Graham Westley has moved from Stevenage to take over the managers job at Preston North End. Bringing his 2 coaching staff, John Dreyer and Dino Maamria.
Not wasting any time he signed 3 loan players on Friday 20th January: Jamie McAllister, Andy Procter and Chris Holroyd.
The first game against Leyton Orient on 21st January started with a line up of: Stuckmann, McLean, Morgan, Carlisle, McAllister, Coutts, Procter, Parry, Proctor, Jervis, Holroyd. Subs: Gray, Nicholson, Tsoumou, Barton, Arestidou.
Preston lost the game 0 – 2 at home in front of a crowd of 11,436, not a good start. With Mayor pulling out sick shortly before the kick off and Bunn, loaned from Man City, not playing.
After the match Graham Westley said the team were not fit enough. Although some say that after a bad run they had started to get more points in the last few games. Many think that too many players just aren’t good enough and it will be interesting to see how the new manager turns it round.
It isn’t known what is happening with Graham Alexander and David Unsworth who are both very popular at the club and had been managing the team in the interim.