Ronnie Jepson

Football manager infobox
playername = Ronnie Jepson

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fullname = Ronald Francis Jepson
nickname = Rocket Ronnie
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1963|5|12
cityofbirth = Audley
countryofbirth = England
position = Striker
currentclub = Huddersfield Town (assistant manager)
years = 1988
1988-1990
1989
1990-1991
1991-1993
1993-1996
1996-1997
1997-1998
1998-2000
clubs = Nantwich Town
Port Vale
→ Peterborough United (loan)
Preston North End
Exeter City
Huddersfield Town
Bury
Oldham Athletic
Burnley
caps(goals) = unknown
022 0(0)
018 0(5)
038 0(8)
054 (21)
107 (36)
047 0(9)
009 0(4)
059 0(3)
manageryears = 2005-2007
managerclubs = Gillingham

Ronald Francis "Ronnie" Jepson (born May 12, 1963 in Audley, Stoke-on-Trent, England) is an English former footballer and manager who is currently assistant manager of Huddersfield Town. His first and so far only full managerial job was with Gillingham, but he resigned in September 2007. In 2006 he obtained the UEFA Pro Licence qualification.

History

A relative latecomer to the professional game at 25, when he transferred from Nantwich Town, he started his league career at Port Vale, and then moved on to Exeter City where he established himself with 21 goals in 54 games.

In 1993 Huddersfield Town paid Exeter £70,000 for his services, and whilst there he formed a successful strike partnership with Andy Booth, scoring 36 goals and helping the side to get promotion in 1995. When he was at Huddersfield he earned the nickname "Rocket Ronnie". Moves followed to Bury, Oldham Athletic and Burnley, where an achilles problem at the end of the 2000-2001 season ended his playing days. Stan Ternent, who had signed Jepson at both Bury and Burnley, then appointed him to his first coaching role as reserve coach at the Clarets.

In May 2004, Ternent's contract at Burnley was not renewed by the club and Jepson was let go along with him. In December of the same year, Ternent became manager at Gillingham, and Jepson joined him, again as assistant manager. Although the Gills' fortunes improved, they narrowly failed to escape relegation from the Football League Championship. Ternent left the club during the summer, but Jepson remained, as assistant to new manager Neale Cooper.

Gillingham manager

The 2005-06 season did not start well for Gillingham, and following a run of bad results and an FA Cup defeat to non-league Burscough, Cooper resigned and Jepson was appointed manager on 15 November 2005, initially on a caretaker basis, but he signed a two year contract within the first two months, although this was not made public until several months later. Jepson turned the season around, and the Gills, having flirted with relegation danger, finally finished in 14th place with 60 points.

During the close season Jepson's assistant Mick Docherty, who had been on a short-term contract, signed a new two-year contract for the role, and Jepson was able to make long term adjustments to the playing squad. However, following a poor start to the 2006-07 campaign, with five defeats from the first six matches, Jepson resigned as manager.cite news
title = Gillingham manager Jepson resigns
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gillingham/6985975.stm
publisher = BBC Sport
date = 2007-09-09
accessdate = 2007-09-09]

Huddersfield Town assistant manager

On 24 April 2008 it was confirmed that Jepson would make a return to Huddersfield Town, this time in the capacity of assistant manager to the newly appointed manager Stan Ternent.

References

External links

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