Great news: http://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/article/ward-new-contract-781154.aspx One year rolling contract.
Excellent news! And you beat me to it P49! I was all ready with my copied link about to put the story up and here it is! Let's hope JW can continue to build on 2013's success and lead us up and onwards! UTG!
Big clap on the back for those concernred. Let's get next season's arrangements in place before it's too late!!
Copied from that link... Ward said... “I am delighted; the whole aim at the beginning was to come in and try and give the club a safer position, and it never really went beyond that. Now we have done that, and in the last couple of weeks we have begun to have a chat about what else is happening, and we have signed one or two players and I have got myself settled. I think the Board and the Chairman want a more settled football club and I am delighted to stay, I want to stay and I want to try and help this football club further. The bug has got me and I have revisited my energy and enthusiasm. Going to the Mem with 7-8,000 who take part is what I want. When it gets rocking it is a good place to be. We have two games to go and the players have no illusions about what I want, I want to win those games and that would help us to continue in to the start of next season. We still have some building to do here, if we can do it quickly then that will be great, but if we cannot we hope the fans can be a little bit patient. Hopefully in the next few years going into the new stadium we can produce a group of players this football club is very proud of.” Higgs said: “I am delighted to have agreed a contract with John to remain at Bristol Rovers. He has done a fantastic job over the last four months, completely changing our fortunes and helping to retain our league status. We were in a terrible place when he took over before the turn of the year, and he has transformed the players and the spirit at the club. John understands what Bristol Rovers Football Club is all about, and that is why I wanted him to be the man to take us forward. We have been working closely on player contracts over the last few weeks, with Matt Harrold and Michael Smith already putting pen to paper. We hope to have more names signed on before the end of the season, as we continue to put things in place for the new campaign, We would like to see the majority of next seasons squad under contract, before the break, in readiness for the resumption of per-season training in June. Our aim is certainly for promotion next season, and I believe that John is the man who can guide us to League One and beyond.” Great news. Over the moon about this. Congrats goes to the board in making this happen
