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CHAIRMAN Tom Herbert has dismissed claims that he is ready to sell Bromsgrove Rovers, and believes the club is well prepared to bounce back after relegation from the British Gas Business Premier Division.

Illness has kept Herbert away from the club's last three fixtures, including the 3-2 defeat by Team Bath on Saturday which confirmed Rovers' return to BGB Midlands Division One.

Speculation mounted that he was ready to walk away from the Victoria Ground.

A number of investors had been linked with the Greens, including John Davies, boss of tool hire firm Hire It! who recently ended their four-year sponsorship deal with Kidderminster Harriers.

But Herbert (pictured) insists he still has the desire and the resources to guide the club in the right direction.

He said: "There are people in the background who want to back me but I do not want to go down that road.

"It is my club and that is what the situation is. Whatever the club wants financially I can give it to them.

"The club was in credit last year, and howmany other clubs around are in credit?

"I am confident that we will bounce straight back (from relegation)."

Herbert has also slammed suggestions of interference in first team matters from director of football and company secretary Steve Daniels.

Daniels returned to the club last year, having previously had a spell as manager.

Herbert added: "Steve Daniels has nothing to do with the team.

"He is here on the commercial side and he is doing a marvellous job."

Rovers complete their 2007/08 league fixtures on Saturday with a trip to former manager Rod Brown's Rugby Town.

Current boss Duane Darby will begin a touchline ban for dismissals from the dugout against Chippenham and Corby Town earlier this season.

However, if he chooses to name himself as a substitute, the player-manager will be banned from giving instructions and must stand by the corner flag.

Darby, who bagged his first goal in a Rovers shirt on Saturday, couldn't hide his disappointment at suffering relegation for the first time in his career.

He said: "It is gutting. It was in our own hands a few weeks ago and we let it slip.

"In cup games anything can happen and anyone can win, but in the league the worst four always go down.

"On a consistency basis, we haven't been good enough against the teams in the bottom half of the league.

"It really hurts as I always believed we would get out of it. We have failed, it is as simple as that."

9:21am Wednesday 23rd April 2008

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