Ollie Gone

clappers said:
The stars aligned. His curious contrarian style worked with a chairman who was contrarian for his own reasons, coupled with a way of playing that he wanted to implement and access to players who could implement it. He never could recapture that moment in time and he just feeds his own legend to a diminishing audience and diminishing returns.
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Are you on acid 🙃
 
Talked to some of our ex players and they say he was poor tactically minded. We had a good team,backroom staff and everything slotted into place. He had some qualities and I would go along the lines of welshphil. Nothing else has gone right for him except his greed for bigger bank account and ego.
 
Ollie was definitely unique and not everyone's "cup of tea".

However, you cant get away from the fact that he gave us some of the best sporting moments of our lives when he was manager of TMP - and that is a fact - I loved the football we played when he was manager and the profile he gave us.

We all know who destroyed the dream and cant really blame him for leaving.

IMHO, we should be eternally grateful for the lasting memories he gave us. I will take memories of Ipswich conceding 6, Forest away, Wembley, Anfield on a Sunday afternoon, us thrashing Leeds to my grave.
 
GJJW said:
After reading that, I think he needs to retire. For his own health, and his family.
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He should stick to the media which is more his thing now.
Too similar a story at Plymouth, us, Millwall, Grimsby. Sounds like a few key players departed and he went for his usual trick of trying to sign loads of players in the hope one or two would turn out to be the next DJ Campbell, Matty P or Tom Ince. It’s an actual real-life football club, on its knees, not some fantasy footy failed attempt and then I’m off.
 
It seems to be a recurring theme that his recruitment is dreadful. Scattergun. No strategy beyond signing what he knows initially.
Look at us in the Prem when he was signing people off DVDs sent in and his wife was helping him. Why not appoint someone in a professional capacity or knowledge to help him to better identify targets? A Tony Parkes type person. It’s like he’s that confident in his own ability to turn things around, that he doesn’t know where or when to seek help. Or the help is desperate and unqualified (as in the case of his wife scouting for us).
Then he flips when the Chairman eventually stops backing his crazy signings - goes all World is against me mentality and super defensive against criticism or even reasonable questioning. And that’s usually the beginning of the rapid end.
 
All so predictable. Always the victim, never his fault. Club after club , the same issues. He's a chancer. Sometimes it's paid off, more often it's not.
For his own sake he needs to get out of football and enjoy his retirement.
 
Hazi said:
explaining why he is stepping down, Holloway revealed he felt it was "inappropriate" for the potential new owners to make contact with him before the takeover was completed.

I would of thought if you were taking over a club you would sound out the manager?
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What an irony.
Considering he walked straight into a job immediately after leaving us would suggest that he had clandestine talks with a board of directors on that occasion.
These managers don’t half talk a load of choite to suit their agenda.
With that said, I am in the bracket of loving the man for what he achieved for us and as regards loyalty; there is no such thing in football and managers and players alike should certainly look after themselves.
So I don’t blame Ollie for leaving us for a Premiership club (not the way he did it though) and neither do I blame Grayson for wanting to build his profile at a big club.
Never worked out for either of them in the long run but hey, that is football.
 
When you look back, consider for a moment that the following players were already at the Club, either full time or on loan; Gilks, Crainey, Evatt, Baptiste, Southern, Vaughan, Adam, GTF, DJC, Ormerod and Burgess. He added Clarke then Coleman in the January window on loan. He must have thought he’d died and gone to Heaven, as his own signings were generally low grade.
Having said all that, he sprinkled stardust on them, and what followed seemed straight out of a story book. None of us will ever forget it......or him. He was right for the time, but wasn’t it fun ?
 
20togo said:
All so predictable. Always the victim, never his fault. Club after club , the same issues. He's a chancer. Sometimes it's paid off, more often it's not.
For his own sake he needs to get out of football and enjoy his retirement.
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I do wonder where he'd be if he hadn't come to us for those glorious years....
 
TangerineTed said:
www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk

The inside story on Ian Holloway's departure from Grimsby Town

Ian Holloway arrived at Blundell Park to much excitement and fanfare, but after a brilliant few months, things unravelled quickly
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Interesting article...
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Really good article on that.

