Sat Feb 12, 2022 9:04 am
Rowberry taking inspiration fromNeil Warnock's Cardiff promotion
Saturday 12th February 2022
Newport County boss James Rowberry is using lessons he learned under Neil Warnock during the promotion-winning season at Cardiff City, as he bids to achieve the same feat with the Exiles.
The Rodney Parade outfit are sitting in seventh place, just outside the play-off spots, in League Two after successive defeats by Northampton Town and Forest Green.
However, with 16 games left to play, Rowberry, the former first-team coach with the Bluebirds, is taking the same pragmatic approach he learned from Warnock at Cardiff.
James Rowberry:
"I think this is all part of part of the experience of football" he said.
"I remember at Cardiff when we got promoted under Neil Warnock, we lost four games on the spin over the Christmas period and still got promoted automatically.
"That's part and parcel of football and the journey and it's how you come back from these bits of adversity.
"I think the big thing was always the next game mentality. You don't dwell on things that happen, good or bad.
"And it's just confidence breeds confidence, so I think we were disappointed on Tuesday, but I was really proud of the lads in the changing room after the game with the way some of them spoke.
"We talked about things that we need to do to become better and that really pleased me in showing how far the group has come
"I think that's what I learnt from Neil was sometimes the players give a strong opinion, an honest opinion on how we can do things and one thing that I think I learned a lot from Neil was that you move on to the next thing, and you move on quickly.
"Cardiff City at that time were challenging for promotion and they probably shouldn't have been.
"With what the job that he did, and the staff did and the players most importantly was a remarkable achievement and it would be very similar to here in that sense.
"So, we've just got to, like we did at Cardiff, focus on the next game."
The Exiles are four points off the automatic promotion spots. They play Oldham at home on Saturday.