Darrell Clarke - The Coach

[Rory]

Who is this zebra chap? What's its history with Daz?

[mbycars]

2 minutes ago, Rampant Zebra said:

I think that Times/Guardian article when he was talking about his response to his father's death bed request for him and his brother to come and see him finished me off with him.

What a load of crap do drag that up! You do not know the circumstances that Darrell and his brother went through in their early life. You really are the lowest of the low.

[mbycars]

30 minutes ago, Doha said:

I deleted my post before you replied because on reflection I didn't want to get bogged down in another round of this nonsense.

Genuinely. I'm not attacking you, there's no abusive comments. 5 promotions in 10 years and, particuarly in the wake of what happened to DC, your first comment to mention him since promotion suggests "maybe...him returning screwed up automatic promotion." I mean really. Why can't you just admit a single word of praise for him? Why?

There is no reason why Doha, i seriously think the guy is just trolling and playing us all to get a response.

[Rampant Zebra]

10 minutes ago, mbycars said:

What a load of crap do drag that up! You do not know the circumstances that Darrell and his brother went through in their early life. You really are the lowest of the low.

It was Darrell who brought it up in a national newspaper. I can understand that he obviously had a difficult upbringing and can accept that he might have felt like that when he was 15. I just felt there was no need for him to mention it now. 

[Rory]

It was Darrell who brought it up in a national newspaper. I can understand that he obviously had a difficult upbringing and can accept that he might have felt like that when he was 15. I just felt there was no need for him to mention it now. 

You seem really a really bad human. I'm sorry.

[Packmoor_vale]

4 minutes ago, Rampant Zebra said:

It was Darrell who brought it up in a national newspaper. I can understand that he obviously had a difficult upbringing and can accept that he might have felt like that when he was 15. I just felt there was no need for him to mention it now. 

So dad suddenly wants be dad when he is dying to clear his own conscience 

[Fosse69]

Discussion of a person`s personal life not proper to thread.

[robf]

I would just like to add my backing to @Fosse69 closing this thread.

This was an interesting thread about Darrell Clarke's coaching style that escalated into abuse and went off topic.

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