Kendalshrimp wrote:Thanks Derek, that was a season we all dreamed of for years !
Hopefully the board have someone lined up to make us compete in league one, survival would be an even better achievement next season in that division.
Was he that much of master class or was Jim massively underachieving for years ?
Kendalshrimp wrote:I just hope we don’t end up with westley !
Kendalshrimp wrote:I just hope we don’t end up with westley ! Jimmy bell anyone from Accrington ?
Little Shrimp wrote:That also aside, I hope he crashes and burns at Bradford, getting the sack in October with Bradford fans kicking off about his style of play
fulwoodshrimp wrote:Whilst acknowledging the fantastic job D A has done in gaining promotion, he has abandoned us at a critical time and is likely to weaken our squad by taking players with him. The bigger challenge is maintaining our League 1 status and he has ducked out of this.Promotion will look good on his CV but he has followed the money IMO
BerlinWaller wrote:Thank you Derek for bringing this club of ours back to life. For making us dream and then making our dreams come true on Monday.
Freez wrote:DA is driven, single minded, stubborn, aloof, can be fiery and at times hard work. The players have been in training most Sunday’s since the turn of the year. They are fitter than they have been ever, that’s from most of the squad. But he mustered a squad of misfits, cast offs, has beens and never where’s into a team with a will to win, guts to defend and never say die attitude.
Even at Wembley we didn’t do ourselves justice but maybe the luck that deserted us in most of the big games against our rivals came to shine on us on the big day.
DA had everybody onside and pulling together, and for that and his vision in assembling a team that is easily way more talented than the some of its parts, a massive thank you.
Derek was very hard to like, never mind love, his abrasive interviews when we didn’t get the rub of the green, his no messing treatment and subsequent dropping of some players, and his unemotional yet professional training and tactical regime. However, his players respected him and knew he would get the best out of them.
Astute tactician, he made sure his players understood their roles and that the tactics could change three and four times in a game, his game management and ability to spot the opponents strengths and nullify them while identifying the weaknesses to exploit made him a a superb coach.
It’s been a pissy 16 months with no crowds, but on the field nobody could have dreamed that it would end with such success.
For that, we will all be eternal grateful.
I wish him well at Bradford.
Thanks for the memory.
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