Darrell Clarke

All About Walsall
943

To think he was also offered the Leeds job and turned it down, Christ I need to sit down before I fall down

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944

They also entered administration again not long after heā€™d left, and were thrown out of the conference for unpaid debts.

945

Itā€™s a bit like buying shares when the market is low and bailing out after asset stripping the company.

Itā€™s easy to do well in lower divisions while spending more money than the rest. I rarely wish people ill but what a joy it would be for Vale to go down. Preferably without another point.

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946

He wanted Rory Gaffney. We need say nothing else about him.

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947

Iā€™ve interviewed quite a number of sales people over the years and I learnt to avoid a certain type, of which traits I see in Darrell Clarke.

They interview like Tom Cruise, insisting they are winners, pointing to all of the sales courses they have taken and having a wealth of experience gained over many years.

The reality is very different. The charm turns into arrogance with a complete lack of self awareness. The ā€˜knowledgeā€™ acquired at the many sales courses was never put into practice and instead of 10 years of experience, it was 1 years experience, doing the same things year after year. As poor performance is challenged the arrogance turns spiky and defensive. It is the poor sales literature that is the problem; the telesales team are poor and donā€™t provide enough leads and I didnā€™t employ them; the product training was substandard; the targets set were too high.

Then of course, they jump ship to a ā€˜much betterā€™ company who were impressed by the Tom Cruise who turned up at their doorā€¦

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948

Donā€™t blame anyone for ā€œclearing the decksā€ after the disease ridden mess Keates created. Needed to be done and there always casualties when this happens.

DC was let down by his ā€œbigā€ signings no question but itā€™s been an absolute nightmare with recruitment.

What surprises me, is the number of Players brought in who look nowhere near the required standard. Hard to understand what made him consider them in the 1st place.

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949

Thatā€™s what I mean by him dragging us down to the standard he usually manages clubs at. Heā€™s a conference manager at best. Vale are lucky he wonā€™t be recruiting the players. They will just have to put up with his baffling tactics and line ups every week

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950

The facts are he did excellent at Bristol Rovers. The reason why we brought him and why 99% of us welcomed it.

But alot of career success is ā€œcatching lightening in a bottleā€ and thatā€™s impossible to find again. Vale isnā€™t working out so hard to see where he goes from here?

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951

Just having a look at the season he got Bristol Rovers up from this league and he only actually drew 7! Like some vortex compared to whatā€™s gone on here. Will have to check back to see what forwards he had there but he obviously did stuff there he hasnā€™t got close to since that season.

They lost 13 out of 46 so werenā€™t far off 1 in 3 loss ratio that season but not drawing every other game massively helps.

952

Darrell Clarke just keeps on giving

if your feeling down or feeling blue just pop over to one of the Burslem/Fail Forums and have a read, cheered me up no end after a shyte day

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953

Think Iā€™m still a member on those from ten years back or more. Might have to there again.

954

In his pre- Cheltenham interview, DC says " I have left every football club I have managed in a better state " Thoughts ?

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955

Heā€™s delusional.

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956

He is a bloody bare faced liar as well :flushed:

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Heā€™s a ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā–  ā– ā– ā– ā– . Sort of bloke I wouldnā€™t ā– ā– ā– ā–  on if he were in fire. Hope he fails wherever he goes. ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– .

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958

I mean, we are kind of in a better state than when he first joined.

Weā€™ve just gone from very, very ā– ā– ā– ā–  to very ā– ā– ā– ā–  :rofl:

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959

The bloke is a legend in his own mind.

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960

And a bell end in everybody elses mind.

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961

During his time weā€™ve gone from a clean slate rebuild to needing a clean slate rebuild, except weā€™re no longer a relegated League One club rather a bang average League Two club.

What a moron.

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962

So he bankrupts one, more or less gets sacked from another, then leaves us in this sorry state.

Few managers if any do what he claims (Dean Smith perhaps) but certainly not him. We are very well to get rid of him. The success of the season.

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