Video Viewpoint: I Know What You Need This Summer ... Rotherham United

BY the end of February, you would have got long odds on Rotherham United surviving in the Championship for a second successive year.
What kind of season can be expected at the New York Stadium in 2016-17. Picture: Nigel French/PA.What kind of season can be expected at the New York Stadium in 2016-17. Picture: Nigel French/PA.
What kind of season can be expected at the New York Stadium in 2016-17. Picture: Nigel French/PA.

Ahead of their home game with Brentford on February 27, the Millers were six points adrift of safety - only to then embark on arguably the most stand-out run of any side in the second tier.

A wonderful 11-match unbeaten streak, under a fire-fighting manager of some repute in Neil Warnock, saw the Millers transformed from certain relegation candidates to being home and hosed by early April.

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WATCH - Leon Wobschall discusses the Millers’ 2015-16 season and looks at what needs adding to the squad ahead of 2016-17.

What kind of season can be expected at the New York Stadium in 2016-17. Picture: Nigel French/PA.What kind of season can be expected at the New York Stadium in 2016-17. Picture: Nigel French/PA.
What kind of season can be expected at the New York Stadium in 2016-17. Picture: Nigel French/PA.

Some brilliant results arrived against the likes of Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough, with Rotherham’s outstanding form and esprit de corps making a mockery of the first two-thirds of the campaign when they largely toiled.

It was a season which started slowly, with Steve Evans leaving the club in the autumn and Neil Redfearn, despite one or two encouraging results against the likes of Brighton, Hull City and Leeds United, failing to plot a path to safety and paying the price for late winter defeats to fellow strugglers Charlton and Bolton.

Cometh the hour, cometh Warnock, but it is now Alan Stubbs who has been entrusted with the baton following Warnock’s decision to chance his arm somewhere else.

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There are a lot of new faces expected to land at the New York Stadium this summer but, as Stubbs has already clearly stated, the fans need to be patient while he goes about putting together a squad he wants to see challenging for a top-half finish.