Ex-Staff Gary Rowett

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1.Gary Rowett

Position: Head Coach

Nationality: England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Signed: 20th December 2024

Departed: 23rd December 2025 | Departed Posts: 1st Post

Previous Clubs: Birmingham City (Interim), Millwall, Stoke City, Derby County, Birmingham City, Burton Albion

Stats: TransferMarkt

Instagram: garyrowett1

 

[dickwalton1964]

Pathetic from Oxford 'fans' to rubbish Rowett. Obviously I hope he takes Leicester down to help save us but he's a good manager, a proper football man and a thoroughly decent bloke and one who gave us some memorable moments last season. I have nothing but thanks and admiration for what Rowett achieved here. I imagine those slating him are the same idiots who embarrassed the club and themselves with the idiotic chanting away at Charlton.

 

[Scotchegg]

Rowett, decent guy but a very dated and one dimensional manager that gave up on our club long before our fans gave up on him.

The Charlton game was the end of several spineless performances from a manager who seemed to think that a one-nil away defeat was something to be proud of whilst looking to get little more than a point at home.

He would have taken us down, and will probably take Leicester down. His last 46 games in the Championship across last season and this have brought 44 points. His days as a Championship manager will quickly come to an end I suspect.

I don't condone personal abuse and think that negative chants during a game are counter productive. But he had to go and we're better without him.

 

[Digby]

Pathetic from Oxford 'fans' to rubbish Rowett. Obviously I hope he takes Leicester down to help save us but he's a good manager, a proper football man and a thoroughly decent bloke and one who gave us some memorable moments last season. I have nothing but thanks and admiration for what Rowett achieved here. I imagine those slating him are the same idiots who embarrassed the club and themselves with the idiotic chanting away at Charlton.

Such a good manager that he was sacked !

 

[OohJonnyLager]

Such a good manager that he was sacked !

You could say that about every single manager on planet earth.

 

[The Voice Of Reason]

I don't get all this negativity towards GR.

I think Tim's plan to plant agent GR is working

fab-u-lous-ly!!!!

 

[holdsteady]

You could say that about every single manager on planet earth.

Don’t think Guardiola has been sacked? Although I also doubt he would ever manage us so not really relevant.

 

[Swaby39]

Pathetic from Oxford 'fans' to rubbish Rowett. Obviously I hope he takes Leicester down to help save us but he's a good manager, a proper football man and a thoroughly decent bloke and one who gave us some memorable moments last season. I have nothing but thanks and admiration for what Rowett achieved here. I imagine those slating him are the same idiots who embarrassed the club and themselves with the idiotic chanting away at Charlton.

A bit OTT, don’t you think? FWIW the abuse is stupid and I hate it whether it’s players, managers or whatever. Human beings ffs.

Anyway, he did the job asked of him in the first season and did it effectively with enthusiasm and professionalism. He got the plaudits accordingly. This achievement got him the Leicester job, no question, and nobody is taking away from that.

Second season, however, excuses aside, he brought a bitterness to the job that without doubt contributed to our results in multiple ways and I can see it in his tone with Leicester already. There will always be an argument he was shafted and I’m the first to point that out, but I don’t think the way he held himself as the manager this year was good at all. He didn’t rise, he dragged the ship down. When all was said and done in the summer, he still had 25-odd players to whip in to shape and didn’t do it over months. We barely looked any better in December than we did on the opening day. That’s on him.

He’s not that impressive. He’s stubborn and won’t adapt. There’s a calling for that in clubs that get wedded to “playing the right way” and actually just need to do the basics for a bit. But there’s managers doing more with less out there and now he’s got the riches of players he cried for and can’t produce there either.

I’ll say it again, our biggest mistake of all this season (among may) was keeping a checked-out manager as long as we did. We shouldn’t have rocked the boat with him at all, but once we did we should’ve seen the red flags and moved on.

