Doncaster Rovers v Forest Green: Why Grant McCann's canny tactic would impress one of his mentors

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A MANAGER who knows the EFL 'like the back of his hand’ according to Grant McCann, Steve Cotterill would surely admire the savvy psychological tactic employed by the Doncaster Rovers boss to help change the narrative of a hard season.

McCann, of course, is someone whom managerial veteran Cotterill is well acquainted with following their previous association at Cheltenham Town several few moons ago.A short distance away in Gloucestershire, Bristol-born Cotterill is instilling some fight and belief - and certainly organisation - into Forest Green’s previously meek survival pitch which looked a doomed one until he arrived in late January.

” Sign up to our new Sports Editor’s TeamTalk newsletter available this week Over the past eight matches, Rovers have taken 17 points. In fairness, their opponents today are not too far behind with 13. It points to the acumen of Cotterill, whose side showed their wherewithal on their last trip to Yorkshire just 11 days ago when they registered a shock 2-0 victory against Bradford City at Valley Parade.

 

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