Post by Cantankerous Gas on Jun 9, 2014 9:37:03 GMT
Might need to get his boots on if we don't start making some signings!
www.bristolpost.co.uk/Steve-Yates-set-bigger-role-Darrell-Clarke-s/story-21206656-detail/story.html#QIR0FLcz1gvCu5S7.99
BRISTOL Rovers boss Darrell Clarke says he intends to ask Steve Yates to play a more prominent role in his backroom team next season.
Yates played almost 200 games for Rovers between 1988 and 1993 before following former boss Gerry Francis to Queens Park Rangers – where he played three seasons in the Premier League before returning to the club to take up the role of kit man at the start of last season,
Rovers have parted company with fitness coach Mark Hammond and video analyst Jonathan Robinson in order to cut costs in the aftermath of relegation, and Clarke is set to fill the void by delegating extra responsibilities elsewhere within his streamlined backroom team.
"There has had to be cuts on the staff front because of the league we now find ourselves in," said Clarke. "I'm a pretty hands-on manager and between (assistant manager) Marcus (Stewart) and Stuart Naylor (goalkeeper coach) we'll be planning the fitness side of things.
"I designed and implemented the pre-season programmes at Salisbury over three years and my teams were always praised over how fit and strong they were.
"We'd also like to bring Steve Yates into the fold and get him involved a little bit more. He's a Bristol Rovers legend and is someone with experience of playing in the Premier League. It would be silly not to try to tap into that sort of experience when it is there and available to us.
"When you drop down to the Conference it becomes a case of everybody having to shoulder that bit more responsibility by taking on additional jobs."
Yates played almost 200 games for Rovers between 1988 and 1993 before following former boss Gerry Francis to Queens Park Rangers – where he played three seasons in the Premier League before returning to the club to take up the role of kit man at the start of last season,
Rovers have parted company with fitness coach Mark Hammond and video analyst Jonathan Robinson in order to cut costs in the aftermath of relegation, and Clarke is set to fill the void by delegating extra responsibilities elsewhere within his streamlined backroom team.
"There has had to be cuts on the staff front because of the league we now find ourselves in," said Clarke. "I'm a pretty hands-on manager and between (assistant manager) Marcus (Stewart) and Stuart Naylor (goalkeeper coach) we'll be planning the fitness side of things.
"I designed and implemented the pre-season programmes at Salisbury over three years and my teams were always praised over how fit and strong they were.
"We'd also like to bring Steve Yates into the fold and get him involved a little bit more. He's a Bristol Rovers legend and is someone with experience of playing in the Premier League. It would be silly not to try to tap into that sort of experience when it is there and available to us.
"When you drop down to the Conference it becomes a case of everybody having to shoulder that bit more responsibility by taking on additional jobs."
www.bristolpost.co.uk/Steve-Yates-set-bigger-role-Darrell-Clarke-s/story-21206656-detail/story.html#QIR0FLcz1gvCu5S7.99
