Duncan or Clarke

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For the old men,where did your allegiance lay?

[Iron Age]

Sniffer got promotion on the back of Duncan’s hard work.
Duncan would not have been sacked without his rumoured dalliance. Sacked immediately after losing to Grimsby (then in the second tier) in an cup replay.

[64]

Yeah but that wasn’t the question

[IronIronIron]

Duncan was a good manager. Clarke wasn’t.

[MK Iron]

Duncan was an OK bloke. Clarke was an arsehole.

Better finisher though.

[Awaywego]

Sorry to say we were going nowhere with Duncan, Clarke came in and his player scored the goals to take us up. CLARKE

[Sanfran49]

Iron Age wrote:

Sniffer got promotion on the back of Duncan’s hard work.
Duncan would not have been sacked without his rumoured dalliance. Sacked immediately after losing to Grimsby (then in the second tier) in an cup replay.

Duncan better at building a team. He ultimately lost his job because when they lost Grimsby the chairman saw several players laughing as they left the field. He told Duncan he wanted them all out of the club and Duncan refused.

Mr Wraith had tried to get on the Leeds board and was turned down so he signed Mr Clarke hoping to prove Leeds wrong. It didn’t quite work !

[NorthWestIron]

Didn’t Wraith have a dog called sniffer, and so appointed Clarke when possible ? He was an arrogant wanker.

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[saleiron]

Duncan, all day, every day. He did all the ground work for promotion that season. Wraith was a crook and a Leeds fan. And less of the old!

[Rene Artois]

Duncan cut his managerial teeth here.
Clarke had a smidge short of 200 games (197) experience when arriving.
I’d have to go with Duncan.

[another fed up fan]

Duncan for me built the foundation as a new manager then robbed of the glory

[ironfromafar]

I always found Clarke best for shoes
and
Duncan the best hairstylist (located on Dunstall st 1982)

[Iron-awe]

Clarke was a former goal scorer at Wembley with Leeds back in the day but Duncan took Chesterfield to the FA cup semi final as manager. Duncan built the team Clarke took up but he flattered to deceive after that, Duncan for me all day long.

[Ex Officio]

Duncan! Not the Donut.

[ironking]

Duncan for me.

Duncan was sacked because he changed a winning team by dropping Alan Boxall and putting in Steve Baines for a Friday night game v Bury which we lost 1-0 our first defeat of the season.

When Wraith asked why he changed a winning team, Duncan replied that another director (Plumtree) thought as we were paying a lot of money for Steve Baines he ought to be playing.

Alan Boxall was PT and a schoolteacher from Cleethorpes, possibly the first long throw specialist in the game.

Wraith was not impressed that another director had the managers ear.

Clarke was a tosser as a manager and Duncan’s track record against Clarke’s proves Duncan to be better.

[Noster]

That comment gave me the best laugh I’ve had in ages. Thank you.

[Awaywego]

Totally wrong there Ironking.
Played Bury on the Saturday not a Friday,played in november didn’t sack Duncan till February, it was the results from the Bury game that cost Duncan.
Bury game will always stick out in the memory big appeals for scunny fans to turn out in numbers and they did only to fail, never got anywhere near that crowd again all season and we got promoted.
Take note Michelle.

[SODIron]

John Duncan all the way, Alan Clarke got us relegated the following season without a single away win.

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