Pinsard confirmed as new Rovers stand-in
PRIAULX LEAGUE representative team coach Charlie Pinsard is to replace the retiring Jez Robin with virtually immediate affect at Rovers.
Robin, who has spent four-and-a-half years in the senior coaching role and taken the club to unprecedented glory with two Priaulx League titles, is a due to take charge for the last time in the Guernsey FA Cup this weekend, but with Port Soif already very wet and likely to be postponed, he may have coached his last game paving the way for Pinsard, a big mate of his deputy Paul Bourgaize, to take over.
Pinsard filled a similar ‘substitute’ role last season and turned around North’s season.
But, he insists, a full-time club role is not something he fancies, as yet.
‘Jez approached me and I said it wasn’t anything I want to do permanently, but to the end of the season just like I did with North [last year].
‘That’s the offer I put on the table.’
As to whether he would continue beyond May, Pinsard was leaning towards a ‘no’ answer.
‘You can never say never but this way it gives them the time to sit down and think about who they want to take the club forward.’
A former Rovers player, he sees a club that is well organised and has ‘a lot of good stuff going on’.
‘It is also an opportunity for me to keep learning as a coach and with a different group of players.
‘I’d hoped that the FA Inter-League Cup thing would go on until the end of the season but we went out and because of that I’ve got time free.
‘It’s a fantastic club, a big club, and Jez and “Bourgy" have done a great job.’
Rovers have had a difficult season after losing key players to GFC.
