Post by Macmoish on Jan 11, 2012 7:40:53 GMT
A year after he was linked to applying for that same job. Good luck to him
BRistol Evening Post
Curle is latest to apply for top job at Pirates
KEITH Curle has joined the race to become Bristol Rovers' new manager after losing his job at Queens Park Rangers.
The 48-year-old, pictured right, was first-team coach at Loftus Road, but departed from the London club, along with other backroom staff, when Neil Warnock was sacked at the weekend.
Curle has been credited with playing a major part in QPR's triumph last season when they won the Championship title and promotion to the Premier League.
He is known to have submitted his CV to the Pirates as he looks for a quick return to management.
Bristolian Curle made his first Football League appearance as a player with Rovers in 1981, scoring on his debut against Chester – one of the clubs he would go on to manage.
He made 32 appearances for the Gas before having stints at Torquay, Bristol City, Reading, Wimbledon, Manchester City, Wolves, Sheffield United, Barnsley and Mansfield during a 21-year playing career which saw him chalk up more than 700 league appearances.
Curle spent two years as a player-coach working under Warnock at Sheffield United after joining the Bramall Lane club in 2000, and later had his first taste of management when he became player-boss at Mansfield in December 2002 with the club battling to stave off relegation from the third tier.
Though he failed to keep them up, he took them to the play-off final the following season, although they lost on penalties to Huddersfield.
He joined Chester City in 2005 and was understood to have been interested in succeeding Ian Atkins as Rovers manager until the club opted to make an internal appointment by promoting Paul Trollope to the key role.
Curle's next move was to Torquay in 2007, where he became head coach under director of football Colin Lee, who had been his manager during his playing spell at Wolves.
But since October 2007 he has worked closely with Warnock at a Crystal Palace and QPR and has won respect within the game for his coaching and organisational ability, which is thought to have played a large part in the success the outspoken manager has enjoyed.
Meanwhile, Rovers chairman Nick Higgs says a shortlist has been drawn up after the club received a large number of applications for the manager's job, although the board would not rush into any decision.
Higgs said: "While we appreciate that it is important to get a new man in as soon as possible, it is necessary that we appoint the right person."
www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Curle-latest-apply-job-Pirates/story-14388857-detail/story.html
BRistol Evening Post
Curle is latest to apply for top job at Pirates
KEITH Curle has joined the race to become Bristol Rovers' new manager after losing his job at Queens Park Rangers.
The 48-year-old, pictured right, was first-team coach at Loftus Road, but departed from the London club, along with other backroom staff, when Neil Warnock was sacked at the weekend.
Curle has been credited with playing a major part in QPR's triumph last season when they won the Championship title and promotion to the Premier League.
He is known to have submitted his CV to the Pirates as he looks for a quick return to management.
Bristolian Curle made his first Football League appearance as a player with Rovers in 1981, scoring on his debut against Chester – one of the clubs he would go on to manage.
He made 32 appearances for the Gas before having stints at Torquay, Bristol City, Reading, Wimbledon, Manchester City, Wolves, Sheffield United, Barnsley and Mansfield during a 21-year playing career which saw him chalk up more than 700 league appearances.
Curle spent two years as a player-coach working under Warnock at Sheffield United after joining the Bramall Lane club in 2000, and later had his first taste of management when he became player-boss at Mansfield in December 2002 with the club battling to stave off relegation from the third tier.
Though he failed to keep them up, he took them to the play-off final the following season, although they lost on penalties to Huddersfield.
He joined Chester City in 2005 and was understood to have been interested in succeeding Ian Atkins as Rovers manager until the club opted to make an internal appointment by promoting Paul Trollope to the key role.
Curle's next move was to Torquay in 2007, where he became head coach under director of football Colin Lee, who had been his manager during his playing spell at Wolves.
But since October 2007 he has worked closely with Warnock at a Crystal Palace and QPR and has won respect within the game for his coaching and organisational ability, which is thought to have played a large part in the success the outspoken manager has enjoyed.
Meanwhile, Rovers chairman Nick Higgs says a shortlist has been drawn up after the club received a large number of applications for the manager's job, although the board would not rush into any decision.
Higgs said: "While we appreciate that it is important to get a new man in as soon as possible, it is necessary that we appoint the right person."
www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Curle-latest-apply-job-Pirates/story-14388857-detail/story.html
