it was you’d just have chairman writing cheques and throwing them at each other. It’s about passion and determination and it’s about ability.

“We might not be rich monetary wise, we might not be rich facility wise but I’ll tell you what we’re probably the richest club for passion.”