Phil Parkinson appointed as Wrexham manager

Quoted from Son of Cod

I mentioned this whole thing about him being universally hated by all on Undr the Cosh on a thread on 1FF and a Colchester fan on there reckons that every Colchester player in the side that went up that he's heard talking about Parkinson absolutely loves him! So who knows?! Must be a bit of both really, the fact that Parkin hates him so much leads me to think maybe there's some kind of agenda there on his part. However, some of the stories are pretty damning. Particularly the one you've mentioned about the formation change. I'd imagine there's definitely no smoke without fire.

Would be interested to hear which other ones you've enjoyed? I'm relatively new to it having avoided it for ages because I was annoyed at the Town/Paul Linwood stuff! If you've not listened to the Mark Ward one, I couldn't recommend that more. I knew nothing about him, but it's really interesting hearing about his life in prison. I think I'll probably end up getting a copy of his book at some point. Just scrolling through seeing which others I've enjoyed and noticed there's a Simon Ramsden one. That'll be my next one for sure. Not a huge fan of him, but I enjoyed the Danny Mills one too.

Quoted from Swansea_Mariner

Someone actually thinks Wrexham will end up in the champions league, the mind boggles!

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I've got a lot to catch up on but the Martin Allen one is great. It's a 2 parter. Runaway did one which I listened to way back when Jolley was our manager. I listened to Danny Mills the other week and that was a good insight into the England set up but listen to Simon Ramsden because that is an absolute belter. I didn't realise how much of a hardcore Sunderland fan he is and how much he hates Newcastle. I won't say any more than that!

The Clarke Carlisle one is deep but brilliant. I made my missus listen to the Lenny Pidgeley one because it just summed up how I feel and act when depression kicks in.

Carlton Palmer is well worth a listen and so is Aaron Wilbraham too, although he does think the sun shines out of Runaways back side.

Quoted from Youngy

The Paul Linwood interview was another podcast, not Undr The Cosh

I personally didn't enjoy the Danny Mills interview, thought he came across as a arrogant t**t. Mark Crossley is brilliant on there, so many great Clough stories. Andy Johnson (ex WBA) is hilarious, ditto Marc Bircham, Glen Little (the Stan Ternent stories are brilliant).

Danny Collins is on the Pateron version. Doesn't say an awful lot about his time in but made a point of saying how good our support was (especially away from home) and Parky even says about how many we bought to FGR on a Friday night.

Quoted from Son of Cod

Ah nice, will listen to all those cheers. Listened to the Ramsden one, was indeed a belter. He seems sounds, I always liked him as a player. Interesting that he attributes a change in formation to his lack of game time. I can't remember us switching formations in 04/05, but it must have been then as we were 4-4-2 all season in 05/06 as far as I can remember. Surely the fact that we had Macca at RB was the main reason he wasn't starting all the time? That story about Michael Reddy was pretty amusing too.

Quoted from Tommy

Slade played 343 generally for all of his first season (04/05).

Seem to think he changed it when we went away to Derby in the cup near the start of the 05/06 season. This paired G.Jones and Reddy up front as a partnership and the 442 stuck from then on. (Obviously G.Jones scored the winner in that Derby game).

Ramsden was used as the ball playing central defender/sweeper in the middle of the back 3 in the 343. But was pretty much only used as a right back (but wasn't first choice) in the 442 season.