Bristol Rovers sack manager Mark McGhee
Bristol Rovers have sacked manager Mark McGhee.
The Rovers boss was 'relieved of his duties' minutes after the final whistle at Bootham Crescent following a 4-1 defeat at the hands of York City on Saturday afternoon.
The sacking brings McGhee's reign to an end almost 11 months since he had succeeded former boss Paul Buckle, after which he managed to rally the players during the early months of his time in charge to guide the side clear of a relegation struggle.
Rovers, however, have struggled to build on the promise shown in the early days of McGhee's tenure and are currently in the bottom two of League Two after securing just four wins from their 22 games so far this season.
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The club have yet to confirm whether or not assistant manager Shaun North is to leave along with McGhee, but have said that a press conference is likely to be arranged on Monday morning where they are to reveal their plan of action going forward.
In a short statement issued on the club's official website, chairman Nick Higgs said: "We had hoped that the appointment of Mark McGhee would give the club some stability and long term progress, but unfortunately that has not been the case.
"We have decided that we can no longer continue with the current situation and had to make the difficult decision to part company with Mark. We decided we had to act now before it was too late."
Comments
by Vonner
Monday, December 17 2012, 9:25AM
“"SSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ! BCFC....A RECORD FOURTEEN MILLION.....REPEAT FOURTEEN MILLION GBP .......IN THE RED."
Thats funny ARBIE cos here is one of many comments you have made about those uninteresting events at the Gate. I guess you didn't realise you could be sussed out as a fibber...”
by davenportblue
Sunday, December 16 2012, 10:56PM
“lenny lawrence and paul *******pe , bnnister and warboys, the partnership is only as good as the sum of the two halves. where would the following partnerships be without the other partner, ie laurel and hardie, cannon and ball morecombe and wise.
the partnership worked until nick higgs wanted to cut costs and get rid of lennie lawrence and since that time it has all ben downhill.
it is nick higgs who is the problem at brfc and until he goes you could put sir alex ferguson in there and the club would still struggle”
by marmeliser
Sunday, December 16 2012, 9:00PM
“vrwtuy
the word you mean is SECTARIAN not secular - the latter means seperation of church and state in terms of law making and political power.
sectarian means bigoted. most city and rovers fans AREN'T.”
by piledriver
Sunday, December 16 2012, 8:20PM
“@dickpuller:
Swindon have a record of chosing surprising but sometimers very good managers Hoddle, Di Canio”
by piledriver
Sunday, December 16 2012, 8:18PM
“@ARBIE0489 & Jimbogas777:
Funny you seem to spend time posting on City Topics?
You seem to demonstrate exactly the kind of blinkered thinking that has taken your club to the very brink of non league football.Always understand that your sucess will never lie in our downfall.”
by Jimbogas777
Sunday, December 16 2012, 7:15PM
“I would like to see coterill he has got what it takes and she teds ought to thinking about there great manager not our new one”
by ARBIE0489
Sunday, December 16 2012, 7:00PM
“Marcus Stewart does not have managerial experience and I would be immensely surprised if he was offered the vacant position. I'd be happy with Steve Cotterill though.
I really do find it amazing that BCFC fans, are making suggestions who should take over etc. OKay debating about soccer is one thing, BUT I would never be interested in the comings and goings at Ashton Gate. They are absolutely of no interest to me and never have been.”
by Jimbogas777
Sunday, December 16 2012, 6:49PM
“Marcus Stewart even money to get the job. Sky bet tilson 6-1 coterill 7-1”
by Jimbogas777
Sunday, December 16 2012, 6:46PM
“Sacking trolls was right. Sacking lennie Lawrence was the mistake”
by Colinbritton
Sunday, December 16 2012, 5:55PM
“Sorry guys the sacking of Trollope was not a mistake, the sacking of Ian holloway was our biggest mistake, everything else after that has been worst and getting chronically worst by the minute.”