posted Feb 4, 2008

Alan Knill was very highly rated by the LMA during his time with us. He had no players, a point deduction and no budget but still managed to form a side that, up until January, were on course to stay up. The only problem was the lack of funds. This meant we had to sell Hoskins and Williamson in January. which left the side with a severe lack of quality and from then on relegation was inevitable.

He's a top bloke supposedly and definitely deserves another crack at management.

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posted Feb 4, 2008

just to confirm starkmillers story,

Alan Knill took the reigns at millmoor, when things were looking bad.
10 point defecit at the beginning of the season, no cash as stark said, but he moulded a side with some good players.
Powers that be needed to raise funds for the bank as we were in debt, "things were looking grim"
He had to sell his best two strikers,and results started to go against us.
unfortunatly relegation was innevetable, but no fault of Alan Knills.
good luck to the guy im sure he will do a good job better than keegan will do at newcastle

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posted Feb 4, 2008

Alan Knill, he gets my full support, lets hope he can turn it around, apart from Saturday against Wimbledon, its not been to bad since we Sacked CC & KA, 442 and the team will click.

Wilbutpiescoffer, why don't you Dale fans go and crawl back into your holes, get back on your own boards and keep talking about promotion !!

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posted Feb 4, 2008

good picture of him

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posted Feb 4, 2008

we gave casper time so weve got to give knill equal paitience. heard good things about him at rotherham (even tho they got relegated) n he will have got some good experience at chesterfield
could do with a good result against stockport on tues good luck to him tho

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posted Feb 4, 2008

Knill was doing very well at Rotherham untill forced to sell his best two players & i think he will do o.k. at Bury, Chesterfield signed him as defensive coach originaly & so far have let in about 35 goals so i for one say good riddance but good luck anyway for the rest of the season.

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posted Feb 5, 2008

rotherham fan here to defend knill's spell at rotherham.

he did a good job at rotherham in that he continued with the nice football we played under hartford but also added a bit more fight. his downfall was the offloading of hoskins and williamson - our two best players. he quickly fell out with the board over this with a few public comments about his unhappiness at the sale.

One thing I did expect but he didn't really deliver was a good defence. This probably echo's the point made by spirelover but the defence always looked shaky and that is supposed to be his forte.

good luck to him.

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posted Feb 5, 2008

One of your Directors has said 'we hope he's the right man for the rest of the season'. This infers he'll get the sack if he doesn't turn things round quickly which won't breed much confidence.

Given the circumstances in which he worked successfully at Rotherham to me he sounds like the right guy whether you stay up or go down.

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posted Feb 5, 2008

I'm looking forward to his first press call, should be interesting to hear what he says about the current situation, as well as his plans for the rest of this season. Also, a word from the directors as to the length of his contract wouldn't go amiss.

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posted Feb 9, 2008

my second comment, what a result away to bradford my first comment about Alan Knill is beginning to be right good luck bury. A miller fan

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