Ex-Staff Gary Rowett

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1.Gary Rowett

Position: Head Coach
Nationality: England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Departed: 23rd December 2025 | Departed Posts: 1st Post
Previous Clubs: Birmingham City (Interim), Millwall, Stoke City, Derby County, Birmingham City, Burton Albion
Instagram: garyrowett1
 
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Boris said:
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
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Thats pretty much my thinking, especially skewed by the fact I live as near or nearer to Wimbledon as I do to Oxford so its an easy one for me. If it was Exeter or Rotherham say I would want Exeter to stay up, but they lose out to their current opposition.
 
He's had large influence over 3 relegated teams in the last 2 seasons. Well done Gary - thanks for your professionalism this season.
 
Surely that's his reputation as one of the Championship's Mr Dependables down the pan now?

In years to come, we'll remember him for:

  • Replacing Des
  • Putting together a decent run at the beginning of his tenure (while we were playing the likes of Cardiff and Plymouth, who ended up relegated) that eventually kept us up.
  • Telling RadOx that he had nothing left on the drawing board.
But, most importantly:

Jim Smith was a bald eagle. Liam Manning was a snake. Gary Rowett rode a lion.
 
90syeIlow said:
He's had large influence over 3 relegated teams in the last 2 seasons. Well done Gary - thanks for your professionalism this season.
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Starts from the top. I’m not sure the recruitment strategy/budget change/Tim spreadsheet Clusterfuck or Indo tour screamed professionalism, personally.

It doesn’t excuse GR’s bottom lip dragging for a couple of months, but you’d be an idiot if you thought we acted in a manner befitting a Championship football club between the months of May and September 2025.

We were always up against it in the Champ, but asking a seasoned manager at the level to work with one hand tied behind his back was always ending one way imo.

I’m not excusing his output, you can’t. But you also can’t possibly say we gave him the best possible chance to succeed.
 
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ECYellow said:
Starts from the top. I’m not sure the recruitment strategy/budget change/Tim spreadsheet Clusterfuck or Indo tour screamed professionalism, personally.

It doesn’t excuse GR’s bottom lip dragging for a couple of months, but you’d be an idiot if you thought we acted in a manner befitting a Championship football club between the months of May and September 2025.

We were always up against it in the Champ, but asking a seasoned manager at the level to work with one hand tied behind his back was always ending one way imo.

I’m not exusing his output, you can’t. But you also can’t possibly say we gave him the best possible chance to succeed.
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I agree with all of this and I would love to see those higher up be held accountable. Tim needs to be the first to go.

However, despite having his hands tied and dealt a difficult hand, if we didn't throw away multiple games where we sat back and tried ridiculous setups, we would likely be looking at the Championship again next season.
 
Two things stick out from summer The Dub podcasts.

1) Tim Williams saying relegation wouldn’t be the end of the world and we were ahead of schedule.

2) Gary Rowett telling Robyn that pre-season would be tough and that it was a well tried formula that he’d be following.

Rowett was done, I accept that. The reason these two interviews stick out is because Tim was complacent and he completely f!cked our preparation by facilitating the clown show in Indonesia.

Whether Waldron, Rowett or Bloomfield are sh!t or not. We know there are incompetent people high up in our club.
 
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I recall driving home from Cardiff last year and saying to two friends that we should get rid of Rowett. Watching his style had become horrid and I felt we were moving backwards.

He did well initially, but as some others have said they were against opposition who would later be relegated and 2 results against Millwall who were just finding their feet after appointing a new manager.

Rowetts football was so bad to watch. Far too many draws where we could have won, ie Leicester at home. Some of the performances were just dire, WBA away and away to Wrexham stand out for me.

The fact he has played a huge part in two teams relegations this season says it all about his future as a Championship manager.

As for Bloomfield, he deserves a chance to see what he can do for us next season, but the jury is definitely still out for me.
 
Didcotox said:
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I recall driving home from Cardiff last year and saying to two friends that we should get rid of Rowett. Watching his style had become horrid and I felt we were moving backwards.

He did well initially, but as some others have said they were against opposition who would later be relegated and 2 results against Millwall who were just finding their feet after appointing a new manager.

Rowetts football was so bad to watch. Far too many draws where we could have won, ie Leicester at home. Some of the performances were just dire, WBA away and away to Wrexham stand out for me.

The fact he has played a huge part in two teams relegations this season says it all about his future as a Championship manager.

As for Bloomfield, he deserves a chance to see what he can do for us next season, but the jury is definitely still out for me.
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If I’d been there with you in Cardiff I would have laughed you out of town but you were proved right and I was wrong.
 
Didcotox said:
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I recall driving home from Cardiff last year and saying to two friends that we should get rid of Rowett. Watching his style had become horrid and I felt we were moving backwards.

He did well initially, but as some others have said they were against opposition who would later be relegated and 2 results against Millwall who were just finding their feet after appointing a new manager.

Rowetts football was so bad to watch. Far too many draws where we could have won, ie Leicester at home. Some of the performances were just dire, WBA away and away to Wrexham stand out for me.