Thank god the results happened on the pitch for us and him.

The similarities in that piece from his time at Grimsby and us are stark. For what ever reason it worked during his tenure with us and he ll always hold a special place in the clubs history. We should be thankful for that because that piece could easily have been written in the gazette a decade ago.
 
It’s sad that a lot of our own fans love to snipe and undermine his success here.
I think it was Phil who posted a few days ago he was a good manager for 6 months.....
 
Middxile said:
When you look back, consider for a moment that the following players were already at the Club, either full time or on loan; Gilks, Crainey, Evatt, Baptiste, Southern, Vaughan, Adam, GTF, DJC, Ormerod and Burgess. He added Clarke then Coleman in the January window on loan. He must have thought he’d died and gone to Heaven, as his own signings were generally low grade.
Having said all that, he sprinkled stardust on them, and what followed seemed straight out of a story book. None of us will ever forget it......or him. He was right for the time, but wasn’t it fun ?
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To be fair he built a pretty decent team the season after the Premiership. He wasn't a one hit 6 month wonder as some will make you believe on here. Grimsby was not an easy job to take either but I suppose it shows how much he'd fallen by doing it.
 
I`ve just read all the way through this thread again.One or two points to mention.

Firstly he did actually make one or two decent signings such as Matty Phillips and Tom Ince though his main incentive may have been the percentage Koko promised him if we could sell them on at a profit. Hardly useful for team building at the time when we were desperately trying to stay up at the top level.

Secondly Koko was clearly very keen for him to move on as he was creaming himself at the several hundred thousand he would make when CP bought out the remains of his contract even though to any supporters of the team at the time it seemed ludicrous to let him go when we weren`t too far off the Championship playoffs.

He undoubtedly did a great job for us for two or three years however with hindsight it probably wouldn`t have lasted much longer and he is clearly a very flawed probably bipolar individual BUT he did give us all those great memories which we`ll never forget..
 
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Eternaloptimist said:
What an irony.
Considering he walked straight into a job immediately after leaving us would suggest that he had clandestine talks with a board of directors on that occasion.
These managers don’t half talk a load of choite to suit their agenda.
With that said, I am in the bracket of loving the man for what he achieved for us and as regards loyalty; there is no such thing in football and managers and players alike should certainly look after themselves.
So I don’t blame Ollie for leaving us for a Premiership club (not the way he did it though) and neither do I blame Grayson for wanting to build his profile at a big club.
Never worked out for either of them in the long run but hey, that is football.
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Palace were in the Championship weren't they?
 
There is probably nowhere worse to be than a media whore trying to keep attracting interest when the media have moved on. I think Ollie is going to find things difficult in the future. His act has started wearing very thin indeed.
 
It says it all that he divides opinions even after all this time. A more admirable individual would be much more lauded given the achievements in his time here. Personally I could live with the other lapses in judgement but the pro Oyston, anti protest comments will never wash away for me. He could have just kept his mouth shut.
 
They're gonna have to start referring to this as the "Ian Holloway Effect".

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TangerinePeel said:
They're gonna have to start referring to this as the "Ian Holloway Effect".

fanbanter.co.uk

Grimsby fans plan to boycott their club and vow not to give anymore cash - Fan Banter

The reason why Grimsby Town fans plan to boycott their club has been revealed this week following the departure of Ian Holloway. He departed the club four days ago, via a statement on social media amid talks of a potential takeover, before the Mariners published their own onto their website. It...
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Although it must be easy to boycott when you're not allowed in.
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
He had a good 6 months

The rest was just average

Some great performances followed by some absolute dross

The 2nd half of the Premier league season was awful with some very poor defeats against teams near us in the league

Villa away still bugs now with all those changes

We should have stayed up given the start we had

The following season with arguable a better squad we also lost key games

2 thrashings by Fat Sams West Ham along with poor defeats against Burnley, Leicester, Reading and Derby and they are just off the top of my head along with a bizarre team selection away at Everton in the cup with 6,000 Pool fans

And dont get me started on the 3rd season when he left on a day of a match after throwing his toys out of his pram after spending years defending the Oystons and criticising the fans
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You've got your seasons wrong.
 
todayistheday said:
Talked to some of our ex players and they say he was poor tactically minded. We had a good team,backroom staff and everything slotted into place. He had some qualities and I would go along the lines of welshphil. Nothing else has gone right for him except his greed for bigger bank account and ego.
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That's not what the players have said since at all.
 
