{"id":476870,"date":"2019-07-11T05:33:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T09:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=476870"},"modified":"2019-07-11T05:33:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T09:33:23","slug":"doncaster-rovers-darren-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/07\/11\/doncaster-rovers-darren-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Doncaster Rovers Player Darren Moore Returns as New Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darren Moore<\/a>\u00a0has returned to Doncaster Rovers 22 years after he left the club as a player. The 45-year-old has been appointed as the new manager of the club. Moore replaces Grant McCann who left earlier this summer for Championship side Hull City. Moore has signed a one-year rolling contract.<\/p>\n

Moore was surprisingly sacked by West Bromwich Albion<\/a> in March. The Baggies were sitting fourth in the Championship at the time and on course for at least a play-off place. He took charge at Albion the previous April and almost produced a miracle in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Darren Moore Returns to Doncaster Rovers<\/h1>\n

Former Rovers Player<\/h2>\n

Darren Moore is no stranger to Doncaster. The former defender played 76 times between 1995 and 1997. He moved on to Bradford City<\/a> for \u00a3300,000. However, he is happy to be back<\/a> at the club, telling their website: “It feels really good to be back here in Doncaster and back to a club where I played. It’s an honour for me to be back here as manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m really looking forward to seeing everyone again, I’m really looking forward to coming back into the area and settling down and looking forward to the new season.”<\/p>\n

Darren Moore Returns to Build on Last Season<\/h2>\n

Rovers had an impressive season. They claimed a play-off place but were beaten by Charlton Athletic<\/a> in the semi-finals. Should Moore be able to keep his better players and bring in extra quality, Rovers could challenge for promotion next season.<\/p>\n

Rovers chief executive Gavin Baldwin<\/a> said: \u201cI’m really pleased to have Darren on board, he was a really strong candidate and I am confident he is a really good fit for the club. His values match ours, and I’m sure our supporters join the owners and myself in giving him a warm welcome and wishing him well at the club. Everyone is now focused on having a good season and building towards the opening game against Gillingham.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore will meet his new players and staff today and get to work on preparations on what could be an exciting promotion race in League One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Doncaster Rovers player Darren Moore returns to the club having been appointed as their new manager. Moore replaces Grant McCann who left for Hull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":476903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34],"tags":[1976,294,168,657,90,136],"class_list":["post-476870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","tag-darren-moore","tag-doncaster-rovers","tag-efl","tag-efl-league-one","tag-fifa","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}