Stan ternent autobiography in five short
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2004–05 Gillingham F.C. season
Gillingham 2004–05 football season
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Meet the man who tipped off Hull about Maguire and Robertson – and another Champions League winner…
Rugby Park, Kilmarnock. Christmas is just 11 days away and fewer than 3,500 hardy souls are rattling around an all-seater stadium capable of holding more than five times that number.
Stan Ternent, Hull City’s head of recruitment, is among those braving the cold. The East Yorkshire club, promoted to the Premier League the previous May, have settled well among the elite but manager Steve Bruce is determined to drive the club on further.
Stuart Armstrong, Dundee United’s highly-rated midfielder, is on Hull’s radar. Ternent has been sent north to assess whether the 21-year-old has what it takes to challenge former England duo Tom Huddlestone and Jake Livermore for a place in Bruce’s midfield.
Armstrong scores in a 4-1 win for the away side but when Ternent phones Bruce the following morning there is only one name on his lips. It is that of Andrew Robertson, a left-back who a year earlier had been playing amateur football for a Queen’s Park side destined to finish bottom of the entire Scottish League at the end of this 2013-14 season.
“The one we looked at is not for us but I can’t believe who else I saw,” Ternent told Bruce before running through the details of an impressive pe
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Biography
When the return of Colin Appleton to Hull City at the start of the 1989/90 season descended into immediate turmoil, precipitating the dismissal of Appleton and the departure of club chairman Don Robinson in October 1989, it was Crystal Palace coach Stan Ternent that new chairman Richard Chetham turned to in November 1989 to resurrect the Tigers’ fortunes. The Tigers won their first League game of the season, at the seventeenth attempt, in Ternent’s first game in charge and his galvanising impact on the squad saw the Tigers pull out of the relegation zone by Christmas. Just two wins in 12 games during February and March 1990 saw City slide back down the table and Ternent acted again – the signings of experienced players Dave Bamber and Malcolm Shotton helped the Tigers pull clear of relegation with six victories in the last eight games of the season.
Ternent was able to spend a considerable sum on new players during the 1990 close season but they all fell short of the required standard. Midfielder Tony Finnegan from Crystal Palace plus defenders David Mail, Russ Wilcox and David Hockaday (signed from Blackburn Rovers, Northampton Town and Swindon Town respectively) all joined the Tigers but the squad was not strengthened appreciably and by N