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Jon Stead (left) and Rhys Carr (right) have been appointed as Bristol Rovers assistant head coaches(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Bristol Rovers have confirmed the appointment of Jon Stead and Rhys Carr as Darrell Clarke’s new assistant head coaches ahead of the 2025\/26 League Two season.<\/p>\n
Stead left Barnsley at the end of last term, where he had previously worked with Clarke. The 42-year-old made over 700 career appearances as a player, lining up in the Premier League for Blackburn Rovers, Sunderland and Sheffield United.<\/p>\n
Following his retirement from playing in 2021, Stead had spells working in the United States at Hartford Athletic and Tampa Bay Rowdies before arriving at Oakwell.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Bristol Rovers may eventually sanction exits of assets this summer, but it’ll be on their terms<\/a>READ MORE: Bryant Bilongo on Bristol Rovers return, Harrogate loan spell and working with Darrell Clarke<\/a><\/p>\n Carr, meanwhile, has previously worked at both Rovers and Bristol City<\/a>. The 38-year-old was lead professional development phase coach at the Gas for six months in 2022 and spent six years with the Robins between 2013 and 2019, mainly as a first-team development coach. He has also held roles at the likes of Wolves, Sheffield United, Swansea City, Cardiff City and the Republic of Ireland Women.<\/p>\n Most recently, the Welshman spent seven months at Coventry City where he was a first-team coach under Mark Robins before taking interim charge of the Sky Blues prior to Frank Lampard’s arrival.<\/p>\n Join Bristol Rovers Live’s Whatsapp community for all the biggest Bristol Rovers stories sent straight to your phone<\/strong><\/p>\n Bristol Rovers Live<\/a> is now on WhatsApp and we want you to join our community.<\/p>\n Through the app, we\u2019ll send the Bristol Rovers news, live match coverage, team news, transfers, fixtures, analysis and more straight to your phone.<\/p>\n To join our community you need to already have WhatsApp. All you need to do is click this link and select \u2018Join Community\u2019.<\/a><\/p>\n No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Bristol Live<\/a> team.<\/p>\n We also treat community members to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out at any time you like.<\/p>\n To leave our community, click on the name at the top of your screen and choose \u2018Exit group\u2019.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/p>\n Click here to join our WhatsApp community.<\/a><\/p>\n Speaking on the appointments, director of football Ricky Martin said: “We’re delighted to welcome Jon and Rhys to the club, with both arriving with a vast amount of high-level coaching experience within the industry.<\/p>\n “Work at the training ground has not stopped since the end of the season, with everyone working tirelessly to ensure the club starts pre-season positively. The appointment of two assistant coaches of such quality is another step in this process.”<\/p>\n Bristol Live<\/a> understands that coaches Dave Horseman and Kevin Bond have both left the club over the summer.<\/p>\n Rovers’ players are due back at The Quarters for the start of pre-season on June 23 ahead of their first friendly fixture against Chippenham Town on July 4.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Bristol Rovers’ League Two rivals reportedly lining up ‘serious’ offer for former Gas favourite<\/a>READ MORE: Bristol Rovers amongst clubs interested in Rotherham United striker Jonson Clarke-Harris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Rovers have confirmed Darrell Clarke’s two new assistant head coaches ahead of the upcoming season Daniel Hargraves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,2707,748,46615,393,7129,4884,197,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-181484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-rovers-fc","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-darrell-clarke","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-frank-lampard","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-sky","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114676928716770038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744476931_129_0_WhatsApp-Phone.jpg\")
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