The fact he has played a huge part in two teams relegations this season says it all about his future as a Championship manager.

As for Bloomfield, he deserves a chance to see what he can do for us next season, but the jury is definitely still out for me.
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I'd have been in agreement at the time (there will be posts to prove it but I'm not digging them out!). Really thought we should have moved on at the end of last season, but impossibly difficult to do so considering he'd kept us up.

Think he can do a job for certain teams in certain situations and some of the criticism in this thread has been OTT, but yeah, as a football fan he's not someone you'd want rocking up if you your team to entertain.
 
The Voice Of Reason said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Leicester City: Gary Rowett open to staying but club 'may want fresh start'

Boss Gary Rowett says he is open to staying at Leicester in League One but expects competition for the job of rebuilding the club.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

No chance!
The ex prem.players don't like him!
But hope they do as our chances are better
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Not sure those ex-Prem players will be there if Leicester can find somebody to offload them to. They need to reduce their wage bill massively with having already sold on their parachute payment and future player sales (not sure to the value of) earlier.

Amuses me they still have the Vestergaard on a big contract when he has the speed and turning circle of Lee Jarman. They have Wout Faes returning from loan as well I think but they may be able to shift him.

But agree that I can't see Gary Rowett being there next season.

Wayne Rooney is available. :)
 
The Voice Of Reason said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Leicester City: Gary Rowett open to staying but club 'may want fresh start'

Boss Gary Rowett says he is open to staying at Leicester in League One but expects competition for the job of rebuilding the club.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

No chance!
The ex prem.players don't like him!
But hope they do as our chances are better
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To be fair they won't like the next manager either, they seem to be some of the worst professionals ever to play in this country. They may be better players than the ones from clubs like Luton who did the double relegation before them but they are a terrible group attitude wise.
 
He will be facing completion from the motivated Liam Rosenior. Unless he chooses to invest his pay off in buying lower division club.
 
The Voice Of Reason said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Leicester City: Gary Rowett open to staying but club 'may want fresh start'

Boss Gary Rowett says he is open to staying at Leicester in League One but expects competition for the job of rebuilding the club.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

No chance!
The ex prem.players don't like him!
But hope they do as our chances are better
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I'm willing to stay at the club, I should have been able to save them from relegation but I didn't manage to do it, still happy to stick around though. Pays well.

Guys mental surely.
 
Carpy said:
I'm willing to stay at the club, I should have been able to save them from relegation but I didn't manage to do it, still happy to stick around though. Pays well.

Guys mental surely.
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He really needs to humble himself. Go to Burton Albion Gary, they’ll be in a league one relegation battle again soon.
 
Basham Wonderland said:
Lots of animosity for a manager who didn't really do anything wrong, kept us up last season, and ran out of ideas when he wasn't supported in the summer. Short memories I guess.

Best of luck to him I say, he'll pop up at Charlton or Blackburn when they need him at Christmas.
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The same manager who was trying to send our player of the season out on loan in January?

Yes people above him got things wrong this season but if we had not tried to park the bus and try and nick a goal at the start of the season we might still be in the championship. Sheffield United at home, Blackburn away, Norwich away, West brom away , Charlton away and countless other games we dropped points due to his negative approach.

Even at Leicester he has a return of 11 points from 13 games. That's a worse record than what he replaced where they gained 38 points from 32 games.

He may do a job in league 2 where his style of play is more suited these days.
 
I’ve got mixed feelings about Rowett.
Thank you for keeping us up, but the level of football produced was nowhere to the standard supporters would accept. I was surprised Leicester gave him a go.
I expect him to end up back at Burton for what looks like a final hurrah.
 
OX14 said:
The same manager who was trying to send our player of the season out on loan in January?

Yes people above him got things wrong this season but if we had not tried to park the bus and try and nick a goal at the start of the season we might still be in the championship. Sheffield United at home, Blackburn away, Norwich away, West brom away , Charlton away and countless other games we dropped points due to his negative approach.

Even at Leicester he has a return of 11 points from 13 games. That's a worse record than what he replaced where they gained 38 points from 32 games.

He may do a job in league 2 where his style of play is more suited these days.
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But he actually achieved something here - he kept us up against all the odds last season with manager of the month in January for literally transforming us. We absolutely wouldn't have been in the Championship this season without him.

This season things went wrong, partly because he was shafted, and partly because he gave up because he was shafted. Not great, but equally you could criticise Manning and Appleton for jumping ship, or Des for running out of steam, or Karl for being a t**t for the last 18 months of his reign.

If we just judge managers on how their tenure ended, instead of what they actually achieved with us, then I'm sure we'd even be criticising Jim Smith!
 
Basham Wonderland said:
But he actually achieved something here - he kept us up against all the odds last season with manager of the month in January for literally transforming us. We absolutely wouldn't have been in the Championship this season without him.

This season things went wrong, partly because he was shafted, and partly because he gave up because he was shafted. Not great, but equally you could criticise Manning and Appleton for jumping ship, or Des for running out of steam, or Karl for being a t**t for the last 18 months of his reign.

