NTT20 Pod Meets: Darrell Clarke

Not The Top 20 Podcast

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4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Ali sat down with Darrell Clarke to get to know him, to discuss his playing and management career, especially his time at Bristol Rovers. Find below a list of topics and timecodes: 01:00 - What Darrell has been up to since leaving Bristol Rovers. 04:45 - Any conversations been about vacancies? 06:00 - Is he hoping to get back in before the end of the 2018/19 season? 07:15 - Frustrations at difficulties for young, British Managers with many foreign managers being preferred. 10:15 - Darrell’s playing career - starting at home-town team Mansfield. 13:50 - Time at Salisbury as player and then player-manager after being demoted two divisions, winning promotion in his first and third seasons. 20:00 - Move to Bristol Rovers as Assistant Manager to John Ward. 22:45 - Becoming Manager with 8 games to go in 2013/14 season and suffering relegation. 24:30 - Being backed by the board after relegation and how he sold himself to the board as the man to take them back up. 27:40 - The difficulties of the National League 28:30 - How important was it to win that play-off final against Grimsby? 30:30 - Play-Off Final vs Grimsby memories 34:15 - League Two Promotion season - what was the strategy? Two stories about motivating the players! 40:00 - What were the main characteristics of that double promotion team - what made them so successful (tactics, style, mentality, etc)? 44:00 - Poor form this season despite 47:00 - How did he deal with the poor run of form? How did it affect him? 49:00 - Issues with infrastructure and facilities 51:00 - Insight of Graham Coughlan and the type of manager he will be 53:30 - Difficulty recruiting goalscorers - Jayden Stockley, Christian Doidge 55:00 - Tom Nichols 56:00 - Turning down Leeds United in 2016 - any regrets? 58:30 - His feelings leaving Bristol Rovers. 59:30 - League One analysis - automatic promotion battle 1:02:30 - tactics chat - how to set up against Luton 4-diamond-2 1:06:00 - League One analysis - relegation battle 1:08:00 - What’s the dream next opportunity? 1:09:30 - What sort of structure would he like to work in? 1:12:30 - Bristol Rovers fans ‘limbs’! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi guys, I'm delighted to be here with former Bristol Rovers manager, Darrell Clark.
0:25.6	Darrell, to go back a few years, chucked in to the deep end with Bristol Rovers with eight games to go,
0:31.8	as they were ultimately relegated out of the EFL into non-league, only to win back-to-back promotions into league one.
0:39.6	A 10th place finish followed in his first season in league one, followed by 13th place finish
0:45.3	before a difficult start to the season leads us to this point.
0:48.5	We've got a lot to talk to Darrell about highs and lows at Bristol Rovers, career beforehand
0:53.8	that had taken him to Salisbury as
0:55.9	player manager and then his first full-time manager job and a playing career with some
1:00.2	interesting locations as well at 1,721 days in charge of Bristol Rovers. Darrell, you're 41. You've
1:07.7	managed over 400 games as a manager in spells with Salisbury and Bristol Rovers.
1:12.8	And now, I reckon you're off work probably for the first time since you joined the Mansfield
1:18.7	youth team as a boy. So, I mean, what has the last six weeks been like?
1:24.1	Very strange. Very strange. I'm sick of doing the chores in the house,
1:27.6	that's for sure if one of the wife keeps giving me. So yeah, no, it's, I hate being out of work.
1:34.3	It's certainly, it's been, uh, eyes and lows along the way in those, you know, career, bad
1:39.5	injuries and whatnot and coming into management, which is obviously we know non-stop but now it's been
1:46.7	nice to recharge had a lovely Christmas with a family I had my daughters down from north which was
1:51.6	which was great and had a nice time with a wife so we're recharging but to fred and fresh and ready to go
1:58.4	yeah you often see managers who have been under a lot of pressure for an extended period of time
2:04.4	and someone like yourself who, it was so clear to fans of Bristol Rovers and followers of the league,
2:09.5	was so invested and working so hard in a tough period.
2:15.3	You sometimes think, on a human level, I'm kind of glad that you've had a bit of time off and you've been able to maybe get this sleep.
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