Rochdale coaches get new deals

Rochdale manager Keith Hill and assistant Chris Beech have both signed two-year contract extensions with the club.

Hill and Beech, who both had another 18 months remaining on their existing deals, are now contracted to the club until the summer of 2018. "It's fantastic for all concerned that both men have agreed two-year extensions to their existing contracts," the club said in a statement. "Stability is one of the key components to any successful team and by committing to the next three and a half years, they have demonstrated their ambition to take the club as high as possible, while maintaining the club philosophy of living within our means. "These are probably the longest contracts the club has ever issued and are recognition of the great team efforts and results that they're achieving with the resources available to them." Hill returned for a second spell as Dale manager in January 2013 having left Spotland in June 2011 to take charge of Barnsley. He led Rochdale to promotion from Sky Bet League Two in 2010. "It offers me an opportunity to carrying on developing that stability and continuity," Hill said. "I'm really pleased to be in a position where the board of directors, the players and the supporters trust me to continue to develop the football club in the same way that we have done since I've come back to the football club and in my previous time here "I want the good times to continue at this football club as they have done in my time here. "What we've achieved makes me proud and it makes my family proud as well - the DNA of this football club is part of my family. "The football club is run by people who have the same values and family values that I have. It makes me immensely proud of what we've achieved and what the players have achieved. "Myself and Chris Beech signing a new deal gives security to all our backroom staff. Our staff are doing a great job - from the youth team staff to academy staff through to the first team staff, and I think that's the continuity that the football club is looking for."