Chairman Tony Stewart on Rotherham United's director of football rethink

Just a few months after being appointed as the club’s football director in a newly-created role, Rob Scott has returned to his old position concentrating wholly on recruitment.

Scott had been given a wider club remit in January.

But with the Millers electing to bring back Steve Evans in a traditional ‘manager’ role in April as opposed to a head coaching position, the club have done an about-turn with Scott’s new title being director of football recruitment.

Stewart, whose side were relegated from the Championship after a fraught season which saw them win just five times, said: “When things aren’t going right and this is an honest answer, you have to scrutinise what is what and I think that title was not right for Rob, so we adjusted it.

"I keep it simple, it wasn’t working. Rob has been with us for five years, he’s part of the family and a bright, intelligent guy and he’ll have to adapt and he will adapt with Steve.

"Steve will know and he has some good names and he can bring in some real calibre of people.

"But Rob will be there to make sure he’s giving as much assistance to Steve that he can on the volume of players.

"If he wants a centre-half, I’d like Rob to come up with half a dozen centre-halves. You get a balance from the manager and recruitment.”

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For his part, Stewart plans to continue to keep his relationship simple with Scott and Evans regarding the recruitment of players.

The long-standing Millers supremo added: "All I do is give the money and, between them, recruitment and manager select who they are going to bring in with the money.

"There are two scenarios: either we've got the wrong players or we've got the right players in and they've not been coached or trained to do what we want them to do.

"One's recruitment, one's the manager - and they've both been addressed. I've never picked a player yet."