Archived News from November 2016
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RICHARD COOPER STAYS AT MANSFIELD IN YOUTH ROLE
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POSTED by Steve Hymas
Sun Nov 20, 2016 Coops (Richard Cooper, Adam Murray's first team coach until last Monday) has been kept on at the club as senior development coach in our youth set up. He will work alongside Mike Whitlow down at Brooksby to develop some of our young talent. ------------------ LATER INTERVIEW WITH STEVE EVANS Cooper to stay on as part of new Stags regime chad.co.uk, by JOHN LOMAS, Tuesday 29 November 2016 Coach Richard Cooper is to remain as part of the new Mansfield Town set-up. Cooper who had been working as a coach with the first team under previous boss Adam Murray was expected to leave the club along with assistant boss Karl Hawley. But new manager Steve Evans has asked the experienced Cooper to stay on as part of the academy set-up at Melton, where the U21s are based. Although no specific title has yet been agreed, Evans wants to make use of a man who has deep knowledge of both the current first team and the club’s future prospects. “He is coming in as part of the academy,” said Evans. “Really we are looking at someone who knows what is happening below the first team and somebody who knows what is happening in the first team. Read more at: http://www.chad.co.uk/sport/football/mansfield-town/cooper-to-stay-on-as-part-of-new-stags-regime-1-8266063 “Coops is a good guy. We’ve known him many years and come up against him often enough. “We had a chat with him and he seemed very receptive in the very early days to taking a role. “He thought it through and made it very easy. He said he’d loved to stay and be a part of it. “So let’s get him in there for six or eight weeks and then we can define an actual specific role for Richard and make sure we are all happy with it.” ------------------- |
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