 

[Steve Gilbert]

A bit OTT, don’t you think? FWIW the abuse is stupid and I hate it whether it’s players, managers or whatever. Human beings ffs.

Anyway, he did the job asked of him in the first season and did it effectively with enthusiasm and professionalism. He got the plaudits accordingly. This achievement got him the Leicester job, no question, and nobody is taking away from that.

Second season, however, excuses aside, he brought a bitterness to the job that without doubt contributed to our results in multiple ways and I can see it in his tone with Leicester already. There will always be an argument he was shafted and I’m the first to point that out, but I don’t think the way he held himself as the manager this year was good at all. He didn’t rise, he dragged the ship down. When all was said and done in the summer, he still had 25-odd players to whip in to shape and didn’t do it over months. We barely looked any better in December than we did on the opening day. That’s on him.

He’s not that impressive. He’s stubborn and won’t adapt. There’s a calling for that in clubs that get wedded to “playing the right way” and actually just need to do the basics for a bit. But there’s managers doing more with less out there and now he’s got the riches of players he cried for and can’t produce there either.

I’ll say it again, our biggest mistake of all this season (among may) was keeping a checked-out manager as long as we did. We shouldn’t have rocked the boat with him at all, but once we did we should’ve seen the red flags and moved on.

Not sure he was after some over paid players who think they are too good to be playing for Leicester, think they know best and aren't willing to lift a finger for him.

 

[Wallop]

You could say that about every single manager on planet earth.

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[dickwalton1964]

Rowett, decent guy but a very dated and one dimensional manager that gave up on our club long before our fans gave up on him.

The Charlton game was the end of several spineless performances from a manager who seemed to think that a one-nil away defeat was something to be proud of whilst looking to get little more than a point at home.

He would have taken us down, and will probably take Leicester down. His last 46 games in the Championship across last season and this have brought 44 points. His days as a Championship manager will quickly come to an end I suspect.

I don't condone personal abuse and think that negative chants during a game are counter productive. But he had to go and we're better without him.

We are currently in a worse position than when he left so your last sentence isn't quite right.

 

[Bretch Hill]

We are currently in a worse position than when he left so your last sentence isn't quite right.

Just before he was sacked we were two points from safety and had won one match in ten. We’ve lost one in the last seven games and I’d much rather be watching the football we play now than what was on offer for Rowetts last game.

 

[LowerSouth]

We are currently in a worse position than when he left so your last sentence isn't quite right.

Really

 

[Up The Manor]

We are currently in a worse position than when he left so your last sentence isn't quite right.

You are deliousional ........

We would of been relegated under him at this stage of season .

 

[Scotchegg]

We are currently in a worse position than when he left so your last sentence isn't quite right.

Rowett got 19 points from his 22 games in charge with 11 defeats and no indications that things would improve. In fact, we were looked clueless against Charlton, and Rowett himself admitted that he'd run out of ideas on how to fix things.

Carried on as he did, and we'd be looking at around 35 points now and virtually gone (assuming that we would have been less likely to have beaten any of those around us).

Bloomfield has already got 19 points from only 16 games with only 5 defeats. He has tightened up our defence, developed a real fight throughout the team, and got a tune out of Mills and Helik who were anonymous previously.

We are undoubtedly better since Rowett left, who has also subsequently made Leicester worse than before he arrived!

So I stand by my initial statement. Rowett had to go and we're better without him.

 

[Mad Dog]

Pathetic from Oxford 'fans' to rubbish Rowett. Obviously I hope he takes Leicester down to help save us but he's a good manager, a proper football man and a thoroughly decent bloke and one who gave us some memorable moments last season. I have nothing but thanks and admiration for what Rowett achieved here. I imagine those slating him are the same idiots who embarrassed the club and themselves with the idiotic chanting away at Charlton.

No offensive chanting from me towards him at any point during his time here, but I said from day one I didn't want him here, I knew it was gonna be dull and uninspiring to watch the tripe he would make us play like, and I was right.

