{"id":8030,"date":"2001-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-07-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"hollins-thought-hed-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2001\/07\/21\/hollins-thought-hed-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollins Thought He’d Go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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“The one thing that concerned me was that when I left to go on holiday I’d still have a job to come back to,” said Hollins yesterday.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“Losing a job when I’d gone away to relax has happened to me before, when I was at QPR. I came back and discovered my job wasn’t there.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“There was a lot of talk about certain people buying this club and that I was going to be sacked. I was very philosophical about it. It didn’t get me down.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“All I could do was come in, sit at my desk, phone around and keep people enthusiastic. When a club is in limbo it causes money problems. People’s livelihoods are at stake. When someone says you don’t have a job any more it’s a major blow,” added Hollins.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“I couldn’t rest until I knew what was happening and I’m pleased we’ve got something in place now. Although there isn’t a massive injection of money, it has stabilised the club and we’re going forward.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

“The recent situation here is not ideal from a manager’s point of view but there are a lot of clubs in limbo, and they’re bigger clubs than us. The big clubs are getting bigger and the small clubs are finding it harder and harder.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
He also revealed to the Western Mail that he has redecorated his office to celebrate his new found job safety: “I want everything to be bright and fresh,” said Hollins, keen to swiftly erase memories of last season’s relegation from the Second Division. After a disappointment there are two things you can do – you can be miserable and die or you can pick yourself up and move forward. I want things to be positive. That’s why I’ve changed my office.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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“I want to win promotion again. It would be nice to win the championship a second time, but I’ll take second or third place. I don’t like failing – and I’m not linked to failure. The players tasted success when we won the Third Division title last year. Now they know what it’s like to go down. It’s not a nice feeling and I hope it will spur them on.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“Some players I wanted to keep. Jason was one, but he moved on. That was his right. I couldn’t change his mind,” explained Hollins.<\/p>\n

“We could lose Stuart. Of course I’ll be disappointed if he goes. I’m disappointed whenever a young player we’ve bred leaves us.<\/p>\n

“But I can only give players what I can give them because football is a business. It’s not an ideal situation but it’s the one we’re in.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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(The above were extracts from the Western Mail, 20 July 2001)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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“The one thing that concerned me was that when I left to go on holiday I’d still have a job to come back to,” said Hollins yesterday. “Losing a job when I’d gone away to relax has happened to me before, when I was at QPR. I came back and discovered my job wasn’t there. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}