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Can Darrell Clarke create a winning mentality at Bristol Rovers again?
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13/06/2025
Daniel Wales analyses the impact Darrell Clarke could have at Bristol Rovers this season.
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now darrell clark's return to bristol rovers comes with a fair few questions attached to it
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obviously um you know previously delivered back-to-back promotions uh from the conference
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to league one which was very very special obviously you know over 10 years ago now as well
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so um that also comes into it he's added more promotions uh success at port vale and cheltenham
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as well uh there are a few questions that come with this appointment whether he can actually
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get those heights hit again um dan our bristol correspondent dan just a few questions on
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on darrell clark obviously um he's better equipped this time more experience in the efl he's got more
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promotions under his belt that that's a a huge sort of um feather in his cap but there are a few risks
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consider obviously that that means the expectations are going to be sky high um and fans who may live
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with a bit of nostalgia might think uh into what he's done before and expect it that to go
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straight into place again um but it's all about rebuilding and not sort of um you know get
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obviously your promotion's a massive sort of thing they want to chase down if anyone's going to do it
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you feel uh he is the right man for the job but um what sort of factors come with with this obviously
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he's got leadership he's got the recruitment he'll have the fan support as well um but there are so
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many questions how how high are the expectations for clark's return can he um get back to those highs
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that he once set before as a bit of a bristol rovers icon um in the managerial dugout so uh yeah what
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are your thoughts and and where do bristol rovers see themselves um in terms of his appointment and
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and moving forward because um you know surely with with what he's done in his track record in his past
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it's a positive move well charles he certainly talked the talk so far in club media and in press
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conferences uh certainly has this so this winner's mentality this this need and this will to win even
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and that promotion is of course the aim for bristol rovers come the end of the season of course the
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club will need a big turnaround given the way that last season finished but certainly clark seems to
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have the right mentality so far and of course you could argue you know fan service bringing back
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someone who's revered and with the supporters uh in his previous spell of course he had ups he had
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downs as well but certainly i think he was a man that bristol rovers supporters took to in the in
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his first period at the club and and certainly uh that that message he put on when he was coming back
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this time just saying i'm back that went down well and it gave fans that just bit of belief that
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things could turn around really quite quickly at the club despite they of course that the heartbreak
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of relegation under an ego calderon but can he do it well that depends on the summer and
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the recruitment and the goings-on behind the scenes is probably as much as it then will also depend on
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what then happens on the pitch because of course what happens on the pitch next season probably comes
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down to how the summer goes and obviously they've got ricky martin as the director of football and he's
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also talked a good talk saying that he's got the right ethos and they're happy that they've brought
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in daryl clark as the as the new head coach so certainly between the two of them they're thinking the
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right things and saying the right things it's now just about doing the right things uh both on and
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off the pitch clark as i mentioned before he has this sort of winner's mentality this confidence even
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and i think he's drawing a lot of previous experience as well that he's gained in his times
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at other clubs he's had since leaving bristol rovers the first time and he's quite keen and confident
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to bring these experiences that he's had into into the role now at memorial stadium now he's back there
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for his second spell at the club so lots to think about lots to contend with this summer for bristol
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rovers but certainly daryl clark seems as if he has a plan in mind for getting them back and he did
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also mention which i found quite interesting that they you know the club needs to mourn the fact that
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they have gone down and that will take time to get over but that mourning can only last so long though
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because the season will come around very quickly and they need to get down to business to make sure that
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they are indeed prepared for it so you know they've done the talking off the pitch now it's time to put
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those words into action so that when the time to play on the pitch does come around they are ready
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for it and ready in the best possible manner not just to have an all right season in league two the
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amas promotion no doubt about it clark has spoken so much about winning and the the needs to be elite
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into to win so now that has to be put into practice and make sure that bristol rovers are competing
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once again at the top of the table
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