Yes he kept us up last season, and he was rightly applauded for that, and he might be a decent bloke, but who cares about that, nobody is digging at him as a person, only as a manager, and he's not a good manager, he's an absolutely terrible manager.

Never in all my nearly 40 years watching Oxford United have I ever nearly fallen asleep during a game, but it's happened several times this season under Rowett, I actually nodded off for several minutes during one game!

It was painful to watch with him in charge, and I for one am so glad he's gone.

He's Leicester's problem now...

 

[Swaby39]

Not sure he was after some over paid players who think they are too good to be playing for Leicester, think they know best and aren't willing to lift a finger for him.

No, I get that. I’m not saying the job at Leicester is easy but football is a lot more than just backing him with better players which is what he wanted. He’d run the camp down so I don’t think anything Waldron threw in his direction would’ve turned the tide.

But perhaps he should’ve been careful what he wished for, because the irony in your post is that I think he felt he was too good to manage Oxford and what’s gone around has come around. Can’t say I have much sympathy as he was definitely one of the main architects of our struggles this year.

 

[SamLongSlidingTackle]

Is leaving Leicester at the end of the season.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Is leaving Leicester at the end of the season.

Wishing him a long and happy retirement. Damaging season for him.

 

[Chippy]

Is leaving Leicester at the end of the season.

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Can’t see where he goes from here, his style and approach and whole footballing ethos are a thing of a previous era.

 

[90syeIlow]

Good riddance to him and his career.

2 relegations in one season, and no chance to go back on a podcast to say he ‘would have kept Leicester up’.

 

[Toe knee]

 

[werthersoriginal]

I don’t think Mr Rowett will be working in the championship again despite all his experience, he might just about get a gig at Burton.

 

[yellowbow]

This season has been a disaster but I don’t think we should forget what he achieved last season

 

[Eric Blair]

Great to see that he already has a new job and has joined the Foo Fighters (Gary is second from the right)

 

[Yellowmania]

Leicester really are in the smelly stuff.
They’ve already sold off their Prem parachute payments and future player sales instalments to a Bank.
Add in their eye watering salaries and it’s only going to get worse for them.

 

[holdsteady]

Leicester really are in the smelly stuff.
They’ve already sold off their Prem parachute payments and future player sales instalments to a Bank.
Add in their eye watering salaries and it’s only going to get worse for them.

With them and Sheffield Wednesday in the s**t that should be two of the relegation spots taken next year, that should help us stay up

 

[SteMerritt]

With them and Sheffield Wednesday in the s**t that should be two of the relegation spots taken next year, that should help us stay up

Four go down remember...

 

[holdsteady]

Four go down remember...

Its been so long I forgot, despite only this morning looking at who would be joining the already relegated Northampton and Rotherham, the virtually relegated Port Vale. Exeter hopefully. Tinpot league though, 4 down.

What a season for Elliot Moore, the only man to have a worse one on the pitch than Gary Rowett. Both had double relegations but Moore has managed to start the season in the championship and finish it relegated to league two. Apart from the money I bet that retirement idea looks pretty good at the moment.

 

[Andy Stroud]

Perhaps Rowett could take over at Sheffield Wednesday until the end of the season to complete a unique hat trick

 

[Boris]

Its been so long I forgot, despite only this morning looking at who would be joining the already relegated Northampton and Rotherham, the virtually relegated Port Vale. Exeter hopefully. Tinpot league though, 4 down.

What a season for Elliot Moore, the only man to have a worse one on the pitch than Gary Rowett. Both had double relegations but Moore has managed to start the season in the championship and finish it relegated to league two. Apart from the money I bet that retirement idea looks pretty good at the moment.

I have a bit of a soft spot for Exeter, seeing as an ex-mate supports them. Having said that, the other options are probably Wimbledon and Orient (reckon Burton and Peterborough are just about safe) and days out in London are always good. Especially as we'll have Plymouth, so one game in Devon is enough, thanks