{"id":72664,"date":"2025-03-31T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T10:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheffieldwire.co.uk\/?p=72664"},"modified":"2025-03-31T16:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:57:57","slug":"rotherham-sack-manager-steve-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheffieldwire.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/rotherham-sack-manager-steve-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotherham United axe manager Steve Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>League One side Rotherham United have sacked their manager following a string of disappointing results.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The club made the decision after Steve Evans led The Millers to a heavy 4-0 defeat to relegation rivals Crawley Town on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has left the South-Yorkshire club in 16th place after failing to win any of their last four outings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First team staff Paul Raynor, Gary Mills and Ian Pledger have also been relieved of their duties with immediate effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, a club statement said: \u201cEveryone at Rotherham United would like to thank Steve, Paul and their coaching team for all their efforts and wish them well in their future endeavours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evans was appointed as head coach last April on a three year deal after a compensation package was agreed with Stevenage who he was managing at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After relegation from The Championship last season, The Millers have struggled once again with just 12 wins from their 38 games in League One this campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CLUB STATEMENT | Steve Evans <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#rufc<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForeverTogetherForeverProud?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ForeverTogetherForeverProud<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IzhfWwBdkB\">https:\/\/t.co\/IzhfWwBdkB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rotherham United (@RotherhamUnited) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RotherhamUnited\/status\/1906309531635794304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine points above the relegation zone with just eight games left to play, there are fears that Rotherham could still face the drop and achieve consecutive relegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has been Evans\u2019 second stint at the club after the Scotsman took charge between 2012 and 2015, in which he won promotion to The Championship in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The club statement said: \u201cThe club can also confirm that Matt Hamshaw, together with Andy Warrington and other staff to be confirmed will take charge of first team matters with immediate effect until the end of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamshaw will speak to the media this afternoon to discuss his temporary appointment and the next outing against Northampton Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the link to the interview:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matt Hamshaw meets the media! | Presented by our Diamond Partners \ud83c\udf99\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yk6wvgIXC9k?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rotherham United have sacked their manager Steve Evans after the club find themselves struggling in 16th in League One<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":72670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[24,19,338,45],"class_list":["post-72664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-football","tag-rotherham","tag-south-yorkshire","tag-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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