What A Difference Six Years Makes Allen?s first interview
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 06:58 AM
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 08:43 AM
Made me smile that he said he would get rid of the numbers of players to bring better quality in, then signed players like Nelson and Muggleton.
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 08:55 AM
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 09:03 AM
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 10:06 AM
calvin plummers socks, on 27 May 2024 - 09:45 AM, said:
Previous history of success.
All round great bloke as well - just didn?t work out here.
The biggest managerial disappointment in clubs history - or at least one of them.
Allen had never been this far north and was literally scratching around for players. <div>On paper, a good manager but the interviewer really didn't help himself but Allen reminded me of Sheridan in his interview style.</div><div>He had the makings but the first few games were lucky wins- deary me. The nightmare is over.
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This post has been edited by SocraticCFC: 27 May 2024 - 10:09 AM
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 10:08 AM
SocraticCFC, on 27 May 2024 - 10:06 AM, said:
Allen had never been this far north and was literally scratching around for players. He had the makings but the first few games were lucky wins.
Chris O'Grady - deary me. The nightmare is over.
I?ll raise you Jack Lester and Dean Saunders
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 10:17 AM
In hindsight Evatt would have made a much better choice 🤔
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 10:35 AM
A week later he he knocked on my door in person and had a chat with me. I liked him. He didn't change my mind and unfortunately it all came crashing down. Not many managers would do that
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 11:54 AM
calvin plummers socks, on 27 May 2024 - 10:08 AM, said:
The difference between the two was that Saunders was Allen's man and so was backed, where Jack Lester was to placate the fans and wasn't given two beans to rub together. I'm not saying that Jack Lester would have turned things around, but at least back give him a level playing field.
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 12:31 PM
Hoare (400)
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 12:35 PM
calvin plummers socks, on 27 May 2024 - 10:08 AM, said:
On reflection, Sheridan's second spell. They're all pretty much a disaster - enhanced by injuries to key players. Saunders used to be at the club just after 7am on many mornings so you couldn't fault the committment
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 12:51 PM
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 04:21 PM
calvin plummers socks, on 27 May 2024 - 10:08 AM, said:
I'll see your Lester (unfair) and Saunders and raise you Caldwell, Rushbury & McMenemy.
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 06:19 PM
SocraticCFC, on 27 May 2024 - 12:35 PM, said:
He was trying to get us relegated to spite Allen and get another pay-off. Won?t be convinced otherwise!
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Posted 27 May 2024 - 07:24 PM
He said the opening 25 minutes of that match was the most pressure his team had been put under that season
from memory they broke away and scored with their first attack and that summed up the majority of martin Allens home matches as I recall
It just was not meant to be for him at Chesterfield i reckon
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Posted 28 May 2024 - 12:41 PM
whittman, on 27 May 2024 - 07:24 PM, said:
He said the opening 25 minutes of that match was the most pressure his team had been put under that season
from memory they broke away and scored with their first attack and that summed up the majority of martin Allens home matches as I recall
It just was not meant to be for him at Chesterfield i reckon
Martin Allen was a charlatan, (a used car salesman if you will), who talked himself up to the point where most fans got carried away without actually looking at his record (or lack of!) and used his charisma and 'charm' to keep getting job afetr job before being found out and taking a pay off.
He'd only started and finished the same season with the same club once or twice in his 20+ years managing.
Carson was hoodwinked in to giving him a job (although presumably made a few ? off the back of it after tipping his lad off to take the 33/1 on offer on him getting the job!) which disproves the old adage of "you can't b**lshit a b**lshitter?!