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Nick Platnauer Personal information Full name Nicholas Robert Platnauer Date of birth 10 June 1961 Place of birth Leicester, England Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Playing position Left-back/Midfielder Club information Current club Bedford Town (assistant manger) Youth career Bedford Town Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1982–1983 Bristol Rovers 24 (7) 1983–1984 Coventry City 46 (6) 1984–1986 Birmingham City 28 (2) 1986 → Reading (loan) 7 (0) 1986–1989 Cardiff City 115 (6) 1989–1991 Notts County 57 (1) 1991 → Port Vale (loan) 14 (0) 1991–1993 Leicester City 35 (0) 1993 Scunthorpe United 14 (2) 1993–1994 Mansfield Town 25 (0) 1994–1996 Lincoln City 27 (0) 1997–1998 Hinckley United 51 (2) Total 443 (26) Teams managed 2000–2003 Rothwell Town 2003 Kettering Town (caretaker manager) 2004–2007 Bedford Town 2007–2011 Hinckley United (assistant) 2011– Bedford Town (assistant) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Nicholas Robert (Nick) Platnauer (born 10 June 1961) is an English former professional footballer, who played as a left-back. He is currently assistant manager at Bedford Town.
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Playing career
Platnauer was born in Leicester but moved to Bedford as a youngster, where began his career with his local side Bedford Town. He joined Bristol Rovers of the Third Division in August 1982. Having impressed in the 1982–83 season, in August 1983 he stepped up to the First Division with Coventry City for a fee of £50,000.
He played around fifty games for the Sky Blues before switching to Birmingham City in December 1984. At the end of the season Birmingham were relegated, they had finished one place and two points away from the safety of 19th place – occupied by Coventry.
Spending the 1984–85 season in the Second Division, he struggled to establish himself at St Andrew's. The club bounced back to the top-flight at the first attempt. Finding the competition for first team places greater in the 1985–86 season, Platnauer joined Reading on loan in January 1986.
He joined Cardiff City in the Fourth Division on a free transfer in September 1986, thereby completing the set of all four levels of the Football League. After making his debut in a 1–1 draw with Halifax Town he was a regular in the 1986–87 season. He also featured heavily in the 1987–88 promotion winning season before helping the Welsh club consolidate their third tier status in 1988–89.
In August 1989 he won a £50,000 move to Neil Warnock's Notts County. He played at Wembley as County won promotion to the Second Division with a 2–0 victory over Tranmere Rovers in the play-offs. Platnauer had now won promotion from three divisions of the Football League.
County would achieve promotion from the play-offs for a second successive season in 1990–91, though Platnauer would play little part in it. He was loaned out to Port Vale in January 1991. He played fifteen games for the Burslem club before returning to Nottinghamshire in April.[1]
In July 1991 he joined Second Division Leicester City on a free transfer. He enjoyed regular football in the 1991–92 season, helping the Foxes to an encounter with Blackburn Rovers in the play-off final, though he would finally taste defeat at the national stadium, as Rovers won 1–0.
Leicester would have another crack at the play-off final the following year, though Platnauer would have little contribution to the season having lost his place and moved to Scunthorpe United on a free transfer in March 1993.
His stay with Scunthorpe was a short one, later in the year he signed with basement division newcomers Mansfield Town. His experience was appreciated at Mansfield, though the Stags did not challenge for promotion in the 1993–94 season. He also played once for Kettering Town in 1993 in a cup game against Northampton Town.
In 1994 he joined Lincoln City, as they spent the 1994–95 and 1995–96 seasons in fourth tier mid-table.
On leaving Lincoln, he became player-coach at Bedworth United, under former Notts County teammate Dean Thomas. He joined the newly amalgamated Hinckley United in 1997. The Knitters were then competing in the Southern Football League Division One Midlands, Platnauer playing over fifty times.
Management career
Platnauer was appointed as manager of Rothwell Town in 2000 and remained in this post until October 2003.[2] The following month he became caretaker-manager of Kettering Town,[3] after the sacking of Dominic Genovese. He remained in charge until December 2003 when Kevin Wilson was installed as manager, Platnauer having ruled himself out of the running.[4]
He took over as manager of Bedford Town (where Wilson had previously been manager) in January 2004 and in 2006 guided Bedford to promotion from the Southern Football League Premier Division to the Conference South via the play-offs. However, Bedford struggled the following season and Platnauer resigned in January 2007 with the side bottom of the table,[5] at the season's end the club had failed to improve their position and were relegated.
In October 2007 he linked up with Dean Thomas once again, becoming assistant manager at Hinckley United, where Thomas is the manager. Platnauer left Hinckley United in August 2011[6] and returned to Bedford Town as assistant manager.[7]
Honours
As a player
- with Birmingham City
- Football League Second Division runner-up: 1984–85
- with Cardiff City
- Football League Fourth Division runner-up: 1987–88
- with Notts County
- Football League Third Division play-off winner: 1990
- Football League Second Division play-off winner:1991
- with Leicester City
- Football League Second Division play-off runner-up: 1992
As a manager
- with Bedford Town
- Southern Football League Premier Division play-off winner: 2006
References
- ^ Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 232. ISBN 0952915200.
- ^ "Williams Becomes New Bones' Boss". Non-League Daily. 2003-11-06. http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/index.php?newsmode=FULL&nid=13625. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
- ^ "Platnauer Given Temporary Charge Of Kettering". Non-League Daily. 2003-11-21. http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/index.php?newsmode=FULL&nid=13954. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
- ^ "Nick Platnauer". poppiesfans.com. http://www.poppiesfans.com/archives/managers/nick-platnauer/. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
- ^ "Platnauer Quits Eagles". Non-League Daily. 2007-02-15. http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/index.php?&newsmode=FULL&nid=40467. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
- ^ "Platnauer Leaves Hinckley". www.hinckleyunited.com. 2007-02-15. http://www.hinckleyunited.com/news/Nicky-Platnauer.html. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
- ^ "Eagles express delight at Platnauer return". NonLeague.pitchero.com. 17 September 2011. http://nonleague.pitchero.com/news/eagles-delight-at-platnauer-return-6660/. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
External links
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Categories:- 1961 births
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- Scunthorpe United F.C. players
- Mansfield Town F.C. players
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