If we just judge managers on how their tenure ended, instead of what they actually achieved with us, then I'm sure we'd even be criticising Jim Smith!
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Notwithstanding the massive difference between taking another job and giving up while you still get paid to represent the club, are you sure that Manning didn’t attract any criticism for the way he left?

Also, how do you square this attitude with your relentless criticism of Mark Harris, a player who won us promotion (as top scorer), kept us in the Championship (as top scorer) and didnt give up when it got a bit tough?
 
Didcotox said:
The fact he has played a huge part in two teams relegations this season says it all about his future as a Championship manager.
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I think what's happened at Leicester is going to be way more damaging for him that with us.

With us, he could've just pointed at the epic clown show that was our pre-season, and the disaster that was the second half of our summer transfer window and just said to future employers "See, I didn't get the backing I needed, and was left trying to work with an unprepared, insufficiently talented squad"

But at Leicester, he had more than enough talent. He's supposed to be the guy that can come in, get a side organized and dig out some results. Instead he's won one out of thirteen and gotten relegated with games to spare. If he can't land a rescue act, even when working with a squad with as much quality as Leicester's, then he's going to struggle to find work because noone's going to hire him for the quality and expansiveness of his football!
 
Basham Wonderland said:
But he actually achieved something here - he kept us up against all the odds last season with manager of the month in January for literally transforming us. We absolutely wouldn't have been in the Championship this season without him.

This season things went wrong, partly because he was shafted, and partly because he gave up because he was shafted. Not great, but equally you could criticise Manning and Appleton for jumping ship, or Des for running out of steam, or Karl for being a t**t for the last 18 months of his reign.

If we just judge managers on how their tenure ended, instead of what they actually achieved with us, then I'm sure we'd even be criticising Jim Smith!
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Saying he did nothing wrong but also saying he gave up is an interesting take.
 
tonyw said:
I think what's happened at Leicester is going to be way more damaging for him that with us.

With us, he could've just pointed at the epic clown show that was our pre-season, and the disaster that was the second half of our summer transfer window and just said to future employers "See, I didn't get the backing I needed, and was left trying to work with an unprepared, insufficiently talented squad"

But at Leicester, he had more than enough talent. He's supposed to be the guy that can come in, get a side organized and dig out some results. Instead he's won one out of thirteen and gotten relegated with games to spare. If he can't land a rescue act, even when working with a squad with as much quality as Leicester's, then he's going to struggle to find work because noone's going to hire him for the quality and expansiveness of his football!
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Leicester's squad on paper may be technically talented but in reality it had a pea-sized heart and a non existent spine.
 
Basham Wonderland said:
Equally as interesting as saying he should be at Burton in a League 1 relegation battle 🤷‍♀️
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Probably about his level now.

He threw the towel in, that last performance against Charlton at the Valley and the way he set us up was an absolute disgrace.

He had given up way before then, the higher ups have to take the responsibility for their part but he cost us championship survival with his awful tactics and basically having the attitude we weren’t good enough and that’s unacceptable putting that in the public domain when you are representing the club.

Imagine having a manager saying you are basically not good enough?
 
Send him down to Bristol, the Gas would love his style of place, may even do a great job and get them relegated to the conference.
 
Bicester Yellow said:
Probably about his level now.

He threw the towel in, that last performance against Charlton at the Valley and the way he set us up was an absolute disgrace.

He had given up way before then, the higher ups have to take the responsibility for their part but he cost us championship survival with his awful tactics and basically having the attitude we weren’t good enough and that’s unacceptable putting that in the public domain when you are representing the club.

Imagine having a manager saying you are basically not good enough?
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He gave us Championship survival, and he cost us Championship survival. He's a manager under contract at a football club - not exactly going to resign when he doesn't have the desire anymore, is he? You just have to wait to be fired. As you say, that's on the higher ups. All things considered, it's not really worth the hate. If he wasn't shafted by the Board in the summer, then the Charlton performance would never have happened.

I would be very surprised if his next appointment is at the foot of League 1.
 
Basham Wonderland said:
He gave us Championship survival, and he cost us Championship survival. He's a manager under contract at a football club - not exactly going to resign when he doesn't have the desire anymore, is he? You just have to wait to be fired. As you say, that's on the higher ups. All things considered, it's not really worth the hate. If he wasn't shafted by the Board in the summer, then the Charlton performance would never have happened.

I would be very surprised if his next appointment is at the foot of League 1.
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He gave us championship survival the season before when he was 100% committed and could be bothered.

He couldn’t be bothered this season and threw the towel in, his early season tactics and form are why we’ve been relegated.

Not much has changed, he wasn’t given that raw of a deal.

His tactics saw us throw away games over the first 19-20 games.

He gets no sympathy from me, he took our football club and it’s support for mugs and thought we should just accept the mediocrity he was serving up.

Saying we are not good enough to be at the level, how do you think that motivates our players? Pathetic.
 
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