Rotherham United have given Rob Scott a new title making him Director Of Football at the New York Stadium.
Rob’s association with the Millers began in 1998 when he joined from Carlisle United. He went on to make one hundred and eighty-nine appearances in defence scoring ten times before May 2005 saw him move to Oldham.
He hung his boots up three years later and spent time as joint manager with Paul Hurst at Ilkeston Town, Boston United and Grimsby Town before turning his hand to recruitment with Brentford and Watford coming back to Rotherham in April 2019 as Head of Recruitment.
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No real surprise this was mooted after MT was sacked. I can’t see any short term changes but perhaps this was needed to clearly elevate Scott above any Influence at Head Coach/Manager level.
I’ve always said that the Nombe signing was brokered by Taylor who used his Exeter contacts to do the deal.He probably pulled rank on a cautious Scott and pushed the extravagant (on our standards) deal through using most if not all our transfer budget on a player who is less than impressive.
Our record spend could have bought much better than an untested div 1 player at a time when we were shipping goals each game. We could have signed 2 or 3 young hungry wing backs to provide an outlet from our aged back line. They could the have got higher up the pitch and played balls into the box for our currently misfiring forwards.
Could MT wasting of funds been his real last nail in his coffin?.
Let’s hope LR can magic something to rescue our season with Victor being sacrificed to enable progress.
I’m sure LR knows his place and role which from the interview with TS it is clear MT didn’t and had it his way irrespective of the now obvious wastage.
No, I don’t think there is a lot of change to Rob Scott’s job – As I see it we have a Head Coach for coaching and a Director of Football for directing but who is managing the show?
To be fair to Matt Taylor he isn’t the only manager to have ‘wasted’ money on players over the last few years – although I do like Nombe and hope we can get players in who can get the ball in the box to him.