Tower Power said:
I also wonder where we'd be if he hadn't have come to us for those glorious years
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We'd still be pottering around the lower leagues after going down in 2010, still with the Oystons at the helm and with a lot of our base believing the 'lucky to have a club' 'little old Blackpool' Oyston spin.

The big news on the website would be they've paid a bloke cash in hand to patch up the portacabin roof at SG.
 
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I remember when we beat spurs at Bloomfield mid week and I went to craven cottage on the Saturday and he changed a winning team and we got stuffed, so he did have some strange ideas however I will never be able to thank him enough for amazing exciting times esp Wembley, Anfield and of course we should have beaten west ham at wembley to go up again. Love you Ollie x
 
Eternaloptimist said:
What an irony.
Considering he walked straight into a job immediately after leaving us would suggest that he had clandestine talks with a board of directors on that occasion.
These managers don’t half talk a load of choite to suit their agenda.
With that said, I am in the bracket of loving the man for what he achieved for us and as regards loyalty; there is no such thing in football and managers and players alike should certainly look after themselves.
So I don’t blame Ollie for leaving us for a Premiership club (not the way he did it though) and neither do I blame Grayson for wanting to build his profile at a big club.
Never worked out for either of them in the long run but hey, that is football.
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Technically, he left a Championship club for another when he left us.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
We'd still be pottering around the lower leagues after going down in 2010, still with the Oystons at the helm and with a lot of our base believing the 'lucky to have a club' 'little old Blackpool' Oyston spin.

The big news on the website would be they've paid a bloke cash in hand to patch up the portacabin roof at SG.
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Good point

Without him

1- no best trip
2- still stuck with OO as their greed was their undoing

However his long-standing admiration for Koko says it all about the fella
 
I will never forget the day at Anfield but it was the Wigan one on the opening day which was my fondest of that season.
We all deep down wondered if we would just get hammered week in week out, and so we went with hope and fear to the Wigan game in the car.

To see us bang in 4 goals and look like Brazil suddenly gave us that positivity for the season ahead. Loved it.
 
In a heartbeat !

Ollie didn’t shaft us. It was early in November when he quit...overnight, appearing to great applause at Selhurst Park, while we were getting slaughtered 4-1 at Derby. He then almost blew a promotion that was almost nailed on at Palace when he arrived, before he started nicking our players ( Kev and the Dobster).
He was a maverick, and his attention span was rarely longer than 3 years. Just remember them as a wondrous interlude in sea of ordinary. The swagger when Pool went out to play with Charlie, GTF, Dudley, Dobbie, Kev, Pince, Reg and Matty P. We can but hope we see both his and their like again.
 
I simply don't get this 'let's beat Ollie up at the first opportunity'?

He took us to the promised land and very nearly did it again next time up. He was entertaining, unpredictable and fallible BUT I am forever indebted to him for the greatest period of my life supporting Blackpool (over 50 years now).
 
Go back, Holloway not appointed, no three years of great entertainment or a miracle of football. Probable relegation instead. I know I'm glad it happened, the alternative was just were we are now but years earlier. Life is about great memories and Holloway gave me 3 years of them. Greater than Walsh and Hatton, who ended up being relegated, and 1,000 times better than anything since, despite my hope of future fantastic memories.For me thanks Ian.
 
BobHatton said:
I simply don't get this 'let's beat Ollie up at the first opportunity'?

He took us to the promised land and very nearly did it again next time up. He was entertaining, unpredictable and fallible BUT I am forever indebted to him for the greatest period of my life supporting Blackpool (over 50 years now).
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This. But approaching 40 for me.👍
 
Best summed up in a song called “Me and Bobby Magee”. One great line.....” I’d give all my tomorrows for a single yesterday”.
Is it really 10 years ago ? I can’t shake the memories off.
 
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