Darrell Clarke's next job?

Not saying he should but he's got the links with Hartlepool, likewise Mansfield as Pirate suggested. 

Could see him taking over a Notts County like club if they do but also becoming a coach higher up. 

DC needed a rest and wanted a rest. A lack of action is perfectly normal.

Don't think he'll want to travel much beyond Midlands.

LGE 1 is his obvious level, so I expect his next job to be there. Can't see any reason to go lower than LGE 2 max.

Wouldn't be surprised at Asst mgr job at bigger club, hoping to get mgr job one day.

Disagree, otherwise we would be in the top half of the table and he would still be employed

Not sure you could even work out on paper why Payne was so f'ing useless!

DC will get a League 2 club at least and probably League 1. He will not want to go to National. I understand his needing a rest but he would do well to get back in ASAP. In this sport you have your time and then you get forgotten or overtaken by the next group of young managers coming through. Who’d have thought when we were winning promotion back to the league that the Cowleys (who were at Concord Rovers at the time) would have overtaken DC in two years after their FA Cup run. DC will have enough confidence in his own ability to get a job at the top of League 1 or even the Championship. Him and Paul Hurst will be in direct competition I would have thought.
UTG!

I would love to have him back, but I don't think that will happen while the current owners are here.

He’s proven at non league and league 2 he’ll go to someone big in the conference or league 2 like Saltford , Swindon, Exeter , Lincoln .
And I hope he does well , top bloke and a top lower league manager.

Judging from his interviews since leaving he wants to join a club with ambition to progress so I'd imagine that would be in League Two.

A Swindon, Mansfield type would be a good fit I think. Can't see him walking into an attractive League One club but who knows.

Yeah it's funny how these things work. The Cowleys seemed to have built a bigger profile than DC just by getting promoted to the league and that FA Cup run, nevermind their form in league two. Then you have Nathan Jones who became an even hotter property just by getting promoted with Luton. Hurst did pretty well too despite not actually achieving anything come the end of the league one season.

Meanwhile the man who masterminded two consecutive promotions seems to have been left behind in all this and I'm not entirely surprised if I'm honest. On paper you would go for DC as a dead cert if you were a lower league chairman...and yet it looks like such decisions are about more than just promotions. It has to be said that DC had a particular formula of getting the best out of very limited players and perhaps there is a fear that that was just a one off, right place right time etc. Certainly he struggled with recruitment when it came to breaking up the conference squad.

It also has to be said that he didn't have much of a trademark style. Arsene Wenger of the lower leagues he certainly wasn't.

So for me personally, I'll actually be surprised to see him given a shot at league one level as his next job. I expect he will pop up somewhere in the south in league two. Yeovil seems very likely although maybe the infrastructure there won't be enough for him. Good luck to him though, did great things for us but for the time being I can see why clubs at league one level might favour others.