Millers Chairman ‘We’ve Got Something To Prove’

Rotherham United Chairman Tony Stewart says that the disappointment and the soreness of dropping down into League One might take a bit of time to wear off.

Speaking to Radio Sheffield this evening Mr Stewart said that the club hierarchy have had a ‘serious post-mortem’ and had the meetings where, among other things, they looked at recruitment, the need to score more goals and also at where it went wrong last season and what could be done to change that.

‘We now need to put into practice what we discussed at the meeting,’ the Millers Chairman said. ‘Mine and the Board’s ambition is to move this club forward and we are more determined than we ever have been and we will make sure, as costly as it is, that we will do everything we can to win every game. We are all learning and moving forward and I’d like the club to prove the point rather than verbally make the point.

‘Due care and attention has been taken given the fact that we haven’t had the revenue coming in and we are in as fit a shape as we can be moving forward into League One. We’ve got something to prove and that’s what we are going to set out to do this coming season.’

Talking about the transfer market Mr Stewart said it was quiet compared to previous seasons but said that he found it complimentary that there had already been calls about a few of the Rotherham players from Championship clubs. Although he wouldn’t put names to those players the Chairman did say that there had been four different enquiries for players But when he was asked if anyone had come in for the Millers’ management staff it was an emphatic ‘No’ from the Chairman who went on to say, ‘We believe we have a manager, and his team behind him, who can do what they didn’t do last season. And there is a lot of trust and a lot of expectations that go with that.’

Obviously the Chairman can’t wait to get the fans back into the New York Stadium with no restrictions but there has nothing been ‘rubber stamped’ as yet as to if/when that will be.

I think a lot of fans will be expecting our ‘big named’ players to be elsewhere come the start of next season and with that comes the expectation of fetching in new players who can at least fill their boots if not be better. So, its good to hear that the club is in a good state financially and that recruitment has already been talked about so, I suppose, it is now a case of getting the players in who will do us a good job for the next few seasons, and, for me, I’d like that to be sooner rather than later.