NTT20 Pod Meets: Darrell Clarke - a podcast by Not The Top 20 Podcast

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’!

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