Player Profile

A central defender signed on a month's loan from Hull, after injury sidelined captain Hasney Aljofree in September 2007, Collins made his debut in a 2-1 win at Millwall at the end of the month, in which he gave a typical tough centre back's display. Collins made it clear that he was looking to possibly clinch a longer term contract at Swindon, and he made two more appearances over the coming seven days - before an abductor injury sidelined him for the majority of his loan period.

Though he only returned to action for one more substitute appearance, both Collins and manager Paul Sturrock appeared keen on making the switch permanent - but any potential deal was scuppered by financial problems caused by the prolonged takeover talks with BEST Holdings. Collins returned to the KC Stadium, still hopeful of a deal - but none was forthcoming, and he eventually signed for Hartlepool United.

Playing Record

Senior

Career details

Club	Details
Huddersfield Town Huddersfield Town	(trainee) July 6th, 1994 (signed professional contract); transferred out (July 2nd, 1999)
Bury Bury	July 2nd, 1999 (transferred in , £75,000 ); released (2001/2)
Port Vale Port Vale	July 15th, 2002 (announced June 26th, 2002) (unattached); transferred out (January 1st, 2006)
Hull City Hull City	November 3rd, 2005 (announced November 2nd, 2005) (loan)
Hull City Hull City	January 1st, 2006 (transferred in , £65,000 ); transferred out (January 31st, 2008)
Swindon Town Swindon	September 28th, 2007 (loan); expired (October 28th, 2007)
Hartlepool United Hartlepool United	January 31st, 2008 (transferred in, undisclosed fee nominal fee) rptd May 16th, 2014 (appointed player-assistant coach) October 5th, 2014 (appointed player-caretaker manager) October 23rd, 2014 (appointed player-assistant coach) December 6th, 2014 (appointed player-caretaker manager) December 16th, 2014 (appointed player-assistant manager); retired (2014/5) cs 2015 (assistant manager) January 15th, 2017 (appointed caretaker manager) January 18th, 2017 (appointed assistant manager); sacked (rptd March 10th, 2017)
Bradford City Bradford	rptd July 3rd, 2017 (professional development coach)
York City York City	rptd July 3rd, 2018 (appointed youth team manager) rptd August 20th, 2018 (appointed caretaker manager) rptd October 10th, 2018 (appointed manager); sacked (January 5th, 2019)
Barnsley Barnsley	(appointed lead youth development phase coach)
Mansfield Town Mansfield Town	August 2020 (appointed lead youth development phase coach) rptd October 28th, 2020 (appointed interim assistant head coach); replaced (rptd November 6th, 2020)