Bowyer wants 'long-term' success at Burton
Gary Bowyer has overseen 21 wins and suffered 24 defeats from 59 games as Burton boss
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Head coach Gary Bowyer says contributing to the long-term success of Burton Albion is just as important as getting results now in their battle to avoid relegation.
The 54-year-old was reacting to comments from Burton's sporting director Richard Dorman, who told the club's media channel, external that Bowyer "needs to win Saturday and get this club stable in League One in the short-term" while it is his job to have "long-term thinking".
Bowyer took charge of Burton when they were one place and one point off rock bottom last season and oversaw a relegation escape act that one former club chief described as "nothing short of a miracle".
The Brewers have once again found themselves in a battle to avoid the drop, with the east Staffordshire side two points and one place from safety after 24 games.
While Bowyer accepts he will "ultimately be judged by results", he dismisses the notion that his job can be so narrowly defined.
"That is the outcome of everything else I do," he told BBC Radio Derby.
"Creating an environment, creating a culture, working with players, developing players and staff and treating them as human beings, that is everything that goes on before the outcome of a Saturday game.
"Whenever you go into a job, you want to be there long-term."
Bowyer, a promotion-winning former manager at Blackpool and Scottish side Dundee, used Rumarn Burrell as an example of what influence he can have on the club over the short and long term.
Burrell helped spearhead Burton's fight for survival in his solitary season at the Pirelli Stadium after his arrival from Cove Rangers in Scotland's third tier, scoring 11 goals.
All of them came after Bowyer took charge of the club, with Burrell going on to earn his first cap for Jamaica last summer as a result.
It also led to his move, for a fee understood to be more than £1m, to Championship side Queens Park Rangers.
"Until I came here, he hadn't scored a professional league goal in England and then in the summer we are selling him for a lot of money," Bowyer said.
"That, to me, is winning not only as a manger or as a coach, but as a leader. And that is how I see my job."
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